The Ington Group

We are in the business of removing barriers.

Distance, latency, bad handoffs, systems that won’t talk to each other — every one of them sits between someone and the thing they need. The Ington Group is a software development and infrastructure company built to take them down.

What that means in practice

Most barriers aren’t dramatic. They’re a network that takes the long way around, a platform that won’t hand over its own data, a vendor who stops answering after the contract is signed. Small things, and then nothing moves.

At our core, we’re a broker of trust. We bring clients together with the right networks, the right safeguards, and the right standards — and then we get out of the way. Whether the data moves between a stadium and a stream, a database and a model, or a client and their partners, the goal is the same: it gets there quickly, it gets there safely, and it stays where it belongs.

How we got here

We didn’t start with a strategy deck. We started with one server that had to stay up, and kept taking on the next barrier in front of us.

  1. 2019

    First Minecraft server sold

    It starts with one game server and one customer who needed it to stay online. The lesson stuck: somebody is always waiting on the other end of a connection.

  2. Fall 2021

    IngtonMC launched

    A hobby became an operation. IngtonMC turned a handful of servers into a real platform — provisioning, uptime, support — and taught us how to run infrastructure other people depend on.

  3. Spring 2022

    Sonoma Communications launch

    Our first brand outside of gaming. Sonoma took what we knew about keeping people connected and pointed it at voice, video, and messaging for businesses that can’t go dark.

  4. Spring 2023

    ByteWorks partnership

    The engineering bench arrived. ByteWorks gave us the ability to build the software our clients run their businesses on — not just the pipes underneath it.

  5. Summer 2024

    Broadwave acquisition

    Broadwave brought transport, peering, and delivery into the Group, and with it the reach to move very large amounts of data between very far-apart places.

  6. Fall 2025

    Transition to a managed services platform

    Three brands, one way of working. We moved from delivering projects to running them — a managed platform where the networks, the software, and the support are ours to keep working, not just ours to hand over.

  7. 2030

    The future

    More barriers are still standing than we’ve taken down. We intend to keep going until the distance between a person and what they need stops being a technical problem.

The people behind the work

Our leadership spans networking, software, communications, security, and operations — across the Group and our brands. From the top to the bottom, every team member shows up to do the same job: take care of our clients.

QI
Quinn Iris
Chief Executive Officer & Chair
AL
Ava Li
Chief Administration Officer & Co-Owner
ME
Morgan Evans
Chief Product Officer & Vice-Chair
Executive Leadership
LG
Lily Gray
Chief Client Officer
Client Engagement
MG
Marissa Grant
Chief Financial Officer
Finance
VH
Vivian Huddleston
Chief Technical Officer
Technology
DH
Dawn Haley
Chief of Staff & Director of Operations
Office of the Chief Executive
EH
Ella Holden
President, ByteWorks Development
ByteWorks Development
EH
Emily Hoffman
President, Sonoma Communications
Sonoma Communications
Leadership
JL
Joshua Lewis
Senior Vice President of Product, Infrastructure
Product
SW
Stella Wright
Senior Vice President of Sales
Client Engagement
AN
Audrey Nelson
Senior Vice President of Product, R&D
Research & Development
BJ
Bella Jacobs
Vice President of IT
Information Technology
EB
Emma Buchanan
Vice President of Infrastructure
Infrastructure
GW
Gabrielle Woodward
Vice President of Production
Production
IF
Isabel Frost
Vice President of Security
Security
LH
Leslie Hand
Vice President of Client Success
Client Engagement
LH
Lori Harrington
Vice President of Teams & People
Teams & People
MW
Miranda Wilson
Vice President of Product, Minecraft & Gaming
Product
ZD
Zara Dodd
Vice President of Software Development
Development
JH
Jasmine Hooper
SC Vice President of Engineering
SC Engineering
JC
Jesse Cisneros
SC Vice President of Infrastructure
SC Infrastructure
PL
Patrick Lindfoot
SC Vice President of Network
SC Network
EB
Emma Blackmore
Associate Vice President of Sales, Networking
Client Engagement
FM
Felicity Moore
Associate Vice President of Marketing
Client Engagement
SF
Sylvia Fernandez
Associate Vice President of Teams & People, People Operations & Recruitment
Teams & People

Our partners

We work alongside the platforms that move the modern web.

Cloudflare Partner
Google Cloud Partner