Scaled before.
Will scale yours.
Skales is led by two senior IT partners who have lived through the exact stages of growth our clients are entering — and the audits, compliance regimes and reorganisations that come with them.
Lesley Tank
- · Mollie Payments
- · Bitvavo
- · TMNL
Background
Twenty-plus years of IT leadership across some of the most demanding scale-up environments in the Netherlands. Built and ran IT operations through hyper-growth, regulatory scrutiny, and international expansion — most recently at Mollie Payments and Bitvavo, where IT had to keep pace with public-market levels of audit and governance.
Operated as IT lead through TMNL's anti-money-laundering build-out — an unforgiving regulatory environment that demanded a documented, evidence-based IT operating model from day one.
Specialises in translating board-level risk appetite into the operating reality of an IT department: where to invest, what to outsource, and how to keep the business compliant without slowing it down.
Known for setting up IT functions that survive scale: documented, evidence-based, and able to answer an auditor on a Tuesday morning without warning.
Areas of expertise
IT strategy for high-growth environments
Designing IT operating models that hold up from Series A to IPO without re-platforming every 18 months.
Security in regulated sectors
Fintech, quantum, payments — building IT for environments under continuous regulatory and investor pressure.
Digital employee experience
Treating IT as a product the company uses every day, not a cost centre measured in tickets closed.
Client & board leadership
Owning the IT and security narrative in the boardroom — and with the auditors, investors and regulators behind it.
Sam Koranteng
- · Navan
- · Metabolics
- · Multiple Series A–C scale-ups
Background
Deep technical partner in identity, access governance, and Apple endpoint management. Scaled IT at Navan during a period of rapid international growth, where the cost of a single Day-1 failure is measured in business-traveler trust and SaaS spend, not just tickets.
At Metabolics, built the IT department from scratch as a true greenfield: identity provider, MDM, SSO, lifecycle automation and SaaS governance set up before the company crossed 50 employees — exactly the architecture larger competitors retrofit after their first failed audit.
Believes identity is the single most important control plane in a modern company, and that endpoint and SaaS sprawl are best solved by automation, not policy.
Hands-on with Jamf, Kandji, Okta and JumpCloud — and the operating habits that make these tools deliver, instead of becoming another shelf-ware purchase.
Areas of expertise
Identity & Access Management
Okta and JumpCloud as the source of truth — SSO, MFA, lifecycle and access governance, properly architected.
Identity Governance (IGA)
Access certification, joiner-mover-leaver controls and SoD enforcement — the spine of modern compliance.
Apple endpoint management
Jamf and Kandji from architecture through to Day 1 zero-touch — for fleets that have to behave under audit.
Greenfield IT architecture
Building the IT department from zero with the operating model your future auditors will thank you for.
How we work.
Build it right, not fast
Speed without architecture is a tax you pay later, every audit cycle. We design for the third year, not the third week.
Evidence over assurance
"Trust us" doesn't pass an audit. Every control we deploy produces evidence — automatically and continuously.
Partner, not vendor
We sit on your side of the table with auditors, investors and regulators. We do not hide behind ticket queues.
Focused expertise
Apple, identity, governance, compliance. We say "no" to everything outside that, on purpose.
Transparency above all
You'll always know what is owned, what is at risk, and what we recommend — in plain language, in writing.
Speed when it matters
Incidents, audits and onboardings have hard deadlines. We move at the pace those deadlines actually demand.