PEOPLE 01732 759725 42 Jessica Christenson NovaFori Paul Malcolm Opencast Matt Deadman Prof. Richard Benham Emerge Digital Jonathan Graves Emerge Digital Laurence Bentley Core to Cloud Andrew Henderson Advanced firms and global financial services firms such as JP Morgan Chase in the US, Westpac in New Zealand, and ING Bank in Australia, Ukraine and the Netherlands. Advanced’s recently appointed CEO Simon Walsh said: “Andrew’s top priorities will be to develop a highly skilled, energised and proud engineering team and to simplify and modernise our portfolio, introducing next generation technologies to accelerate Advanced’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) business.” www.oneadvanced.com Core to Cloud appoints new Head of Cyber Security Cybersecurity specialist Core to Cloud has appointed Laurence Bentley as its new Head of Cyber Security. With more than 26 years’ experience in delivering enterprise-level cybersecurity systems at companies such as Bupa Global, the Co-Operative Group and Barclays Bank, Bentley specialises in incident response and management, systems security, vulnerability and malware management, risk assessment and security testing, network management and policy design and compliance. www.coretocloud.co.uk Christenson heads to NovaFori NovaFori, a designer, builder and operator of highly scalable digital marketplace solutions, has appointed Jessica Christenson as its new Vice President of Sales. With extensive experience in the digital platform space, Christenson was previously a Regional Vice President at Mirakl, responsible for sales in the UK and Nordics. Before that she held senior roles at Zalando group acquisitions Tradebyte and Anatwine. Christenson will be responsible for the company’s sales strategy as it seeks to broaden its reach with its new Novation platform. www.novafori.com Andy Gass to retire in January 2024 Following the news that Andy Gass, Chief Digital Officer, Global at TD SYNNEX, is to retire in January 2024 after 30 years at the distributor, TD SYNNEX has announced the appointment of Matt Child, currently Executive Leader of its Advanced Solutions Division in UK&I, to the company’s European executive team as Senior Vice President, Digital, Europe, effective from December 1, 2023. In his 30 years with TD SYNNEX, Gass filled a variety of leadership roles at a country, regional and global level and Cyber academic recruited by Emerge Digital World renowned cyber academic Professor Richard Benham has been appointed a Non-executive Director by managed IT services provider Emerge Digital, along with Jonathan Graves, who has more than 30 years’ experience in the sustainable packaging and logistics industries. Rebranded from First Solution last year, Emerge Digital offers a suite of technology solutions including outsourced IT support, cloud services and cyber security and is aiming to double its turnover in the next two years. Professor Benham, a leading academic in the field of Cyber Security, Defence and Innovation, is currently Patron of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, a Non-Executive Director of Systal Technology and Non-Executive Chair of TechTalent UK and Lockdown Cyber Security. He is founder of The Cyber Trust and a best-selling author of spy thrillers. https://emerge.digital Opencast strengthens healthcare push Opencast, an independent digital transformation and technology consultancy, has appointed Paul Malcolm as corporate development industry lead for healthcare, an important growth area for the company. With almost two decades’ experience of delivering enterprise software and services solutions to healthcare organisations, Malcolm will help Opencast expand its portfolio with public and private healthcare providers and digital healthcare startups. Founded in the North-East in 2012, Opencast specialises in designing, building and running user-centred digital and technology solutions for customers including HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions. It has 400 employees and city hubs in London, Edinburgh, Leeds and Glasgow. opencastsoftware.com New CTO for Advanced Software and services company Advanced has hired New Zealander Andrew Henderson as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO), after appointing his predecessor Narinder Sahota to run the company’s services organisation as Chief Services Officer (CSO). Henderson has more than 20 years’ experience in supporting start-up technology was instrumental in delivering a series of transformational acquisitions. Five years ago, Gass became executive leader of the company’s digital transformation and commercial excellence strategy in Europe, before being appointed Chief Digital Officer with global oversight of the company’s digital strategy in February 2022. www.TDSYNNEX.com Digital Space role for IBM veteran Connected cloud managed services provider Digital Space has appointed Bill Kelleher as Non-Executive Chair. Kelleher has a record of leadership in the IT, telecoms and cloud services industries, most recently as Chairman and Chief Executive of IBM UK & Ireland, global GM for IBM’s Industry Cloud Platform for Telecoms and Global Managing Director for IBM’s Telecommunication, Media and Entertainment industries. Kelleher will work closely with CEO Neil Muller and his executive team on the development of Digital Space’s corporate vision and governance, with a focus on strategic partnerships and acquisitions to meet customers’ digital transformation and managed service needs. www.digitalspace.co.uk. Peacock recruits IBM Maximo experts Peacock Engineering, a specialist in managed cloud enterprise asset management (EAM) and field service management solutions (FSM), is continuing to recruit more staff in response to growing demand for its solutions. Building on a 20% increase in its headcount in the last 12 months and the opening of a second technical facility in Pune, India, Peacock has strengthened its sales division with the appointment of Lee Turnbull as Business Development Manager and its technical team with the appointments of Tom Johnson as a Solution Architect and David Shaw as Principal Consultant. A Gold Partner of both IBM and IFS, with offices in London, Bristol, Leatherhead, Leeds and Bangalore, Peacock Engineering provides digital EAM and FSM solutions to leading utility, manufacturing, oil and gas and logistics organisations, including SSE, Flogas and DHL. COO Matt Deadman said: “Increasing both our functional and technical capabilities to keep up with the growing EAM and FSM demands our clients are faced with is a priority for us.” People
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