Cornerstone Business Solutions has grown significantly under the leadership of managing director Chris Petty ( left ) and sales director Chris Bibby .
Cornerstone heavily supports the Keep Aycliffe Clean initiative by joining in with litter picks , for example . They have also helped pack boxes for other businesses and have even hired out a coffee van on the business park for anyone to head for a drink .
Gemma said : “ We are very active on that front so we would love to hear about any events over that way where we might be able to help .
“ It would be nice to have a chat to see what we could do . We also look after a number of charities in terms of their IT support already .
“ But we are looking to get involved in the town , in the area , with awards nights , whether that is for businesses or something else . It would be nice to engage with the Aycliffe and County Durham community .”
The Cornerstone Group , of which Business Solutions is one of five strands , has continued to grow over the years under the directorship of Chris Petty and Chris Bibby .
Business Solutions is the most successful arm of the group and it has grown significantly over the years , having initially worked with Teesside companies and progressed to managing networks across the country .
Chris Bibby , sales director , said : “ The world is a much smaller place now . There is less hardware involved these days because of cloud computing .
“ We will head out to sites when we need to but the vast majority of calls are done remotely – in fact I ’ d say 19 times out of 20 calls are done remotely .
“ More users are using Office 365 or Azzure and that means the vast majority of calls you are now resolving aren ’ t on site .
“ Given what we have achieved already , the engineers we have , the fact that remote access is a huge part of what we do , we have clients in the South , Midlands , Aberdeen , a global client – so we can look after people all over the world .”
But Cornerstone isn ’ t looking too far away for new clients right now – in fact just 15 miles away in Newton Aycliffe .
Chris said : “ Given the fact we do have clients all over the place , it seems silly we have an untapped resource in Aycliffe almost on our doorstep .
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“ It is one of the biggest business parks in Europe and it ’ s nice for Gemma to introduce Cornerstone to that area .
“ There is no reason we shouldn ’ t have clients over there . We have clients with five users and then other clients with 1,000 users – we look after big and small clients .
“ There ’ s no reason why we can ’ t do what we do , which is offer our award-winning work to more and more clients in different areas and build a name for ourselves in areas of County Durham like Aycliffe too .”
And who better to lead that push than someone who has the area at heart ?
Chris added : “ Gemma has the knowledge of the geography over there and the culture . She has good contacts and knows her way around Aycliffe Business Park .
“ Gemma will be popping up at networking events and looking to stick our Cornerstone flag in the ground .
“ We just think it seems silly that we aren ’ t operating too much in the area – and we ’ d love that to change .”
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