Hershey Company Information

Hershey Systems was formed in the USA in 1966 and has been serving its’ clients for 40 years becoming a leader in electronic document management software.

Originally a reseller of leading Document Management branded software, Hershey were concerned that systems were overly expensive compared to other office application software without fully meeting the client’s needs. Hershey decided to become its own Document Management and Content Management software developer and provide all facets of Document Management software including consultancy, sales, project management, Implementation, Hardware/Software integration, Training, Maintenance, support and ongoing mentoring.

As a result Hershey is a company focused on providing affordable, easy to use, robust and reliable software products and solutions to its’ customers, allowing them to improve business for continual success and growth.

Across the USA small to large businesses, government to educational entities have embraced and benefited from Hershey’s products and services. Now the UK and Europe is to benefit from this highly successful range of products and services.

Hershey Systems, has attracted and retained top talent in the document management industry for several years. A statistic that often separates Hershey from many other companies is the experience and stability of the Hershey Executive Team.

It is highly likely that the people from Hershey, which your organisation will work with today, will be the same people a year from now...five years from now. Hershey’s employment culture is one focused on the customer and on the team, not on the individuals. We at Hershey believe strongly that our culture, sets us apart not because of a motto, but because it is how Hershey operates as a company

Executive Team

Derek Lewthwaite

CEO of Hershey Systems UK and Europe.

Derek has 30 years experience in the IT industry with 16 years in the Office Automation and Document Management industry. He has worked as Head of Office Automation in two major UK Government Departments and under secondment to IBM, ICL and Philips. His experience covers the full implementation cycle in the range of businesses from SME’s to Corporates, Central and Local Government, Military and Emergency Services.

Ian McMillan

Technical Director

Ian is responsible for the implementation teams and Help Desk. Ian has over 15 years experience in Document management and Workflow solutions. He has worked with BT and Philips and several Document Management resellers. His experience covers consultancy, implementation and ongoing technical support in SMEs and Corporates.

Christopher Dax Coan

CEO & Cheif Technology Officer

Dax Coan is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer for Hershey Systems. Dax is responsible for the product vision and research & development. Prior to joining Hershey Systems, he was the CTO of 3iNetworks, a software designer/developer of web based software systems to meet high transaction hosted customer needs. He holds design patents for Java, J2EE, XML and SOAP based enterprise application integration (EAI) serve. Dax is certified as a Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer and Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer.