Leo Motley

Co-Founder Cloudax

Career highlights

  • Built a product used by 324,000+ people before leaving school
  • Co-founded Cloudax at 15, among the youngest ever to sell into a FTSE 250
  • EWOR Traction Fellow (roughly a 0.1% acceptance rate)
  • Built Cloudax into a regulated telecoms operator running thousands of calls a day for enterprise clients

Leo Motley, Co-Founder of Cloudax

By 13, Leo had built a product used by over 324,000 people, long before he finished school.

He founded Cloudax at 15 with Oliver Hobson, a friend from school. The move into telecoms happened by chance. While taking on early client work, the two were approached by a Manchester entrepreneur who ran several call-centre businesses and needed his operations running faster and around the clock. They solved it. He became their first client, and remains one today.

They went on to become among the youngest people ever to sell into a FTSE 250. Cloudax is backed by EWOR, whose founder network includes the people behind companies such as SumUp and Adjust. Through it, Leo and his co-founder are mentored by Paul Müller, who co-founded Adjust before its acquisition by AppLovin for over $1bn. The board adds deep roots in telecoms, finance and contact-centre operations, including the former Group CFO behind a New York Stock Exchange IPO and a former Cabinet Office adviser to No. 10 and HM Treasury.

Today, Cloudax runs thousands of calls a day for enterprises across legal, insurance and financial services, as a regulated UK telecoms operator. It was a centrepiece of Gamma's AI strategy and featured on the main stage at GX, and works in partnership with established names including Avoira, Mobysoft and TelXL.

Educated at The Manchester Grammar School, Leo has been building and selling since childhood. He has rarely done any of it the expected way.