James, Rich, James & Rob
Logiq

Logiq is a story of incredible growth. Having achieved year-on-year revenue growth, the cybersecurity and managed services provider sought a culturally aligned partner to help it establish the operational and process enhancements necessary for it to sustain unwavering service excellence during the next phase of its market expansion. Phoenix sat down with Head Consultant Rich Forder – one of Logiq’s four directors – to talk about the firm’s story.

We always wanted our business to be people-focused; to be a place that we would want to work ourselves. It felt like Phoenix really understood that.

The Logiq story

Rarely are companies built overnight. In the case of NCSC assured cyber security consultancy Logiq, the firm’s founding was the process of multiple projects and discussions between four industry specialists over the course of almost a decade.

“Back in 2008, Rob Guegan and I worked closely together in establishing an improved security setup for a former employer,” Forder says.

Shortly afterwards, the pair found themselves sat across the table from Logiq’s now Chief Technology Officer (CTO), James Walker, during an interview, with James and Rob having met two years prior on a project for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in Paris. Following that, James Morgan – Logiq’s fourth founder and currently CEO – entered the picture after meeting Forder on a client site.

“We were, and still are, four like-minded people. We had all experienced what it was like working in small specialist cybersecurity cells for major global organisations, and had all found that it rarely worked well, with many structural, operational and cultural challenges and hindrances.

“We shared the view that a cyber security consultancy could be built which did things better, and if we were ever going to try to make that happen, this was the group of people we’d want to do it with. One conversation naturally led to another, and after a final chat between the four of us in a quiet pub corner, we decided to go for it.”

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