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01732 759725 38 Ultima appoints new CFO Automation and infrastructure service provider Ultima has appointed Tamsin Ashmore as its new CFO. Before joining Ultima, Ashmore was Global Finance Director Film and TV VFX Segment at Technicolor. She has also held senior finance positions at BT, Merlin Entertainments and Unilever. Ultima CEO Scott Dodds said: “Tamsin brings with her strong experience in managing significant business transformation across different sectors, not just technology. As Ultima embarks on a period of intense growth, backed by Apse Capital, Tamsin’s role will be to help us deliver commercially on the new products and services we are offering customers to advance them on their automation and digital transformation journeys.” Westcon makes ‘significant addition’ ICT distributor Westcon-Comstor has named Geert Busse as Business Development Leader for its Next Generation Solutions (NGS) distribution business in EMEA. The recently created unit provides Westcon’s Cybersecurity business with dedicated resources that will allow it to take advantage of new opportunities offered by ‘born-in-the-cloud’ vendors and partners. Daniel Hurel, Vice President Westcon EMEA – Cyber Security & Next Generation Solutions, said: “This is a significant addition to our team in EMEA at a time of great opportunity for growth and differentiation for Westcon.” New Head of UK Marketing for Exertis Robert Fitzsimons has been promoted to UK Head of Marketing at Exertis. Reporting to Paul Bryan, Exertis UK&I Managing Director, he will be responsible for the company’s enterprise, business and consumer channel marketing. Bryan said: “I am delighted to announce the appointment of Rob to head up our UK marketing team. Since joining us almost six years ago, he has gained experience across our enterprise, business and consumer divisions, helping to drive and lead a number of channel initiatives including our highly successful Plug In to Exertis event.” Zen Internet appoints Retail division MD Georgina Lord has joined Zen Internet as Managing Director of the company’s £37 million turnover Retail division. In the role, Lord will aim to establish the UK’s largest independently owned telecommunications and technology service provider as a true challenger brand to the ‘big four’ telecoms providers among residential and small Experienced chair for Panintelligence Following its successful Series A fundraising last month (see page 17), data visualisation, reporting and analytics software developer Panintelligence has appointed Howard Bell as chair. Currently a venture partner at Octopus Ventures, Bell has scaled a number of market-leading digital brands: he was a founder member of PayPal Europe, growing it to £200m in revenue; a member of the leadership team that enabled UK cybersecurity venture Content Technologies to achieve a £650m exit; and part of the leadership team that achieved a £100m exit at JustGiving. Bell said: “I rarely see an early-stage tech business with such a relevant, unique and targeted technology solution as Panintelligence. From a really impressive platform of triple-digit growth in just a few years, we have a very ambitious plan for expansion in global markets, particularly the US.” Nycomm expands Yealink team The Yealink business unit at Nycomm has been strengthened with the appointment of Samantha Kay as Business Development Manager for Videoconferencing. In this role, Kay will help resellers take advantage of Yealink’s advanced VC solutions, such as the MVC portfolio of video conferencing hardware featuring Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams compatibility. Sanfridsson joins Colt DCS Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has appointed Niclas Sanfridsson as its new Chief Executive Officer, following the retirement of his predecessor Detlef Spang who led the business from its inception as an operationally independent Colt business in 2015. Sanfridsson has more than 20 years’ experience running data centre businesses, including spells as CEO of Pulsant, Managing Director of Equinix in the Nordic region and Managing Director of Telecity in Sweden. Pulsant CEO role filled by Coupland Following Sanfridsson’s move to Colt DCS (see above), Pulsant, the UK provider of regional datacentre services, colocation, workplace recovery and managed cloud, has named Rob Coupland as its new CEO. He was previously Managing Director EMEA at Digital Realty and before that worked for 10 years at Telecity Group in a variety of roles, including COO and MD. business customers. She joins Zen Internet from Intercity Technology where she was Director of Sales, Marketing & Operations. Third promotion for Varlink’s Lightfoot York-based mobile computing and EPoS distributor Varlink has promoted Lorien Lightfoot to Head of Sales and Marketing. Lightfoot joined Varlink in October 2017 as Marketing Manager, before being promoted to Head of Marketing and then Head of Sales. Following a restructuring of the business, she will now manage both teams. AudPro expands channel team In response to greater interest from channel partners since its brand relaunch 12 months ago, wholesale Music- on-Hold provider AudPro has appointed Dudley Southern as Channel Account Manager. He previously worked as a Product Specialist at Tesla. New UK CEO for Konica Minolta To help drive its transformation into a digital IT services company, Konica Minolta has appointed Rob Ferris as CEO of Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd. He will take up the role in May 2020. Prior to joining Konica Minolta, Ferris was part of the Executive Leadership Team at Canon UK & Ireland, where he held a number of leaderships roles in his 19 years with the company. New head for Unit4 partner ecosystem Unit4, a provider of enterprise application software for people- centered organisations, has made Beata Wright EVP/Global Head of Partner Ecosystems and a member of the Global Leadership Team. Working alongside Unit4’s regional teams, Wright will be responsible for defining and managing the strategic direction of all elements of the global partner program, from solution identification, development and go-to-market plans to sales engagement, marketing and competitive positioning. She was previously Head of International Alliances at Ultimate Software. People Samantha Kay, Nycomm Howard Bell, Panintelligence Tamsin Ashmore, Ultima Geert Busse, Westcon-Comstor Rob Coupland, Pulsant Robert Fitzimons, Exertis Lorien Lightfoot Dudley Southern Beata Wright PEOPLE