Meet the team

Chris Mattingly

Chief Executive

From disrupting the online marketplace for wine to launching a number of innovative insurance products, Chris has a wealth of experience in building and managing successful technology and finance businesses over the last 20 years.

Chris co-founded the Contractor Co-op in 2017 to provide contractors with a safe and transparent way of engaging with their end clients, before extending his experience in the industry to co-found IR35 Navigator, helping develop the essential blockchain technology that sits behind the platform and the compliance framework that drives it.

Carla Roberts

Legal Counsel

Carla is a dual-qualified (UK/US) lawyer with extensive experience in the staffing and insurance industries. With almost eight years as head of Legal and Compliance at Gattaca and a further three years at Alexander Mann Solutions, Carla brings an unrivalled legal knowledge of the staffing industry and the challenges of IR35.

Co-founding WTT Legal in 2018, Carla now leads the legal resourcing which performs all status determinations, compliance frameworks and consulting programs for IR35 Navigators Clients.

Thomas Wallace

Director of Tax Compliance

Joining the Inland Revenue in 1999 Tom spend almost 20 years at HMRC culminating in promotion to Senior Inspector in 2013. Tom left HMRC in July 2017 to become the first Head of Tax at WTT Consulting Ltd, before later being promoted to Director of Tax Investigations and appointed to the Board of Directors shortly after becoming an affiliate member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

As an expert in his field, Tom is regularly quoted on tax matters in both the national and online press, including the Financial Times and The Telegraph, and is also frequently asked to speak at events for the public and his peers.
Tom brings to IR35 Navigator an extensive knowledge of the investigations industry, to understand how HMRC think allowing us to ensure our compliance framework remain rigorous, protecting our clients from reputational and financial risk.

Alex Arnot

Non-Executive Director

With over twenty years of experience in the implementation, scale-up and growth of industry specific companies, Alex brings an unparalleled set of skills that are paramount to ensuring IR35 Navigator delivers its key objectives for clients and the wider market.

Advising on market strategy, industry knowledge and business development Alex ensures that IR35 Navigator remains at the forefront of client specific ingenuity.

Louise Saliba

Client Services Executive

Louise has always had a passion for Customer Service and brings to IR35 Navigator 22 years’ experience working in Client facing roles.

From her time as a retail manager where she set out to staff her stores with the most talented professionals, to her time working as an Account Manager for a leading maritime provisions company, where she played a major role in managing key clients and ensuring processes and systems were in place to deliver a high level of customer service.