Our Story.
Sean and Leona McAllister founded PlotBox, Which integrates deathcare management software and georectified mapping, transforming the industry. With over 120 employees globally, PlotBox remains a leader in deathcare technology.
Our mission is to help take away some of the pain in dealing with death for families and those that serve them.
We live and breathe our values.
Tenacity.
We are tenacious in bringing value to our customers, tackling their problems with determination and innovation to get the job done.
Teamwork.
Through teamwork, we empathize with each other and our customers, knowing we’re on the journey together.
Trust.
We trust each other and our customers trust us to deliver success.
Our Team.
Our success lies in our diverse team of experts from various industries. We cultivate a culture that unleashes every individual's potential, regardless of their identity or profession. Our pride comes from receiving the Great Place to Work® Certification™ for two years in a row.
Sean McAllister, CEO & Co-founder
Sean McAllister, a Construction Engineering and Management graduate and member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, has established a pioneering surveying business using advanced technology. His work in enhancing speed, accuracy, and efficiency is central to PlotBox's technology and approach.
Stephen Hardy, Chief Technical Officer
Stephen, with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, leads PlotBox's Technology team, bringing over 15 years of experience from London's financial sector. At Lloyds, he specialized in system migrations and integrations, and significantly contributed to expanding the Retail Bank Branch Application platform.
Ryan Lynch, Head of Product
Ryan, a Politics graduate from the University of Ulster, joined PlotBox in 2015 and has over a decade of experience in Product Management. As Head of Product, Ryan has been instrumental in shaping our product vision and strategy. Over the years, he has built and led a highly skilled product team, fostering collaboration with our tech and delivery teams to ensure continuous innovation and success.
Jane Askin, Head of Culture & Talent
Jane, a law graduate from Queen’s University Belfast, has 15 years of experience in HR and development within the IT sector. She is an executive coach and a member of the Association for Coaching and CIPD. At PlotBox, she works with leadership to create strategies for employee attraction, retention, and development.
Deena Timmons, Head of E-Commerce
Deena has a Bachelor of Science degree and over 15 years’ experience as an operational leader within the funeral industry. She has worked across all functions of SaaS software and website operations, guiding companies from startup through to scale and maturation.Her background includes M&A and integration experience, having successfully led the consolidation and optimization of multiple businesses and digital platforms.
Lily Engle, VP of Operations
Lily brings a decade of senior leadership experience in scaling operations within industry-leading SaaS organizations from implementation and integrations through ongoing client success and support. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President, Implementation Services at VTS, a commercial real estate technology leader.
Sean McAllister, CEO & Co-founder
Sean is a graduate in Construction Engineering and Management from Ulster University and a Member of Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
Sean has built a leading edge surveying business utilising the latest drone, software and camera technology. He has a very strong reputation in the industry for bringing speed, accuracy, ease of use and greater efficiency. This approach and technology is at the core of PlotBox’s way of working.
Leona McAllister, CCO & Co-founder
Leona has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Studies from The University of Ulster and started her career in auditing and governance.
Leona is a strong strategic thinker who can understand the forces of change on a largely traditional industry but brings reassurance and safety through detailed and solid planning that mitigates risk and points firmly at the future.
Mark Nolan, CFO
Mark spent his earlier career in practice as a Chartered Accountant. He holds an Honours BA in Accounting & Finance from Dublin City University and is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
Mark is responsible for finance and accounting operations, legal services and People at PlotBox. He has over 15 years’ experience in a wide range of finance roles with international technology companies, retail and corporate banking.
Lily Engle, VP of Operations
Lily brings a decade of senior leadership experience in scaling operations within industry-leading SaaS organizations from implementation and integrations through ongoing client success and support. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President, Implementation Services at VTS, a commercial real estate technology leader.
Stephen Hardy, CTO
Stephen holds a BSc (Hons) Computer Science and currently leads the Technology team at PlotBox, comprising Engineering, Product, QA and Support. Before joining PlotBox Stephen gained over 15 years experience working in London’s financial sector at global banks such as Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland.
During an intense period of Merger & Acquisitions led growth at the Lloyds Banking Group, Stephen developed expertise in complex system migrations and integrations. In his time with Lloyds he helped grow the Retail Bank Branch Application platform to support more than 30 million customers and 20,000 branch locations.
Jane Askin, Head of Culture & Talent
Jane graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a law degree and has spent her 15-year career in HR, Learning & Development and Organisational Development roles, mostly within the high-growth IT Sector. Jane holds a diploma in Executive coaching from AoEC and is a member of the Association for Coaching. She is also a chartered member of the CIPD.
As Head of Culture and Talent at PlotBox, Jane works with leadership and management teams across the business to set out and execute an organisational model which enables the attraction, retention and development of its people.
Neil Sherrin, VP Sales, North America
Neil holds a BA (Hons) Marketing and Business Studies. Neil has been responsible for building out accomplished Sales/Marketing teams and strategies that deliver growth across diverse international consumer and business to business markets.
Neil is a regular speaker to leading death care audiences across the world and is tasked with connecting N American death care operators to a solution that helps solve problems in how they operate, manage risk and grow.
Martin Jackson, General Manager, APAC
Martin has a Bachelor of Commerce from Deakin University in Australia. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the Information Communication and Technology industry in both the public and private sectors.
As a senior technology executive, he has consistently demonstrated strong leadership skills in designing and implementing transformational services that directly contribute to the success of the business by recognising and addressing organisational objectives and outcomes. He is expert at identifying and exploiting disruptive technologies that drive change.
Stephen McMullan, Head of Delivery
Stephen is a graduate of the University of Ulster in Computer Science. A seasoned professional with over 25+ years experience managing global teams and clients in delivering software solutions.
Fully experienced and successful in developing and improving implementation strategy for SaaS offering, Stephen has supported the development of implementation strategy, tools, templates and toolkits to support a streamlined implementation approach to ensure deployments are executed in an efficient and cost-effective manner.