I've been in IT for a long old time (20+ years!) and I still love it. I've specialised in techy things, managed teams of people and developed myself right up to fancy Exec roles. Working in some of the UK's largest IT providers, I've lead teams of 100+ people, been responsible for multi-million pound turnovers and changed the IT experience for hundreds of businesses. Literally 10's of 1000's of people at this stage. 🤔So what?!Well exactly. I suppose the point is, that I've been in those massive IT companies and realised that somewhere along the way, they always grow to the point where people forget to care about the customer. They grow to the point where they are just a jack-of-all-trades. They grow to be crap IT providers...🚀MY VALUES:Now, I love IT. I genuinely think it can make a massive difference to businesses (when it's done properly). So I founded Cloud Nexus with a few things in mind. ✅That we would niche and specialise in Microsoft 365 and Azure. ✅We would give away our knowledge freely to customers, partners, competitors, who cares... talk is free. ✅Honesty. If we can't do something, then we won't pretend otherwise just to "win a deal"✅We won't hire sales people. We will grow our business through people wanting to work with us✅We will not rip people off and sell them things they don't want or need.✅Be ourselves. Be friendly and approachable❓HOW CAN YOU WORK WITH ME?Well, that's easy, we work in a couple of ways1️⃣ Firstly we love to work with IT teams and MSPs. We have a whole network of businesses who consistently outsource their Microsoft projects to us. We partner with them, taking great care of each project and along the way we share what and how we're doing it. 2️⃣ Check out our M365 Masterclass! We continually take everything we learn in our project work and pour ALL of that knowledge, best practice and hints/tips, scripts and documentation 🔥IT'S A LOT🔥 into Masterclass. It's our very own goldmine of Microsoft 365 configuration knowledge which we want to share with the wider IT community. 🤔WHAT ELSE DO I LOVE?:Comic Book Movies, Snowboarding, Travelling (one day!), Playing XBOX and of course being a Dad to two crazy boys!🍺 HOW TO REACH ME:If you would like to chat about anything IT related just get in touch. You can message me on LinkedIn or more details below. Maybe we can help, maybe we can't. If we don't do it, I bet we know someone who does!Email: scottr@cloudnexus.co.ukWebsite: www.cloudnexus.co.ukTwitter: @ukcloudnexus📺 FIND ME ON YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/cloudnexus
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ChairpersonCloud NexusLeeds, Gb
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Field AgentInside Agent Sep 2024 - PresentResearch and Development for Inside Agent. The Microsoft 365 Compliance tool for Enterprises, MSPs and Security Consultants -
Founder | Owner | Business GrowthCloud Nexus Apr 2019 - PresentLeeds, West Yorkshire, GbI run a consultancy with a niche focus on Microsoft 365 and Azure services. Making sure that Businesses, IT Teams and MSPs all deploy Microsoft technology in the best way possible.I personally bootstrapped and founded the business with a few key things at heart:1. That we would niche and specialise in Microsoft 365 and Azure.2. We would give away our knowledge freely to customers, partners, competitors, who cares... talk is free.3. Honesty. If we're can't do something then we won't pretend otherwise just to "win a deal"4. We won't hire sales people. We will grow our business through people wanting to work with us, not by hounding them into a long term contract.5. We will not rip people off and sell them things they don't want or need.6. Be ourselves, be friendly and approachableIf you're a Business, MSP or IT Team looking for help with anything in Microsoft 365 (ANYTHING!) then get in touch. We don't have any sales people, so catch me on LinkedIn and we can chat.🚀How can we help?✅ Data Loss Protection✅ Deployments✅ Device Management (Intune and Autopilot)✅ Document Management✅ Hybrid Deployments with On-Premises servers✅ Licensing Advice✅ Mergers and Acquisitions✅ Microsoft 365 Software✅ Migrations✅ Multi-Factor Authentication✅ Security✅ Windows
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M365 Masterclass ProducerCloud Nexus Mar 2022 - PresentLeeds, West Yorkshire, Gb🛡️Imagine knowing you’ve set up Microsoft 365 to be bulletproof🛡️We've invested our time, effort and experience in deploying Microsoft 365 to create an awesome repository of how-to, best-practices and get-it-done NOW guides to help busy M365 consultants.💻Check it out at m365masterclass.com 💻✅ We get it, you are busy and don't have time for long-winded training courses.📄Imagine if you had a blueprint for security on Microsoft 365?A set of best practices for you to follow that would give your confidence that your business is protected.A team of experts who show you exactly what to press and WHY in all those different Microsoft portals. 🏖️You could relax knowing that your business and all your users are safe🏖️Stop worrying that you don’t know where you are when it comes to Microsoft security and have confidence that you have set everything up correctly.Just think of all the time you’ll save searching for answers and experimenting with changes... unsure if they'll even work.
