At Cantium, we believe in profit for a purpose and driving public sector excellence. We create social value and opportunities for young people in our communities across the UK.
About Us
Cantium is a managed ICT partner, providing bespoke IT services and solutions to the UK public sector and its supply chain. Our aim is to support the UK public sector in regaining control of its IT operations by redefining the outsourcing model. We do this by engaging with organisations early in the procurement process, better defining their requirements, and providing expert insights into solutions and strategies to achieve their wider goals.
Cantium is also a Local Authority Trading Company (LATCo), wholly owned by Kent County Council (KCC) via Commercial Services Group (CSG). Part of our heritage and our ethos is that we believe in generating profit for a purpose and giving back to services that support our communities. We recognise that we are in a privileged position with an intimate insight into the challenges that the sector faces. Therefore, we work directly with the public sector and its supply chain to design and deliver better citizen-facing services. Furthermore, all the profits that Cantium generates are fed back into Kent County Council to invest in front-line services and community programmes.
Therefore, working with Cantium means that public funds continue to support front-line public services. Cantium’s commercial success also means that we can invest in our people, systems, solutions, and innovation, which continues to drive efficiencies and give back to the public purse with clients across the UK.
"Our aim is to support the UK public sector in regaining control of its IT operations by redefining the outsourcing model."
Profit for a Purpose
Cantium has over 40 years of experience being integrated within and supporting, the public sector and its supply chain. This includes local authorities, schools, academies and trusts, and private businesses in the public sector supply chain.
We want to continue serving the public sector and create long-term working partnerships with local authorities and educational establishments that generate a positive social and economic impact on the communities we serve.
Established in 2018, Cantium focuses on providing opportunities for young people and career development. Part of this work is sponsoring events and awards across the UK, including the Kent Business Awards, Public Finance Awards, Kent Teacher of the Year Awards, and school-specific awards evenings and student recognition events.
As of 2022, over 70 members of staff have undertaken an apprenticeship to develop their skills. Cantium also took part in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Kickstart Scheme, which aimed to create hundreds of thousands of high-quality 6-month job placements nationally for young people. Successful placements received mentor-led vocational training, self-learning, e-learning and tutorials, and training from Cantium subject matter experts, as well as online and 1-1 HR training on interview techniques and CV writing.
We also ensure that our procurement processes and partnerships also work to create the same partnerships and enhance communities right across the UK.
40 Years of Public Sector Experience
As a Local Authority Trading Company (LATCo) wholly owned by Kent County Council, we understand what it means to be public sector.
Our teams have unparalleled experience in supporting local government teams and applications from the inside. We help you to take back control of your ICT and provide experts with the knowledge and experience to transform your business.
Our knowledge of your business functions, application stack, budgets, complexity, and scrutiny helps us to better understand your business needs and challenges. We work in partnership with your organisation, collaborating with your internal teams and departments to identify and define your project requirements, transform your back-office services, and provide tailored support to your teams.
Cantium provides value to the wider sector by providing value-for-money services back to other authorities and their supply chain, driving public sector excellence.
Why Work With Us
Cantium is built upon 4 core beliefs. We ensure that we remain connected to your requirements and can deliver services that ensure growth for your organisation.
01.
Fast
Answering your queries quickly and being responsive to your needs. Reducing processing times and providing quick and compliant routes to purchase.
02.
Connected
Fully understanding your needs and challenges by working in partnership with your teams. Connecting with your business and operating as part of your organisation.
03.
Customer-led
Working in partnership with our customers to understand what’s working for them, and the challenges they are facing. Taking guidance from our customers and their feedback.
04.
Insight-Driven
Enabling you to experience cost-effective and innovative solutions by using data and insight to make better decisions.
Mark has a wealth of experience in private and public sectors, including local government, health, education, manufacturing, and retail. With a valuable combination of leadership, commercial, and technology experience, he has a proven track record of delivering exceptional customer service and consistently surpassing targets.
Mark excels as a dynamic leader and coach in creating the right environments and culture for partners, teams, and individuals to succeed.
Clare started her career in the private sector, working for almost 15 years in the commercial and corporate banking sector. Many of those years were spent in a relationship management role, assessing lending propositions with particular emphasis on debt management, including implementing and monitoring work out agreements and lending risk assessments.
Clare also has experience in contact centre management in a commercial banking environment. Latterly, Clare has been employed at Kent County Council (KCC) and Cantium for 20 years, working in various roles across different directorates.
James is responsible for Cantium’s technology strategy, driving innovation through R&D and leveraging emerging technologies to bring the newest innovations to clients.
