Former Daisy Group divisional MD Mike Osborne has been enlisted by Databarracks as Executive Chairman.
Daisy's Ex-MD of Business Continuity, Cloud & Hosting has a remit to drive business growth and play a key role in expanding the firm's recovery and business continuity service offerings.
Databarracks MD Peter Groucutt said: "In his career, Mike has taken a fledgling DR company and grown it into one of the UK's leading providers of IT, Workarea and BC planning services with revenues exceeding £50m.
"He has advised over 2,000 clients, from SMEs to global brands, and supported many through some of the UK's most significant disaster incidents over that period.
"As an inaugural Chair of the Recovery Site Providers Group and a Founding Partner of the Business Continuity Institute, Mike has been at the forefront of the UK continuity profession for over three decades and seen it go from niche to a globally recognised profession."
Osborne added: "The emergence of the digital economy means that data is now at the heart of every business and therefore the way organisations manage, store, protect and recover has never been more critical.
"The recent cyber attacks and well reported corporate IT failures also serve to demonstrate the total dependency that now exists on the IT systems needed to deliver continual customer service, and the importance of having credible and tested continuity plans, not only for the IT, but covering all aspects of an organisation."