About Us

Our History

We are a technology company formed to service the investment management industry in Scotland by four colleagues from F & C Asset Management in September 2011. We decided on the name Consalis as it is derived from the Gaelic word ‘consal’ which means trusted advisor. This concept fit in with our aims of being trusted advisors and keeping our Scottish roots. By December of the same year we had secured our first consultancy contract and by January 2012 our first software development contract.

Our team of permanent employees has been between eight and twelve people in recent years. In addition to our core team, we source and work closely with a number of skilled independent contractors to bring value to our clients.

Consalis have always maintained appointment of 3 co-directors to share the responsibilities of building the business and day to day company management.

Martin McGuire and Chris Ashby, long term employees of Consalis, joined Simon Power as fellow directors in 2024.

Meet the Directors

Director

Simon Power

Simon has over twelve years investment management industry experience and 30 years project and programme management experience. A Prince Qualified programme manager, he run Agile development to deliver multi million pound projects. He has delivered investment management projects across the full project lifecycle from initiation/business case through development, test and implementation. Outside work Simon plays five-a-side football and is a keen skier/snowboarder.

Director

Chris Ashby

Chris joined Consalis in 2020, and has worked in the investment management industry in Scotland for over twelve years. During this time he has led and contributed to major technology change projects in a variety of roles, initially in Investment Operations before progressing to Project Management and Business Analysis. He is Lean Sigma accredited and has experience in front, middle and back office and client facing change delivery, implementation and process enhancement. Recently he has led projects in ESG, Digital Automation and AI. In his free time, Chris is a keen cyclist, golfer, reader and sports fan.

Director

Martin McGuire

Martin joined Consalis in March 2020, bringing with him more than fourteen years experience in the financial services industry predominately working in an IT business analyst role specialised in developing and maintaining investment trading platforms. Over the last decade, Martin has been involved with several platform integration projects with large clients. Prior moving to financial services he worked in a variety of IT-related roles including DBA, software developer, network engineer, market research analyst. In his free time, when not entertaining his son, Martin enjoys playing music on the guitar or piano.