Linkdex Leadership

Penny Holt

CFO

Pen­ny start­ed her career with PwC in South Africa (dur­ing which time she qual­i­fied as a char­tered accoun­tant). She was lat­er sec­ond­ed to PwC Lon­don where she worked in both the Audit and Trans­ac­tion Ser­vices teams, focus­ing pri­mar­i­ly on pro­vid­ing due dili­gence and bid sup­port to Pri­vate Equi­ty clients.
In 1999, Pen­ny joined Thom­son Direc­to­ries Lim­it­ed in an M&A role, dur­ing which time she worked on numer­ous trans­ac­tions includ­ing the sale of the busi­ness to SEAT Pagine Gialle SpA, before being appoint­ed CFO in 2006. In 2011, Pen­ny joined Author­i­tas to help grow the busi­ness inter­na­tion­al­ly – set­ting up oper­a­tions in the US and South Africa. M&A con­tin­ues to remain a key theme for Pen­ny – most recent­ly with Author­i­tas’ acqui­si­tion of LinkDex in July 2018.

Marcus Williams

RVP - Sales

Mar­cus grad­u­at­ed with a degree in Mar­ket­ing in 1999, and start­ed his career at a man­age­ment con­sul­tan­cy. He has since spent more than 15 years in sales and head­ing up divi­sions in the pub­lish­ing and dig­i­tal are­nas.

He joined Linkdex in 2012 to strength­en the sales func­tion and has since risen to head the UK sales team. He sees Linkdex as a refresh­ing blend of inno­v­a­tive tal­ent cap­tured with­in an award-win­ning prod­uct.

Out­side of Linkdex, most of his time is spent with his wife and two daugh­ters, and a lot of DIY and gar­den­ing.