Supporting Business and IT Transformation

Jireh-Tek Limited was established by Bryan Steele, its Managing Director, in February 2006. The company recognises that the true value of IT is realised when the technology, organisation structure and business processes are closely aligned. This powerful combination can underpin a business’s strategy and deliver competitive advantage. This, alongside sound governance, is essential when delivering an effective digital strategy. The company has delivered a number of projects and services for its clients, which includes both hoteliers, vendors, real estate owners and venture capitalists. These have included:

Strategy, business organisation and process design, supporting IT programme.
IT / business transformation programmes.
Interim IT Director, team building and mentoring.
Due diligence work to support companies in respect of acquisition and disposal of companies and assets and to review investment options.
E-procurement strategy, process design and systems selection.
Infrastructure and security audits.
Hotel guest-facing technology including entertainment, Wi-Fi, room management solutions. This has included running the RFP and vendor selection for clients.
Telecommunications strategy, Request For Proposal and solution/vendor selection.
Vendor strategy for effective engagement with the hospitality sector and supporting with partnering and developing solutions.

Managing Director

Bryan Steele

Bryan is an accomplished senior IT leader with many years of experience in director and consulting roles working with colleagues to deliver innovative solutions to improve operational efficiency and profitability. He has experience in the hospitality/leisure, technology, specialty chemicals and FMCG sectors.

In addition to excellent strategy and technology skills, he has a strong commercial awareness and believes that IT should be an enabler of new ways of doing business in order to gain competitive advantage.
He has both worked at and with several companies to review organisational structure, business processes and to define and execute a transformation strategy. This has been delivered through establishing good IT and project governance and building strong partnerships with colleagues, IT vendors and leveraging his extensive network.

Testimonials

“extremely technical and strategic in equal measure”

I had the pleasure of working very closely with Bryan on an ambitious and complex digital project of which he was very much the driver. The fact that he is both extremely technical and strategic in equal measure make him unique within the industry, and he has an unrivalled ability to cut through and get the job done. Would recommend highly.

Matthew Richardson

Business Development Director, Propeller Communications

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“Bryan is one of the most forward-thinking IT professionals active in the European hospitality industry”

He drove major strategic change in IT at Thistle Hotels by driving it toward standardised platforms and infrastructure and ASP-based services, at a time when the conventional wisdom said this couldn’t be done. While he was IT Director at Thistle Hotels, Bryan was a Director of Hotel Technology Next Generaton from 2004 to 2006 and he has continued to be heavily involved since he formed Jireh-Tek in 2006.

Douglas Rice 

Executive VP & CEO, Hotel Technology Next Generation

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“rich experience and professionalism”

Bryan helped me set up successfully a complex centralized multi-property/ multi-function IT platform that went live on time, on budget and without any glitch. Bryan’s rich experience and professionalism were some of many qualities that contributed to his success.

Rashad Saab

GM Business Development and Asset Management, Majid Al Futtaim

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“added significant value”

Bryan was able to add significant value in reviewing and defining our international standard for an e-procurement system. He also worked with us on defining the next generation guest entertainment platform.

Mark Selawry

Senior Vice President, Procurement, Hilton Worldwide

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“Very impressive work and excellent leadership”

I have worked with Bryan on the steering committee of the Opera Users group. Together with the other members of the committee we have been very successful in organizing various hoteliers and technologists in the industry to come together annually and provide feedback and direction to one of the leading industry software provider’s, Micros Systems Inc. Of everyone in the user community, Bryan’s work at Thistle as their CIO was always based on the leading-edge technologies, focusing in on centralized deployment and management of the IT Infrastructure.

Director Hotel Information Systems and Technology, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts