Founder Score Utica - Nils Vermeulen
"Joining Your.Cloud meant opening access to a whole candy shop of possibilities, playbooks and new ideas, for both myself and for my company."
Nils is now General Manager at Your.Cloud
The strongest MSPs are built on trust. We do not want to erase that. Your company’s brand, culture, people and customer relationships are part of its value.
The value of an MSP is not only in its numbers.
It is in its people, customer relationships, reputation, leadership, routines and culture. For many founders, the biggest question is not simply “What is the deal?” but “What happens to the company afterwards?”
That question deserves a clear answer.
Joining Your.Cloud does not mean that everything you built is removed, renamed or centralised. The goal is to protect the strengths that made your company successful and build from there.
Every company is different, but in the Your.Cloud model these elements are treated as part of the company’s value, not as things to automatically remove.
Many companies continue to operate under their own name because local trust and market reputation matter.
Your brand is often one of the reasons customers trust you, employees identify with the company and the market understands your position. That does not automatically disappear after joining Your.Cloud.
What stays important:
Your team remains central to the company’s future. Employees should experience continuity, clarity and opportunity.
The people inside the business know the customers, the systems, the culture and the way the company works. Joining Your.Cloud should give them more context and more possibilities, not unnecessary uncertainty.
What stays important:
Customer relationships are protected. The goal is to strengthen service quality, expertise and continuity.
Customers should continue to work with the people they know and trust. The relationship should feel stronger over time, not distant or impersonal.
What stays important:
Culture is not replaced overnight. The aim is to understand what makes the company work and build from there.
Every MSP has its own way of solving problems, working with customers and supporting employees. That culture often explains why the company became successful in the first place.
What stays important:
Founders and local leaders can continue to play an important role, depending on ambition and the agreed path forward.
For many founders, joining Your.Cloud is not about stopping. It is about entering a new phase with more support, more peers and more possibilities.
What stays important:
"Joining Your.Cloud meant opening access to a whole candy shop of possibilities, playbooks and new ideas, for both myself and for my company."
Nils is now General Manager at Your.Cloud
"By joining Your.Cloud, we can take the next steps to become a true one-stop-shop for both telecom and IT services."
Justin is Managing Director of Comm-Tech
"Whilst still providing our customers with the premium and personal service they have come to expect, we will benefit from being part of a larger group of decentralized European IT companies.."
Matthew is Managing Director at HDUK
What stays the same is not only important for the founder. It also matters to employees and customers.
Joining should create clarity about the future, more opportunities to learn and a stronger foundation for the team.
Employees should understand that the company’s identity, culture and relationships still matter. The goal is not to remove what makes the team strong, but to create more room for development, collaboration and long-term growth.
The relationship should remain local and trusted. Over time, customers can benefit from the strength of a larger MSP ecosystem without losing the service experience they value.
Customers should continue to work with the people they know, while benefiting from broader knowledge, expertise and continuity.
Your brand does not automatically disappear after joining Your.Cloud. In many cases, brand identity and local reputation are important parts of the company’s value. If customers, employees and the market trust the brand, it should be treated carefully.
Your people remain central to the company’s future. Joining Your.Cloud should create continuity, clarity and more opportunities for the team, while preserving the strengths that made the company successful.
Yes. Customer closeness remains important. The goal is to protect trusted local relationships while adding broader knowledge, expertise and support around the company.
Some things may professionalise over time, but the goal is not to replace the company’s culture. Your.Cloud’s model is designed to understand what makes each company strong and build from there.
Many founders continue to play an important role after joining. The exact role depends on the founder’s ambitions, the company’s needs and the plan agreed together. Some founders stay operational, while others move more toward strategy, mentoring or entrepreneurship within the wider group.
The Your.Cloud model is built around local entrepreneurship. There will be more support, structure and collaboration, but that does not mean the local team becomes a branch office. The people closest to the customers and market remain important to the company’s future.
The goal is continuity. Customers should feel that the company they trust is becoming stronger, not that the relationship they value has been replaced. The aim is to add knowledge, expertise and support while protecting local customer closeness.
Professionalisation can increase, but that is different from becoming impersonal. A growing company may benefit from better reporting, stronger management rhythms and shared expertise, but that does not mean the company has to lose its culture, energy or identity.
Ask direct questions about your brand, your people, your customers and what would stay the same if your company joined the Your.Cloud group.