Print.IT Reseller - issue 62

01732 759725 14 BULLETIN : PEOPLE NEC promotes Simon Jackson Simon Jackson has been promoted from Vice President, Strategic and Vertical Sales EMEA to Senior Vice President of Sales EMEA, as NEC Display Solutions Europe builds upon its ambitious sales strategy across the region. The new role will capitalise on NEC’s recent strong growth in the EMEA region by merging the roles of strategic and vertical sales with regional sales. Jackson will be responsible for bringing a more strategic and unified focus to the company’s sales strategy across all verticals and country markets. “Simon was the natural choice to lead our new, unified sales team,” said Bernd Eberhardt, President and CEO. “As we look to capitalise on our success across EMEA, Simon brings a wealth of experience, strategic insight and industry knowledge that will be invaluable as we look to pursue our further growth in the region.” www.nec-display-solutions.com Sharp announces new hire for growing visual solutions business Sharp Europe has appointed Ian Barnard as European General Manager, Visual Solutions. He will be responsible for managing and developing the company’s visual solutions business across Europe, driving forward its sales and product strategy. Barnard joins at a time of major growth for the visual solutions business, which unveiled its broadest product portfolio to date at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2019. www.sharp.eu Exertis Supplies names new MD Exertis has announced the promotion of Andrew Beaumont, Operations Director at Exertis Supplies to the role of Managing Director. He succeeds Raj Advani, who has relocated to Europe, but will remain with the business as Commercial Director and will report to Paul Bryan, Exertis UK & I MD www.exertis.co.uk Midwich appoints two new directors Midwich has appointed Jonny Francis to Sales and Marketing Director and Steve Fay to External Sales Director. Francis was promoted from his previous role as Head of Sales and Fay was formerly responsible for external strategic customer development. Both have been with Midwich for combined service in excess of 20 years and are well positioned to support the company in its future growth. Long serving Sales Director, Iain Campbell is stepping down in order to pursue new ventures outside the industry. www.midwich.com ThinPrint names Christoph Hammer SVP Former CEO of ezeep Christoph Hammer, has been named Senior Vice President of Cloud Services. The company said that as a veteran in the virtualisation space, Hammer was the natural choice for the leader of its cloud printing sector moving forward. ThinPrint is planning a wide-ranged expansion of its ezeep cloud printing offerings. “The closer cooperation and access to ThinPrint’s technology product line, currently serving over a million users globally, will allow ezeep to quickly expand its offerings beyond the co-working core market,” Hammer said. “The desktop-as-a-service market is an area we especially expect to set the standard for performance and user-friendliness.” www.thinprint.com Gary Barnes joins Ably Realtime In a spate of new hires, Ably has recently on-boarded Gary Barnes, previously Global Head of Sales at Thoughtworks, the global software and digital transformation consultancy as its new CCO. He said: “Twenty five years bringing to market developments in the software and digital services sector led me to recognise the rapidly increasing market for real-time infrastructure-as-a-service. I look forward to helping Ably grow its footprint, making live digital experiences the norm across a number of different sectors.” http://ably.io Former technical advisor to Bill Gates joins Droplet Computing Droplet Computing has announced the appointment of former senior Microsoft executive Adam Denning as Non- Executive Director. Denning joins Droplet Computing after 25 years at Microsoft in a variety of technical roles, with the last 22 years located at Microsoft Corporate Headquarters in Redmond, USA, which included three years as assistant technical advisor to Bill Gates. “With proven software delivery skills, Adam’s appointment is a very strategic one for Droplet Computing,” commented Peter von Oven, CTO and founder Droplet Computing. “His leadership skills – both from a software development and team perspective – will be immensely valuable as Droplet Computing emerges from a start-up into an enterprise software company. We are very excited to welcome Adam to the team.” www.dropletcomputing.com Logicalis UK hires new Finance Director IT solutions and managed services provider Logicalis UK, has announced the appointment of Mark Lewis as Finance Director. In this role he will be responsible for all aspects of the finance function, including commercial, legal, procurement and logistics. Lewis joins Logicalis from Capgemini, where he has spent 12 years in various senior financial roles, most recently as the CFO for the application services business unit. Prior to this, Lewis spent 10 years with PwC as an auditor focused on the technology sector. www.uk.logicalis.com Ian Barnard Simon Jackson Christoph Hammer