A ‘Halpin’ hand: Mark Halpin SCC-bound post CloudCoCo sale
Former CloudCoCo founder and CEO left the MSP in April and promises ‘all the burning fire’ in his heart will go into this next venture
Mark Halpin has revealed his new channel role since his departure as CEO and founder of CloudCoCo in April after more than six years.
Halpin is now the new sales and marketing director of SCC’s managed services arm, SCC Digital.
Just this week CloudCoCo announced it has agreed to sell its managed services business to fellow UK MSP Aspire Technology Solutions for £9.2m.
Announcing his new role on LinkedIn, Halpin revealed what he’s been up to these past six months, which includes being courted by a significant number of MSP-related opportunities.
“After my two previous roles at Redcentric and building CloudCoCo Plc from scratch to £30m as its founder, I've had a break in France for six weeks with my family, been asked by five private equity companies to lead their new UK MSP buy and builds, started up my own MSP growth acceleration and M&A advisory company and carefully considered nearly 50 potential MSP opportunities to be a CEO again, MD or to go and be a NED,” he wrote.
“I've been a bit taken aback by the kind sentiment and opportunities shown to me, if I'm honest.”
Halpin added why he settled on SCC, partly owing to its upcoming multi-million-pound investments.
“I chose SCC Digital because of its ambitious vision and yet to be announced multi-million-pound investments in cloud and cyber.
“In particular, its highly innovative Vision Cloud control platform and data and AI abilities, which I will speak more about in the coming weeks.
“I am blown away by just how much potential SCC Digital has and all the burning fire in my heart will go into this next exciting phase of building something truly incredible.”
SCC welcoming channel vets
Halpin is the third channel ace to have joined SCC this year after leaving previous partner firms.
Since leaving XMA, Andy Wright made his seven-year-long return to the largest privately owned reseller in July as its new UK commercial director.
Meanwhile, Computacenter veteran Trevor Nickolls joined as director of financial services in August.
The £824.1m revenue Rigby Group-owned company ranked number seven in CRN’s 2024 Top VARs list.