Exadel Acquires London Consultancy Tangent to Integrate Experience Design with AI Engineering
May 18, 2026 – 8:19 am
The Tampa-based, Sun Capital-owned software services firm is folding the SAP- and IWG-trusted UK digital agency into its Digital Experiences practice. Deal terms were not disclosed.
Exadel, the Tampa-based software-development and consulting firm, has acquired Tangent, the London-based digital experience consultancy, the company said on Monday. Terms were not disclosed.
Tangent will continue to operate under its existing brand inside Exadel’s Digital Experiences practice, with chief executive Leigh Gammons moving into a managing director and senior vice president role to lead the business.
On Exadel’s own framing, the deal is about pairing two halves of an enterprise transformation engagement that have traditionally lived in different vendor categories.
The Acquisition: A Strategic Move
Exadel sells what it calls AI-native engineering: data infrastructure, applications, and the back-end work of running an enterprise’s technology stack, on a 2,000-plus headcount across the US, Europe and LATAM. Tangent sells the front-end discipline, including UX, product, web experience and MarTech engineering, on a smaller boutique footprint built up around what its website describes as enterprise digital-product work. The acquisition pulls strategy, design and engineering inside one contract.
"Brands increasingly win or lose based on the AI-driven digital experiences they provide to customers," said James Dalziel, Exadel’s chief operating officer, in the statement. "By bringing Tangent into the organisation, we are fortifying our ability to help global clients not only design exceptional experiences but also continuously optimise and scale them through AI."
Gammons described the value of the combination from the other direction:
"Companies are demanding more than great digital experiences. They need to provide experiences that can constantly evolve and drive measurable outcomes."
About Tangent
Tangent has been operating since 2001 and counts SAP, IWG, and UK Power Networks among its enterprise clients, according to its own published materials, with the Exadel release also naming New Balance and Vodafone. Its team is London-headquartered with a Newcastle office and a delivery footprint across Spain, South Africa, Poland, Egypt, and Pakistan. Gammons joined the agency as chief executive after leaving a senior role at WPP.
Exadel’s M&A Strategy
Exadel’s M&A appetite has a recognisable shape. The company is owned by an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners after a take-private transaction, and has spent the past few years adding capability through bolt-ons. Its prior acquisitions include Motion Software, CPQi and Coppei. Tangent is the latest in that arc, and the first explicitly aimed at the design-and-strategy front of the enterprise stack rather than the engineering or sector-specific back.
The two companies have also announced a joint AI accelerator programme for enterprise clients, framed as a way to help businesses harness the power of AI to transform their digital experiences.