Smarter Business Processes has opened its first US office in New York on the sound basis that if it can make it there it can make it anywhere.
MD Richard Rymill said the opening of its office in One World Trade Centre in New York came about because of a doubling of its headcount from seven employees to 14.
The company thought about Boston, LA and San Francisco as locations for its US office.
“In the end NYC is the business capital of the US. We are quite close to a number of our clients there and we have a project manager who is based there and so we can react quickly to issues that may arise there,” he said.
Founded in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Richard and Gwen Rymill, Smarter Business Processes is both a consultancy and reseller for Smartsheet, which specialises in cloud-based collaborative spreadsheet software, and Appsheet, which links data stored in a spreadsheet to other devices.
The Smarter Business processes team is split between the US, UK and Canada, and Rymill is considering a further move to the southern hemisphere. “We are doing a lot of work with a big Australian company and that is going very well and we’ve had a number of inquiries about Smartsheet over there”, he said.
“I quite like the idea of doing something out in Australia, but there might not be quite enough demand there yet.”
