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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
Canalys is to be acquired by Informa Tech with the deal completed in the third quarter of this year.
Informa Tech said the acquisition will mean it will now be the world’s biggest channel research and consulting group.
Gary Nugent, CEO of Informa, said: “Channel and Mobility are two incredibly exciting areas for our industry, where technology, supply chains and ways of going to market are ever-evolving. Over 70 percent of all business technology is sold via the Channel and this is why it is of huge importance to our customers.”
Steve Brazier, the CEO of Canalys said: “We have lived and breathed Channel and Mobility for 25 years while growing into other spaces such as Automotive. Now by combining with Informa Tech, and specifically leading brands Omdia, Channel Partners and Channel Futures, we have the platform to offer our clients even greater breadth and depth of expertise on a global scale. We are looking forward to working together to shape the future of technology research.”
No financial details are provided.
Amazon Web Services has lost its top cloudy executive Chris Vonderhaar who was the bloke who planned, designed and constructed AWS’ data centres.
For those who came in late, AWS datacentres power the $85bn cloud company’s infrastructure and cloud services.
Vonderhaar had been with the company for nearly 13 years in top cloud infrastructure roles and it is unclear why he has left. In 2021, it was thought that Vonderhaar would be a successor to former AWS CEO Andy Jassy, recently promoted to CEO of Amazon.
In addition to leading the Amazon subsidiary’s datacentre global strategy, Vonderhaar was responsible for business development and procurement of utility connections, the AWS renewable energy portfolio, and AWS sustainability teams and business, according to his LinkedIn profile.
IT services outfit NTT DATA has appointed Oliver Bridges as its new Head of Energy Data as part of its investment into its Energy & Utilities practice.
Bridges has worked as Head of Data Science and Analytics at Smart DCC, a smart meter network provider connecting over half of Britain’s homes. As part of this role, Bridges used his end-to-end knowledge of Smart DCC’s solution to develop and maintain a nationwide ecosystem of smart meters.
Before Smart DCC, Bridges held the position of Technical Analyst for Centrica, working on the front line of their smart meter rollout, before moving on to help design the data component for Britain’s national smart metering solution.
Security outfit Rubrik has named Toby Keech Vice President for the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Keech has been told to focus on expanding Rubrik’s data security leadership across the region, further developing the company’s sales strategy and go-to-market function.
He has been in the business for 20 years and joins Rubrik from Zscaler, where he has spent the last four years leading UK&I and MEA business units. Before this, he held senior sales roles at several technology businesses, supporting these organisations through acquisitions by the likes of NetApp and HP.
He said that ransomware continues to threaten the UK&I economy due to expanding attack surfaces are expanding and a need for organisations to protect more data.
Keech said he was excited to join an already fantastic team and continue to support our UK&I customer base to secure their data.
Aruba worldwide channel chief Donna Grothjan is retiring after 30 years.
Aruba Head of worldwide sales Alain Carpentier announced Grothjan’s departure, effective at the end of May, at Aruba’s Atmosphere conference in Las Vegas.
Writing in blog Carpentier said it was an understatement to say the company was proud of the unwavering commitment Grothjan has shown to HPE Aruba Networking’s 55,000 partners globally and the broader channel community throughout her career.
“Her focus has always been on helping the channel community adapt to, and thrive in, changing conditions through innovative, partner-focused programs and tools that set our industry’s bar high.”
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