James has experience of delivering architecture, design and outsourcing services across a wide range of sectors including public and private sector clients at C-Level for FTSE 100 firms.
Throughout his career, James has end to end experience of procuring and delivering enterprise ICT services from all sides of the equation, as a customer, as an advisory consultant and as a service provider delivering complex technology services and transformation.
Jamie has extensive financial experience, having worked in the private sector for 19 years, where he had responsibility for ensuring the operational efficiency, regulatory compliance and direct management of financial functions.
With 12 years post qualified Chartered Accountant experience, Jamie has led finance teams that deliver commercial focus to improve processes, deliver efficiencies and meet business objectives through technical expertise and team leadership.
Joe joined Cantium in July 2022 as Head of Service Management to lead on Cantium’s Service Delivery, End User Technology and ITIL Service Processes (Incident and Problem).
Joe has over 11 years’ Service Management Experience from working across private and public sector organisations, including financial services (insurance), military and government. Joe’s viewpoint is unique, where he has held various roles across the IT department, including Helpdesk, Desktop Support, Infrastructure, Service Manager, Head of Service and Head of Infrastructure.
His passion is for providing an outstanding customer service through Cantium’s ICT Service Desk, and he focuses on ensuring services are fit for purpose and customer requirements.
Max joined Cantium in 2021 as Head of Strategy and Architecture. In his role, Max leads the Strategy and Architecture practice, encompassing the full lifecycle from strategy and roadmap development, strategic planning, pre-sales technical design and proposal production, solutions and technical architecture, through to project technical resources.
Max is a highly motivated technology leader with over 20 years of experience in IT, including over 12 years in senior leadership roles. He has led diverse teams of technical experts and business professionals delivering transformational change in all areas of technology, information and data.
Max has previously worked across various sectors including professional services, regulated healthcare, retail/commercial, higher education and government, working for names such as Foster + Partners, University of Cambridge and the InHealth Group.
Nancy has worked for KCC / Cantium for over 35 years. Nancy has held various roles in Finance including Accounts Payable Assistant, Capital Finance Assistant and Investments Assistant, before settling in a Finance Systems role in 2000.
Nancy has a wealth of experience delivering application support maintenance and development for KCC. As Head of Applications & Development, Nancy is responsible for the support, training, maintenance and development of approximately 98 line of business applications supporting 30,000 users across KCC, schools, TEP, Invicta Law, CSG and Cantium Business Solutions.
Nick is a driven professional with over 10 years’ experience delivering successful transformation within local and central government. Since joining as a graduate trainee in 2010, Nick has held several roles within Kent County Council (KCC) and Cantium.
Nick is passionate about establishing Cantium as a thought leader and maximising value to our customers, and KCC as our shareholder. A creative, visual thinker, Nick brings his strong analytical skills to bear shape to strategy and drive performance and quality improvement. Nick is a trained ISO internal auditor and holds qualifications in leadership and management, and project management, as well as a first-class degree from the University of Oxford.
Director for Account Management and Corporate Services
Simon is an experienced leader, in both the public and private sector, with a background in services, delivery and transformation. Outcome focused with a real drive for making things happen, Simon is passionate about high standards and delivering on customer promises.
As Head of Account Management and the Account Director for Cantium’s largest customer and Shareholder, Simon’s role works across the entire business and customer base to ensure high quality underpins everything at Cantium.
Simon works closely with Cantium’s clients and partners to nurture and develop relationships and opportunities that will be mutually beneficial by reviewing processes, governance and systems to identify efficiency improvements or problems to resolve. Simon is also passionate about developing and enhancing Cantium’s culture.
Steve is an experienced Commercial Manager in both Private and Public Sectors including Education, Local Government and Health. His background is as a senior manager of major programmes, services, projects and procurements. Steve has provided leadership for a number of Local Government and NHS Integration Transformation projects including the recent successful Kent and Medway Care Record for Cantium.
Steve is responsible for customer retention, propositions and longer-term growth of the business, building the growth strategy and pipeline.
Ursula is responsible for delivering stable, resilient and secure Infrastructure services to Cantium’s customers. Ranging from network connectivity, cloud operations, storage, backups, server maintenance, through to database administration.
Ursula is a performance-driven, ITIL Expert professional with over 17 years’ experience in the IT industry, across a variety of technical and management roles. Ursula is passionate about continuous improvement, data-driven decision-making and delivering operational excellence.
If you have a question about our services, or would like a free consultation and discussion around your organisation’s needs, challenges and future vision, get in touch by using our Contact Form.
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