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Julian Hamood, founder of Microsoft partner Trusted Tech Team, plans further expansion in Europe this year and then in Asia as his company aims for $500 million in revenue in 2026.
The secret to his success: get to work at 5:45 a.m., know every phase of his business and keep people motivated.
Hamood, 33, won a Business Journal Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award at a luncheon attended by almost 400 local business leaders at the Irvine Marriott on March 20.
Irvine-based Trusted Tech Team, founded in 2017, is a Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider and Microsoft Solutions Partner focused on simplifying software licensing and providing IT consulting services.
“We can really get this thing up to an excess of a billion dollars,” he said of Trusted Team’s annual revenue outlook.
The company in eight years has moved up to more than $340 million in annual sales already and the revenue is growing, Hamood told the Business Journal the day after winning the award.
6,000 Cloud Customers
Hamood, who is also Trusted Team’s chief visionary officer, is a 2014 graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a degree in business, management, marketing and related support services.
His resume includes just over three years as general manager at My Choice Software of Lake Forest.
Trusted Tech Team boasts 6,000 cloud customers and 40,000 “on-prem” customers that use their own locally hosted hardware infrastructure.
“We’re a partner of Microsoft. For small and medium businesses, we handle all the security for laptops and mobile devices. We handle the cloud aspects, all the data storage for the customers as it relates to Microsoft,” Hamood says.
Trusted Team provides technical support for Microsoft 365 and Azure.
Boeing, RTX, Honeywell
Trusted Tech Team also works with huge firms such as Boeing, RTX (formerly Raytheon), Honeywell, Lockheed Martin and Netflix, according to its website.
“We handle a lot of the implementation of AI for the companies. So essentially the entire tech stack as it relates to Microsoft – we handle,” said Hamood. That includes handling data storage for clients.
“A lot of our growth is actually coming in the international market, the EU and U.K. market. We’re continuing to focus on expansion into further countries,” he says. “We’re in 12 countries in the EU and of course the U.K.”
He foresees “HQing Singapore in the next potentially two years,” reaching into India from there.
He also sees further expansion in the U.S. and Canada.
The company has about 50 employees in London and about 250 in the U.S., according to Hamood.
First One in at 5.45 a.m.
“I have the energy, and I’ve always wanted to remain active in the company,” Hamood says. “I’m the first one in the office at 5:45. I’m still involved in every aspect of the business. I have conducted every role in the company.”
His parents moved to Florida from Lebanon, and then resettled in Orange County, where his mother also went to CSUF.
Hamood is committed to community service, actively supporting Project Youth OC, United Champions for Change and the Wounded Warrior Project.
He is also active with Oscar & Ma (now rebranded as RiseHyre), an OC-based nonprofit focused on providing job training and generating employment opportunities for people with barriers to employment.
Hamood is involved in the arts, volunteering and donating to Orange County School of the Arts and Orange County Museum of Art.