The recent appointments of Simon Curry as Gradwell Communications’ CEO, and Jamie Ward as its Sales and Marketing Director as part of an increased focus on expanding extending Gradwell’s channel partner community to increase the market share of the growing and evolving SME cloud communications space.
Curry had leadership roles at Powwownow, Arkarius Holdings , and Plusnet. Ward is a crucial hire for Gradwell. Joining from market leader Gamma where he was head of SME sales, Ward understands the demands and challenges of serving the SME marketplace.
“With the new management team in place and the strong backing of our Private Equity partners, we are now in a position to grow the business by extending Gradwell’s channel community to include partners who are looking for tried and tested, flexible, robust cloud communications solutions to meet the needs of SME customers”, said Curry.
Ward added: “Our recent appointment as the first solutions provider to 3CX, the leading IP PBX provider, highlights our commitment to provide our channel partners with out-of-the-box, end-to-end cloud communications solutions from a single supplier, designed for the SME marketplace.”
“Our cloud communications solutions have helped our SOHO/micro business clients to grow into successful larger organisations. They are today’s SMEs. And they want to keep working with us to ensure that their communications solutions evolve to meet their growing needs”, said Ward.
“I was looking to join a business that had the potential to grow. Gradwell fitted the bill. The company was born in the cloud, and has developed its intellectual property (IP) based around an Open Source platform, with no legacy issues around hardware PBX or ISDN and is in a great position to take its business forward.
“With more of an emphasis on providing cloud communications solutions, the expansion of its channel partners to serve the SME market effectively, I know I joined Gradwell at just the right time”, Ward continued.
Gradwell claims it is unique in that it is itself an SME. It claims that its IP allows it tp evolve its cloud communications solutions platform without any third-party restrictions.
