North has announced the appointment of David Crawford as its new chief executive officer.
Crawford replaces Glen Williams, who stepped down at the end of last year after almost two years in the role.
Crawford joins from European telecoms infrastructure company Cellnex Telecom where he was responsible for integrating the business into the group operating model, developing key customer relationships and driving local organic and inorganic growth.
AMD North America Channel Chief Terry Richardson is leaving the company after more than 30 years of working in the channel and is believed to be retiring.
Richardson, a 30-year-plus channel veteran who has also held top channel jobs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP and EMC, joined AMD two years ago and helped build it a robust network of partners.
Richardson’s departure on April 18 comes just three weeks after AMD Head of North America VAR Channels & Commercial Distribution Marty Bauerlein left AMD to take the newly created role of chief commercial officer at D&H Distributing.
Richardson was one of the most respected channel leaders in the business and he is widely attributed with giving AMD achieve a channel footprint it would not have been able to attain without him.
Agilitas IT Solutions has announced that its chief marketing officer, Richard Eglon, will leave the firm after eight years.
He will officially leave the company in August 2023 and wants to spend time with his family after many years managing a busy and fast-paced work schedule.
He joined Agilitas in 2015 as marketing director before being promoted to chief marketing officer in 2021. Eglon built Agilitas’ channel services brands, and was responsible for setting and communicating strategic direction and executing go-to-market plans as well as its ESG initiative.
Exertis UK has appointed Tim Griffin as its new CEO.
The change means Griffin is no longer managing director of parent company, DCC Technology, and willl be replaced by Clive Fitzharris.
Griffin takes direct responsibility for the entire Exertis UK, Retail & B2B operations and oversees other businesses in the UK and Ireland of DCC Technology.
He will also lead a development plan for the business in the UK to drive growth, innovation and market leadership.
“The size of the opportunity in the UK, both now and in the future, is a major prize and I’m excited to be taking the CEO role leading the evolution of our UK business as we drive it onwards to ever-greater success,” Griffin said.
SHI’s UK MD Donavan Hutchinson has today announced he is leaving the reseller after only exactly a year in the role.
Hutchinson was a big appointment for SHI having worked expanding global enterprise experience for with multinational solutions providers for 20 years.
Hutchinson also left his previous job managing UK/European expansion for Paragon Micro UK after a year.
Before that he worked for PCM for nearly three years. As Managing Director UK/International, he helped grow sales from ground level to $62 million in his first calendarized trading year with second-year revenues surpassing $95 million.
In a LinkedIn post, Hutchinson said he was departing to focus on personal goals.
Daisy Corporate Services has appointed Kris Lee as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on 1 February 2023, taking over from Paul Worthington who is leaving the business after 16 years..
Lee will work alongside the senior leadership team to help execute the company’s strategy for continued financial growth.
Lee has more than 25 years’ experience working for privately owned, private equity and public sector organisations. For the last five years, Lee was CFO for Card Factory during which time he helped the company navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, setting it up for future growth. Before that, he was Group CFO of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill for five years. Kris has also held senior finance positions across various sectors including Brighthouse, Phones4U, JD Sports, all:sports, Barclays Bank and BMI
POPX has appointed ServiceNow executive Martin Wood as its new Chief Product Officer.
Wood had been working for ServiceNow for more than 13 years. He finished his work with the now 20,000-strong company as the Director of Product Management for Impact.
While at ServiceNow, Wood was responsible for building and launching product lines, including the ServiceNow HealthScan, a platform review tool. He led the team to analyse millions of health data points to create appropriate scoring mechanisms that produced a multi-million-pound impact.
At POPX, Wood has a focused remit across product and customer outcomes that will refine the POPX offering by continually developing a product strategy and innovation roadmap. He is responsible for customer success and will create a value framework dedicated to helping clients extract the maximum value from their investment in ServiceNow.
Wood said: “My priority has always been to ensure that the customer experience is as good as it can be and that we’re continuously driving better outcomes that translate to real business value. It was immediately clear to me that the team at POPX spoke the same language and shared the same passion and vision. The organisation has been designed to deliver the highest standard of service, facilitated by their agility. This rapid response capability allows for quick decision-making that can disrupt the market.”
POPX CEO Martin Ford said Wood was a pivotal hire for POPX, given his vast experience with ServiceNow, and he brings new knowledge to how customers can outperform their competitors.
“We are lucky to have him and know that our growing client base will welcome his addition to the team. This appointment accelerates our strategy to help tech service providers transform their operations as efficiently, scalable and profitable as possible.”
The former rubber boot maker Nokia announced that Rolf Werner has joined the company as the Senior Vice President of its European region,
Werner joined Nokia from Cognizant Technology Solutions, where he was the CEO of Germany, with responsibility for the DACH region. DACH is a top three region for Cognizant Technology, and under his leadership, the company delivered double-digit growth for the region, including the acquisition of ESG Mobility.
