Michael Smith

Enterprise Key Account Director @ ANS Group | Changing the World One Frontier Firm at a Time | Driving Innovation Through Project Alloy | Microsoft UK Partner of the Year 2025

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

About

With over a decade of experience in IT sales and strategic account development, I am a Key Account Director at ANS Group, one of the UK's leading managed and professional services providers in the cloud industry. I supply managed hosting services in both private and public cloud infrastructures, catering for critical application and data hosting solutions for both the private and public sector. I pride myself on providing extraordinary support, getting to know my customers and becoming an extension of their team. I have strong relationships with some of the biggest suppliers in the industry, such as Microsoft, Amazon, VMWare, HPE, Cisco, and Dell. I have also earned multiple certifications, including Cloudflare Accredited Sales Professional Level II, AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Accreditation, and Microsoft Do More with Less Partner Sales Bootcamp. I am passionate about managing sales cycles, delivering tailored solutions, and exceeding revenue targets. I have consistently hit and surpassed my goals, managing a customer portfolio of over £8m p/a revenue, including some of ANS Group's largest customers.

Experience

  • Enterprise Key Account Director at ANS Group
    Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

    As one of the UK's leading managed and professional services providers in the Cloud industry, we supply managed hosting services in both private and public cloud infrastructures. Catering for critical application and data hosting solutions for both the private and public sector. We pride ourselves on extraordinary support, getting to know our customers and becoming an extension of their team. With data centre locations in Manchester, London, and Amsterdam as well as being an Azure Expert MSP and AWS Advanced Consulting Partner we're able to service all areas of the globe for any requirements. We have strong relationships with some of the biggest suppliers in the industry with Microsoft, Amazon, VMWare, HPE, Cisco, and Dell to name but a few.

  • Enterprise Account Director at UKFast
    Aug 2012 - Jan 2022 · 9 yrs 6 mos

    Having worked his way through the team since joining UKFast in 2012, Michael was responsible for looking after a customer portfolio of over £8m p/a revenue including some of UKFast's largest customers (by spend and deployment size). Specialising in Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud account management Michael was able to meet and exceed sales targets as well as ensure customers were receiving the best quality of service through close internal relationships with other departments such as service management and customer support.

  • Fujitsu (2 yrs)
    • Service Technican, Home Office Unified Function, End User Services UK & Ireland
      Jul 2011 - Jul 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Working as part of the technical support team for the Home Office/UKBA contract. Supporting state wide migration projects such as Extend and Blend Citirx migration, as well as the intergration of new Biometric systems supporting border control for London 2012.

    • Incident Manager, Royal Bank of Scotland
      Aug 2010 - Jun 2011 · 11 mos

      Working as part of a specialist Incident Management team on the RBS contract. This role involved the oversight of incidents from diagnosis all the way through to asset management. Performance was measured against our strict SLA terms governed by incident severity. Working closely with the logistics and field resource teams to ensure all the necessary steps were taken to ensure a high quality of service.