technologyreseller.co.uk 43 PEOPLE has since expanded to become a major player in the green tech market, accepting hardware from companies across the UK, including desktops, laptops, servers, tablets and mobile phones, which it wipes and fully refurbishes to prevent from being sent to landfill. Before joining Rebuyer, Burns was Vice President of Sales at EMSOL, which helps organisations reduce urban transport pollution. Rebuyer works across the UK with leading companies including Northumbrian Water Group, SCS, Homebase, Northumbria University, Huawei, Greggs, Pulsant and Vertu Motors. www.rebuyer.co.uk Tech Data drives net zero agenda with new appointment As it continues to push forward with its net zero carbon commitments, Tech Data, a TD SYNNEX company, has appointed Kevin Wragg as its Director of Environment and Quality Compliance. In this newly created role, Wragg, an experienced member of Tech Data’s senior leadership team, will work across all areas of the business on actions and initiatives to minimise its environmental impact, including making sure Tech Data meets all necessary regulatory requirements for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment recycling (WEEE) and disposes of electrical and electronic equipment ethically and efficiently. In addition, Wragg will be working with teams across Tech Data to apply ISO standardisation of practices and processes. Tech Data already has ISO9001 in place at its logistics centre in Magna Park and is now planning to implement the standard throughout the UK business, while also applying the ISO14001 standard for Environmental Management Systems. https://uk.techdata.com/ Immersive Labs adds category creation specialist to Board of Directors Immersive Labs, provider of an awardwinning platform that enables large organisations to continuously measure and enhance the cyber knowledge, skills and judgment of all employees, has appointed four-time Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and cybersecurity category designer Jennifer Johnson to its Board of Directors. Working with Immersive Labs’ founding Chief Marketing Officer Evelyn Swaim in support of the company’s growth plans, Johnson has extensive expertise in helping firms to define categories to capture market share, scale through periods of hypergrowth and position themselves for successful public offerings. She is currently Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Jola Chairman retires Jola, the channel-only supplier of business communications, specialising in mobile data SIMs, has made several changes to its senior leadership team following the retirement of co-founder, Chairman and Company Secretary Antony Dearden. Filling his shoes are new Chairman Martin Harriman and Jola CFO Ronnie Smith who has taken on the additional role of Company Secretary. Harriman has extensive experience in the telecoms sector, including at Telefonica, where he was CEO of its UK digital business, O2, Ericsson in Sweden and Lightsquared in New York. Smith, too, is a well known figure in the telecommunications sector having been CFO of Spiritel and co-founder/CFO of Six Degrees Group. www.jola.co.uk Central appoints solutions architect Greater Manchester-based technology solutions and service provider Central Networks (Central) has appointed Eirian Price as solutions architect, to facilitate the tech firm’s continued growth and increase its market share in key verticals. Forming part of Central’s senior management team, Price will help improve communication between the commercial and engineer teams, ultimately helping businesses to maximise the return on their technology investments. Previously Principal Engineer at business solutions firm Wicresoft UK, Price has an extensive background in cloud computing, Cisco and networking. His main responsibilities at Central will include designing bespoke technology solutions – whether cloud-based or on premise – for the company’s nationwide client base and managing projects from proof of concept through to final implementation. Central Operations Director John Blackburn said: “We couldn’t be more pleased to have Eirian on board at this exciting time for the business. Having experienced 10% financial growth during 2020 — and with this trajectory looking to continue as we close this financial year — we’re aiming to build on this as we bring in extra talent and resource to help us meet demand in 2022 and beyond.” www.centralnetworks.co.uk New Commercial Director for IT recycling firm Rebuyer North-east IT recycling firm Rebuyer has appointed experienced sales and marketing specialist Geoff Burns as Vice President of Commercial Activity. The Sunderland-based company was at the forefront of efforts to bridge the digital divide during Covid lockdowns and Amplitude, pioneer of the emerging Digital Optimisation category, on the Board of Directors of Illumio and an advisor with Play Bigger. She was formerly CMO of cybersecurity leaders Tenable and Tanium, CMO of Coverity (now Synopsys) and a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Founded by ex-GCHQ trainer, James Hadley, Immersive Labs is supported by $123m of venture capital funding. immersivelabs.com Tom Ray appointed CEO at CTS Group CTS Group has appointed Tom Ray as CEO to lead the group’s two partner companies, CTS and CloudM, following the decision by incumbent CEO James Doggart to step into a Founder Director advisory role after nearly 10 years at the helm of the two companies. Ray’s appointment comes after a record-breaking year for both businesses, with CTS recording a 79% increase in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) revenue and CloudM enjoying accelerating growth of 86% for its SaaS data management platform. CTS’ services arm is Europe’s largest dedicated Google Cloud partner and was recently named by Google as its EMEA Workspace Enterprise partner of the year and its EMEA Public Sector partner of the year for GCP. The group’s software brand, CloudM, is a SaaS data management platform that enables organisations of all sizes to get the most out of Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and other SaaS apps. As part of the Group’s restructure, current CTS Chief Operating Officer Chris Bunch will become Managing Director of CTS, while Gary Bennion will retain his position as Managing Director of CloudM. cts.co Jennifer Johnson, Immersive Labs Tom Ray, CTS Group Kevin Wragg, Tech Data Antony Dearden, Jola Eirian Price, Central Geoff Burns, Rebuyer
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