Nicholas Jeffery

A 40+ year story – Ambassador Dr. Nicholas Jeffery

“Nicholas is one of the smartest, most focused, and most competent persons I have worked with. His knowledge and experience in creating and implementing business strategy, focusing on telecommunications, technology, and banking, brings significant value to any project where he gets involved… truly, where sense meets sizzle.” – Luigi De Angelis, Executive Vice President, TKC International Inc.

Starting with Light touch technology.

Nicholas has held C-Suite roles, such as European MD / COO and CEO of several Internet service providers, including most recently a publicly traded company, migrating them all from leased line access-only play to managed service businesses all targeted at the Enterprise B2B.

As the COO of a SaaS company with development teams based in Moscow and sales and marketing in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Nicholas created the business plan and Investment strategy raising $7m first-round funding for the business. Transforming the company from a managed service business to a product-based interaction with self-provisioning, e-commerce, and a fully supported front and back-end web-based billing and version control/algorithmic security platforms.

Regarding his understanding of Digital Transformation.

As you will see from his LinkedIn profile, Nicholas started his career in traditional marketing communications (advertising, design, and corporate identity); he has been a Global brand custodian for some impressive corporate icons. Moving into the web, creating Reality at its panicle, the most reputable and highest-profile web design and build company in Europe. As the Internet became more Intelligent in search and analytics, Nicholas helped create and launch Buzzmetrics, acquired by Reed, which is still the most agile and sophisticated “relevance engine” Globally.

Nicholas is very in touch with social media and was responsible for driving Digital Realty’s sales and marketing strategy in EMEA, which saw a marked increase in activity, saliency, and recall across all social media properties and delivering top-line growth from a distressed share price.

SMB, Enterprise, and Geographic markets.

The four Internet / managed service providers that Nicholas has run (hostmark, Worldport, PSINet Europe, and Uniserve Communications) were all predominantly focused on the SMB sector. VIMtrek and Vizerra, the SaaS architectural, 3D virtualization and Building Information Management software companies, were 100% targeted at this sector. Nicholas knows how to scale a business retaining agility at the front end while creating stability & predictability at the back end, a growing companies from $25m to $500m business through a mix of new product development, organic and acquisitive growth. At home Globally, currently working in Vancouver, Santiago, London, Budapest & Kampala.

C-Level and P&L responsibility and governance

Nicholas has undertaken numerous acquisitions and Integration’s growing each enterprise significantly and transparency, accountability and governance is paramount to Nicholas He is a real motivator of teams, loves to roll his sleeves up, and gets involved in solving issues and creating market/customer advantage. His time at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), where he was head of Investment planning and strategy for the TMT group, investing in numerous businesses across EMEA.