Key people
About us
Grant McKerron
"Consumers want to have choice, and they want to have confidence in what they are purchasing. They also want a fair deal. Our legal professionals are among the best in the world at delivering this."
Grant has pioneered the accessibility, packaging and delivery of legal services for over 20 years. He founded ITC in 1989 - originally through the Woolwich Building Society. The company has subsequently grown into the largest probate provider in the UK.
Grant believes that consumers deserve efficient, effective, and economic legal services and has driven ITC to provide packaged, transparent services of a consistently high standard. Today, these services are offered through banks, building societies, co-operatives, insurance companies, funeral directors and charities - and direct to individuals.
The bedrock of the business is a Workflow and Automated Documentation management system. This was commissioned in 2002, built by an in house software development team and has placed ITC at the forefront of the probate market.
Martin Trees
Martin has held roles as Chief Executive, President, Marketing Director and Strategy Director at a number of leading international technology, business and financial services companies.
Martin’s first role was with Burroughs followed by several senior positions at IBM. He moved to Sema Group Plc as Marketing Director in 1993 followed by a move to Electronic Data Systems where he was Strategy Director, Europe. In 1998, Martin joined Experian (part of the GUS group) as President and in 1999 he was appointed Chief Executive of Reality, a major division of GUS with a workforce of 20,000 people and revenues of almost £500m. He also held the chairmanship of Mypoints.com, a joint venture company between United Airlines and GUS Plc. In 2005 he joined CPA, the world’s leading Intellectual Property management specialist as Chief Operating Officer.
Martin joined ITC in 2008 as Managing Director.
Dermot Doughty
Since qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse, Dermot continued his career with Lloyds Bank Group. His roles within the Group included: Deputy Financial Controller Lloyds Merchant Bank; Financial Controller Lloyds Bank Treasury; Head of IT LloydsTSB Treasury; and, from 2001, Finance Director LloydsTSB Registrars and LloydsTSB Stockbrokers. In this latter role, Dermot led the Finance Function which sold the Registrars' business to a private equity organisation.
Dermot joined ITC in 2008. He is responsible for the traditional areas of financial and management reporting and treasury operations. In addition, Dermot plays a key role in developing and implementing corporate strategy to maximise shareholder value, while managing the full range of risks in the business.
Charles Urquhart
Charles joined ITC in 2003 following a 20-year career spanning financial services, development projects and consultancy in the private sector.
Charles leads new business development with corporate partners, specialising in opening up new distribution channels in the financial services and late-life markets. Charles' broad span of relationships at senior level focuses on FTSE100 and 250 companies in financial services (particularly banks, building societies and insurance); the elderly and retirement markets; and the charitable and public sector, including government agencies and local authority groups.