Print.IT Reseller - issue 80

01732 759725 16 BULLETIN : PEOPLE Price joins Northamber Tony Price has joined Northamber as Director of Solutions. Northamber Solutions supplies and supports the channel in the areas of connect, store and protect (networking, server & storage and security). Price brings almost 30 years of channel experience to the solutions team, with almost 20 years leading teams in distribution and 10 years of being at the helm at the reseller WStore. He has spent the last five years at Nuvias (formerly Wick Hill) as cyber security Sales Director. www.northamber.com MPS Monitor appoints CMO MPS Monitor has announced Pietro Renda’s appointment as Chief Marketing Officer. In his new role, Renda will work on defining and implementing a new and more focused worldwide marketing strategy. He will enhance the partnerships with opinion leaders, associations, and key operators in the printing & imaging software sector worldwide, consolidating the relationships that MPS Monitor has developed during its recent global growth. Renda worked for Lexmark Italy for over 20 years, where he was in charge of several senior management positions: from marketing to consumables sales up to reseller channel management. www.mpsmonitor.com New hires at Workflo Solutions Workflo Solutions has stepped up its recruitment activity during the coronavirus pandemic, hiring eleven new employees as the company continues on its trajectory to becoming the UK’s flagship outsourced managed services and IT support provider. New hires include: David Black, Sales Manager – Managed Print Division (East of Scotland), Daniel Jones, Sales Manager – North West & Midlands, Mike Bell, who has been appointed Sales Manager for the Production Print division, with Tam Haggerty coming on board as Head of Production Print Technical Team. Paul McCallum, becomes Business Development Manager for Managed Print, Nathan Neale joins him in the Business Development team, covering North West England, Linda Barr has been hired as Credit Controller, whilst Andrew Moncrieff becomes Head of Business Development at TRM – the Paisley based Document and Records Management Specialists, acquired by Workflo Solutions earlier this year. TRM also sees the addition of Brian Moore in a digital operative role. A focus on unified & hosted comms sees Paul Kinnear come in as head of this division, and to ensure the market is aware of the company’s unique market position as a true operational service partner, Courtney Coyle joins as Marketing Executive. www.workflo-solutions.co.uk Exertis names new MD for Ztorm Exertis has named William van Kerkvoorde as the Managing Director for Swedish- based B2B digital distribution company Exertis Ztorm. In this new position, van Kerkvoorde will aim to enable Exertis Ztorm’s partners to drive exponential digital growth towards consumers within gaming and other software products. Van Kerkvoorde joins Exertis from Ingram Micro, where he held the position of Vice President, Nordics region. Prior to this he had been the managing director of Lenovo in Sweden. www.exertis.co.uk 30-staff hiring spree Comtec Enterprises today continued its 2020 expansion by making 30 new junior hires to its operations and sales teams. The new positions have been created on the back of promising growth opportunities in Comtec's data centre, infrastructure and communications divisions. Of the 30 new starters, 15 will be trainee service engineers working in Comtec's 24/7 service centre and the remaining 15 are attached to pre-sales and sales functions. All are minimum six month positions and afford the opportunity to develop skills via a comprehensive, government-approved training programme with the chance to progress into a full-time position in summer 2021 onwards. www.comtec.com Dixon to head Tech Data’s Microsoft CSP growth plan Tech Data has appointed Darren Dixon as Microsoft Business Unit Manager, underlining its continued commitment to supporting partners in every aspect of developing their Microsoft cloud business practices and sales. Dixon joined Tech Data eight years ago as IBM Business Development Manager and spent the last three years as Business Manager for Lenovo Data Centre and Nutanix. In total, he has 23 years of experience working in distribution account management. The company has also expanded its Microsoft SureStep team to provide enhanced support to more Microsoft partners and ensure they understand and reap the full benefits from the programmes and resources that Tech Data and Microsoft provide. The team now includes eight Ambassadors who will help and support all partners in driving sales of Modern Workplace (Microsoft 365, Teams, and security), Azure and Dynamics 365 cloud solutions. Separately, the pre-sales technical team has also grown with three new additions boosting the expert assistance available to Microsoft partners. Tech Data has just launched the next phase of the Velocity on-boarding and enablement programme for CSP partners. Cloud Practice Builder provides a complete transformational journey for partners that want to develop a viable and distinct cloud practice. www.techdata.com Veteran technology leader joins LogicMonitor LogicMonitor, the cloud-based IT infrastructure monitoring and observability platform for enterprises and managed service providers has announced the appointment of veteran technology leader Christina Kosmowski as President. The appointment comes at a time when both LogicMonitor’s global customer base and product capabilities continue to scale rapidly. www.logicmonitor.com Pietro Renda Tam Haggerty and Michael Field William van Kerkvoorde