Dell Technologies has appointed Chuck Whitten as its new co-chief operating officer to “help lead Dell’s next phase of growth”.
Whitten will take up the new role from 16 August alongside COO Jeff Clarke after spending the last 22 years at Bain & Company.
Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell, said that Whitten joined the company at a pivotal time to give us greater leadership capacity to cover more ground, assess more opportunities and speed decision making to best serve customers.
Cloudy Ensono has appointed Hannah Birch as General Manager (GM) and Deputy Managing Director for the European business.
In this role, she will drive the European growth strategy as Ensono looks to use the investment from new owner KKR and its recent acquisition of cloud-native consultancy Amido.
Ensono’s, Managing Director, Europe Barney Taylor said: “With our recent acquisition of Amido and KKR’s investment in Ensono, we have significant momentum and an accelerated opportunity to invest and grow in both the UK and European markets. Hannah is the right person to drive our growth ambition and to continue to build on our reputation as a leader in the technology space.”
Birch joins Ensono from Accenture where she led the company’s UK Technology Business for Insurance and was a member of the Technology Leadership Team for UK & Ireland.
Delphix, which works on programmable data infrastructure, announced the appointment of Steve Barrett as Senior Vice President of International Operations. Based in the UK, Barrett will be responsible for leading revenue operations for both EMEA and APJ.
Delphix Worldwide Field Operations President Steven Chung said that Barrett’s track record of leading teams to deliver consistent performance and drive customer engagement will be a key advantage for us as we continue to pioneer data automation.
“In addition to his domain expertise in DevOps, enterprise apps and data centres, Barrett’s focus on employee engagement and passion for encouraging diversity, equity and inclusion make us very excited to welcome him to the Delphix team.”
Barrett has 20 years of experience in enterprise software and SaaS companies. He joins Delphix from PagerDuty where he led the European business from early stages to post IPO as Vice President of EMEA.
British technology entrepreneur, business owner and activist, Tracy Pound will be chairwoman of the board of directors of CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry.
The founder and managing director of Maximity in Birmingham, England, Pound is the first industry executive from Britain to chair the CompTIA board.
Pound identified three areas of focus for the board and the association in the coming months.
“CompTIA has made great advances in workforce development and in championing apprenticeships as an opening to careers in technology and I look forward to expanding both of these programmes. The CompTIA ISAO will be a huge help in fighting cybercrime. CompTIA’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion remain central to all that we do. I’d really like to see a great step change for the better in our industry”, she said.
Kyocera UK has appointed Martin Fairman as the company’s new Group Sales and Marketing Director.
Fairman was previously UK & Ireland Managing Director and Channel Director at Lexmark, and brings over 20 years of senior leadership experience in technology organisations to his new position.
Fairman spent over 12 years at Lexmark, occupying a number of sales and channel roles during his tenure. Prior to this, he was a senior exec at Samsung and Konica Minolta.
Cohesity has named Richard Gadd as vice president and general manager, EMEA sales.
Gadd has more than 30 years of experience in technology sales and business development throughout Europe.
He will manage the company’s business and sales operations throughout the region.
Cohesity said in a press release that Gadd would play a key role in continuing to accelerate the rapid growth and adoption of the company’s multi-cloud data management solutions.
He joins Cohesity from Hitachi Vantara, where he served as senior vice president and general manager EMEA for five years. For two years before that, he was vice president and general manager for the UKI.
Before Hitachi Vantara, Gadd spent more than eight years in various senior leadership roles at EMC. He has previously held leadership and sales positions at Computacenter, Morse, and Xerox.
Passwordless identity management provider Beyond Identity has appointed Tony Shadrake as its EMEA Vice President.
Launched in April 2020, the company replaces insecure passwords with stuff based on asymmetric cryptography and X.509 certificates. This underpins TLS (the lock in the browser) which is ubiquitously deployed across the internet to protect trillions of pounds of financial transactions daily, it is claimed. The cloud-native solution can be deployed in under an hour.
With 20 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry – both in the UK and the US – Tony brings with him insights from these two markets. Previous experience includes senior roles at VMware/Carbon Black, Webroot, and Computer Associates. At Carbon Black, Shadrake was instrumental in building the business from the ground up.
Dropbox’s former global head of channels has announced he has taken up a new role as Google Cloud’s UK & Ireland director of partners and channels.
Simon Aldous spent more than five years at Dropbox and told his Linkedin friends that he was “super excited” to be starting his next adventure and joining the Google Cloud team at Google.
“I look forward to working with the channel team, partners and our corporate sales team to best serve the needs of our customers and help drive evolution and transformation within their businesses.”
FutureWorkForce has acquired AiSpace, an intelligent automaton service provider, to extend its UK capabilities and use AiSpace’s conversational AI.
