Category: Moving People

Cisco appoints Sarah Walker as new UK and Ireland CEO

Posted on August 9, 2024 by - Moving People, News

Cisco has appointed Sarah Walker as its new CEO for the UK and Ireland.

Walker succeeds David Meads, who will now oversee the vendor’s operations in the Middle East and Africa.

Having joined Cisco in 2022, Walker previously served as managing director for its UK&I enterprise business.

Before her tenure at Cisco, Walker spent 25 years in various sales roles at BT, culminating in a two-and-a-half-year stint as Director for Corporate and Public Services.

She also chairs the board of trustees for the Greater Manchester Academies Trust and serves as a Non-Executive Director with Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust.

Wessels becomes Box EMEA president

Posted on July 19, 2024 by - Moving People, News

Cloudy storage provider Box has appointed Samantha Wessels as president of Box Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

Wessels brings over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, known for leading teams at high-performing SaaS companies and large-scale integrators.

She was previously vice president of international at cybersecurity firm Snyk, driving double-digit growth in EMEA and APJ. Before that, she was vice president of EMEA sales at Elastic, establishing a successful go-to-market strategy in Europe.

Wessels also held leadership roles at NTT, including senior global cloud sales vice president. At Box, she will lead the company’s growth in EMEA, focusing on technology trends like AI innovation and secure data management. She replaces Sebastien Marotte, who served for three years.

Paula Cooper iplicit’s new channel reseller head

Posted on July 4, 2024 by - Moving People

Sage’s Paula Cooper (pictured)  is bringing her wealth of experience to iplicit as its new Head of Channel.

Cooper’s expertise lies in channel partnerships, including leading sales operations for mid-market organisations in the UK and Ireland. After a 20-year career, she returns from a well-deserved break to take on this pivotal role.

Cooper said in her career, I’ve never had the chance to choose where to work and found that iplicit stands head and shoulders above others regarding product quality, attitude, support, and vision.

Cooper concludes, “iplicit’s cloud product empowers customers while being user-friendly. It’s the best in the market for what it does. For resellers, this means growth and higher customer satisfaction. iplicit is a once-in-a-generation software launch driven by a business committed to sustainable scaling.”

Sophos under new management

Posted on May 21, 2024 by - Moving People, News

AV outfit Sophos has announced that Joe Levy is now the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Levy has been the acting CEO since 15 February, and one of his first actions was to appoint Jim Dildine as Sophos’ new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and a member of his senior management team.

Pax8 appoints new CEO in strategic leadership shift

Posted on May 2, 2024 by - Moving People

Cloudy outfit Pax8 has today announced the appointment of Scott Chasin as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Chasin, who has been instrumental in shaping the company’s technological direction as Chief Technology Officer since 2021, is set to take the helm, steering the operational and strategic course for Pax8’s pioneering marketplace technology.

The announcement signals the dawn of a fresh chapter for Pax8, with founder John Street expressing his confidence in Chasin’s leadership.

IT bigwigs ready to jump ship

Posted on April 12, 2024 by - Moving People, News

A survey by Irish outfit Auxilion has revealed that more than 39 per cent of Britain’s IT honchos are plotting to leave their current jobs within the next two years.

The lowdown, dished out by Censuswide, is based on a sample of 100 IT decision-makers from UK firms with a hefty 250+ employees. In 2023 alone, a cheeky 28 per cent of these tech titans swapped their thrones, and 35 per cent have been caught flirting with new opportunities in the past six months.

Mooney ditches Crayon and returns to Bytes

Posted on April 12, 2024 by - Moving People, News

Crayon UK managing director Hayley Mooney is jumping ship and leaving the chilly Nordic MSP behind for a sizzling at Bytes Technology Group as the new chief commercial officer.

Mooney’s gearing up to take the reins in July, but she’s not rushing in. She’s chilling out, maxing, and relaxing with the fam on a bit of “garden leave” before the big gig.

Mooney’s been the queen bee at Crayon’s UK hive for nearly three years, steering the ship since 2018, when she hopped on board as channel and cloud director. Fast forward to 2021, and she’s the managing director.

Criddle moves from Intel to Lenovo

Posted on April 4, 2024 by - Moving People

Lenovo has announced Adrian Criddle’s appointment as the new General Manager for the United Kingdom and Ireland (UKI) region.

Criddle joined Lenovo after 24 years at Intel, bringing experience leading sales, marketing, and operations in global, regional, and country roles. His most recent role at Intel was as Vice President of EMEA Marketing and UK General Manager.

