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01732 759725 46 Technologies and then Akamai, where he was instrumental in tripling the growth of its security business and promoting its cloud edge technologies. www.trendmicro.com AI authority advises Darktrace Cyber AI company Darktrace has appointed Professor Nick Jennings CB FREng to its advisory board. The authority in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and cyber security holds a Chair in AI at Imperial College, London and is a founding member of the UK Government’s AI Council. He was previously Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security. Professor Jennings was awarded a Companion of the Order of Bath (CB) in the Queen’s New Year Honours List in 2016 for services to computer science and national security science. DXC turns to Turpie As part of a strategy to sharpen its focus on clients, end-to-end IT services company DXC Technology has appointed Steve Turpie Vice President, Client Account Management for the UK, Ireland, Israel, Middle East and Africa (UKIIMEA). Turpie will report to Maruf Majed, the regional head for UKIIMEA. www.dxc.technology Channel specialist for CityFibre CityFibre, the alternative provider of wholesale full fibre infrastructure, has appointed Andy Wilson to oversee its wholesale channel as it extends its city-wide full fibre rollout from 26 towns and cities to more than 60. Wilson joins CityFibre from Node4 where he was Director of Channel Sales. With 20 years of channel experience, he has also held senior positions at Virgin Media Business and DWS. www.cityfibre.com Entanet invests in service In another new appointment, CityFibre has made Judith Felton Head of Service for its Entanet wholesale business. Joining from Cadent Gas, where she managed various IT transformation projects including the implementation of ServiceNow, Judith will be responsible for leading the Service Specialist and Customer Service teams. Before that, she spent 16 years at Vodafone in various customer service roles. www.cityfibre.com New Maverick Head of Sales Steve Martin has been promoted to Head of Sales for the UK & Ireland at Maverick AV Solutions. He joined the AV distribution specialist in 2003, after a short spell at Micro Peripherals (now Exertis) and in 2006 became the youngest Sales Manager in Tech Data’s history. In his new role, Steve will lead Maverick’s UK sales operation, which has recently expanded to 17 people and 170 accounts. He said: “My knowledge of all the divisions of Tech Data including our IoT and security divisions will enable me to bring together solutions for our customers which add real value and deliver innovative results.” www.techdata.com Vapour Cloud expands management team Voice, video, networks and infrastructure specialist Vapour Cloud has appointed three new managers, as it targets 20% turnover growth in 2020. Blaine Craig , who has held roles at BT, Virgin Media, EON UK and Azzurri Communications, has come on board as customer services manager; Emma Haywood has joined as channel account manager, following the successful launch of Vapour’s new managed service offering; and Jon Pickering , ex-CEO and co-founder of £25m turnover IT firm Block, has been made a non-executive director. Second promotion for Commercial apprentice Ryan Mann , who in 2015 became the first member of Commercial’s Network Operations Centre (NOC) Apprenticeship Scheme, is continuing to move up the ladder in its Managed IT division, with his second promotion in under two years. Following his elevation from 1st Line Engineer to 1st Line Team leader in 2017, he has now been made a 2nd Line Team Leader with responsibility for a team of five, including three field engineers. www.commercial.co.uk Coley joins Trend Micro Trend Micro UK has appointed cybersecurity expert Jay Coley as its new UK Technical Director. Jay has 25 years’ experience of the security industry, specialising in DDoS Mitigation and Network Engineering. He took a degree in Computer Science and Information Technology during 11 years’ service with the US Navy, after which he joined Prolexic A Tech Data’s dozen Tech Data has taken on 13 new apprentices at its Basingstoke office. Over the next 12 to 15 months they will undertake a programme of sales training, product training, systems knowledge, CompTIA certification and take part in a team-building course in the Lake District. Sandie Jackson , Apprenticeship Programme Manager at Tech Data, said: “It’s very rewarding and energising to see young people being given a chance to be challenged and to learn and grow in what, as we all know, can be a very tough environment. For them, it is just the start of what we hope will be an exciting and ultimately, very rewarding journey.” IntraLan strengthens team Managed service provider IntraLAN is building on customers’ growing appetite for cloud architecture, IT security, data management and compliance services with five new additions to its team. These include Tony Fabrizio as its first Head of Channel Alliances and Strategic Partnerships; Steven Smith as Account Manager; and three new IT and telecoms experts – Andrew Blanchard, Martin Roskelly and Mark Hurst . IntraLAN Operations Director Yvonne Chivers said: “We’re seeing tremendous momentum as companies embrace digital transformation, which is why we have focused on strengthening our team with talented experts who will help us support the thousands of small and medium businesses navigating this transition.” www.intralan.co.uk Koster joins SIOS Guy Koster has joined SIOS Technology Corp as its EMEA Sales & Business Development Director. The erstwhile Westcon-Comstor director said: “The trend for enterprises to transfer critical applications to the cloud is an ongoing, significant opportunity for SIOS, because doing so requires our deep, expert understanding of the complexities around high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) in cloud environments. I’m looking forward to working with the channel to deliver our solutions to enterprises across EMEA.” https://us.sios.com People Andy Wilson, CityFibre Steve Martin, Maverick AV Solutions Professor Nick Jennings, Darktrace Steve Turpie, DXC Technology Jay Coley, Trend Micro UK Judith Felton, CityFibre Sandie Jackson Guy Koster PEOPLE