Arcus, which provides cloud computing solutions for the public sector, was started by two graduates of Cambridge Judge Business School’s MBA programme – Lars Malmqvist and Denis Kaminsky.
“Lars and I are extremely proud to receive this prestigious award, especially given the short-list was full of such great Cambridge companies. Arcus has very much developed from the Cambridge Tech Cluster, with our idea, business partnership, investors, first clients and several employees all having a connection to the University and especially Cambridge Judge Business School,” commented Denis Kaminsky, Arcus CEO.
Arcus succeeded against strong competition that included Breathing Buildings, Cambridge Temperature Concepts for DuoFertility, Featurespace, MagicSolver, and TouchType for SwiftKey.
Shai Vyakarnam, director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL), said: “Arcus Global software, tools and concepts are contributing greatly to the advancement of cloud computing in the public sector. It delivered 10x revenue growth last year, scaled up its facilities three times and won business in open competition against multinational rivals. Against an austerity backdrop it is delivering savings worth millions of pounds to public sector clients.”
Arcus Global has defined, and is now delivering innovative IT Solutions that help deliver savings worth millions of pounds to its public sector clients at a time when they are most needed. The company regards itself as a niche ‘centre of gravity’ contributing greatly to the advancement of cloud computing in the sector, targeting difficult but much needed systems and applications.
Denis Kaminsky said, “Our approach is to build a sustainable and long term business which is great to work in, and is fair and honest to clients. It has allowed us to challenge the status quo in Public Sector ICT. This award is a great validation that even companies that work in what is sometimes seen as an ‘unfashionable’ sector can innovate and make a real difference.”
“We would like to thank everyone for their relentless support and encouragement, especially our employees, investors and our public sector clients - without whom we would not be in business. A special thank you to Business Weekly and Shai Vyakarnam from CfEL for recognising our achievements.”
The Cambridge Graduate Business of the Year Award, sponsored by CfEL, was launched at last year’s Business Weekly awards event with Owlstone Nanotech the inaugural winner. Business Weekly’s Awards were sponsored by Anglian water, Birketts, Barclays Corporate, PWC, TTP Group. CfEL, Granta Park, Cambridge Research Park.
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