Erika Schraner

Erika brings over 25 years' experience in senior leadership positions to the board of directors of Bytes. During her executive career, Erika spent more than 18 years working in Silicon Valley and held senior professional services roles with Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Erika earned a PhD in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and in 1994 began her executive career with IBM. She went on to hold roles at REL Consultancy Group, Computer Science Corporation and Symantec Corporation. During her tenure at Symantec, Erika led the team responsible for M&A in its Sales & Services division, completing 16 acquisitions including the $13.5bn merger between Symantec and Veritas. Since then, Erika has further built her transaction experience at Ernst & Young, where she led the firm's technology M&A Advisory Services (OTS) for the Americas, and more recently with PwC, where she was the UK Leader for M&A Integration Services and TMT M&A Advisory (DDV) Services. Erika is currently a Non-Executive Director of FTSE 250-listed JTC plc, where she is also Chair of the nomination committee. Other current directorships include Non-Executive Director at AIM-listed Aferian plc (formerly Amino Technologies) and private equity backed BluJay Topco Limited.