Category: Moving People

Aerospike appoint James EMEA Vice President.

Posted on September 14, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Aerospike has appointed Martin James as EMEA Vice President. He is responsible for driving regional growth.

James brings 25 years of database sector expertise to Aerospike. He joined the company from Percona, where he trebled the business in EMEA and APAC. Prior to Percona, he was regional Vice President for Northern Europe at DataStax, managing enterprise sales to achieve double-digit growth. For Aerospike, James will develop regional sales teams that meet the exacting SLAs of today’s data-driven enterprise.

His job is to push the Aerospike Real-time Data Platform to businesses seeking to build large-scale real-time applications.

Swales defects to Lenovo

Posted on September 6, 2022 by - Moving People

VMware channel leader Bill Swales has defected to Lenovo.

Swales joined VMware in 2018 as VP of global commercial sales before moving to the role of VP and channel chief of its Americas partner organisation.

According to a LinkedIn post he is leaving in mid-October. Swales did not say what his role would be but since his farewell post said “our paths will absolutely cross again”, he probably will be talking to partners.

HPE has new UK managing director

Posted on September 2, 2022 by - Moving People, News

HPE has appointed a new UK managing director.

Matt Harris will run the end-to-end management of HPE’s UK business, people, and operations from Marc Waters.

Waters has been running the outfit since 2016 and is moving to the senior vice president for the UK, Ireland, Middle East, Africa and High Performance Computing in EMEA chair.

Vertiv appoints Lim for HR role

Posted on August 24, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Vertiv has named Cheryl Lim the company’s new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).

Lim will report directly to CEO Rob Johnson and run the outfit’s HR.

She has been working for more than two decades leading human resources teams, supporting organisational changes, and supplying data-driven stuff  for global HR operations in the manufacturing space.

Before joining Vertiv, Lim  held HR positions at Honeywell and was most recently the vice president of Human Resources at ITT.

Cohesity headhunts VMware’s former chief operating officer

Posted on August 4, 2022 by - Moving People, News

VMware’s former chief operating officer Sanjay Poonen has been headhunted by Cohesity as its new CEO and President.

Sanjay Poonen oversaw sales, marketing, services, and alliances in his most recent role at VMware, helping to double revenues from approximately $6 billion to $12 billion.

Poonen said that Cohesity sat at the intersection of three of the highest priority business issues today – cyber security, cloud, and data management.

Westcon-Comstor reshuffles management

Posted on August 2, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Westcon-Comstor is shuffling its senior UK management team with the disties’ existing UK boss Anthony Byford is moving into a role as vice-president in a newly formed clouded collaboration business division.

This leaves a UK and Ireland managing director vacancy that is being filled by John Nolan.

He said: “I’ve witnessed major shifts in technology adoption and the impacts on the channel during my 17-year tenure at Westcon-Comstor. The single constant throughout this time has been the difference an experienced distributor like Westcon can make when helping partners navigate those market shifts while maintaining high service levels.

Ensono makes Malloy in charge of Europe

Posted on July 25, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Ensono, a technology adviser and managed service provider, announced that Howard Malloy has been appointed Senior Vice President (SVP) and Managing Director (MD), Europe.

Malloy most recently served as the Global Vice President of Client Success and prior to that, he served as Managing Director for India.

Ensono said that Malloy’s appointment is part of Ensono’s long-term commitment to invest in the future of the UK and wider European market.

“The company has a long history of investing in cutting edge UK technology firms, acquiring IT services provider Attenda in 2016, Microsoft Azure experts, Inframon in 2017 and cloud-native consultancy Amido last year. These strategic acquisitions have helped Ensono provide clients a truly end-to-end transformational service, becoming their trusted ally for better business outcomes ,” the company said.

Hess walks away from Telefónica Tech CEO role

Posted on July 19, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Telefónica Tech UK&I CEO Martin Hess has stepped down from the role and will be doing something different in the company.

Hess will be replaced by the firm’s vice president of sales and marketing Mark Gorton while he focuses on longer-term strategic growth, both in the UK&I and worldwide, Telefónica Tech said.

