Management Team

Don Keir, Co-founder & CEO

Don co-founded Sidonis with CTO Martin Hobbs and is co-architect of the Sidonis|StateWise^® product set. Don has 25 years’ experience of consultancy, technical leadership, solution design and operational management in telecoms and IT. In addition to positions at Logica, IPL, Orange, Cramer Systems and HP, Don has also held technical leadership roles at several hi-tech start-ups including Xi. He has worked extensively with wireless and wireline service providers, with roles ranging from NMS Manager at Orange through to strategic business level consultancy for O2 and high-level technical solution architecture with HP. Prior to founding Sidonis, Don was the chief solution architect for the UK centralised PSTN national traffic monitoring system for BT.

Martin Hobbs, Co-founder & CTO

Martin co-founded Sidonis with CEO Don Keir and is co-architect of the Sidonis|StateWise^® product set. Starting out as a research and development scientist in the aero-engine industry, Martin subsequently spent 20 years designing and building complex, real-time software systems for a number of international organisations including Compaq and HP. His particular expertise in designing and building OSS alarm correlation solutions for the telecommunications industry, and a recognition of the limitations of existing products, led to the development of StateWise™. As CTO of Sidonis, Martin leads the on-going development and deployment of the StateWise™ product set, while simultaneously fulfilling the roles of product evangelist and principal consultant for new and existing customers and partners.

Carol Hopperton, COO

Carol has over 20 years’ experience in commercial, legal and operations management of UK and international hi-tech companies. A former Head of Commercial and Legal at Cramer Systems, Carol played a key role in Cramer’s rapid growth and ultimate acquisition by Amdocs in 2006. Carol’s broad experience spans roles at British Aerospace, ICL (now Fujitsu) and more recently as an advisor to emerging technology companies such as Aria Networks, Ontology Partners and Tribold.