About us

Between the supplier and the buyer.

FORTISYM is a sales consultancy that takes named technology to organisations that can buy it, and qualified demand to the suppliers who make it. We add partners when we can sell the product, not when we need another logo.

Leadership

Who runs it.

Mark Wharton

Chief Executive Officer · United Kingdom

Co-founded FORTISYM in December 2025 to help organisations adopt technology with commercial discipline — especially AI-led storage and security programmes. More than thirty years in senior IT roles across healthcare, media, pharmaceuticals, telecoms and global financial operations, turning fragmented estates into platforms the business can run.

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Peter Thomas

Non-Executive Chairman

Co-founder of FORTISYM. Over sixty years in IT, spanning the full evolution of the industry from machine-code programming through sales leadership to today's AI technologies. Provides strategic direction, industry experience and board-level oversight.

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James Bacon

Sales Director

Twenty-five years selling and delivering IT solutions into FTSE 500 and global accounts. Builds a working picture of the customer's business first, then a proposal a board can approve. Owns the live pipeline from first conversation to signed programme.

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Where we work

Regional partners, one commercial thread.

United Kingdom

Home market for enterprise buyers and the named products we take to market.

Europe

Commercial and industrial loads, enterprise buyers and suppliers we open accounts for.

Hong Kong · Australia · New Zealand

Asia-Pacific relationships for suppliers and operators investing in growth technology.

United States · Middle East

Access to technology partners and sites where resilience and firm power are board issues.

Next step

A conversation, then a straight answer.

Whichever side of the deal you are on, the first call is about fit — not a pitch.