Nigel Clifford to Leave Procurement Software Firm Procserve – Off to Run Ordnance Survey

Nigel Clifford, the Chief Executive of procurement software firm Procserve, announced recently that he is leaving to become CEO of Ordnance Survey. To declare an interest; we have worked with Procserve and hope to do so in the future, and have found Clifford to be an excellent business partner over the last couple of years. Before he joined Procserve in 2012, he was CEO of much bigger firms, including Micro Focus International, but we felt he was attracted to the challenge and opportunity he saw in Procserve, a genuinely fascinating business (more of that later).

因此，他决定承担比Procserve更大的组织的领导，这不是一个完全的震惊。ORDNANCE调查是英国的国家映射机构，也在世界各地都是众所周知的，即使它不是巨大的 - 1.5亿英镑的年度营业额。然而，我们在上周与克利福德交谈之前我们没有意识到;

1. His degree (Cambridge) was in Geography
2. He loves maps, travelling and hill walking
3. 他是皇家地理社会的研究员

因此，这对他来说非常重要，因为现在的地图和销售现在主要是一种技术，软件和数字业务，他具有重要和成功的追踪记录的领域。宣布所说;

“Nigel will also lead OS into a new era as a Government-owned Company and an exciting future of innovation and partnerships at the heart of the geospatial information sector”.

Obviously, we wish him well. We have yet to meet anyone who has a bad word to say about him, he is clearly very smart and focused, but also very down to earth, with a sense of humour and perspective - and he will be a big loss to Procserve. In his three years with the firm he has helped to position them very clearly as an independent commercial entity (important given their background as a venture originally created within government), and develop their offerings in the procurement catalogue, marketplace, and network space.

That is a pretty “hot” area of the market for software providers at the moment , and Procserve is now well positioned, still very strongly UK public sector focused, but with an offering that is widely used and with some important business partnerships too (for example, on the payments side of things).

事实上，Clifford的出发将提出对公司接下来发生的事情的问题？有一个小但非常有力的高级团队目前支持他，但我们还没有听说过替代的消息，所以看看Clifford的离境是否会导致任何更广泛的企业更改。在公司结构方面，PA咨询已经（我相信仍然是）Procserve的主要股东，但是在他们所说，有一段时间有一段时间，有一段时间令人猜测，正如他们所说的那样。但可能没有匆忙，因为目前的表现是积极的。

So we will observe with interest, and in the meantime we do wish Clifford and Procserve good luck and success for the future.