Mario de Pace 1943 - 2015
Mario de Pace Mark Holford has sent in a piece on the influential former IT partner of Thomas Miller who died after Christmas at the age of 72 in St Agnes, Cornwall:- Mario de Pace was born and grew up in South Africa, coming to the UK as a young man. He joined Thomas Miller in 1975 in their Cockfosters office and throughout his 25 year career was Head of IT. As the importance of IT grew, so did his role and eventually to such an extent he became a partner in 1988.
I knew nothing of Mario when I was appointed by the then Thomas Miller Senior Partner, David Martin-Clark, to work with him in 1990 on an IT strategy. In fact most of the things I had heard were negative. How wrong they were. He was the best colleague to work with. Always wise and supportive. It was a "marriage" made in heaven: we each complemented our strengths and weaknesses. Mario was a past master at ensuring that everyone was on side before a meeting took place, while I was good at ...