Merseyside ICT was formed in November 2003 by David Bold. Its purpose was to represent the ICT sector on Merseyside and was funded by a combination of the North West Development Agency and the European Social Fund. The company was steered by Frank Coward of Gardner Systems and David Bold of Software Generation with Steve Smith as the operational director. The company was domiciled in the premises of Gardner Systems.

Its activities included forming and supporting local business networking groups though to setting up and hosting fact finding tours into Europe and the USA.It was particularly successful in helping key developing companies reach new customers and markets.It was also very successful in attracting inward investment to Merseyside for the ICT sector.

However Merseyside did not have many large IT companies and it was difficult to find financial sponsorship to take the work further forward.Despite interest from IBM and Microsoft there was not enough impetus to continue the work and during 2007-2008 the staff, who had done a superb job with the resources available, left for other opportunities.

At the end of 2008, the funding came to an end and with it the end of the sector representation.Frank Coward resigned his directorship and David Bold took over the role of CEO but retained the premises within Gardner Systems.

In April 2009 the company launched its trading name of SkillsGen and commenced the delivery of IT oriented training, with particular focus on Microsoft technologies being a Microsoft Gold Partner and holding the Learning Competency which enable it to deliver Official Microsoft Courses – the only company on Merseyside so qualified.

It also opened additional premises in Hatton Garden from which it delivers Software Development and Network design and support.