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Ricci van Eeden, Founder and Operations Director, Novix IT Director

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Founder & Operations Director

Ricci van Eeden

Ricci is the Founder and Operations Director of Novix IT, where she leads managed IT and cybersecurity for SMEs in financial and professional services. She has just ticked over 19 years in IT, working her way from the service desk up through engineering, technical leadership, and global IT operations. Outside Novix, she sits as Vice Chair of the ITMSP Best Practice Charter Board at ScotlandIS, helping shape the standards UK managed service providers are held to.

Technology should be invisible: stable, secure, and shaped around how people work, not the other way round.

In practice that looks like anti-jargon conversations, security built in rather than bolted on, and the same enterprise discipline applied to a 12-person practice as to a global manufacturer. Clients tend to work with her because she leads with the outcome and explains the technology after, not before.

Professional experience

Apr 2026 – present (founded May 2023)

Founder & Operations Director, Novix IT

Managed IT and cybersecurity for financial and professional services firms in the 5 to 50 user range, run with the discipline of her global roles.

Oct 2024 – Apr 2026

Group IT Operations Manager, Global PPE Manufacturer

Group IT operations across 22 sites in over 130 countries: 1,800 users, four managers, around 25 engineers, and a €6M budget.

Sep 2021 – Sep 2024

Head of IT Services, UK Managed Service Provider

Customer satisfaction from 72% to 96% through a post-merger integration, contributing to an eight-figure acquisition.

Oct 2016 – Jul 2020

Technical Director, UK Managed Service Provider

Lead technical owner for a 4,500+ user multi-campus education client, with a parallel secondment as Technical Director to a nuclear engineering firm.

19 years in

What Ricci has built and led

AI

  • AI Personal Assistant
  • AI Service Desk Agents
  • AI Accounts Payable

Transformation

  • Microsoft 365 tenant consolidation
  • Multi-site infrastructure standardisation
  • Service desk turnaround
  • IT operating model harmonisation

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Post-merger integration
  • Pre-sale readiness
  • Toolset and licence rationalisation
  • Service catalogue consolidation

Cyber Security

  • Identity and access modernisation
  • Endpoint and email security rollouts
  • Security awareness programmes
  • Cyber war-room simulations

Operations & Service

  • Multi-country IT operations
  • ITIL service framework design
  • Vendor and contract consolidation
  • 24/7 service desk design

Leadership & People

  • Career path frameworks
  • Promote-from-within pipelines
  • Technical training programmes
  • ScotlandIS Best Practice contribution

Sectors served

  • Financial services
  • Professional services
  • Global manufacturing
  • Global logistics and warehouse operations
  • Multi-campus education
  • Nuclear engineering

OT & Industrial

  • Intralogistics automation (AutoStore, Miniload ASRS)
  • PLCs, SCADA, conveyor and sorter control
  • Factory-floor production IT
  • Multi-site 24/7 OT uptime discipline
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