Gorton played an “instrumental role” in the growth of Cancom UK&I, which was sold to Telefónica Tech in July 2021, the Microsoft partner added, and also in the acquisition of Incremental Group in March this year.

“I am incredibly proud of the journey our business has been on and where we have got to in a relatively short space of time and I am confident that Mark and Dominic will continue this same upward curve”, Hess said.

Zoom appoints Todd Surdey Head of Global Channel & Business Development

Posted on July 15, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Zoom announced that Todd Surdey has joined Zoom as its Head of Global Channel & Business Development.

Surdey joins Zoom with an extensive enterprise and channel background having served in leadership roles at Google, Palo Alto Networks, SAP, Salesforce, and VMware, among others.

He brings with him an intimate knowledge of running enterprise businesses, as well as a long history with and passion for the channel, all of which will be critical as Zoom continues to scale the channel and partner business.

Softcat top cat will quit next year

Posted on July 13, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Softcat boss Graeme Watt will step down as CEO next year and will be replaced by the company’s CFO Graham Charlton.

Watt will become Softcat’s non-executive chair, replacing Martin Hellawell who will step down from his position and from Softcat’s board.

Watt began his tenure as Softcat’s CEO in April 2018 after former CEO Hellawell moved to a chairman position. Under Watt’s leadership, Softcat has almost doubled its revenues – from £1.08 billion for the year ending 31 July 2018 to £1.94bn (gross invoiced income) in its FY2021.

Security outfit ComplyAdvantage hires Watson

Posted on June 10, 2022 by - Moving People, News

ComplyAdvantage has appointed Mark Watson has been named as the company’s Chief Technology Officer and newest addition to the leadership team.

In his role, Watson will lead all engineering and technical innovation efforts including the expansion of the company’s proprietary knowledge graph called ComplyData which contextualises insights across the company’s award-winning Transaction Risk Management and KYB solution sets.

F5 appoints Berry director of channel sales and Wiktander as new VP

Posted on June 1, 2022 by - Moving People, News

F5 has appointed Carl Berry as its new Director of Channel Sales for the UK and Ireland.

He will report to Nasser El Abdouli, VP for EMEA Channel Sales at F5.

After 20 years in the industry Berry joins F5 from Fortinet, where he was the Regional Sales Manager for the UK and Ireland. He has also held leadership positions at Avnet Technology Solutions.

Microsoft channel boss cleans out his desk

Posted on May 19, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Microsoft’s channel boss Rodney Clark has quit his job of 24 years and is headed for greener pastures.

Clark has worked for Vole for 24 years and took up the role of corporate vice president of global channel sales and channel chief last year.

He is leaving the company to take up a new role as an executive officer at a publicly-traded company that partners with Microsoft.

According to a blog post written by Nick Parker, Microsoft corporate vice president of global partner solutions, the company expects to have a new leader in place by the beginning of its new fiscal year in July.

More woes for Kaspersky

Posted on May 16, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Security outfit Kaspersky’s channel operations in North America defected from the embattled cybersecurity company to somewhere a little less controversial.

Matthew Courchesne, who has led Kaspersky’s North American B2B channel team since early 2019, recently posted on his LinkedIn page that he was “happy to announce” that he was joining cybersecurity firm Cyware, also as channel chief for North America.

Content+Cloud appoints former Softcat to board

Posted on May 13, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Content+Cloud has appointed former Softcat MD Colin Brown to its board as a non-executive director.

Brown will apparently provide the outfit advice on the business’ growth roadmap.

Brown spent eight years at Softcat and was part of the leadership team that brought the organisation to its IPO. After stepping down as MD in 2020, Brown assisted with the reseller’s transition to a new leadership team.

He now acts as a non-executive director for a number of other technology and services companies.

Content+Cloud CEO Peter Sweetbaum said: “We are delighted to have Colin on board where we look forward to him bringing his exemplary experience at the core of the UK IT Services market in the UK and Europe”, he said.