Meet the Team
Peter Salsbury
Non Executive Chairman
Peter’s extensive experience includes three decades at Marks & Spencer, culminating in the position of CEO (1998-2000). His achievements as Chief Executive include introducing the ‘Customers First’ programmes, rebalancing product ranges as well as initiating a strategy review of supply chain and cost base leading to £640m in savings. During the 1980s, he grew the M&S Homeware business by 300% to £500m.
Peter has also acted as Non-Executive Chairman of NORWEB (1992-1996) and Deputy Chairman of Highway Insurance plc (2005-2009).
He has a BSc Honours in Economics from the London School of Economics and attended Bancroft’s School in Woodford, Essex.
Robin Tapp
Chief Executive Officer
As CEO of Molten Technologies, Robin evangelises a better way of working for business, empowered by virtual desktops. Putting the customer at the heart of the business, combined with his extensive international corporate experience, Robin is leading the team toward the vision of Delivering technology freedom for the world’s smartest businesses.
Irene Molodtsov
Strategy Director
Together with Rory Colfer, Irene Molodtsov established Molten in 2003. She is a Managing Director of Molten Consulting and the Strategy Director of Molten Technologies.
Prior to Molten, she worked in KPMG Consulting (UK), running major ‘people’ transformation programmes for corporates across Europe. Prior to moving to the UK, she lived and worked in Hong Kong, also in the management consulting arena, delivering change for companies in Asia. She started her professional career in industry working for Pilkington in Australia, where she was given a wide general management training, rotating through manufacturing, sales centres and head office. Her functional areas of expertise include programme management, change management, strategic programme communications, organisation design and management development. Her sector expertise includes delivering IT/Technology related projects within the Energy and Telecoms space. She is skilled in leading and working with international teams, handling both strategic and operational issues.
Rory Colfer
Chief of Staff
Rory established Molten together with Irene Molodtsov in 2003. He is a Managing Partner of Molten Consulting and the Chief of Staff of Molten Technologies.
With more than 15 years of consulting experience, prior to Molten he was the director of the programme management group of KPMG Consulting (UK). A chartered accountant, he is a former CEO & Finance Director, bringing industry as well as business experience to consulting. He has led significant programmes from corporate strategy assignments through to the development of optimal organisation structures and post acquisition and merger integration restructuring. He is a performance coach and regularly coaches senior executives in London, Moscow and Hong Kong.
Nigel Wright
Chief Financial Officer
Nigel Wright became the Chief Financial Officer of Molten Technologies in February 2011.
Nigel is a Chartered Management Accountant and a Chartered Engineer. He has worked as reliability engineer on offshore platform designs, a chemical plant maintenance manager, a controller of Oil and FX trading teams and was a Vice President of IT. Prior to joining Molten Nigel was CFO or FD of a number of Exploration, Refining and Chemicals manufacturing, marketing and distribution businesses. Nigel specialises in delivering business transformation programs including cost and working capital reduction, implementing systems and building finance teams to provide reliable performance management information and getting businesses into shape to attract new equity funding for growth.
Russell Raynsford
Chief Information Officer
Russell is responsible for the development and management of third party and in-house DaaS hosting services.
Russell has held various IT infrastructure roles at Vodafone, including management of all IT infrastructure deliveries at Vodafone UK, and leadership of a major international infrastructure migration programme. Prior to this, he ran the UK and Netherlands operations of Satama Interactive, a Finnish-owned internet consultancy. Russell began his career at Accenture, specialising in manufacturing and logistics systems and international change programmes.
Jim Machacek
Business Development Advisor