The deal brings together outfits that create Intelligent Automation solutions that drive efficiency improvements, increase productivity and fuel workforce innovation.
FutureWorkForceGroup Chief Operating Officer Mihai Balaj said: “We wanted to have a stronger presence in the UK. Our acquisition of AiSpace means our customers will now have greater access to expertise and resources on the ground in the UK, and we will have a more extensive base of UK customers from which to continue our growth.
“AiSpace has a similar culture to ours of putting their clients first, and they also have people with exceptional intelligent automation skills. These two things combined made the company a perfect fit for us”, said Balaj.
Cloudy recovery outfit HYCU has hired Rajh Das to be its new VP Sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA.)
Das has spent the past 20years working for leading industry cloud and enterprise companies including EMC, IBM, Microsoft and Xerox. Most recently, he was at Google UK where he was a leader in the Cloud business running the Manufacturing, Industrial and Life Sciences sector. He has led sales, pre-sales, customer success and engineering teams.
VMware’s COO of products and cloud services, Raghu Raghuram, will take over as the company’s new CEO at the start of June.
He has been with the company since 2003 and replaces Pat Gelsinger, who left the business earlier this year to be Intel’s new supreme Dalek.
“VMware is uniquely poised to lead the multi-cloud computing era with an end-to-end software platform spanning clouds, the data centre and the edge, helping to accelerate our customers’ digital transformations/ I am honoured, humbled and excited to have been chosen to lead this company to a new phase of growth. We have enormous opportunity, we have the right solutions, the right team, and we will continue to execute with focus, passion, and agility”, Raghuram said.
Raghuram has helped drive VMware’s direction in areas like its core visualisation business, software-defined data strategy, SAAS transformation and in mergers and acquisitions.
Insight CEO Ken Lamnech has announced his retirement from the company at the year’s end.
Lamneck, 66, who has been with the company since 2010, will continue his roles as president, CEO and as a member of the board until a successor is found before transitioning to an advisory role.
During his 12 year reign, Insight has seen its sales grow from $4.1 billion in 2009 to $8.3 billion in 2020 as the business some of that through acquisitions.
Over that same period, Insight’s share price has increased from $11.42 to more than $100 a share, an 800 percent increase.
Insight’s share price fell by more than eight percent when the news was announced.
Data management as a service outfit Komprise has hired two new executives joining the company’s EMEA division based in the UK.
Martin Gibbons joins as Channel Director, EMEA, and is responsible for leading channel strategy across the region. Gibbons has over 25 years of experience working in the channel, recently serving as EMEA Channel Director at Cohesity and, before that, at CommVault.
Ben Conneely joined Komprise in January 2021 as Regional Sales Director for the UK, Ireland and Northern Europe and was promoted to VP of EMEA in April. Conneely brings more than 20 years in senior-level sale roles in the data management industry, including at HPE and EMC.
Komprise wants to grow its EMEA presence. In November 2020, Fortune 500 technology reseller/distributor Tech Data signed on to add Komprise to its solutions for the pan-European market.
Security outfit Core to Cloud has appointed Phil Howe as Chief Technology Officer.
Howe said: “The tech Core to Cloud has in its product stack is best of breed and very innovative. I had worked with Core to Cloud for the past five years and have been a customer when I was deputy CTO at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. At the Trust, we had a small IT security team. I needed a partner who could work alongside my team, who understood my needs, who I trusted, listened to, and came back with solid recommendations to help overcome some of the challenges we were facing.
Prior to joining Bolton NHS, Phil Howe was a senior IT specialist for Ehealth at NHS Dumfries and Galloway.
“Core to Cloud was an integral part of our team and hit the mark, bringing innovative solutions to us that were fit for purpose. They helped us build out the security for the organisation, and I was so impressed with the company culture and ethos, not to mention its growth ambitions, that I decided this was the right place for my next career move. I’m excited about the opportunity.”
Security outfit Veritas has appointed Barry Cashman as its Regional Vice President for the UK and Ireland.
Cashman wants to use Veritas’ heritage in data protection with his expertise in developing and driving high-growth sales teams, to bolster Veritas’ position. He is predicting strategic hiring and training, to drive further innovation and create a more powerful regional team
He joins Veritas from Micro Focus where he spent the last four years as VP and General Manager, UK&I. Prior to that, Barry served two years as Vice President, EMEA at VCE. However, the lion’s share of his career was spent in sales leadership roles at EMC where he was ultimately responsible for EMC’s $2 billion Enterprise business across EMEA.
Cashman said that the unprecedented changes to the economy brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit have given business leaders in the UK and Ireland enough to think about right now – the last thing they want to worry about is costly data breaches or a ransomware attacks.
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