The Irish-founded and headquartered company has a global workforce of more than 1,000.
A series of acquisitions across the UK and Ireland, and a new Dublin HQ later, Irish cybersecurity provider Ekco is opening a new office in South America’s Trinidad and Tobago, creating 18 jobs in the Caribbean and abroad by 2027.
The new office represents a €10m investment in the region spread over the next two years. This is expected to more than double Ekco’s revenues in the region from €2m to €5m in the same period.
The new jobs will cover sales and technical roles that will support Ekco’s growth in the region.
The Irish-founded and headquartered company has a global workforce of more than 1,000 people across the UK, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the US.
The new office, it says, will help the company strengthen regional presence in countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica.
“Ekco is currently on a path of accelerated global expansion which is being driven by organic business growth and a number of strategic acquisitions,” said Mark Donnellan, the head of business development for the Caribbean.
“As we continue to scale up our operations in the Caribbean region, we are excited to boost our offering for businesses, grow our customer base and forge deeper relationships with valued partners in the market.”
Ekco works with Caribbean-based organisations across financial, legal and government services. According to the company, its demand in the region has also been driven by the growing volume of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, ever-evolving regulatory requirements and a shortage of technical skills and internal resources to keep pace with rising threats.
The company opened a new Dublin headquarters for its roughly 500 Ireland-based employees back in November. Alongside the office, it also established a new Security Operations Centre (SOC) – its third globally. The Dublin SOC follows two others in the UK and Malaysia.
“Against a rising tide of cyber threats and a backdrop of increasing regulations, our team can help to fill widening technology skills gaps and enable businesses to remain competitive,” Donnellan added.
The HQ launch followed seven business acquisitions over the last few years. Last year, the company announced that it had snapped up Solsoft, a Bristol-based managed services provider.
The Solsoft acquisition followed on from the purchase of Cork’s Adapt IT, and Predatech, a UK-based cybersecurity consultancy firm.
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