Expect acquisitions to play a big part in a quick rise from obscurity for newly rebadged Quartex. CEO of seven months Craig Charlton had spoken to two potential targets on the day we caught up this week and that was before lunch. “We want to be the global leader in terms of delivering indispensable software” to companies in high-risk, asset-intensive industries, he says.
The base on which Accel-KKR (AKKR)-backed Quartex is launching its ambitious growth push is the former INX K2fly business connected last year by the Silicon Valley private equity firm.
Both brands are known in mining, mainly in Australia, but barely outside it.
Yet no-one is going to discount what Charlton is aiming to do.
