Cybersecurity VAD Progress Distribution has appointed a new UK MD, with founder so that its CEO John Quinn (pictured) can turn his attention to the outfit’s European expansion.
Quinn has now made Simon Burgess UK MD so he can focus more on expansion into Germany. He said Germany was a different market from the UK but vendors want the company to do well there.
“We are being backed by several of our vendors to increase market share in Germany, so I am going to make sure that I am spending more time there, and also more time in the Nordics, to spearhead Europe,” Quinn said.
Quinn said that expansions into other parts of Europe are not likely to happen until at least the second half of 2019, but he has already picked out where Progress will likely go next – with the Netherlands the likely location.
He said that this year the business has grown by 330 per cent.
