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Techday NZ
15-07-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Steve Mills steps up as Chief Operating Officer at DoiT
Steve Mills has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer at DoiT after notable growth during his tenure as Chief Revenue Officer. In his time as CRO, Mills oversaw substantial developments, including 2.5x revenue growth across the Americas and facilitating a strategic partnership agreement with AWS, valued at USD $5 billion. The collaboration also led to advanced competency certifications in areas such as cloud and artificial intelligence. Mills brings two decades of experience in sales and marketing strategy, planning, and execution to his new role at DoiT. Prior to joining the company, he held senior leadership roles at NTT and Rackspace Technology, serving as SVP for North America and SVP and General Manager of the Americas, respectively. Record of alignment In his previous position, Mills was credited with driving alignment across sales, marketing, client services, and cloud service provider partners. This alignment, according to the company, created a basis for both direct and joint sales strategies. "Steve's go-to-market insight and strategic vision have been key to our success. He understands the value of collaboration across functions and creating teams that know how to keep customers at the center of it all. Add in his knowledge of FinOps and proven record of success, and he's a natural for advancing operations in ways that'll boost performance and the bottom line," said Vadim Solovey, Chief Executive Officer at DoiT. With his new title, Mills's responsibilities expand to include client services, customer success, marketing, and people strategies. He is expected to continue strengthening go-to-market teams while ensuring operational excellence and alignment throughout the organisation. Focus on operational scale Upon accepting the expanded brief, Mills commented on the company's momentum in the market and its direction in research and development. "DoiT is a very strong company with an enviable market position. Momentum is on our side in sales, R&D is creating industry-leading innovation and we're helping customers master FinOps by turning cloud complexity into clarity, efficiency and ROI. I look forward to further unifying the company in our mission to help businesses maximize the impact of their cloud investments. With strong cross-team collaboration and a proven formula for success, our operations are well-positioned to scale and drive the next wave of FinOps transformation," said Mills. The DoiT Cloud Intelligence platform is designed to address challenges associated with cloud management. The company asserts that it offers more than cost visibility and analytics, focusing on intent and resource management behind workloads, risk management, and enabling action at scale. The platform is also certified by the FinOps Foundation, an endorsement described as the highest recognition from the organisation. DoiT's solutions are built to enable organisations to operate effectively within the FinOps 3.0 framework, connecting technology investments to business outcomes while enabling optimisation through data and engineering collaboration. DoiT is recognised for its expertise in major cloud providers including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, supporting clients seeking to optimise cloud expenditure and improve efficiency. The company's platform aims to offer full-stack telemetry and context-driven insights alongside its intent-aware FinOps solutions. Follow us on: Share on:
Business Wire
15-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
DoiT Promotes Steve Mills to Chief Operating Officer
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DoiT, a global leader in enterprise-grade FinOps and cloud financial management, today announced Steve Mills has been promoted to chief operating officer (COO). The move comes just under a year after Mills assumed the role of chief revenue officer (CRO). During that time, he is credited with driving alignment across sales, marketing, client services and CSP partners, creating a foundation for sustainable, long-term success in both direct and joint sales. Mills possesses two decades of experience in sales and marketing strategy, planning and go-to-market execution. He has been instrumental in cultivating DoiT's growing partnership with AWS, leading to the signing of a five-year strategic collaboration agreement to drive $5 billion in sales and advanced competency certifications in key areas, including cloud and AI. Under Mills' leadership, DoiT achieved 2.5x revenue growth and expansion across U.S., Canada and LATAM markets. Previously, he was SVP of North America at NTT and SVP and general manager of the Americas for Rackspace Technology. 'Steve's go-to-market insight and strategic vision have been key to our success,' said Vadim Solovey, chief executive officer at DoiT. 'He understands the value of collaboration across functions and creating teams that know how to keep customers at the center of it all. Add in his knowledge of FinOps and proven record of success, and he's a natural for advancing operations in ways that'll boost performance and the bottom line.' In his new role as COO, Mills's scope will expand further into client services, customer success, marketing and people strategies. His mandate is to ensure GTM teams continue their growth, while facilitating operational excellence, organizational alignment and execution of tactics. 'DoiT is a very strong company with an enviable market position,' said Mills. 'Momentum is on our side in sales, R&D is creating industry-leading innovation and we're helping customers master FinOps by turning cloud complexity into clarity, efficiency and ROI. I look forward to further unifying the company in our mission to help businesses maximize the impact of their cloud investments. With strong cross-team collaboration and a proven formula for success, our operations are well-positioned to scale and drive the next wave of FinOps transformation." The DoiT Cloud Intelligence™ platform was built from the ground up to address the complexities and demands of the cloud. Today, cost visibility and analytics for cloud spend alone are no longer sufficient. True efficiency requires understanding the intent and resource behind any workload, managing its risks and enabling action at scale. The DoiT platform enables organizations to thrive in the FinOps 3.0 era. It is also certified by the FinOps Foundation, the highest recognition offered by the organization. To learn more, please visit About DoiT DoiT is a global leader with its DoiT Cloud Intelligence™ platform, providing intent-aware FinOps solutions that help businesses maximize the impact of their cloud investments. With deep expertise in AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, DoiT Cloud Intelligence empowers to connect every dollar spent to the goals of each workload, go beyond surface metrics to uncover the root causes of inefficiency and close the loop with engineering teams to drive real optimization. With full-stack telemetry and contextualized insights, DoiT enables smarter spending, faster innovation and greater business outcomes.
New York Times
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
He Searched for His Past in Children's Books. He Found His Wife's.
