Paul Hookham has been appointed vice-president and head of UK and Ireland operations at software engineering firm Q-Labs.

Hookham has wide experience of software service provision in the financial sector, first working in computer operations at Bank of America, and going on to become a project manager at Lloyds, where he was responsible for foreign exchange and money market systems. He later became head of systems development at Gartmore, which he left in June 1999.