Company Profile

Tradocs was co-founded in 2002 by Tony Duggan and Don Fuller. The driver for the development of the Tradocs solution was the clear gap in the market for a low cost electronic document solution. This was best illustrated by the low take up of solutions such as EDI due to cost and the increasing use of insecure email to send documents difficult to integrate into systems.

Tony had previously been responsible for the development and implementation of Europe's largest B2B e-document solution and Don had worked with companies such as Cisco and 3com on major projects to improve product scalability.

Initial prototypes of the solution were positively received. Feedback from potential customers enabled provision of the development framework for the Tradocs system.

In late 2003, the first customers started using Tradocs, initially in pilot projects. In July 2004, selected customers moved to fully live operations. The full market launch of Tradocs commenced in April 2005 with a user-base of over 10,000 companies. By this time, transaction values had already reached tens of £millions.

The Executive team

Tony Duggan- CEO (Co-founder)

Tony Duggan (CEO) is principal shareholder and originator of the business. Using his close links with and knowledge of the retailing industry in the UK, his focus is on strategy and finance aswell as Sales and Marketing management.

From 1994-2000 he was Head of Supply Chain Development at Wickes where his responsibilities included both operational and systems development. As leader of a major project developed jointly with GE/GXS, he received a DTI award for his innovative work on electronic supply chain in 1996. This important electronic document initiative later led Tony and associates to develop the Tradocs concept. The solution design was also based on his intimate knowledge of the requirements of complex global supply chains involving retailers, manufacturers, logistics providers and banks. Before founding Tradocs in 2002, Tony was Director of Consulting Services at Bolero, the inter-bank initiative founded by SWIFT, together with leading financial institutions to develop a global electronic messaging system. Tony previously held management roles with Kingfisher and Harrisons and Crossfield.

Don Fuller- Marketing Director (Co-founder)

Don Fuller,Affiliates Director, is a shareholder and co-founder of Tradocs. He is leading the development of sales and implementation toolkits to support the scalability of Tradocs' offering. Don's expertise is in knowledge management and using multimedia techniques to articulate complex messages simply. He has worked successfully with companies such as Cisco Systems, 3Com, Siemens, Ford and HSBC on sales toolkits to support global, multi-language product launches both at a sales and implementation level. Development of these of these toolkits will enable Tradocs to quickly empower the sales teams at our affiliates to sell Tradocs as part of their product offering.

Simon Mansfield- System Development Director

Simon Mansfield is a Tradocs shareholder. He leads the development of the Tradocs system. Simon was formerly Head Of IT at Bolero.net. In this role he was responsible for the development of a front end interface for the Bolero system. Prior to Bolero, Simon was IT Operations Manager at Mitsubishi Bank. Simon also consulted IPACS on the areas of system security, audit trails and quality. His key experience is in designing high volume, mission critical transactional environments.