Aryza Group
Board Members

Andrew Blazye

Chairman

Andrew has spent nearly 20 years developing and leading B2B businesses which focus on proprietary technology solutions to facilitate payments, manage customer relationships and enable improved operations for financial credit providers. His prior board experience included Universe Group plc and Edensure Ltd, both as Chairman.

Colin Brown

Chief Executive Officer

Since taking on the role of CEO in 2017, Colin has played an integral role in bringing innovative software solutions to the market, designed to help improve the financial health and well-being of businesses and people all over the world.

Robert Doherty

Global Head Collections & Recovery

Rob leads our Collections & Recovery Division globally and his background in software development and product management ensures that he is laser focused on ensuring our products service all stakeholders in the receivables, amicable & legal collections, debt advice and insolvency sectors.

Niall O’Sullivan

Chief Financial Officer

Niall is a senior business leader and has operated for over 30 years in publicly quoted companies in high tech industries. He has vast experience operating at CEO and CFO level.

Michael England

Director

Michael is a partner of Pollen Street and part of the founding team. He leads the private equity investment team and serves on the firm’s investment committee. He has been operating in the financial services sector for 20 years.

Anastasia Kovaleva

Director

Anastasia is an Investment Director of Pollen Street Capital and joined the team in 2016 with considerable experience in consulting and investment banking. She has been active across a number of sectors with a focus on technology, financial services, and business services.

Hugo Strachan

Director

Hugo joined Macquarie in 2022 and is a Director in the European Private Equity team. He is responsible for sourcing and executing deals across the services, technology and healthcare sectors and sits on the boards of Wavenet, Zenzero and Aryza.

Tamara McMillen

Non Executive Director

Tamara is a well respected commercial leader with extensive experience driving growth in companies ranging from start ups and scale ups to FTSE 250.  Tamara’s leadership across sales, marketing, customer success and operational teams has delivered exponential growth for organizations of varying sizes and stages of development.

Michael McAteer

Non Executive Director

Michael has broad experience from Grant Thornton and as a leading restructuring advisory in Ireland, advising on both domestic Irish Companies and complex cross boarder restructurings. He has developed in-depth technical and practical experience in the retail, leisure, construction, and IT sectors.