Qlik moves into its King of Prussia headquarters
Moving on up — and into 211 Gulph Road in King of Prussia.
Qlik, a business-data-analytics and -management company owned by Chicago tech buyout firm Thoma Bravo LLC, employs 2,000 engineers, sales, and support people — but nobody went to work at its Radnor headquarters last week. Chief executive Mike Capone was off leading a string of client events in cities around the world — Qlik’s Data Revolution tour — as workers hauled equipment up Radnor-Chester Road and prepped Qlik’s new headquarters for its opening Monday, writes Joseph N. DiStefano in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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“We’ve been on the road — 20 cities this fall,” Capone said on the hometown stop in his tour last week. IT managers from AmeriGas and the Philadelphia School District (which uses Qlik to track student performance and teacher attendance) were singing the praises of Qlik data presentation during breakout sessions at a Penn’s Landing hotel.
Why King of Prussia? It’s closer to restaurants, hotels, and other amenities. “The Radnor Inn was a lovely place. But we have more choices in King of Prussia,” Capone said.
Some staff will miss the SEPTA Paoli Line train stop in Radnor, close to the old offices. Qlik will pay taxi and Uber fees to bring city commuters up to the new place.
That space, where about 350 will work, has an open floor plan, with natural light along the work stations, and conference rooms in the middle.
A publicly traded company from 2010 to 2016, Qlik was taken private in a $3 billion purchase. Thoma Bravo’s other Philadelphia-area companies have included manufacturing-process supply chain software maker Elemica in Wayne; human-resources software company Frontline Education in Malvern; and insurance software developer Internet Pipeline Inc. in Exton.
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