Kerv is a next-generation managed cloud services provider which launched in July 2020.
Kerv offers business outcome focused solutions, initially comprising of converged IT managed services, unified communications, contact centre, security and compliance applications, all delivered in a way that will set the industry benchmark for excellent customer experience.
LDC provided funding to enable a £30m merger of three highly complementary, cloud-based managed services businesses to form Kerv: DoubleEdge Professional Services (UC, voice, data, mobility and compliance); Foehn (R&D team, Cloud UC and Contact Centre provider) and Metaphor IT (Cloud Services, Digital Workspaces, and IT Managed Services).
The group has been brought together by Alastair Mills, Six Degrees Group founder and former CEO, and Mike Ing, former COO at Six Degrees Group, both who will form the leadership team along with Andrew Marshall, group CFO and the current management teams of each of the three businesses.
Working in partnership with LDC to bring together these three businesses creates a strong foundation for growth.”
Invest and grow strategy
The new business will drive further organic growth, as well as identify additional complementary acquisitions, supported by follow-on funding from LDC.
Since the merger in July 2020, Kerv has completed four complementary acquisitions, comprising of UCNS Managed IT, cloudThing, Gyrocom and the Communications Compliance Practice business of TDS Global Holdings. The combined group is now a £60m revenue business with more than 500 employees, serving over 750 customers, and it has offices in London, Birmingham, and Bangalore, India.
We plan to invest in great companies and accelerate organic growth through a relentless focus on customer experience. Our goal is not to chase short-term profit gains through aggressive cost cutting as we acquire complementary businesses.”
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Hear from Managing Director Mike Ing on the triple merger that formed Kerv and how he and serial entrepreneur, Alastair Mills, built a company to disrupt the cloud-first managed services market.
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