Lenovo EMEA SVP and President Francois Bornibus said: “With his proven track record across consumer to cloud technology, and a passion for transforming business outcomes, I am confident that Adrian will bring fresh perspectives and valuable leadership to our organisation.” 

Top Dog at Palo Alto Networks bids adieu

Posted on April 4, 2024 by - Moving People

Palo Alto Networks global channel chief Tom Evans has left the building and headed off to pastures green.

Evans bid farewell to Palo Alto Networks, leaving behind a 6.5-year legacy. The company remains tight-lipped about his next move.

The company said: “After a splendid 6.5 years, Tom Evans has chosen to part ways with the company to chase a new opportunity.”

Scality promotes Retureau

Posted on January 18, 2024 by - Moving People

London-based Data outfit Scality has promoted Marie-Laure Retureau as its new vice president of sales for Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Retureau will lead a team of experts who will help customers and partners get the best out of Scality’s storage solutions.

Scality’s boss, Peter Brennan, said: ” Retureau is the perfect person to boost our business in Asia. She has amazing skills and is expanding our network of partners in this area with one goal: to help customers update and protect their data. She is committed to making our customers and partners happy and has strong connections in the region that will create many opportunities for us.”

Retureau has been working for Scality for two years and has a lot of experience in the data storage market. She has worked with customers and partners in many countries and knows how to solve their storage problems.

Virtuoso Partners taps VAR expert Josh Winters

Posted on January 3, 2024 by - Moving People, News

Virtuoso Partners, the smart automation and content management firm, hired Josh Winters to lead its sales team.

Winters has nine years of experience in the industry and spent the last four at the VAR Softcat.

Virtuoso said they hired Winters as part of their mission to “Unleash Partner Success” and said it was a strategic move to beef up their support for their valued partners.

Winters knows the VAR game inside out and can meet the unique needs of partners who want to offer their customers smart automation and content management solutions.

Virtuoso said it wanted to empower its partners to make a killing in the booming market of smart automation and content management.

Verisk announces two new hires

Posted on October 6, 2023 by - Moving People

Data analytics and technology provider Verisk has announced two new hires as part of the company’s international insurance market growth strategy.

For those not in the know, Verisk solutions in the UK and Continental Europe use data, artificial intelligence and machine learning to help insurers enhance decision-making, improve the customer experience and drive profitable growth.

Verisk has named Robert Stewart, Director of Business Development at Verisk Underwriting Solutions, and Neil Garrett as Sales Director, effective September 2023.

Verisk said it wanted to improve its support of clients and tap into the emerging needs of the industry across the UK.

Acumatica appoints Jeff Smits as CIO

Posted on September 14, 2023 by - Moving People

Cloudy Acumatica has announced that tech industry veteran Jeff Smits has been appointed chief information officer (CIO).

He was in the office on September 11, and the company says he will pivotal role in optimising Acumatica’s strategic technology initiatives and support its continued commitment to providing innovative tools to its community of partners, customers and creators.

BlueVoyant hires Jon Leather

Posted on August 23, 2023 by - Moving People

Cyber security outfit BlueVoyant has tapped industry specialist Jon Leather as its Head of European Supply Chain Defence Advisory.

Leather joins BlueVoyant from Standard Chartered Bank, where he served as the Head of Third-Party Information Security Risk Oversight. Previously, he spent more than a decade at Lloyds Banking Group, focusing on cyber risk and leading information and cyber security supplier assurance programmes.

Leather is highly experienced around the components and mechanisms that make up an organisation’s third-party cyber risk relationships.

Leather chaired the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Cyber Supply Chain Risk Working Group for Financial Services, an initiative he will continue to be involved with in an advisory capacity.

Wilkinson tapped for Vectra AVP role.

Posted on August 10, 2023 by - Moving People, News

AI-driven threat detection and response outfit for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises, Vectra has appointed Keith Wilkinson as its new AVP, leading the UK&I.

Wilkinson joins Vectra from AWS, where he served as Head of GTM Productivity Applications for EMEA and built a technology go-to-market from the ground-up, responsible for strategy and sales execution. Before that, he held several notable leadership positions at Dynatrace, ClickSoftware (acquired by Salesforce) and Genesys.

Wilkinson said that organisations were confronted with an ever-expanding attack surface and emerging attacker techniques; this increases SOC workloads resulting in an overwhelming ‘spiral of more’.