The Board
Carolyn Rand
FCMA, FCMI, CGMA, Cert IoD
Non-Executive Chair
James Cooper
Chief Executive Officer
Ajay Patel
Chief Financial Officer
Jeremy Millard
BA (Hons), MEng
Non-Executive Director
Ajay Patel
Chief Financial Officer
appointed on 10 July 2025
Ajay has over 30 year's experience in finance, having graduated from University College London, trained at PWC, and spending 14 years at Tesco in a range of senior finance roles. He has significant CFO and Company secretary exposure to growing businesses in retail, e-commerce, logistics, wholesaling, education and charities.
James Cooper
Chief Executive Officer
appointed on 24 May 2024
James graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2014 and, prior to joining CNSL as Operations Director in January this year, has spent the previous 10 years at Chartwell Consulting Limited, a global operations consultancy firm, working most recently on assignments in the medical and pharmaceuticals sectors.
Carolyn Rand, FCMA, FCMI, CGMA, Cert IoD
Non-Executive Chair
appointed on 17 August 2023
Chair of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Audit Committee.
Carolyn is a professional Non-Executive Director with over 30 years’ experience across public and private enterprises. Her current responsibilities include Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair of AIM-quoted global technology businesses, IQGeo plc and PCI Pal plc and as a Governor of the University Collage of West Anglia. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants having served as Regional Chair for over eight years. In addition she served as Chair for the Institute of Directors for Cambridgeshire.
Other prior directorships include Strategic Advisor for AIM-quoted global technology business Bango plc where she previously held the office of CFO.
Throughout her career, Carolyn held executive positions within high-growth Biotechnology and technology businesses including, CEO of Isogenica and CFO of Zinwave.
Jeremy Millard, BA (Hons), MEng
Non-Executive Director
appointed on 1 March 2019
Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Remuneration Committee.
Jeremy has over 20 years’ investment banking experience and was previously a Partner at Smith Square Partners LLP where he provided strategic and corporate finance advice to clients in the science, technology and telecommunications sectors, prior to which he headed up the technology practice at Rothschild in London. Jeremy runs FCA-regulated corporate finance business Iridium Corporate Finance Limited and is also a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of AIM-listed Ilika plc as well as sitting on the boards of a number of other private UK companies.
