SCT boss on future plans after PE-backed management buyout and split from Prodec Networks

Channel services firm SCT claims MBO will help fuel global expansion and grow its services offering

Channel services firm SCT is eyeing global expansion following its private equity-backed management buyout last month, according to its CEO.

SCT completed an MBO last month backed by private equity firm WestBridge.

The ownership change will mean SCT has parted ways with former parent company Barstone, which also owns networking and UC reseller Prodec Networks.

Based in Twyford, near Reading, SCT is an inventory as-a-service outfit that sells 100 per cent through the channel. It offers services including IT spares, warehousing, field engineering and secure testing.

Speaking to CRN, the firm's CEO Andy Morgan said that the change of ownership will open up new opportunities to expand its services globally, as well as add new products such as server and storage to its portfolio.

Morgan said SCT recently opened a new operation hub in Germany, but currently offers its services across Europe, the US and some parts of Asia.

"The MBO comes at a time when we're expanding our product portfolio, but also expanding our presence in different countries," he said. "So we just needed that extra firepower to take the business forward and to scale it up from what the business is today."

Morgan said that WestBridge will implement a "value creation model" to help the SCT business scale up, including investment in the company's systems to improve customer experience.

"We will continue to keep the inventory as our key priority, which we always have done, as that drives the high SLA we've had historically. So the main priority is to maintain that as we grow."

The CEO said he believes splitting from end user-focused Prodec will help give both companies more direction and clarity.

"We always had two different goals where you've got different offerings that have different target customers. Prodec is focused on end user and SCT is focused on channel only, and we always had the absolute firewall there, so having that clear clarity with one direction will be beneficial," he said.