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Podcast HostNot An Msp Podcast Sep 2022 - PresentRunning an MSP or IT Service Provider is incredibly hard 😖 (yet also VERY rewarding at the same time 😁) Join Pete, Scott, and Andrew for this light-hearted, entertaining show full of lessons, mistakes, stories, & craziness from the trenches of running and selling our own MSPs. Each week, we'll dig into the latest MSP news of the week and we'll then deep dive into a HOT topic that's super relevant to the MSP space. (including Marketing, Sales, Pricing, Packaging, People, Service Delivery, Mindset, and more)
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Partner | M365 Cloud SolutionsCooper Parry It Solutions Jul 2018 - Sep 2019Derby, Central England,, GbLed transition to becoming a Microsoft Cloud Service Provider, including streamlining service offerings, reducing number of disparate vendor solutions, targeting recurring revenue and delivering services remotely. • Defined the organisations ideal customer, allowing for optimal application of marketing resources. • Built new service offerings for Microsoft 365 ensuring focus on security and compliance. Simplified sales process increased monthly revenue by 46% in six months.• Created the Modern Workplace and Azure training plans. This established new role-based competencies to upskill the Engineering, Consultancy and Sales teams. Led mission to remove poor-fit products and customers and defined clear goals. The organisation achieved 7 Microsoft Gold competencies, placing them in the top 10 UK partners. • The Microsoft Cloud strategy enabled the team to: stabilise staff growth levels, improve efficiency and profitability by delivering more services remotely, simplify the product set and sales process, accelerate delivery times and increase customer satisfaction. -
Chief Strategy OfficerGci : Enabling Your Future Jan 2015 - Jul 2018Lincoln, Lincolnshire, GbOversaw strategic vendor partnerships and supported sales and engineering teams to transform latest vendor technologies into services for customers. Advised the board on M&A activity for five acquisitions.• Supported revenue growth leading to cloud technologies accounting for over 40% of revenue.• Managed the Microsoft vendor relationship driving funding, discounts, rebates and lead generation resulting in 379% increase in Office 365 and 496% Azure sales in 12 months.• Reduced supplier costs across vendors realising over £1M pa operational savings. Achieved through reducing number of vendors and working closely with those remaining. • Served as Interim MD for the acquisition of Outsourcery Built a profitability model which rescued the company from administration, turning around division losses of c. £400k per month to a profit of £166k per month.• Increased revenues by over £1.4M pa by establishing new revenue streams in collaboration with sales, marketing, product and engineering teams.• Managed R&D process and associated claims with HMRC recouping development costs of £1.2M pa. -
Director Of Cloud And Hosting SolutionsGci : Enabling Your Future Aug 2012 - Jan 2015Lincoln, Lincolnshire, GbImplemented cloud services across the organisation, growing from a team of 2 to a division of 50. Oversaw vendor and product selection, commercial terms and partnerships. Responsible for infrastructure across multiple Datacentres.• Successfully launched cloud services, securing £8.5m of contract value.• Transformed the unified communications offering from one-off professional services to a £1M pa revenue stream.• Optimised and expanded the datacentre producing savings of £250K pa and increasing revenue opportunity by £0.5M pa through improved power efficiency and introducing systems that improved capacity to sell services. • Achieved senior partnership status with multiple vendors, including HP, Microsoft, VMware and VEEAM.• Achieved ISO27001 for certification datacentres and cloud services.
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Head Of Hosting StrategyPhoenix It Group (Now Part Of Daisy Group) May 2010 - Aug 2012Nelson, Lancashire, GbLed pre-sales, project management and technical engineering teams within this IT managed services company, offering B2B cloud services.• Developed and re-structured the delivery organisation to improve service. Delivered a 100% increase in staff in 12 months, cleared order backlog and enabled rapid achievement of revenue from point of customer contract.• Rebuilt commercial model for managed hosting service offerings to focus on recurring revenue streams, increasing profitability and moving from one-off professional services. Replaced unpredictable, large one-off payments with a growing, predictable monthly income stream. • Developed a focussed R&D team specifically to look at new technologies and how these could be harnessed in Customer solutions. Resulting product and service offerings increased monthly revenue. -
Hosting & Network ConsultantWebfusion Jun 2009 - May 2010Uxbridge, London, GbContracted to design a new datacentre and network platform to facilitate operational growth within this virtual private server provider. • Led datacentre renovation and efficiency improvements, driving £3M pa revenue growth. • Implemented new core network and consolidated suppliers, saving £300K pa. -
Head Of Network SolutionsGx Networks Mar 2001 - Jun 2009Uxbridge, Gb -
Network And It Services ManagerGameplay Mar 2000 - Mar 2001
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Network EngineerPlanet Online Jun 1999 - Mar 2000
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Network Support EngineerInternational Computers Ltd Feb 1998 - Jun 1999
Scott Riley ☁️ Education Details
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Leeds Beckett UniversityComputing -
Skelmersdale CollegeInformation Technology
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