Meet The Team Who Make It Happen

Nigel Redwood

Chairman

Nigel helps enterprises to commercialise and drive successful growth initiatives. Balancing business needs with people-oriented strategies to develop supportive cultures and ethical management frameworks. Ensuring organisations are lean, efficient and well-positioned to out-manoeuvre their competitors.

Nigel achieves this by fostering a culture of trust and empowerment through coaching leadership teams and helping them develop clear strategic plans that match the culture and ethos of the organisation and meet the expectations of all stakeholders. Helping the management team understand the value of working on “the important” and not always being railroaded by ‘the urgent’.

Nigel has led the acquisitions of three businesses and the sale of two (one private and one public). Which has given him significant M&A and fundraising experience via multiple methods including bank debt, Private Equity and AIM placings.

Helen Gerling

Chief Executive Officer

After 20 years in the public sector and higher education sectors, Helen brings a wealth of knowledge in the design and delivery of drift-free large scale digital and transformational programmes. Her commercial acumen and planning foresight, coupled with her sincere and people focussed approach, drives forward her mission for delivery excellence. Alongside her role as CEO, she favours a hands-on approach to consultancy, believing in the importance of partnership rather than just being a provider. With experience of large-scale implementations and technological knowledge, she understands the complexities at hand and engages with stakeholders from C-team to technical delivery.

Passionate in promoting and building a better future for all, she spent a decade building and leading services addressing the complex needs of Manchester’s homeless community whilst reducing rough sleeping and creating life changing opportunities. She also holds the seats on the Cloud Leadership and Local Public Services Committees at TechUK.

After living in Merseyside, Chicago and Manchester she has recently relocated to Wales. Alongside her husband and two girls she is trying to get to grips with the local language. Relocation to the welsh countryside facilitates her love of sailing and provides inspiration for her creative pursuits.

Emma Trevor-Jones

Finance Director

Emma is a chartered accountant who trained and qualified at Grant Thornton in Bristol. She gained experience auditing businesses across a variety of sectors, ranging from SMEs to publicly listed companies. After relocating to Shropshire, she made the move in-house to become financial controller of an AIM listed cloud computing and managed IT services company, before joining Shaping Cloud in 2021 as Finance Director.

Emma lives with her husband and toddler and volunteers fostering trainee guide dogs for the blind.

Daniel Roach-Rooke

Chief Operating Officer

Daniel has more than 25 years’ operational ICT experience across diverse industry verticals, including NHS, Gov, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical and Media. Dan joined Shaping Cloud four years ago and is applying that hard-earned knowledge as a CIO / CTO advisory for our Enterprise clients. He has excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills at C-Suite / Executive level and has proven business understanding and technical knowledge, with a wealth of experience in digital transformation and cloud technologies, as well as managing troublesome legacy hosting environments on-premise and in co-lo datacentres.

Leon Fox

Chief Technologist

Leon has 15 years’ experience consulting to and leading infrastructure projects for public sector and enterprise IT. His skills are broad and deep, including data centres, compute, storage, backup & recovery, M365, IBM, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, and AWS. For the last four years, Leon has been assessing whole ICT architectures for public and legal sector clients, costing and designing alternate hosting options, defining informed and accurate investment cases, and leading on key migration projects.

When he’s not in his purpose-built office at the end of his garden, he’s on Anglesey walking his dog with his wife and two children.

Paul Willmore

Head of Managed Services

Paul Willmore is Shaping Cloud’s head of managed services. With 12 years of experience in managed services, Paul understands what is expected of a true managed service partner, not just provider. Paul has a background in cloud technology including managed desktops, Office 365 and Azure. With the experience of looking after large enterprise customers, Paul is passionate about providing the highest level of service and always works closely with his customers to ensure a true partnership and ensure that Shaping Cloud’s customers are getting the best value from the service. Paul holds his team to high standards to ensure that customers are always at the forefront of technology and will always work with customers to make sure they are getting the best out of Microsoft services.

Jo Balderstone

Microsoft Alliance Manager

Jo has spent the last 20 years in sales and marketing roles, with the last six focused within IT across both the private & public sector. Her skills range from strategically mapping out sales & marketing activity & processes, running lead generation campaigns, thought leadership programmes and broadening business opportunities.

Jo joined Shaping Cloud 18 months ago to manage the alliance & partner relationship with Microsoft. As a cloud-first organisation her role is to drive Microsoft Cloud business and become recognised as a preferred partner across the various Microsoft Solution areas.

Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family & travelling.

Charlotte Clavin

Talent Manager

Lottie (aka Charlotte), is our fab Talent Manager at Shaping Cloud. With years of recruiting experience and with a passion for modern inclusive work environments, Lottie heads up our Talent Team.

She ensures we have the best work environment for all our Shapers and is always head hunting the next talented professionals to add to our already excellent team.

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