Our Team
Meet the Vuzion team
The Vuzion UK team
Craig Gordon
Head of Vuzion
As Head of Vuzion, I’m ultimately responsible for managing the partner team, with the team supporting our partners' business growth - from providing training and education, to account management, and go-to-market and business development support. The team is also there to ensure that partners obtain vendor incentives and competencies, and capitalise on the cloud opportunities.
Val Wilson
Senior Account Manager - Partner Service and Support
I’ve been with the company longer than anyone else in the Vuzion team, and have 12 years’ cloud experience. I’m passionate about customer service - where the customer is my partner - and have developed skills and knowledge across the breadth of our cloud offerings, from Microsoft 365 to Azure, to DocuSign.
Chris Hoard
Partner Education Lead
As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), I’m responsible for training and educating our partners in the use of Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft 365 and Azure, to help them build skills and capabilities and earn Microsoft competencies. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer I also provide consultative advice to help partners identify the right solutions for their customers.
Matt Raven
Accelerate Team Leader
My role is to support my team and Vuzion’s partners. I’m responsible for leading a team who’s focus is to bring on new partners, provide an outstanding level of service and help them grow their cloud business. I’ve worked in the ICT space for nearly 20 years, and have a wealth of experience, gained from supplying some of the first memory cards, to designing custom systems to run helicopter simulators. A huge fan of technology from an early age. I’m always keen to be involved in the latest thing.
Rob Gray
Modern Workplace Business Development Manager
Working in Microsoft 365 partner development, I support and collaborate with partners to help them achieve their business objectives, developing effective long-term relationships, adding value and creating the opportunities for our partners to grow. To achieve business benefits and increased performance requires strategic focus on technology and service delivery. To this end I am committed to providing the best support in the industry to help our partners succeed in business.
The Vuzion Ireland team

Kieran McDonnell
Head of Vuzion Ireland
Dublin
Based in Dublin, our mission is to help our partners grow their base with best-in-class cloud solutions, and working with them to assist in accelerating their success in the cloud is one of my top priorities. I believe that Vuzion’s continuous growth can only be driven by developing true partnerships based on trust and mutual success.

Justin Tomlin
Business Development Manager
Dublin
My key focus is to develop and build partner relationships and enable partners to drive business growth, utilising Microsoft technologies and other cloud business offerings. Having worked at Microsoft Ireland and other large ICT companies, I’ve a broad knowledge and understanding of IT infrastructure and ecosystems, enabling me to take a solution-based approached when working with partners.
The leadership team

Michael Frisby
Managing Director
My passion has always been how IT can help individuals and businesses achieve more. Vuzion was created to help IT providers build sustainable and profitable cloud businesses. My role is to oversee the strategy of the business, ensure we delight our partners and provide services and solutions that help them achieve their goals.

Julian Dyer
Chief Technology Officer
CTO and co-founder of Vuzion, delivering technical expertise and strategic development across our key platforms, along with playing a central role in the development of new generation cloud services via our partners.

Michael Olpin
Finance Director
I have a broad commercial role, with specific responsibility for all financial, HR and legal matters. Prior to joining the Cobweb group in 2009, I held various directorships and senior financial positions in quoted and unquoted companies. I am a B.Eng (Hons) in Engineering Science and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Other key members of the team
Brandon Ridgwell
Partner Services & Support Manager
I’m passionate about ensuring partner satisfaction and that the Vuzion support team is supporting partners to a world-class, 5* standard, enabling partners to pass support responsibilities to Vuzion through Support-As-A-Service. The team is constantly innovating and thinking about how to improve our support capabilities to partners.
Kev Gower
Head of Projects & Professional Services
My team and I are here to support you and your customers by offering a defined set of professional services to ensure that if you’re constrained by either capacity or capability, you can still maximise your cloud opportunities.
Clare Satchwell
Head of Product & Marketing
I love leading our inspirational product and marketing teams. We work throughout the business in a holistic way to deliver the very best products, marketing and user experience to our partners. With nearly two decades working in IT, I love that every day presents new challenges and opportunities.
Jamie Merrett
Senior Billing Administrator
As first point of contact for any Vuzion billing-related queries, I can help with invoice queries, changes to payment methods or contact details, and any queries about orders failing due to issues with account balances.