Once Chua and his team had formally set up shop, the clients came pouring in. Even larger corporations such as JAKA Investments and Jollibee—who normally chose their partners through an extensive vetting process and usually only work with companies that had already built up their reputation through years of service—came to Nexus to work with them.

Six months in and the first office space had already become too small for Nexus and they had to move to a bigger office in the same building due to their growth. Nexus, along with the other items they acquired upon moving into the first office, kept the coffee maker.

With a steady influx of clients, Nexus established mutually successful partnerships with Unix, Microsoft Windows NT, and then emerging Hewlett-Packard - to name a few. The deal with HP was one of the most fortuitous partnerships that they had gone into, especially as Nexus bagged the deal just as HP was about to make it big as one of the leading computer brands — a title they hold to this day.

“One of the key points of Nexus history was when we became a reseller of Hewlett-Packard for their PC and PC server business. At that point in time HP was not really a player, and we were very lucky to become their reseller just when they were ready to take off.” Alfonso Olondriz | Vice President for Sales

It was this further growth which prompted Nexus to move into their present offices at the Don Pablo building in Legazpi Village in Makati in 1996. With HP and Microsoft hitting the mainstream, business was booming for Nexus. At one point, Nexus accounted for some 70 percent of HP’s local business.

Three years in, Nexus was dubbed “the fastest-growing computer company in the Philippines” by PC World. The rate at which Nexus grew was the fastest that they had ever seen.

Soon after, Nexus also bought into Jupiter Systems, a tech firm with a focus on software development. Jupiter Systems had recently celebrated its 30th year in the business, and is a proud software provider for car dealerships in the country, as well as the entire Hong Kong airport.

Nexus continued to expand with the foundation of Edupro, a computer training center that served as a countermeasure to tackle their need to educate customers with the new technologies that Nexus continued to market. Nexus saw the need as they often found their engineers training their customers on how to properly deploy and make use of the technologies they push out, especially with Nexus’s reputation of backing promising new platforms, such as when their customers started using Microsoft Windows NT.

Add to that the need for upgrades brought on by the “millennium bug” and you could really say that Nexus had an eventful life as an emerging local computer company. In 2017, Nexus also started building its 10-storey corporate headquarters along Metropolitan Avenue in Makati.

In 2018, Nexus established a new subsidiary, bneXt, a solutions and services provider specializing in enterprise digital transformation.