Cloudreach

Company type	Private
Industry	Professional services
Founded	2009
Founders	James Monico Pontus Noren
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom Offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Chicago, Cologne, Edinburgh, Munich, New York City, Paris, Vancouver, and Zurich.
Key people	Tara Tapper (Chief Operating Officer) Marc Jones (Chief Financial Officer)
Services	Consulting
Owner	Independent (2009–17) Blackstone (2017–22) Atos (2022–present)
Number of employees	700
Website	https://www.cloudreach.com

Cloudreach is a cloud computing consultancy, focused on the implementation and operational support of public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. It is headquartered in London, UK, and has offices in multiple countries around the world including Canada, France, Germany, India, The Netherlands, United States and Switzerland.

Publicly acknowledged customers include BP, Hearst, the Met Office, Skyscanner, Ströer and Time Inc. Cloudreach also owns two software systems developed in-house: Sceptre, an infrastructure automation suite for AWS; and Connect, an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).

On January 4, 2022, the company was acquired by Atos.^[1]

History

• 2009: Cloudreach was founded in London by Pontus Noren and James Monico;
• 2011: it opened a second office in Edinburgh. In February 2017, Cloudreach was acquired by private equity firm Blackstone for an undisclosed amount.^[2]
• 2017: in July, Cloudreach announced a partnership with T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom;
• 2017: in August, Cloudreach acquired two US-based businesses: Emerging Technology Advisors,^[3] a cloud professional services company; and Cloudamize,^[4] a cloud migration specialist. Cloudamize is a cloud computing analytics platform, providing analytics for cloud migration and management;
• 2018: in July, Aaron Painter was appointed as CEO of Cloudreach.^[5] Pontus Noren subsequently became Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors;
• 2018: in August, Cloudreach acquired Relus Cloud, an Atlanta based data and analytics specialist; this took the Cloudreach headcount beyond 700;^[6]
• 2019: in October, Brooks Borcherding is appointed COO and President and takes the role of interim CEO, later to become full time CEO.
• 2022: in January, Cloudreach is acquired by Atos.^[7]
• 2023: in April, Atos launches the Eviden brand ahead of a €5 billion carve-out of their cloud, digital and security business lines.^[8] Cloudreach becomes an Eviden business and will be integrated within the Eviden OneCloud group. Brooks Borcherding leaves the CEO position as Cloudreach comes under Eviden control, with Tara Tapper promoted to the Cloudreach Chief Operating Officer role.