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technologyreseller.co.uk 51 PEOPLE Patrick Jean, OutSystems Marilou van Doorn June Duchesne, OutSystems Lisa Ventura, WMCRC Paul Street, WMCRC Stuart Hadley, WMCRC John Tobin Solidatus Elizabeth Squire David Pinto Mark Garbett Rola Dagher Shull appointed Poly CEO Poly has appointed ex-TiVo Corporation and The Weather Channel CEO Dave Shull as President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the company’s Board of Directors. He succeeds Robert Hagerty, who has served as Interim Chief Executive Officer since February 2020. Hagerty will continue in his role as Chairman of the Board and resume his position on the Nominating and Governance and Strategy committees and Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee. Marv Tseu will continue in his role as Vice Chairman of the Board. www.Poly.com Dagher returns to Dell After three years as president of Cisco Systems Canada, Rola Dagher is returning to Dell Technologies as its new global channel chief, succeeding Joyce Mullen, who is leaving Dell after a 21-year career at the company. Reporting to Bill Scannell, Dell Technologies President, Global Sales and Customer Operations, Dagher will lead Dell Technologies’ global partner strategy, vision, enablement, program design and experience. Prior to joining Cisco, she held sales and leadership roles in Dell’s Enterprise segment and Infrastructure Solutions Group. Marilou van Doorn promoted to COO of Leaseweb Global Leaseweb, the global Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, has promoted Marilou van Doorn to Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Leaseweb Global, with the remit to grow its hybrid cloud portfolio. van Doorn, who holds an MBA from INSEAD, said: “Leaseweb has seen significant growth over the past few years, twice the market average, with a 22% increase in data centre locations worldwide, meaning it is perfectly positioned to provide customers with the right combination of hosting solutions and network capacity to be successful.” The company has 18,000 customers, 20 data centres and more than 80,000 servers under management. Services include public cloud, private cloud, dedicated servers, colocation, content delivery network and cyber security services supported by customer service and technical support. www.leaseweb.com New hires to maintain momentum at Solidatus Metadata management platform company Solidatus has refreshed its senior team with four new hires as it looks to build on its most successful year to date. Recruits include Data Architect John Tobin , who joins from Goldman Sachs; Elizabeth Squire , who will focus on public sector relationships as Director of Business Development for government, having previously held roles at the MoD and Royal Navy; David Pinto , who joins from cloud platform and software development firm Pivotal as a Director of Business Development for financial services; and Mark Garbett , also a Director of Business Development for financial services, who was previously at Varonis and Mimecast. www.solidatus.com Drooms strengthens UK sales team Drooms, a provider of virtual data rooms that give companies controlled access to confidential corporate data across company boundaries, is strengthening its UK sales team with the appointments of Richard Munro as Senior Business Development Manager and Kamal Mehra as Business Development Manager. Reporting to Drooms UK MD Rosanna Woods, Munro will focus on the UK real estate sector, while Mehra concentrates on corporate finance. Woods said: “We are delighted to welcome our newest team members, Richard and Kamal. We are confident that they will be instrumental in strengthening our presence in the UK market, as we continue to grow our capabilities in response to our clients’ growing needs for digitalisation.” http://www.drooms.com/en First Chief Sustainability Office for Extreme Networks Following the establishment of a Corporate Social Responsibility Council to promote sustainable development, corporate philanthropy and the empowerment of people inside and outside the company, Extreme Networks has appointed Katy Motiey as its first Chief Sustainability Officer. She will take up the position alongside her current role of Chief Administrative Officer. At the same time, Kimberley Basnight , Chief of Staff/Office of the CEO, has been given the additional role of Head of Diversity and Inclusion. Both Motiey and Basnight have been active in promoting environmental and social justice at the company via initiatives like the Women’s Council and the Black at Extreme (BEX) employee resource group. OutSystems expands leadership team OutSystems, a leader in low-code application development, has expanded its senior leadership team with the appointments of Patrick Jean as Chief Technology Officer and June Duchesne as General Counsel. Recruited to lead the global engineering team and invest in innovation, Jean has more than 20 years of engineering leadership experience at Apttus, Microsoft and, most recently, Citrix, where as VP of Unified Cloud Engineering he tripled the size of the cloud engineering team. Duchesne, who joins the senior leadership team as General Counsel, was previously Chief Legal Officer for Inovalon, a cloud-based platform provider in the healthcare industry. Before that, she held senior leadership positions at Dell Technologies and EMC Corporation. www.outsystems.com WMCRC appoints first advisory group members The West Midlands Cyber Resilience Centre (WMCRC), set up to advise companies in the West Midlands about cyber-crime and to improve collaboration between government, the police, commercial organisations, education and the National Cyber Security Centre, has announced its first three Advisory Group Members. They are Lisa Ventura , CEO and Founder of the UK Cyber Security Association; Paul Street from the Colmore Business Improvement District; and Stuart Hadley , Global Commercial Director of Birmingham-based cyber security services provider CyberQ Group. WMCRC Director Alison Hurst said: “We are delighted to welcome our first three Advisory Group Members to the WMCRC. It’s really important that we form a group of industry professions from all backgrounds to help support the growth of the centre. Lisa, Paul and Stuart all have different experience and their wealth of knowledge will be invaluable to me and my team.” Alison Hurst, WMCRC