Our People

At 192business we're more than just a technology company– we're experts in identity and we invest in our people to give our clients our expertise and the best service possible.

Our development, product, marketing and finance teams are based at 192business HQ by the Thames in South West London. Whilst our business development team are of course welcome in the office, we prefer to hear from them whilst they’re out on the road looking after our clients and finding new ones.

If you’d like to know more about life inside 192business please browse our team photos & videos and if you’d like to join the team please email us here.

Our management team

We’re led by an experienced management team drawn from technology, data and credit referencing backgrounds.

Alastair Crawford, Founder and CEO

An internet entrepreneur, Alastair was the first person to publish the UK telephone directory on CD back in 1996 and then online in 1999 with 192.com. Alastair’s success in opening up the directory enquiries market led to the formation of 192business.

Keith Marsden, Managing Director

Keith has over 30 years of experience of leading & building businesses in the technology sector including, Psion Dacom, SCM Microsystems, and Grey Cell which he successfully sold to TDK Systems. Keith joined 192business in 2002 and drives the management team to develop new technologies, source new data, open up new markets and to deliver ID technology to leading brands around the world.

Bobby Foley, Financial Director

Bobby Foley trained at PWC and has worked in banking, technology and management consultancy roles and then teamed up with Keith Marsden as Financial Controller for TDK Systems.  At 192business Bobby manages our Finance, Compliance & HR functions and since 2002 has put in place the building blocks for continued growth.

Ian Green, Sales Director

Ian joined 192business in 2002 after 14 years with Dun & Bradstreet where he was Channel Sales Director.  At 192business Ian has built the business development function from the ground-up where he signed our first (and current!) clients, the BBC and Axa.  Since then Ian has built our sales function and led 192business into new markets wherever ID verification technologies help solve the threat of fraud, money laundering or underage customers.  

David Pope, Marketing Director

David is a technology marketing specialist with 15 years experience at companies including QAS Experian where he ran marketing campaigns for the UK, Europe & US and at O2 where he won industry awards for his direct & event marketing campaigns. David joined in 2004 and his strategy at 192business has been to get inside the mind of the fraudsters & understand firms' regulatory KYC drivers and turn that knowledge into timely and relevant communications with our target markets.

Grant Greenwood, Commercial Product Director

Grant has spent 15 years managing, developing and taking to market fraud prevention tools with ABR, Australia’s leading credit reference bureau and then at Experian. In the six years that Grant has been at 192business he has transformed our technologies adding new datasets to give 192business global coverage and to understand our clients business processes and where our ID technologies can add value. 

Terry Parsons, CTO

Terry joined 192business in 2009 having been CTO for several major technology firms in the UK and the US including TouchLocal, Bowcter Tech, Customer 1st Communications and Bell South. Terry’s prime focus is to ensure hardware redundancy and resilience across our tech infrastructure to meet the 24/7 demands of over 1,000 clients accessing our ID check portals.

Julie Sands, Head of Sales

Julie has over 20 years sales and account management experience in the payment, ecommerce and online gaming industries at firms such as Datacash and Citadel Commerce.  After joining 192business in 2009 Julie’s brief is to manage our expanding sales function and to deliver sustained revenue growth from our existing clients and from our new business sales. Her little black book and approach to developing sales professionals is paying off nicely as we enjoy continued revenue growth.