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Adrian Sunderland

Energizer · DISC type I
Chief Executive Officer at Jola Cloud Solutions Ltd
📍 Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Adrian Sunderland is a technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, specializing in delivering white-label services for the channel. He founded Griffin, one of the UKs first ISPs, and now serves as CEO of Jola Cloud Solutions, a global mobile data and IoT MVNO. He holds an MBA from Nottingham University.

Outside of work, Adrian is a family man who enjoys playing golf and squash. He is a keen Nottingham Forest football fan and is passionate about developing talent within his company, championing both apprenticeship schemes and graduate training programs to help people grow their careers.

Under his leadership, Jola has consistently launched an average of two new M2M, IoT, or cloud products every single month.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Personality Overview

How Adrian shows up

Believer
Informal
Enthusiastic

They excel at seeing the bigger picture, and the long-term impact of their decisions. They are people oriented, friendly and like creating new connections. Unlike C or D types, they are vocal with their opinions but not so much with their questions.

Priorities

Topics Adrian cares about

Channel Enablement
His entire career, from Griffin to Jola, is built on empowering MSPs and resellers with unique, high-margin, white-label solutions they can't get elsewhere.
Mobile & IoT
Frequently speaks about market opportunities in mobile data, M2M, and IoT, positioning Jola as an innovation leader for channel partners.
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Career

Work history

4-2014
Chief Executive Officer
Jola Cloud Solutions Ltd
9-2013
Chairman and Investor
zapappi
8-2012
Technology Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Writer
Innovationism Ltd
2-2013 - 8-2014
Mentor
Rockstar Group
7-2010 - 8-2012
Managing Director
Allurian
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2013 - 2015
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Nottingham University
1990 - 1993
Computing
Nottingham Trent University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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