Rackspace Technology Global, Inc.

Overview

Date Founded

1998

Headquarters

5000 Walzem Road,San Antonio, TX 78218

Type of Company

Private

Employees (Worldwide)

1,001 - 5,000

Industries

IT Consulting & Services
Holding Companies
Internet Software & Services
Computer Software

Company Description

Fanatical Support® has made Rackspace the service leader in cloud computing. We deliver enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. We got started in 1998 and since have grown to serve more than 205,000 customers. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need and delivers it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support. Our core products include Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting and Email & Apps. There are currently over 4,800 Rackers around the world serving our customers

Website

https://www.rackspace.com/

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Executives & Employees

Patrick R. Condon

Co-Founder

Kevin M. Jones

Chief Executive Officer & Director

Tiffany Lathe

Vice President & General Counsel, International

William Alberts

Senior Vice President & General Counsel, US

John Engates

Chief Technology Officer

Brian Kelly

Chief Security Officer

Matt Bates

Chief Transformation Officer

Holly Windham

Chief Legal & People Officer

Jacob J. Ferro, Jr.

Chief Customer Officer

Laura Sue D'Annunzio

Chief People Officer

Board of Directors

David Sambur

Senior Partner, Co-Lead Private Equity, Private Equity at Apollo Global Management, Inc.

Mitch Garber

Limited Partner at Lead Edge Capital Management LLC

Dhiren R. Fonseca

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at RentPath LLC

Jeffrey Benjamin

Senior Advisor at Cyrus Capital Partners LP

Tim Campos

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Woven Software, Inc.

Lewis J. Moorman IV

Co-Founder & General Partner at Scaleworks, Inc.

Sue Arthur

Former Group President at NTT Data Services LLC

Brian St. Jean

Partner at ABRY Partners LLC

Kevin M. Jones

Chief Executive Officer at Rackspace Technology, Inc.

Susan Arthur

Chief Operating Officer at OptumInsight, Inc.

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Recent Transactions

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Apollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity, Rackspace Technology Global, Inc. purchase Onica Group LLC from Sunstone Partners Management LLC

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Rackspace Technology Global, Inc., Apollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity purchase RelationEdge LLC from Tide Rock Ventures LLC

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Rackspace Technology Global, Inc., Searchlight Capital Partners LLC, Apollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity purchase Datapipe, Inc. from ABRY Partners LLC, Accel-KKR LLC, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners

Transaction Advisors

Legal Advisor

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC

Advised onApollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity purchases Rackspace Technology Global, Inc.

Investment Advisor

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Advised onApollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity purchases Rackspace Technology Global, Inc.

Legal Advisor

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Advised onRackspace Technology Global, Inc., Searchlight Capital Partners LLC, Apollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity purchase Datapipe, Inc. from ABRY Partners LLC, Accel-KKR LLC, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners

Counsel

Alyssa F. Wolpin

Advised onRackspace Technology Global, Inc., Searchlight Capital Partners LLC, Apollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity purchase Datapipe, Inc. from ABRY Partners LLC, Accel-KKR LLC, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners

Legal Advisor

Brad R. Okun

Advised onRackspace Technology Global, Inc., Searchlight Capital Partners LLC, Apollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity purchase Datapipe, Inc. from ABRY Partners LLC, Accel-KKR LLC, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners

Legal Advisor

Brian M. Janson

Advised onRackspace Technology Global, Inc., Searchlight Capital Partners LLC, Apollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity purchase Datapipe, Inc. from ABRY Partners LLC, Accel-KKR LLC, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners

Advisors & Consultants

Legal Advisor

Steven E. Bochner

Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC

Legal Advisor

Douglas K. Schnell

Leader, Shareholder Activism Practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC

Legal Advisor

Scott C. Craig

Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC

Clients

Xero Ltd.

Xero Ltd. engages in providing online business solutions for small businesses and their advisors. It is a cloud-based accounting software provider. The company founded by Rodney Kenneth Drury and Hamish Edwards on July 6, 2006 and is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand.

Wolters Kluwer NV

Wolters Kluwer enables legal, tax, finance, and healthcare professionals to be more effective and efficient. We provide information, software, and services that deliver vital insights, intelligent tools, and the guidance of subject-matter experts. We create value by combining information, deep expertise, and technology to provide customers with solutions that improve their quality and effectiveness. Professionals turn to us when they need actionable information to better serve their clients. Our 175+ years of history stretch across many geographies and areas of expertise. Our revenue is spread globally with 6% coming from fast-growing, emerging markets, 44% from Europe, and 50% from North America.

Pure Storage, Inc.

Pure Storage, Inc. engages in the provision of flash-based storage solutions. Its technology replaces storage systems designed for mechanical disk with all-flash systems optimized end-to-end for solid-state memory. The company was founded by John Hayes and John Colgrove in October 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Key Stats and Financials As of

Market Capitalization

$4.02B

Total Enterprise Value

Earnings Per Share

Non-Profit Donations & Grants

$10K - $25K

2018

Soldiers' Angels

$10K - $25K

2018

ARTS SA San Antonio

$15K - $25K

2018

Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.

