EUROPE
Richard Hall Founder & CEO
Website:
www.CloudOrigin.com Tel: +44 (203) 642 5715 Email:
Info@CloudOrigin.com
FIRM PROFILE
CloudOrigin provide award winning strategy, advisory and implementation services to endusers and providers to take advantage of this fundamental change in the business model of information technology provide award winning strategy, advisory and implementation services to endusers and providers to take advantage of
AREAS OF EXPERTISE CloudOrigin works across the whole deal lifecycle, from investment thesis preparation and technology market research, through providing Information Technology, Operational and Commercial Due Diligence for Private Equity and Venture Capital deals to post transaction strategy, performance improvement, governance and technology implementation delivery. This includes reviews of Sale and Purchase Agreements, preparation of Service Level Agreements, Transition Service Agreements, technology licensing deals, go to market campaigns and alliance plans.
While deeply connected across the TMT sector globally and proud of our unique expertise with benchmark and best practice models for the Software as a Service (‘SaaS’), cloud infrastructure and managed service sectors, we also work throughout Financial Services, Insurance, Media, Retail, Travel, Logistics, Life Sciences, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, Health, Automotive and indeed any public or private sector target where IT is a fundamental enabler or risk factor.
We also follow new initiatives such as Big Data and their commercial applications from the perspective of both technology innovators and enterprise users to ensure we can provide pragmatic advice on their commercial and strategic impact throughout the IT supply chain. For the boards of portfolio companies, we offer independent advice, mentoring of technical and marketing staff, opportunities to connect with our extensive global network of technology
this fundamental change in the business model of information technology
Based in London but operating globally, we have decades of experience designing, delivering and managing the most advanced business services, software solutions and infrastructure platforms
worldwide. Our reputation has grown in the Private Equity and Venture Capital community keen to clearly understand technology trends in terms of market demand. We are equally pleased to have enabled first round funding for new startups as we are to have advised on multi-billion dollar acquisitions.
providers, executives and end-users. We have led major programme reviews to keep critical new developments on track, performed market analysis to identify new opportunities, reviewed potential technology partners and helped negotiate commercial alliances. And of course, provided independent review of people, process and technology with concrete recommendations to prepare for external investment or a trade exit. We have witnessed the full range of challenges for major software houses transitioning from on premise to Software as a Service business model, as well as the contrasting growth pains experienced by new startups accelerating from concept to thousands of global, online enterprise users within a matter of months.
Our heritage working with the largest secure, public and private sector solutions from banking payments to government tax processing ensures we address the privacy, security and scalability requirements as well as core functional goals – recently applying this experience across mobile payment apps, luxury retail point of sale, core HR and payroll solutions to investment banking trading networks.
Moreover we have had the opportunity to work with the world’s leading cloud infrastructure and Business Process Outsourcing providers, and can judge the technical and commercial offerings, operational quality and sales channels from datacentre engineering through to service offerings in a sector of increasing attraction to investors.
In the first quarter of calendar 2014 we have already advised on over $4Billion of transactions globally from early VC rounds to major buyouts, which demonstrates the intensity of investor interest in the TMT sector and our expanding footprint in USA and Europe.
ABOUT RICHARD HALL CloudOrigin’s Founder and Chief Executive, Richard Hall has over twenty five years of experience in consulting and IT sector management roles, combining deep technical knowledge with commercial insight. Currently a world leading authority in cloud computing, managing complex application developments and advising Software as a Service pioneers.
An invited speaker to the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summits on European adoption of Cloud, the IT Director’s Forum, the Central Banking Summits, Cloud Expo Europe, the Datacenter Finance and Investment Forums, on the judges panel for the prestigious Broad Group International Datacenter Awards (2013 and 2014) and elected a Fellow of both BCS (UK Chartered Institute of IT) and the Institute of Directors in 2010.
Provided transaction advisory services to Advent, BC Partners, CVC, Darwin, General Atlantic Partners, GMT Communication Partners, Hellman & Friedman, HgCapital, Montagu, MMC Ventures, Nauta Capital, Oxford Capital Partners, Sovereign Capital, Serpahim, Warburg Pincus and VSS amongst many over the last two decades.
39
UNITED KINGDOM
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58