Make Positive
Profitable cloud technology firm with a suite of 4 salesforce.com-based products looking for £1m to accelerate revenue from £4.1m to £7.4m
- Stage $10M in TTM Revenue
- Industry IT Services
- Location London, GB-ENG, United Kingdom
- Currency GBP
- Founded December 2002
- Employees 90
- Website makepositive.com
Company Summary
Make Positive a profitable innovative cloud technology firm, developing products and solutions based on salesforce.com, the world’s leading software as a service platform which is growing at almost 40% a year. Make Positive was established in 2002 as a PwC spin-off, before repositioning itself as a cloud solutions provider in 2008. Revenue in the year to March 2013 grew by 46% to £4.1m and is expected to reach £7.4m in FY2014.
Team
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Matt CooksleyMD
15 years as a strategy consultant and venturist, including 5 years as a Partner at Cairneagle where he divided his time between supporting senior company directors develop and implement their business strategies, advising PE firms on M&A deals, and originating, commercialising and financing new entrepreneurial ventures. 3 years as a tech analyst at Cazenove JP Morgan, and engineering degree from Cambridge
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Mark RichardsCEO and Founder
10 years as CEO of Make Positive
6 years at PWC Undertook a variety of delivery roles across the telecoms, pharma and financial services industries.
Significant experience of Billing and CRM, both package and bespoke.
Several high-profile management roles.
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Richard ClarkChief Architect
20-years of experience as an IT consultant with a strong background in Enterprise Architecture, Technical Architecture, Integration & Application Design across a number of industry sectors.
Worked for many of Make Positive's competitors during his career, and led high profile engagements at the likes of Norwich Union, BT, Aviva, Visa and Telstra. Founder of a successful cloud-based app for the pharma industry -
Manu DewanHead of India
Manu has been working in the software industry for 12 years with the recent 7 years of dedicated involvement in the Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service sides of the Cloud Computing world & CRM (salesforce.com) configuration, customization, development and integration. Manu specialises in the Force.com platform as a senior technical architect involved in designing and delivering quality applications on the platform in an agile method.
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Zoe SadlerHead of Manchester
13 years IT consulting, with PWC, IBM, BT, O2, Thomson Reuters and T-systems
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Steve HamiltonHead of Services
Highly experienced technical consultant, responsible for the overall quality and delivery of all of Make Positive’s consulting assignments
Worked at Reuters before Make Positive -
Claire JaquesHead of People
Responsible for HR, recruitment and employee happiness
15 years IT project Management experience and Make Positive and PwC, and qualified MCIPD -
Mandev VirdeeSales Director
Technology Consulting sales specialist with experience in the CRM and Consulting industries. Mandev is a tenacious self-starter with a proven sales track record; passionate about enhancing the versatility and efficiency of sales processes with an underlying ethos to always ‘go that extra mile’ and deliver beyond expectations.
Mandev engages with business stakeholders up to C level
Advisors
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KeyStone LawLawyerUnconfirmedWellersAccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Cairneagle AssociatesUnconfirmedMatt Cooksley, Mandev VirdeeUnconfirmed5 other individual investorsUnconfirmed
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