Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, it was acquired by Accenture in 2015.

[1] Cloud Sherpas was founded by Michael Cohn, Eran Gil, and David Hoff in May 2008.

[citation needed] In March 2012, led by a $20 million investment by Columbia Capital, Cloud Sherpas merged with GlobalOne, a Salesforce.com partner.

The combined entity went forward with the name Cloud Sherpas, which became a platform upon which additional cloud advisory boutiques and brokerage firms were later added.

Global One was founded by John Orrock, Dennis Wall, and Toan Huynh.