Leadership

Meet the Team Behind Some of the Industry's Most Complex Automation Projects

For nearly two decades, Extra Technology consultants have helped organisations modernise, migrate, integrate and optimise business-critical automation environments across financial services, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, government and other enterprise sectors.

Our leadership team combines deep technical expertise, commercial experience and practical delivery knowledge gained through hundreds of automation projects spanning workload automation, automation intelligence, orchestration and enterprise transformation initiatives.

Together, they help organisations solve complex automation challenges, reduce operational risk and maximise the value of their automation investments.

Mark Mannion

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Mark founded Extra Technology in 2007 and has spent more than 35 years working within enterprise automation, workload automation and IT operations.

Under Mark’s leadership, Extra Technology has become one of the industry’s leading automation consultancies, recognised for its expertise across workload automation, automation intelligence, migration services and operational support.

Mark has helped organisations across multiple industries modernise automation environments, improve operational resilience and deliver large-scale automation transformation programmes.

His experience spans enterprise scheduling, automation strategy, partner development, software licensing, managed services and automation modernisation initiatives.

Mark continues to play a key role in shaping Extra Technology’s strategic direction, helping clients navigate increasingly complex automation landscapes while identifying opportunities to improve visibility, governance and operational efficiency.

Satish Patel

Chief Operating Officer

Satish is responsible for operational leadership across Extra Technology’s consulting, managed services and customer delivery functions.

With extensive experience managing complex technology services and customer engagements, Satish plays a central role in ensuring projects are delivered successfully and customers achieve their desired business outcomes.

He works closely with consultants, delivery teams and clients to maintain high standards of service quality, governance and operational excellence.

Satish’s leadership helps ensure Extra Technology combines technical expertise with disciplined delivery, providing customers with confidence throughout the lifecycle of their automation initiatives.

Chirag Dave

Technical Director

Chirag is one of the industry’s most respected enterprise automation specialists, combining deep technical expertise with extensive product knowledge gained through both software development and customer delivery roles.

His experience spans AutoSys Workload Automation, Automation Analytics & Intelligence (AAI), workload observability, automation operations and enterprise scheduling technologies.

Having worked closely with the development and evolution of key automation technologies, Chirag brings a unique understanding of how enterprise automation platforms operate internally as well as how they are used within complex production environments.

He is particularly recognised for his expertise in automation intelligence, workload analytics, observability, migration programmes and complex troubleshooting engagements.

Organisations regularly engage Chirag to solve technical challenges, modernise automation environments and provide strategic guidance on enterprise automation initiatives.

Paul Donoghue-Parker

Sales Director

Paul leads Extra Technology’s sales and business development activities, helping organisations identify opportunities to improve automation capabilities, reduce operational risk and support long-term business objectives.

With extensive experience in enterprise software and automation technologies, Paul is a trusted advisor to organisations evaluating workload automation, automation intelligence, migration services and automation modernisation initiatives.

He works closely with customers to understand operational challenges, align technology investments with business requirements and ensure successful outcomes throughout the customer journey.

Paul is widely respected for his ability to combine commercial understanding with practical knowledge of enterprise automation technologies and services.

Daniel Chidgey

Chief Automation Architect

Daniel is a highly skilled enterprise automation architect with extensive expertise across multiple workload automation platforms and technologies.

His experience spans AutoSys Workload Automation, Automic Automation, ESP dSeries Workload Automation, Tidal Workload Automation and a wide range of enterprise scheduling technologies.

Daniel has played a leading role in numerous migration, consolidation and automation modernisation programmes, helping organisations reduce complexity, improve operational efficiency and modernise automation environments.

Known for his technical depth and practical approach, Daniel specialises in architecture design, automation strategy, migration planning and complex cross-platform automation environments.

His ability to work across multiple technologies provides clients with valuable vendor-neutral expertise during platform selection, migration and transformation initiatives.

Why Organisations Trust Extra Technology

Deep Automation Expertise

Our leadership team has spent decades working with enterprise automation technologies, helping organisations solve complex operational and technical challenges.

Proven Delivery Experience

Experience gained through implementations, migrations, upgrades, managed services and long-term operational support engagements.

Cross-Platform Knowledge

Expertise spanning Broadcom, BMC, Stonebranch and a wide range of enterprise automation technologies.

Strategic & Technical Leadership

A combination of commercial, operational and technical expertise that helps organisations make informed automation decisions.

Part of BP3 Global

Clients benefit from access to broader expertise spanning workload automation, process orchestration, intelligent automation, low-code development, process intelligence and enterprise integration technologies.

Helping Organisations Succeed with Automation

Technology alone does not deliver successful automation programmes.

Success requires experienced people who understand platforms, processes, operations and the practical realities of enterprise automation.

The Extra Technology leadership team brings together decades of experience helping organisations modernise automation environments, improve operational resilience and deliver successful automation outcomes.

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