CODA appoints new UK managing director
New UK MD for leading accounting software group.
Financial accounting software specialist CODA Group has appointed Steve Dashwood as UK managing director with immediate effect.
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Dashwood will be responsible for the UK commercial business, and cover marketing, sales, implementation and support of CODA’s financial software products including CODA-Financials and Dream. He will also sit on the group’s executive board.
Prior to his promotion, Dashwood managed and developed a substantial part of CODA’s UK business as operations director.
He began his career as a trainee management accountant with P&O. From there, Dashwood took on an accountancy role at Virgin Retail where he qualified with the Association of Chartered Management Accountants.
He then moved to implementing CODA software at Virgin and became systems accountant. Dashwood joined the commercial division of Science Systems as a consultant in 1996 and progressed to managing the consulting team before the company acquired CODA in 2000.