Mark Brooks-Wadham reveals further M&A plans to CRN and why the UC market is seeing so much consolidation lately Charterhouse Voice and Data will "absolutely" continue its M&A spree this year, according to CEO Mark Brooks-Wadham. The unified comms (UC) specialist last week snapped up Symity and Digital Product Exchange having previously acquired Lloyds Business Communications and NETconnection in January of last year after receiving backing from private equity firm August Equity in 2018.