During his career, Werner has held senior positions at Fujitsu, Global Logic, and T-Systems, where he led the turnaround of T-Systems’ French organisation across the whole organisational framework.
Heading Nokia’s Europe Region, Werner will help drive Nokia’s already significant growth and market share. The company hopes Werner will improve relationships with key European customers and support the company’s growth ambitions into new market segments.
Insecurity experts Rubrik have appointed former Microsoft chairman and Symantec CEO John Thompson as its lead independent director.
Thompson brings more than 40 years of leadership experience in the technology industry. His claim to fame is that he succeeded Sir William Gates III as chairman of Microsoft’s board and now serves as its lead independent director.
Previously, Thompson was the chairman and CEO of Symantec and currently serves as the chairman of Illumina’s board.
Rubrik co-founder and CEO, Bipul Sinha said that his outfit had built an elite leadership team of cybersecurity experts across public and private sectors to better equip our customers in the ongoing battle against data threats such as ransomware.
“Thompson is a cybersecurity pioneer. His proven leadership and experience building iconic companies will help us continue to deliver data security innovations and define the future of cybersecurity.”
VirtualDCS has a new channel account executive.
IT backup, recovery and data management expert, Jeniya Klimova, who has spent the past five years working at global software company, Veeam, has joined the team at cloud computing and disaster recovery specialists, virtualDCS, as a channel account executive.
The company has changed its course to focus on providing infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery services which provide UK data sovereignty, to IT partners that want to offer cloud-based backup services to their clients and end-users.
VirtualDCS CloudCover services feature best of breed solutions from Veeam, which is the world leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver modern data protection.
Lee Driscoll has said he is leaving Nuvias following its sale to private equity-backed peer Infinigate.
He joined Nuvias in 2015 via its acquisition of Zycko, shortly after Rigby Private Equity founded Nuvias.
His 30-year career in the channel also includes stints at the Rigbys’ previous distribution ventures, including ETC and SDG.
Nuvias announced the sale of most of its business to Switzerland-based peer Infinigate in July.
Driscoll feels that it is the right time to take a break from the industry.
Public sector software supplier Civica has announced that its CEO Wayne Story will formally retire on 31 December.
He will be succeeded by Lee Perkins who will take become the new group CEO.
Civica founder and group chair, Simon Downing said that during his tenure, Story expanded Civica’s global reach and increased software product capability while retaining the company’s culture and values.
“His leadership in successfully navigating us all through an unprecedented global pandemic – providing calm and clear direction and a reassuring ‘voice’ in uncertain times has left the business in such a strong position.”
Insight’s EMEA president, Emma de Sousa has announced she will be leaving the building for the last time on 31 December.
After 20 years working for the reseller giant she is leaving to make way for Adrian Gregory, an Atos executive who has previously run its Northern European and APAC business.
De Sousa moved into the EMEA president role just under three years ago, having previously led the UK business.
She seems to have left leaving a statement which was possibly written by a PR AI, as it is difficult to imagine a human saying it.
“It was a very difficult decision to make, but it has been a privilege to be part of this wonderful organisation that continually strives for greatness and lives by its core values of hunger, heart and harmony”, de Sousa apparently said.
Insight CEO Joyce Mullen said: “We have enormous respect for the decision that Emma has made, and we fully support her.
“We thank her for her phenomenal leadership and many years of success leading the UK and our EMEA business. Widely respected both with the industry and Insight, I’d also like to pay tribute to Emma’s enduring commitment to building a high performance, highly inclusive culture at Insight. We have taken this opportunity to look carefully at the market and have found a terrific successor in Adrian.”
Ingram Micro’s sales director Gary Lomas, is exiting the business and joining global integrator Onnec.
Lomas started at the distributor in 2020 and spent seven years at value-added reseller Logicalis in various sales director roles before joining the Ingram Micro company.
“I would like to thank Ingram Micro, Comms-care, Matthew Sanderson and Simon Day for giving me a chance to work for such a fantastic company for the last 2.5 years, which is full of so many talented people.”
Kevin Sparks, chief growth officer at Onnec, added: “We are delighted to welcome Gary to the team, with many years of experience within the IT industry this will be invaluable in what promises to be an exciting year for our company as we continue to help our customers with large scale build and IT transformation projects across the globe.”
Daisy Corporate Services has appointed a new managing director of operational resiliency and cyber security.
Iulia Knight, who has more than 10 years of experience in the enterprise operational resilience and critical event management software solutions space, will be responsible for further developing Daisy’s combined proposition and go-to-market strategy.
She comes from Cutover where she had a similar role. Before that she spend nine years at OneSolve, which included five years managing the company’s international division.
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