In retirement, Steve Mills began collecting secondhand books that he had read as a child. It was an effort to reawaken lost memories. His search revealed more about his family's past than he'd thought possible. He was at home in Hockley, east of London, flipping through titles from a recent book haul from a charity shop. Inside the pages of an early hardcover edition of 'The Naughtiest Girl Again,' by the English author Enid Blyton, he found a girl's handwritten notes from more than 50 years earlier. It took a few moments for Mr. Mills to grasp who the writer was: his wife, Karen. At first, Mr. Mills, a 67-year-old former civil servant, simply recognized an address in the town where his wife had grown up, written in a child's handwriting. He brought the book to Ms. Mills, and said, 'Oh look, they used to live in the village you came from,' Mr. Mills recalled. The address had been her childhood home, though it was spelled wrong. Ms. Mills couldn't believe it. Surely, she thought, her husband must be playing a trick on her. 'I thought at first that it was him being a silly bugger,' she said. 'I actually said to him, 'Are you trying to misspell our first address?'' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Husband finds novel in shop with Midland wife's 50-year-old notes on it
A smitten book enthusiast from Hockley, Essex was left astonished when he stumbled upon a 50 year old Enid Blyton novel penned with his wife's childhood notes in a charity shop haul. Steve Mills, at the ripe age of 67, avidly collects works by the celebrated children's author and during a rummage through recent acquisitions, unearthed poignant scribbles from his partner Karen, now 60. The book in question, 'The Naughtiest Girl Again', was originally jettisoned by Karen's mother in the swinging seventies. Read more: Birmingham rhyming slang Intriguingly, the tome surfaced over 160 miles from Karen's Staffordshire roots, in Rayleigh, long before her paths crossed with Steve. The eager bibliophile, whose adoration for Enid Blyton's magical tales dates back to his own youth, expressed his bewilderment: "We've taken it as one of the universe's strange coincidences." Steve, who carved out a career in civil service, reflected on the momentous find: "I had a load of books that I bought together and it wasn't until a couple of months went by that I was rearranging the books on the shelf. "I decided to look through them properly, opened one up and recognised the number on the front cover." The discovery swiftly became a family affair as Steve recounted: "It was my brother-in-law and my wife's old address. I jokingly showed it to her and she turned the next page." Upon turning the leaf, nostalgia bloomed as Karen's juvenile scrawl, consisting of her namesake, erstwhile abode, contact number, and quaint 'stick-figure' doodles depicting her kin appeared. Karen's octogenarian parents were reportedly tickled pink by the serendipitous revelation shared by their son-in-law. Steve was over the moon when he stumbled upon more books in his collection that featured his wife's handwritten notes. He exclaimed: "Lo and behold, there was a second and third book belonging to my wife." The additional finds included 'Five on a Treasure Island' and 'Adventures of Pip', all adorned with Karen's personal annotations. In his quest, Steve also discovered a note declaring 'I have got 12 of Enid Blytons books' and has set his heart on finding the remaining nine. After sharing his nostalgic discovery on an Enid Blyton Fan Group on Facebook, Steve's post garnered a whopping 1,300 likes. Steve reflected: "It's touched on people's heartstrings and there's a lot of people out there who would love to find things from their childhood." He added, "It was a simpler life and that's why I like them so much."
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Book collector finds 50-year-old novel that once belonged to wife in south Essex shop
A BOOK lover from Hockley says he is overjoyed to find an Enid Blyton novel containing 50-year-old hand-written notes from his wife in a charity shop. Steve Mills, 67, is a collector of around 50 novels by the children's author and was going through some new additions when he found the writings from Karen, 60. Steve said the book 'The Naughtiest Girl Again' had been given away by Karen's mum in the 1970s. The book somehow ended up in a charity shop in Rayleigh - more than 160 miles away from where Karen grew up in Staffordshire and before she met Steve. We're now on WhatsApp! Join our new channel at to get all the latest breaking news and exclusive stories delivered straight to your phone. The retired civil servant, who has loved Enid Blyton's books since he was a child, said: "We've taken it as one of the universe's strange coincidences. "I had a load of books that I bought together and it wasn't until a couple of months went by that I was rearranging the books on the shelf. Overjoyed - Book collector Steve was thrilled to find his wife's old books (Image: Steve Mills) "I decided to look through them properly, opened one up and recognised the number on the front cover. "It was my brother-in-law and my wife's old address. I jokingly showed it to her and she turned the next page. "There was her name, address, phone number and drawings. "Her parents are in their 80s and they were delighted when we told them." The book has hand-written details from Karen, then known as Karen Larden, as a young girl living in Staffordshire. They include her name, address at the time and phone number - alongside 'stick-figure' drawings of her family. Steve said he then found more books in his collection also with his wife's annotations in them. He added: "Lo and behold, there was a second and third book belonging to my wife." The other books were Five on a Treasure Island and Adventures of Pip - all with Karen's musings scrawled inside. Read more 'I spent 2 months walking through county - this south Essex island blew my mind' Passengers frustrated after Southend flights re-scheduled to different airports New Pilates studio 'with a twist' to transform lives of residents in south Essex Steve has also found a note which reads "I have got 12 of Enid Blyton's books" and is determined to track the remaining nine down. Handwritten - Steve found notes and drawings from his wife's childhood in the book (Image: Steve Mills) He also posted his find on an Enid Blyton Fan Group on Facebook and has received 1,300 likes. Steve said: "It's touched on people's heartstrings and there's a lot of people out there who would love to find things from their childhood. "It was a simpler life and that's why I like them so much."