Investments

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ScaleFT

ScaleFT, Inc. operates as a software company. Its platform enables users to do advanced deployments, architecture review, system design, and custom integrations. The firm’s solutions include employee access, third party access, managed services, multi-cloud identity, mobile device identity, and compliance control. The company was founded by Jason Luce, Paul Querna, Robert Chiniquy, and Russell Haering and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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Callinize, Inc.

Callinize, Inc. engages in the development of cloud-based revenue performance platform. It offers access to customer data across the enterprise and optimizes the way companies sell, service, and support its customers. The company was founded by Patrick Hogan, Blake Robertson, Sean Pinegar, and Daniel Sincavage in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

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Cloud Technology Partners LLC

Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. provides cloud computing consulting services for migrating, developing and managing cloud applications and infrastructures. Its solutions include cloud strategy and economics, cloud security and governance, application portfolio assessment, application migration, cloud native development, application modernization, big data and analytics, and tools and technologies. The company was founded by Christopher H. Greendale. Erik W. Sebesta, Jonathan L. Rounds, and James Lampert in 2010 and is headquartered Boston, MA.

Investors

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Thomas Weisel Venture Partners LLC

Thomas Weisel Venture Partners (TWVP) focuses on investments in early-stage emerging information technology companies in the software and communications industries. Specifically, the firm focuses on the infrastructure and application software (including open source), security, semiconductors, communications, storage, wireless technologies and Internet services industries. TWVP makes initial equity investments of $2 million to $10 million across a range of venture investment stages. They prefer to be the lead investor and typically take a seat on their portfolio companies' boards of directors

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Apollo Global Management, Inc. /Private Equity

Apollo Global Private Equity is an active manager which makes investments in the form of opportunistic buyouts and build-ups, corporate carve-outs, and distressed investments. The sectors in which the invests financial services, business services, consumer services, chemicals, natural resources, consumer & retail, leisure, manufacturing & industrial & media, telecom & technology, energy, metals & mining, and agriculture sectors. It also makes co-investments along with other flagship funds. The firm geographic focuses on mid-sized distressed companies located across the globe, primarily in North America.

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Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat® is the world's leading provider of open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing cloud, virtualization, storage, Linux®, and middleware technologies.

Suppliers

DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. Consumer Services | Washington, DC

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Arista Networks, Inc. Computer Software | Milpitas, CA

Arista Networks, Inc. engages in the development, marketing, and sale of cloud networking solutions. Its cloud networking solutions consist of Extensible Operating System(EOS) a set of network applications and Ethernet switching and routing platforms. The company was founded by Andreas Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton, and Kenneth Duda in October 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Globant SA IT Consulting & Services | Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Globant SA operates as a digitally native company, which engages in the provision of information technology services. It offers application development and maintenance, testing, and infrastructure management. The company was founded by Martín Migoya, Martín Gonzalo Umaran, Guibert Andrés Englebienne and Néstor Nocetti in 2003 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Competitors

Alphabet, Inc. Internet Software & Services - Mountain View, CA

Alphabet, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the business of acquisition and operation of different companies. It operates through the Google and Other Bets segments. The Google segment includes its main Internet products such as ads, Android, Chrome, hardware, Google Cloud, Google Maps, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. The Other Bets segment consists of businesses such as Access, Calico, CapitalG, GV, Verily, Waymo, and X. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on October 2, 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Amazon.com, Inc. Retail: Other - Seattle, Washington

Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the provision of online retail shopping services. It operates through the following business segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The North America segment includes retail sales of consumer products and subscriptions through North America-focused websites such as www.amazon.com and www.amazon.ca. The International segment offers retail sales of consumer products and subscriptions through internationally-focused websites. The Amazon Web Services segment involves in the global sales of compute, storage, database, and AWS service offerings for start-ups, enterprises, government agencies, and academic institutions. The company was founded by Jeffrey P. Bezos in July 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Microsoft Corporation Computer Software - Fort Collins, CO

Microsoft Corp. engages in the development and support of software, services, devices, and solutions. It operates through the following business segments: Productivity and Business Processes; Intelligent Cloud; and More Personal Computing. The Productivity and Business Processes segment comprises products and services in the portfolio of productivity, communication, and information services of the company spanning a variety of devices and platform. The Intelligent Cloud segment refers to the public, private, and hybrid serve products and cloud services of the company which can power modern business. The More Personal Computing segment encompasses products and services geared towards the interests of end users, developers, and IT professionals across all devices. The firm also offers operating systems; cross-device productivity applications; server applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; video games; personal computers, tablets; gaming and entertainment consoles; other intelligent devices; and related accessories. The company was founded by Paul Gardner Allen and William Henry Gates III in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Awards & Honors

Rank #74

2017

Fortune Magazine - The 100 Best Companies to Work For