2019 Hedge Fund

Acquisition International - Hedge Fund Awards 2019 5 Charles Square the team’s day-to-day work, translates into the high level of service they offer and are expected to offer to their clients. As an independent consultancy, CSq tailor the best solution to meet their client’s bespoke requirements, providing transparency and helping them reduce costs. Looking at what is required, rather than pushing a product or service. Company: Charles Square Contact: Craig Harris, Gareth Broekmann and Barry Cohen Website: www.charlessq.co.uk “When setting up CSq – the plan was never to be another MSP, but to offer clients a more personalised, premium service”, this is where they coined TSP – Technology Services Partner – providing Premium technology services to the Financial Industry”. CSq’s in-depth knowledge of technology and the finance sector gives them the ability to drive advances in governance, security and efficiency for its clients. As well as providing a range of consultancy and partnership services so that clients can draw on its team’s vast industry expertise to achieve the results they desire. It is down to the hard work and dedication of their team that has helped drive it to the phenomenal success it enjoys today. Working in partnership with their clients, the CSq team manage the complete technology life cycle from strategy through to supplier management and support. Their innovative and unique solutions are designed and tailored to serve the clients’ exact business requirements. Specifically, their services are renowned by clients who require a company to deliver exceptional support and service that they can rely on. Under the CSq brand, Charles Square’s award-winning CTO services are available in a convenient subscription-based package that allows for permanent IT leadership. With decades of global experience working for financial institutions, corporates, start- ups, and enterprises, CSq’s CTO-as-a-Service provides access to a college of CTOs who provide a wide variety of highly valuable perspectives, allowing the firm to guide and manage every aspect of their clients’ technology and business needs. CSq has seen a huge increase in start-ups and small to medium firms moving to its CSqCloud due to its flexibility, versatility and high level of security provided by its SIEM and Security Operations Centre (SOC). As such, the firm is able to provide two out-of-the- box options as well as bespoke designs based on their client’s requirements. Thanks to an in-house, dedicated VAR team, CSq is able to offer end to end services from procurement to installation of IT hardware, software licenses and warranty, with pre-sale and post-sale support from its experienced internal teams and partner vendors. The CSq partnership approach is uniquely designed to provide a comprehensive and transparent solution. The team’s mission is to provide a premium level of service in everything they do. Drawing on their vast industry expertise CSq is able to offer its clients transparent, professional services that they can rely on. Honesty and integrity are essential to CSq’s work and have helped them achieve satisfaction for its clients over the years since its inception and will continue to help them grow. Ultimately, CSq has achieved exceptional success since it first began more than five years ago. In the last year the firm grew by 50%, opening offices in New York, London and Hertfordshire. Their professional services client base has increased by 65% and their VAR client base has increased by 166%. With this positive growth, they have continued to provide a consistent premium level of service to their clients and have attributed this to their strong values, ethos and culture.