Cloud Adapt’s people are diverse in their skills, experience and perspectives, and united in their focus on understanding what success means to our clients and their organisations. As well as being high-calibre technical specialists, our people are business-savvy professionals, driven to providing clients with innovative, market-leading solutions that provide real competitive advantage


Johnnie McDonald – CEO

With over 12 years experience in complex enterprise, consulting, sales and delivery environments, Johnnie brings a focus on ensuring that our organisations approach from sales through delivery and into support is that you would expect of a multi national, whilst ensuring we still retain our focus on agility and being able to react to the fast moving world of cloud based technologies.

Ben Granger-Holcombe – Sales Director

With many years experience in building strong trusted relationships within varying sales environments, Ben is incredibly passionate about understanding how we can bring demonstrative value to his clients, from consulting through leveraging the best our technical people can deliver, Ben’s approach underpins the success of the company.

Alexandre Medarov - Strategist / Corporate Governance

Alex’s personal mantra is “empowering entrepreneurs.” He established his professional reputation as a owner of two start-up ‘s back in 1999, before selling out early and studying his way through a MBA at Harvard University and moving onto global success. Alex is a accomplished and well-grounded business leader with a history of performance in enterprise governance, risk, security, compliance, strategy, operations, marketing and program management.
With over ten years of success building high performance consulting practices within Accenture, EMC, Boston Consulting Group and start-up’s working with teams across cultures and geographies such as Europe and North America as well as Australia and New Zealand, Alex is determined to leverage his experience in ensuring Cloud Adapt’s ongoing success.

Gerry Lahiffe -Sales Manager Australia / New Zealand

Gerry’s mantra is that the customer is at the centre of everything we do. By building exceptional value-add relationships we ensure true long term win-win partnerships with all our clients. Gerry brings a wealth of experience in Sales & Management roles to Cloud Adapt: Pre-Sales; Account Director; Channel Manager; Strategic Alliances Manager; Senior Training Consultant; General Manager and Managing Director. He has worked for Boeing, Siemens, EMC, Silicon Graphics, & The Matra Group (French Top10 Conglomerate) to name just some of his past employers. With 17 years experience in the IT Sector, Gerry has consistently built Trusted Advisor status with his Partners & Customers. Gerry’s role is to ensure the consistent and rapid growth of Cloud Adapt by ensuring, at every stage of the Sales, Deployment and Support journey, our customers are continually delighted by the solutions and services we deliver.

 

Boris Patoka - Technical Lead

Boris has a reputation for quality and consistency when it comes to enterprise level software development projects, whether it be integration into the Google Docs, Google Apps, or the Google Apps Engine. Iphone Applications, Android or ever Browser based applications. Boris leads our software development team in ensuring that Cloud Adapt’s reputation for quality continues in a consistent and predictable fashion. Boris would be happy to talk with you to discover how Cloud Adapt can take your applications to the future.

Baljit Singh - Project Management – Development

Project Managing our development initiatives, Baljit manages a team of developers assisting Boris in delivering against our customers development goals. Leveraging differing development methodologies dependant upon client requirement, as follows;

Design: Graphics creation, Animation & Multimedia
Authoring: HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML
Scripting: ASP, PHP, JSP, Cold Fusion, Perl, WML, XSLT, ASP.NET
Databases: MS Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Postgre SQL, Oracle
Languages: Visual Basic, Java, C & C++, Clipper, C#, VB.NET
CMS Tools: WordPress, Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, MCMS etc.
Technologies: .NET, J2EE, XML, WAP
Platforms Windows, Linux, Unix, Google app Engine, Amazon.com, Iphone, Android.

Marc Loren - SEO and Web Specialist

Leading our SEO and Web Web initiatives, Marc spends his days and nights obsessing over how Cloud Adapt maintains and improves its customers position in the competitive world of search engine optimisation. Having taken a number of organisations to the number 1 spot on Google, Marc would be excited to learn how he can increase your presence on the web.

Carrolyne Dolar - Sales Associate

With many years experience in customer service, Carrolyne is responsible for maintaining the quality of our engagements with our customers. With a passion for ensuring customer success, Carrolyne spends the majority of her time reaching out to new clients and looking for opportunities to assist them in their business. Carrolyne would be very happy to understand how Cloud Adapt can assist you going forward.

Fran Shepherd - Account Manager

Fran prides herself on ensuring that customers are satisfied following their decision to work with Cloud Adapt. Managing the client relationship ongoing, Fran ensures that customer expectations are met and exceeded when engaging with Cloud Adapt, we are very fortunate to have Fran on our team and delighted that she brings so much passion to her work.

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