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 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’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.
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 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.
NCC Group has announced a replacement for CEO Adam Palser who is leaving the company after four and a half years.
The head of EY’s cyber security, privacy, and technology practice for EMEA Mike Maddison (pictured) will take over from Palser who will remain CEO until mid-June to support the handover.
Palser said: “I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at NCC Group and leave safe in the knowledge that its prospects have been transformed over the past four and a half years. The Group now has a great opportunity to grow by offering its unmatched skills to a blue-chip client base at a time when cyber risk has never been higher.”
Maddison previously led PwC’s Risk Services practice across the Middle East and was head of Deloitte’s cyber security consultancy in EMEA for ten years.
ExtraHop, which specialises in cloud-native network detection and response, today announced the appointment of Duncan Butchart as Area Vice President of Northern EMEA.
Butchart joins ExtraHop with more than 20 years of business development and sales experience to help the company deliver on its ambitious EMEA growth plans, expand operations, and foster channel and customer relations within the region.
ExtraHop GM Marc Andrews said: “Butchart’s track record in cybersecurity sales and business development puts him in great stead to grow our EMEA operations, pinpointing how we can add value to customers and partners with our market-leading NDR solution. Butchart will help expand our reach so that organisations across Northern EMEA will have access to our AI-backed network intelligence to arm technology teams with the tools they need to combat today’s advanced threats.”
Daisy has appointed its CFO Neil Thompson as its new CEO.
Thompson joined Daisy as CFO in 2021 after being CFO of Manchester Airport Group. He has worked with Daisy’s founder and chairman Matthew Riley in leading a “strategic review” of the business and charts its next phase of growth.
According to a Daisy press release Thompson has a wealth of experience in delivering growth across executive teams and industry sectors in both public and privately-owned businesses.
Riley said: “We’re delighted to appoint Neil as CEO as Daisy embarks on the next stage of its growth journey. Daisy is really well-positioned to continue to grow and enable smarter IT, comms and cloud solutions for businesses across the UK.”
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Grizzled hack Mike Magee has broken the world record for drinking tea.
In a shocking move, he is estimated to have drunk 128,000 cups of tea in 60 days.
According to Thames Water, his not so smart water meter clocked up the equivalent of 128,000 cups of tea or 437 showers or 400 baths in a 60 day period starting in February and running through March.
Exclusive network boss Graham Jones has confirmed that he will be retiring after spending 45 years in the IT industry.
Jones has worked at multiple companies during his career and most recently acted as UK and Ireland divisional director at Exclusive Networks.
But after nine years with the business, Jones said he has now decided to “hang up his boots” and retire immediately.
Confirming his retirement on LinkedIn, he said that he has had a “great ride” during his career and is “over the moon” that his “last gig” was with Exclusive Networks.
He said: “(There are) too many people to thank for making my career so fulfilling and enjoyable. At Exclusive we managed to show that value can be scaled and vars and vendors alike will pay a little more for real people who care and do a great job. It’s not all about price.”
Back-from-the-dead retailer Comet has announced that Shawn Lamb has been appointed to head up the business.
Comet was founded in 1933 and became a staple of the UK retail market before its demise in 2012 .
UK Computer Group, which is now known as the Misco Technologies Group, revived the name in 2019 having bought the rights from Deloitte, which was acting as liquidator.
Forrester lead global analyst Jay McBain has confirmed he has defected to join rival Canalys, according to his Linkedin profile.
The channel guru will be Canalys’ chief analyst and lead its North America Research Programme while participating in wider worldwide research.
Canalys VP Channels Alex Smith said: “Jay is both a thought leader and challenger in the field of channels and ecosystems. We are delighted to have Jay join our growing team of analysts across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe.”
Computacenter’s group CCO Kevin James has exited the company after 32 “amazing” years.
James told his Linkedin friends that he wanted to spend more time with his family, a little more time on the golf course and “seeing much more of the world” following his departure from Computacenter.
James joined Computacenter in 1990 as a general manager/regional sales manager. He became director of industry and corporate in 2005, director of services and solutions in 2011 and UK managing director in 2015 before becoming group chief commercial officer in 2017.
NTT DATA UK announced that its current CEO, Simon Williams, will be exiting the business.
Williams has led NTT DATA UK for the past five years, more than doubling the size of the business and increasing its profitability by a factor of 10. He will remain as the CEO of NTT DATA UK until 31 March 2022.
Williams’ involvement with NTT DATA dates back to 2011 when the IT services provider acquired his former business, Value Team. He then went on to become Head of Telco, Media and Technology for NTT DATA UK and helped to create NTT DATA Digital, before becoming CEO of the organisation in 2017.
Security outfit Distology has hired Rob Darby as its sales director.
Darby brings 20 years of experience to the role and has worked across the tech sector – including for Pulsant, Ingram Micro and Comms-Care. His role will be relationship management with partners and vendors and helping the business expand its team.
Darby said that the channel was his passion and has been the key focus of his career.
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