Connel Bell is responsible for Operations, PMO and Governance, Risk and Compliance at Altrata. Connel joined BoardEx in 2002 as Infrastructure Engineer & DBA, later serving as IT Operations Director, and then Head of IT Operations for The Street, BoardEx and The Deal before being acquired by Delinian (then Euromoney) and moving to Head of Operations for BoardEx and The Deal.

Connel has a Background in IT and holds a MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.