01732 759725 50 PEOPLE He said: “James’ blend of expertise in business transformation and international development will be crucial as we continue our European expansion. His consultative customer approach coupled with real technical depth and substance will help to deliver the outcomes our customers need. We’re delighted to have him on board.” Before joining BJSS, Whitehouse founded and sold a successful software engineering and technology business. Beamy appoints Head of UK Sales Beamy, the SaaS management platform for large enterprises, has strengthened its UK presence with the appointment of Dominic Howard-Noel as Head of UK Sales. Beamy was founded in France in 2017 to help large organisations tackle the dangers of shadow IT by detecting all SaaS apps being used across an enterprise and building a framework for decentralised IT governance. Gartner suggests that 30-40% of the IT budget in enterprises is spent on software the IT team doesn’t know about, compromising security, governance and compliance. Andréa Jacquemin, CEO and co-founder of Beamy, said: “The UK is well known for its early-adopter mindset, as well as being home to some of the largest companies in the world. This makes it the perfect market for Beamy to expand into.” www.beamy.io People champion appointed to Apogee leadership team Apogee Corporation has appointed Chief People Officer Marion Brooks to its Executive Leadership Team, with responsibility for championing the People & Culture function and creating an environment that fosters integrity, diversity, inclusivity, agility, wellness and open communication. Aurelio Maruggi, Chief Executive Officer at Apogee, said: “Marion has made a significant impact since joining Apogee. In her role leading the People & Culture team, she has been instrumental in connecting Apogee to its employees, helping us develop and care for our employees and helping those employees with their personal and career development.” He added: “Marion has fantastic ideas and her team oversees many functions, including employee experience, wellbeing and equity, diversity and inclusion. Our people are critical to our success, and I am looking forward to working closely with Marion to continue to reimagine our culture and operations to suit the needs to today’s rapidly changing marketplace.” https://apogeecorp.com/ Helen Kelisky appointed UK and Ireland MD at Google Cloud Helen Kelisky has joined Google Cloud as Managing Director, United Kingdom and Ireland, with overall responsibility for the company’s sales strategy and continued development of its go-to-market sales operations in the region. Kelisky joins Google Cloud from OpenText, where she was Vice President of B2B EMEA Sales. Kelisky has more than 30 years of tech sales leadership, with a strong focus on cloud sales. She spearheaded IBM’s Cloud business operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland and more recently was SVP Cloud Sales at Salesforce. A champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, Kelisky is on the board of directors for non-profit networking group Women in Telecoms and Technology (WiTT). Cloud expert joins Cloudsoft Software and service provider Cloudsoft has expanded its management team with the appointment of Tim Shirley as Vice President of Software Sales. With more than a decade of experience in the managed cloud sector, he will focus on driving growth for Cloudsoft AMP, Cloudsoft’s digital platform conductor (DPC) tool, targeting businesses in the banking and financial services sectors. Shirley has significant business development experience in the cloud and data sector, most recently as Rubrik’s country manager for Scotland and, before that, at Proact IT UK, DTP Group and Hewlett-Packard. Shirley is both a Microsoft private cloud-accredited seller and an Amazon Web Services-accredited business professional. https://cloudsoft.io/home Technology heavyweight joins Ascent Ascent, the European digital services business, has appointed technology, engineering and consulting heavyweight James Whitehouse as Group Chief Operating Officer to lead its global operations and customer success teams. Whitehouse was previously a Board Director at technology and business consulting firm BJSS for 11 years during which time the business grew from 100 people to a 2,000-strong operation. Ascent CEO Stewart Smythe believes this experience makes Whitehouse the perfect match for Ascent’s growth ambitions. Sharing app prepares for mega growth with eight senior hires OLIO, the community sharing app that enables neighbours to share more and waste less, has recruited eight senior hires to support co-founders Tessa Clarke and Saasha Celestial-One as they aim to grow the app’s worldwide user community from five million people today to 1 billion by 2030. New hires include: n Chief Brand Officer Iona Carter, former brand strategist and customer experience lead for Plum Guide and Sony Music; n Chief Product Officer Alex Higgs, who previously held senior roles at JUST EAT, Tripadvisor and Confused.com; n Alberto Lobue, Managing Director of OLIO’s Food Waste Heroes programme, previously leader of Deliveroo’s ‘Deliveroo for Work’ business; n Tess Kermode, former Business Development Strategist at Uber, who joins as Director of International Expansion; n Fabían Díaz, Chief Technology Officer, who joins from Amazon and will be responsible for trebling OLIO’s tech team from 15 to 45 people this year; n Thaisa Money, People & Culture Director, who will be bringing her experience from Geckoboard and Capitalise.com to ensure OLIO’s HR systems & capabilities scale with the company; n Gareth Main, Director of Growth, formerly part of the team responsible for establishing The Guardian’s first reader revenue strategy; and n Rohan Sheth, Chief of Staff, who brings his experience as a former investment banker and strategy consultant to lead OLIO’s finance and legal & compliance teams and cross-functional strategic projects. https://olioex.com First female board member at Totalmobile Field Service Management software company Totalmobile has appointed Chief People and Places Officer Gillian Mahon to its Board of Directors 12 months after she joined the company as HR Director People l to r; Iona Carter, Tess Kermode, Alberto Lobue – OLIO Helen Kelisky Google Cloud Dominic Howard-Noel Beamy Tim Shirley Cloudsoft James Whitehouse Ascent Marion Brooks Apogee
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