Meet The Team

Managing Director

Julian Bryan has been Managing Director of Quill since 2012 and has led the company through a period of significant commercial growth as well as structural reorganisation.

Passionate about developing services and software that deliver tangible benefit to users, Julian has been instrumental in introducing enhancements to the company’s varied solution range, including outsourced payroll and pension management service. Equally important to Julian are the benefits of engaging his employees and he has set about the task of making his company ‘one of the best places to work’.

Prior to Quill, Julian was Managing Director of Veterinary Solutions Ltd, which he grew from 300 to 1400 clients in ten years. Julian has extensive experience in delivering software and service solutions to food producers, veterinary surgeons, dentists and, most recently, solicitors.

Julian is now working a long way from his agricultural roots but retains his interest by ‘farming’ a vegetable patch in his garden. He is married to Carolyn and they have a daughter, Alexandra, who is a keen marketer.

IT Director

Richard is Quill's IT Director, a position held for 10 years. He's responsible for the ongoing development of our Interactive legal accounts, case management and document management software by enhancing existing features and adding new functionality to fulfil market requirements.

Over recent months, Richard helped launch our Police Station App, fully synchronised with Interactive, to support criminal lawyers attending station visits. This is just one of many positive steps taken to evolve our software solutions to meet the exacting demands of present-day, busy lawyers and their back office teams, another of which was moving our entire user base (both clients and staff) from on-premise servers to a brand new cloud-based infrastructure.

Having extended our dedicated Brighton-based R&D branch from three to twelve employees including testers and a product manager, Richard and his team constantly research new technologies and industry trends then develop our applications with modern processes and quality at the heart of every project.

Richard has actually worked at Quill for some 18 years, beginning as R&D Manager and progressing to Group IT Manager before taking up his current post in 2008. As a key member of our board of directors, Richard plays a major role in devising Quill's strategic direction.

Married with two teenage sons, Richard is a keen runner and completed the Vitality Brighton Half Marathon, raising money for Cancer Research UK in the process.

Client Services Director

Tom joined us in 2016 as Client Services Director and is responsible for all client-facing services which include support for practice management software users, outsourced legal cashiering, payroll and general bookkeeping customers.

Tom has a key operational role and strong client focus at Quill, and brings 20 years of experience within the legal industry. Most recently, Tom was Operations Director at a leading motor insurance legal services business where he created and was responsible for all operational and client facing services including legal operational management, a 200-seat outsourced insurance claims function, outsourced claims handling and hosted claims solution. Tom helped grow the business from less than 100 staff to 850+ over a 10 year period.

Tom is passionate about quality of service and is driven to continually exceeding customer expectations.

In his spare time, Tom enjoys mountain biking, hill walking, and spending time with family and friends. As a keen outdoors type, the Lake District is one of Tom's favourite and most-visited places. Tom is married to Sarah and they have two young children, a daughter called Chloe and son called Zachary who keep them on their toes!

Payroll Operations Manager

Sophie Joined Quill in 2019 and leads the payroll department. With over 15 years of payroll experience, Sophie’s areas of expertise include Umbrella, IR35, Director and overseas contracts.

Sophie has a strong focus on client satisfaction, and ensuring that we deliver a quality and affordable service to our clients and their staff. Before joining Quill, Sophie worked at one of the UK’s largest umbrella payroll organisations and was responsible for a large number of blue chip clients.

Sophie is married to Craig, and in her spare time likes to spend quality time with family and friends.

Payroll Technical Lead

Chris is the Technical Lead within the payroll team and ensures that all procedures, from BACS and PAYE payments through to payslip and report production, comply with HMRC guidelines and data protection legislation.

With her extensive experience in payroll management - Chris has worked in payroll for over 10 years - an important part of her role is supporting team members with their payroll-related queries and ensuring best practice and continuous service improvement.

Chris has been to university twice. First time round, she completed a degree in International Business with Italian and was fortunate enough to subsequently live in Rome for a year to practice her newly acquired language skills. Second time round, more recently, Chris achieved a foundation degree in Payroll Management.

She's married to Eric, born and bred in Liverpool, loves socialising, shopping and holidays (especially in the sun). Chris is from a really big family – she's one of 9 children - so enjoys spending time with her family when off work.

Finance Manager

As Finance Manager, Eddie's responsible for maintaining the financial accounts for all divisions within the Quill group - both legal software and outsourced services. In addition, Eddie provides detailed financial management information to our directors in line with agreed timetables as well as on an ad hoc basis upon request.

With clear insights into Quill's financial status and performance, Eddie plays a key role in quarterly forecasting and preparation of annual budgets.

