Community Fireside Chat: EMEA | Navigating Security Compliance in Europe
Source: YouTube · Huntress · published Oct 16, 2025 · 43:14
BLUF: The speaker outlines a rapid growth journey over the past four to five years, scaling from 45 to 450 staff while executing a buy-and-build strategy of acquiring other MSPs 0:00.
Key Takeaways:
• The organization has expanded significantly, growing its workforce from roughly 45 to 450 employees during a period of intense growth 0:09.
• This expansion was driven by a "buy and build" strategy, which involved actively acquiring other Managed Service Providers (MSPs) 0:17.
• The company maintains a "security first" philosophy, which remains a core focus alongside the integration of automation and AI into all operations 0:29.
The speaker reflects on the challenging but rewarding nature of this growth, noting the lessons learned from acquisitions and the excitement surrounding the adoption of new technologies.
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24/7 operations out in Malaysia as well. So we've been on quite a quite a strong growth journey over the past sort of four to five years into so we've gone from sort of 45 staff to I think we got 450 staff now there thereabouts. So it's been a pretty wild ride should we say. I mean we've been on a buy and build journey. So we've been acquiring other MSPs during that time. Um certainly learned some lessons along the way but it's been a hell of a ride. It's been great fun. And actually, one of the things that's been really exciting for us is that we've always been a security first MSP. And now one of our key focuses is really security first, but also embedding automation and AI in everything that we do. And I think one of the key things that I've been really excited and actually feel really …