David Lovell

When did you join Matrix?
September 1999

Job title:
Sales Director

What does your job involve?
My responsibilities include overseeing new and existing sales and business opportunities, the strategic development of the company’s business and the management of key accounts. My current focus is firmly on launching our new business intelligence tool Financial-Clarity into the UK financial services industry.

What do you most enjoy about your job?
I really enjoy the varied aspect to the role, which allows me to meet and work with a wide range of clients and partners. It is a great and enjoyable challenge to make sure that we meet their continually evolving business requirements. I enjoy meeting new clients and introducing the company’s products and services, but, perhaps inevitably, it is working with clients over a longer period of months or years, during which we can put in place solution that truly address their business requirements, that I derive the most satisfaction from.

What is the most challenging aspect of it?
The company has built up a wide range of products and services which are continuing to develop and improve, and there is a constant challenge to make sure that our large clientbase is being serviced properly.

Describe yourself in 3 words:
Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman....

What's the best journey you've taken?
It’s a journey I try to take as often as possible – the road down the Beara Peninsula to Adrigole on the shores of Bantry Bay, co Cork. Certain stretches have amazing views right down the bay out and to the Atlantic ocean.

What uninvented gadget does the world need?
A cursor of the mind.

Favourite Quotation:
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."