PrintIT Reseller - issue 69

01732 759725 16 BULLETIN : PEOPLE Ferris to lead Konica Minolta’s digital IT vision Rob Ferris has been appointed the new CEO of Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK), a pivotal role in the company’s ongoing transformation to a digital IT services company. Ferris will take up the role of CEO in May 2020, and will bring a wealth of experience and expertise that will be invaluable to the company’s ongoing evolution. Prior to joining Konica Minolta, he was a key part of the Executive Leadership Team Canon UK & Ireland. He has held numerous leadership roles across the business over the last 19 years, most recently as Country Director, Sales and Professional Services and was responsible for the office and professional print business groups. Prior to joining Canon, Ferris was the Sales Leader for an IT systems integrator and services provider. www.konicaminolta.co.uk Exertis appoints facilities and health & safety head Michelle Roberts has been named UK Head of Health & Safety and Facilities Management, reporting to Sion Wineyard, Exertis UK, Operations Director. Roberts will be responsible for leading, developing and managing, on an ongoing basis, the facilities and H&S requirements at its sites across the country. Roberts has worked in facilities management for a variety of companies in different markets, most recently at MKS Instruments. Previously she has worked at ALD Automotive, Broadcom and STMicroelectronics. www.exertis.co.uk Juniper Networks hires VP of Worldwide Channel and Virtual Sales Juniper Networks has announced the appointment of Gordon Mackintosh as its new Worldwide Vice President of Channel and Virtual Sales. In his role, Mackintosh will drive Juniper’s go-to-market strategy for partners, aimed at delivering greater business outcomes through its broad portfolio of AI-driven, cloud-based enterprise solutions and managed services offerings, as well as simplifying the process of doing business with Juniper. Mackintosh’s experience includes leading high performance teams in executive sales and channel management roles at top networking and technology companies. In his previous role as Global Head of Channels and Distribution at Extreme Networks, he deployed new partner programs and initiatives, driving partner growth and profitability, as well as managing investments in growing virtual sales teams to partners to develop new enterprise business. www.juniper.net My People Group expands relationship analytics team My People Group, a provider of cloud-based relationship and performance analytics solutions, has announced the appointment of Danilo Orlando as Head of Analytics. In this new role Orlando will be responsible for the ongoing design and development of new and advanced functionality for My People’s analytics platform and building the company’s software engineering team to meet increasing customer demand. www.mypeoplegroup.com RingCentral takes on Regional VP of EMEA Channel Global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration and contact centre solutions provider RingCentral, has appointed Richard Massey as Regional VP of EMEA Channel. Based in London, Massey will be responsible for growing RingCentral’s EMEA channel business. Massey joins RingCentral from Fujitsu, where he was Head of Strategy for Unified Communications and Contact Centre for EMEA. Prior to this, he was Sales Director at BroadSoft, and spent ten years working for Mitel in both engineer and sales roles. ringcentral.co.uk Harris joins Datto Datto has appointed Justine Harris as its new Sales Director for the UK and Ireland, as the IT provider looks to reinforce its MSP partner community in the region. Harris will oversee the continued expansion of the UK and Ireland business, this includes building strong and successful relationships with both existing and new partners in the Datto community and enabling MSPs to unlock new business opportunities. www.datto.com LogicMonitor doubles down on channels Sanjay Gupta has joined LogicMonitor as Global Vice President, Channels and Alliances. In this newly created leadership role, he will drive the expansion of LogicMonitor’s existing ecosystem of channel partners and strategic alliances. He will also further efforts to integrate channels into LogicMonitor’s go-to-market strategy to accelerate the hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring company’s already impressive growth. Since formalising the LogicMonitor Partner Network in February 2019, which spans resellers, global systems integrators, managed service providers and technology integrators, the company has hired an experienced global channels and alliances team to support its growing partner ecosystem; hit a key milestone of over 500 managed service provider partners/customers; launched comprehensive channel training, enablement and certification; and added five strategic Gold Partners to its global partner network in Q4 alone. www.logicmonitor.com Rob Ferris Danilo Orlando Michelle Roberts Sanjay Gupta