In terms of previous experience, Eddie has worked in both accountancy practice and wider industry; most recently in the crisp, popcorn and chocolate manufacturing sectors. In his last post for a luxury chocolate producer, Eddie managed the finance, costing and administration team.

Eddie's a fellow of the ACCA; an accreditation he maintains with a minimum of 40 hours' new learning every year as part of a continued professional development programme.

Eddie cycles to the office as a means of making use of the time commuting for fitness thereby saving himself a trip to the gym later on! He spends his leisure time with his wife, Ava, and their two young daughters. The rest of his spare time is split between catching up with friends and family, various DIY jobs around the house and playing or watching football.

HR Manager

As HR Manager, Corrine is the first point of contact for all HR queries. Her responsibilities are to ensure that our company's up to date and compliant with all the latest HR-related legislation. Corrine provides support and advice to staff and managers throughout our various office branches, so that best practice is adhered to on a company-wide basis. She also manages and oversees the recruitment for all vacant positions within Quill.

Corrine contributes to both the HR and overall corporate strategy, and helps drive the business forward in order to improve overall performance, staff satisfaction, employee retention as well as results in external accreditations such as Best Companies.

As our company's committed to training and developing each and every one of our valued employees, it’s part of Corrine’s role to ensure that managers have the necessary skills and resources to provide continual professional development opportunities and ongoing progress reviews to their teams. Corrine actively continues to promote our ethos of “you look after Quill and Quill looks after you” amongst employees.

Corrine has recently relocated from London to Manchester, so currently enjoys exploring the North! Corrine also enjoys spending time with her family and friends, so does try to get back down to London on a regular basis, or enjoys entertaining and showing them around the North when they reciprocate visits.

Regional Sales Consultant

Having worked at Quill since 2007, Anthony has progressed through the ranks. He began his Quill career as Legal Cashier then he was promoted internally to IT Support Analyst before moving into sales.

As Regional Sales Consultant, Anthony is one of the key points of contact between our company and our clients.

With business development and client retention responsibilities, Anthony's primary role involves additional product sales to existing clients and new products to prospective clients for our full portfolio including outsourced payroll and pension management services.

Outside of work, Anthony enjoys socialising with friends and family, frequenting country pubs and city centre restaurants alike to sample the best food and drinks on offer. He also loves walking in the lakes and enjoys the odd 60-mile bike ride!

Get in touch with Anthony by email or phone 07714 398986.

Regional Sales Consultant

Jo joined Quill as Regional Sales Consultant in the summer of 2017, having spent the previous 21 years of her career working in sales, 16 of which were in the legal industry for various software suppliers.

Covering the South, Jo's responsible for both existing clients and prospective clients based in this area, involving additional and new product sales respectively. It's Jo's role to help practices keep up-to-date with software and service developments, and choose the combination of Quill solutions best suited to them.

On one hand, Jo is a keen keep fit enthusiast spending spare time in the gym or road running as well as dog walking. On the other hand, she's a gin fanatic and enjoys sampling many gins from around the world whilst travelling whenever she gets the opportunity. Socialising with friends and family is something that is always important to her, so it helps that her partner Danny has his own pub.

Get in touch with Jo by email or phone 07850 209442.

Client Account Manager

As Client Account Manager, Kim's responsible for developing stronger relationships with our clients, to understand their unique business needs, and proffer the best combination of software and services to meet their needs thereby helping them to run their business more efficiently and effectively.

Essentially, Kim is the face of Quill, acts as the first point of contact for inbound queries, ensures the client's voice is well represented, and collaborates between departments to ensure maximum value optimisation for existing users. In other words, it's her duty to keep customers happy.

Kim began her career in accountancy and finance, gaining experience in various sectors including manufacturing, charitable organisations and social housing. After a number of years living and working in London, she returned home to Manchester and joined the family-owned solicitors' practice as Legal Cashier.

Throughout this period, Kim garnered in-depth knowledge of the SRA Accounts Rules and VAT regulations as well as the inner workings of a busy law firm. In 2014, Kim became Practice Manager, liaising closely with their COFA and fee earners to ensure full regulatory compliance at all times.

In 2018, Kim joined Quill as a Legal Cashier and has spent the last two years supporting a number of different clients in a cashiering role, utilising the Interactive software for legal accounts management. Kim has developed vast knowledge of the various products and services offered by Quill and has seen first hand how they make a significant impact on the day-to-day running of a legal practice.

Kim has a creative personality and, having trained as a professional actress, enjoys acting in her spare time. She also likes to get behind the camera, and has a keen interest in photography and videography.