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We provide high quality technology services to charities via our network of highly skilled volunteers who are keen to apply their engineering expertise to deliver best in class solutions for charitable initiatives.
Our mission is to provide access to the latest technology in order to help aspiring charities build long-term capacity by providing technology infrastructure and support. Our goal is to enable charities to make a “step change” difference to their current operating model.
Endpoint Solution Delivery
Whether hardware endpoints, BYOD or virtual appliances, we aim to provide access to the latest technology in order to help aspiring charities build long-term capacity by providing technology infrastructure and support for on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructure.
IT Consultancy
Our network of IT Consultant Volunteers deliver The Aimar Foundation’s vision by providing high quality IT solutions to charities so that these organisations can capitalise on delivering the services they were originally founded to provide. We maximise value by working with partner organisations to assist in identifying charitable pricing for communications, hardware, software and cloud services.
Cloud services
Our innovative technology solutions are designed to minimise on-premise server and networking infrastructure by offloading Voice, Apps & Data, Content filtering, Monitoring, Configuration Management to the Cloud; this enables rapid deployment and set-up, and ensures stability and scalability of services as charities adapt to their changing needs.
Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. They are dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change.
Homelessness is an isolating and destructive experience and homeless people are some of the most vulnerable and socially excluded in our society. It is estimated there are tens of thousands of hidden homeless people living in the UK today; these people do not show up on government statistics and are not a priority for social housing. Hidden homeless people live in hostels, squats, B&B, or on friends’ floors, often leading miserable, isolated lives and suffering from mental & physical health problems.
In 2008, The Aimar Foundation first provided just over 100 networked PCs across 8 sites. In each site, we installed an internet cafe, computers for Crisis staff, and technology for one-on-one counselling with guests and the following year expanded our offering to include additional PCs along with a an IP based phone system in order to dramatically reduce Crisis’ phone bills during the holiday period.
We continued to innovate and through the help of our supporters, and expand our offering over the years to deploy over 300 state of the art thin-client devices, virtual desktop infrastructure and provide a 24 hour help desk support model. In the peak in 2019 we have had almost 100 volunteers help us implement the Crisis at Christmas project across 10 sites in London.
Building on decentralised configuration management first implemented in 2019, the Aimar engineering team continued to execute the strategic vision migrate from Virtualised Desktop Infrastructure to Apps & Data to provide better versatility, value and scalability; this proved to be invaluable for the Crisis in 2020 where environmental factors dictated the evolution of the services Crisis offered to include the addition of a Call Centre and remote Befriending Services.
As a result of The Aimar Foundation, hundreds of less fortunate learn to look for jobs, connect with love ones, and access self-help tools through the technology we provide to the Crisis shelters.
Registered charity: (E&W 1082947, SCO 40094)
Patron: HRH Princess Alexandra, The Hon Lady Ogilvy GCVO
“I wanted to thank Aimar for the wonderful work they’ve achieved under very awkward, difficult and uncertain circumstances. More so, this year, than ever, Aimar have stepped up to the mark and delivered an amazing new call centre for us. This was an unknown to all of us but so successful that we intend to include this in our service offer from now on.”
Ian Richards, Head of Crisis at Christmas
“The Aimar Foundation’s success is due to our volunteers and their willingness to give back”
Thomas Mosimann
Founder & Chairman (Managing Partner, Aimar Capital)
Thomas founded Aimar Capital in 2012 and is co-founder of Cornerstone Investment Capital. He currently sits on the board of Threatspike Labs. Previously, Thomas was Head of Fixed Income Strategic Investments at Morgan Stanley where he managed a portfolio of private equity investments. Thomas joined Morgan Stanley in 1994 and previously was the Head of European Technology Business Development, where he established an advisory business for Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking and Equities clients.
Prior to that he was European IBD Technology Coverage Officer and Head of European IBD E-commerce, having also held several posts in Hong Kong and New York. Thomas holds an MBA from Columbia University, an MBA from London Business School and a BA from the University of Rochester.
Simon Clark
CEO (Principal Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft)
In 2020, Simon joined Microsoft as a principal account manager for a major global financial services company. Prior to his time at Microsoft, Simon joined Morgan Stanley as a graduate trainee in 1989 and has over 20 years technology experience in Global Financial Services. As an Executive Director he was responsible for the Enterprise Infrastructure Production Management department in EMEA, and globally responsible for a Service Quality Management group.
Simon has been involved with Aimar since 2006 and joined the board in 2010. He graduated from Hull University with a BSc degree in Electronic Communication Engineering in 1988.
Guy Glass
CFO (Finance Director, Palace International)
Currently the Finance Director for a private group of companies in the service sector. Based in the UK but with associated companies in Switzerland and the USA, the firm employs approximately 100 staff, is a market leader in its field and serves Aviation, Marine and Industrial clients from around the world. Guy has worked for the same group since 1992 and has been in his current role since 1996.
Guy graduated from University College London with a BA Honours degree in 1992, lives in Surrey and is married with two young children.
Simon James
COO & Programme Director (Executive Director, Morgan Stanley)
Highly motivated and capable IT Program / Project Manager with over 20 years experience managing successful projects / programs of varying scale and complexity within Banking / Financial Services. Simon’s experience covers all aspects of delivery across a wide variety of enterprise infrastructure and software programs / projects, technologies, services and business content (Waterfall / Hybrid / Agile).
Chris Riley
CTO & Technical Delivery Specialist (Director, rhosting Ltd)
In October 2015, Chris founded rhosting Ltd. providing specialist consultancy for technology solutions focusing on networking and communications. Previously, Chris commenced consulting for Morgan Stanley in 2005 for both Investment Banking (IBD) and Investment Management (IM) divisions focusing on providing business continuity solutions for key personal and senior business executives. He later joined Morgan Stanley’s InPeril events team in 2007 and led the project to virtualise the suite of simulations for rapid deployment. Having delivered on a number of business process improvement projects for IM, Chris was promoted to Vice President to lead the IM EMEA Application Service Group delivering transformative change for offshore support centres. Prior to this, Chris was a Project Leader for Logistics International delivering hardware retrofit projects for Lloyds Bank, Royal Mail and Tesco on behalf of HP, Fujitsu and Siemens. Chris holds a BEng in Materials Science from Swansea University and lists snowboarding and sailing as his favoured recreational activities.
