Nick Ford

Chief Growth Officer

Originally from: Dinnington, South Yorkshire, England

Currently based: Sheffield, England

Mendix tenure: Joined Mendix in 2010

As Chief Growth Officer, Nick Ford sits at the intersection between the customer, sales, and product development teams. From them, he collects unique insights to best determine how products are developed, sold, and applied to solve business problems. Ford is responsible for more than 100 global professionals, overseeing Mendix’s product marketers and evangelists, sales enablement, digital operations, education, and data teams.

In 2010, Ford joined Mendix as solutions architect/sales engineer when the young company had fewer than 40 employees. The same year, Ford was chosen to launch the company’s first branch in the United Kingdom, based in London. As a product expert and technical entrepreneur, Ford spent a decade helming product marketing for platform launches that transformed Mendix into a multi-million-dollar, low-code industry leader.

Ford cites his “appetite to change, adapt, and purposefully chase opportunities” as the drivers fueling his rise from software developer to chief growth officer of a global enterprise. “Purposeful” also describes Ford’s approach as Mendix’s chief growth officer and evangelist.

“Software development is a team sport. It requires multiple disciplines to come together to get it done properly, cost effectively, and efficiently. As innovative technologies grow increasingly complex, Mendix’s mission remains the same: For multiple participants with different areas of expertise to collaborate through a single platform. And for enterprise to easily adopt or integrate next-generation capabilities via that same platform.”