Philip Sansom EMEA MD, CloudOak

CloudOak, Inc. signs 60+ partners in NAM in less than two months; expands quickly into Europe and introduces new Plan4Continuity features while creating unparalleled value for MSPs

It appointed Philip (Phil) Sansom as MD EMEA. He will start immediately and will assume all channel responsibility for Europe and surrounding regions. Parallel with this appointment, the company offers 3 distinct updates demonstrating Plan4Continuity’s early market demand and success.

“I am excited to join the outstanding team at CloudOak and to lend my experience to the team, at the very beginning of what will no doubt be an incredible rocket ship ride. The feedback that I have received about Plan4Continuity from partners, whom I have known for many years, made the decision to join the team an absolute ‘no brainer’. I have been involved with several companies (including Kaseya, IT Glue and Datto) in the 17 years that I have been working in the MSP space but I have never been more excited about a new start-up. Even more so considering the fact that Plan4Continuity will differentiate our partners from all other MSPs. This is exactly what progressive MSPs are looking for, a competitive advantage. I am 100% persuaded by CloudOak’s vision to bring enterprise solutions to the SME/SMB market,” he says.

Since the availability release of Plan4Continuity in November 2019, CloudOak has seen partner demand and has collected feedback from MSPs globally. As a result of their growth in North America and the EMEA, they offer new features to help partners with their own business process automation, compliance and regulation combined with a more MSP friendly pricing structure.

Plan4Continuity has entered the playing field as a one-of-a-kind cloud-based business process automation and continuity tool. It makes provision for natural disasters, pandemics, active shooter events, and ransomware attacks, and can also automate business processes such as office relocation, facilities management, IT quarterly checks and key staff absence. It is easy to use and quick to set up with template plans such as Active Shooter, COVID-19, Data Breach Response, Fire Evacuation, and Ransomware Attack.

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IT service providers can take advantage to offer Plan4Continuity to their client base as a new business process automation tool that could streamline business operations and save on time, money and resources in the event of a disaster, pandemic or even something as simple as onboarding and exiting employees. It further opens up new and recurring revenue streams for IT service providers globally (including MSPs, CSPs, VARs and IT software and hardware providers) no matter the size of their client base in the SMB and SME space.

“I couldn’t be more thrilled with and prouder of the addition of Phil Sansom to the team. His resume speaks for itself. Phil’s deep history in developing business for early-stage start-ups who went on to become billion dollar household names in the channel is impressive. The fact that our partner community in Europe is equally excited, reinforces that we have made the right decision pursuing Phil and bringing him on board as MD,” adds Jeff Collier, CEO and co-founder.

Plan4Continuity is a game changer that have created a unique opportunity for MSPs. ChannelPro magazine recently added CloudOak to their Vendor to Watch list where Rich Freeman stating that: “The company’s newest product turns BC planning from a paper-based afterthought to an automated recurring revenue opportunity.”

“This solution provides clarity and precision when the panic and confusion often associated with disruptive events set in. Our vision is to save one hour of downtime, one business, or one life by taking the confusion of human error out of the equation,” Collier concludes.

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