Integration outfit Tibco has appointed Fred Studer as its new chief marketing officer.
Studer will lead its worldwide marketing.
Studer has a career in marketing, creative, and product management, with over 25 years experience in the high tech industry.
Zyxel Communications appointed David Soares as its new EVP of Channel Sales and Marketing for EMEA and North America.
Soares, who has been working with Zyxel since 2017 as VP of North American sales, brings 30 years of experience to drive channel growth in the two regions.
In his new position overseeing the EMEA region, Soares will be working with his team to identify channel growth opportunities and strategies to help Zyxel’s channel partners drive their own business for more growth and profitability. His focus with the channel will be to help value-added resellers (VARs) to evolve their offerings to become managed service providers (MSPs).
Veritas has appointed a new channel boss, with Mike Walkey now heading up its global partner ecosystem and alliances with cloud providers.
Veritas executive vice president, Scott Genereuxof said: “I am thrilled to have Mike join Veritas to strengthen the incredible relationships we have with our channel and alliance partners and drive growth across our new Enterprise Data Services Platform,”
“Mike knows the channel and has a proven track record of building innovative programs that help partners succeed and differentiate themselves in the market.”
Walkey was senior vice president of strategic partners and alliances at Hitachi Vantara, having previously worked at Flextronics International, Buy.com and Ingram Micro.
Chris Ciauri will leave Salesforce Ciauri to spearhead Google Cloud’s sales face-lift
Ciauri has been named at Google’s EMEA cloud president, with a focus on expanding the firm’s commercial potency and reaching more customers.
He was an executive vice president EMEA at Salesforce after ten years at the company. Ciaurihas held sales roles at several tech companies, including Adobe Systems and Peoplesoft. He will lead Google Cloud’s push to improve the way it serves its existing customers.
His predecessor in the role, Sebastien Marotte, is taking on the part of vice president for the channel in EMEA.
Google shook up its remuneration structure in July by reducing the base salary for salespeople and increasing quarterly bonuses for hitting sales targets.
SD-WAN outfit Silver Peak bolstered its EMEA channel team with the appointments of three regional channel account managers to deepen partner engagement and drive sales growth across the UK, France and Germany. The new appointments include Wayne Newman in the UK and Ireland, Philippe Dufour in France and Sara Ramezanpour in DACH.
The move follows the launch and expansion of the Silver Peak Partner Edge programme within the last year – including the Global Partner Edge programme, the Cloud Partner Ecosystem expansion, and the Authorised Deployment Partner (ADP) programme – the new channel account managers underscore the company’s commitment to the EMEA region and channel. The outfit believes that the SD-Wan market is headed for a growth spurt soon.
Data centre simulation specialist EkkoSense has appointed senior global operations specialist Pete Le Noury as the company’s Chief Operations and Chief Financial Officer.
Le Noury has been bought in to drive a planned growth phase. His appointment follows EkkoSense’s recent addition of Adrian Barker from Vertiv as Key Account Director, and also of data centre expert Mark Acton to the company’s board as a non-executive director.
Infrastructure outfit Panduit EMEA has appointed Martin Kandziora as Senior Marketing Manager. He will lead the international and country marketing teams with responsibility for developing and implementing marketing strategy and campaigns across Europe, the Middle East and Africa to support the developing activity of Panduit in the region.
Kandziora was Vice President Marketing and Communications for Rittal, a sizeable privately-owned manufacturer, where he spent 15-years. He holds a diploma in electrical engineering as well as an MBA. Martin Kandziora is involved with various professional associations and committees. He also writes articles for both the German and English-language press.
Cloudy outfit Nutanix appointed Sammy Zoghlami as Senior Vice President of Sales for the region of Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Having previously held the role of sales lead for the company’s operations in Southern Europe, Zoghlami will take responsibility for all aspects of Nutanix sales in a region stretching from Scandinavia to South Africa, and from Ireland to Russia. Zoghlami will be responsible for leading sales and customer support, strategic business development and strategy, management of Nutanix’s offices and operational teams in each EMEA country, as well as the company’s partnerships, alliances and channel activities in the region.
Content Guru has appointed Jonathan Oliver as its new Chief Information Officer,
The CIO hire comes as Content Guru continues its growth outside its home European market into Asia-Pac and North America. Jonathan will be responsible for optimising internal and customer-facing systems.
With over 25 years of industry experience, Jonathan was previously Vice President of Global Technology at Dynatrace, responsible for service delivery and optimisation across employees in 24 countries.
CTI Digital has appointed Steve Gale to oversee its London office.
Gale will move from the agency’s Manchester office to the capital next month to manage its strategic operations and work directly with clients based in the south of England and Europe.
As managing director of its London office, Steve will play a key role in future acquisitions and the pan-European growth of CTA Digital, the agency said.
Dutch IT service outfit Dynasource announced that Marc Duijndam(pictured) had been named CEO and startupbootcamp leader Ruud Hendriks will also be joining the Dynasource Supervisory board. Both appointments are part of Dynasource’s cunning plan for global expansion, particularly throughout the UK and US.
New CEO Marc Duijndam was CEO at Funda for over four years until 2017 and was previously responsible for the launch of Google in BENELUX.
New Supervisory Board Member Ruud Henriks was a member of the Executive Board of Endemol and is now co-founder of Startupbootcamp.
Former CEO, Paul White steps up to support the Supervisory Board.
Allen Waugerman has been named as Lexmark’s new president and chief executive officer.
Waugerman joined Lexmark at its inception in 1991 and has served in a variety of leadership roles, including leading the company on an interim basis during the CEO search. Since 2016 he has served as Lexmark senior vice president and chief technology officer. Waugerman succeeds Rich Geruson, who left the company in November 2018.
Mickey Kantor, chairman, Lexmark board of directors said: “We are pleased to appoint Allen as Lexmark president and CEO. He brings strong leadership, integrity, deep knowledge of technology and a track record of commitment to Lexmark’s success, making him the right choice to lead the company toward continued global growth.”
Waugerman holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky. He is a Dean’s Advisory Council member for the University of Kentucky College of Engineering and serves on the board of the YMCA of Central Kentucky.
“I am proud of Lexmark’s recent accomplishments, including the largest product launch in our history and the development of new solutions and services such as cloud-based as-a-service offerings. I look forward to leveraging our strengths and proprietary technologies toward broad global growth strategies that will position Lexmark for success well into the future,” Waugerman said.
Logicalis UK, the IT solutions and managed services provider has appointed Alex Louth as Managing Director. Alex joins the business to lead the redefinition of the company’s customer focus and value proposition as the market shifts to the emerging opportunities made possible by Digital Platforms, Data Driven Business and IoT.
Ingram Micro has appointed Brian Verburg as the Manager of its European Cyber Security Center of Excellence. Brian will manage the Centre of Excellence (COE) recently launched in the Netherlands, that extends support across Europe, including Germany, UK, France, Spain, Nordics, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland.
Insight EMEA, a division of Insight, has appointed Karen Mclaughlin as Vice President, Services, EMEA. Managing a team of more than 250 services professionals, Karen will be responsible for accelerating Insight’s services division across Europe.
Mclaughlin brings with her more than two decades of experience leading and developing managed services for organisations, globally. Most recently, as Vice President at DXC Technology, her role was focused
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