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MARK CURTIS-WOOD JOINS VAIONI
FOLLOWING ITS AMBITIOUS growth plans announced
last year, Manchester-based Network Operator, Vaioni
Wholesale is pleased to announce the appointment of
Mark Curtis-Wood (pictured) to the role of Group Sales &
Marketing Director.
Prior to joining Vaioni Wholesale, Mark was Head of
Nimans Networks Services Division within the Nycomm
Group where he was fundamental in devising new
strategies to maximise growth, building revenues and
increasing profitability.
Mark Curtis-Wood commented “With the business’
ambitious growth plans and strategies, these are very
exciting times for Vaioni Wholesale.” Mark continues,
“Vaioni Wholesale is recognised as an award-winning
and fast-growth company, and I am thrilled to be joining a
team focused on driving high performance and delivering
excellence to the business, the Channel and its Partners.”
Flint to head propositions for
Sky’s business comms division
ELIZABETH FLINT HAS been appointed as Head of Propositions in the
Business Communications division of Sky where she’ll be responsible
for bringing new services to market, in addition to managing the current
Ethernet portfolio.
Elizabeth (pictured) possesses over 25 years’ experience in the ICT
sector, most recently taking the lead in redefining the complete product
portfolio propositions for a major UK communications provider.
Mike Greening, Strategy and Commercial director for Business
Communications at Sky Business, said; “We launched Sky Ethernet eight
months ago as part of our next phase of growth and we’ve appointed
Elizabeth to help us expand our portfolio and ensure everything we do is
around addressing our partner’s challenges and needs. It is great to have
Elizabeth on board with her breadth of industry knowledge.”
Flint adds, “Digital transformation and technology innovation is shaping
how we do business. My role will be to use the voice of our partners and
their customers to continue transforming our offering into a portfolio of
innovation that will help businesses on their transformation journey.”
Proprietary features come as standard
with our new brandable handset range
BYTES...
SUSTAINABLE UC
The latest survey from StarLeaf shows
that 63% of UK IT decision-makers
cited reducing their environmental
impact through minimising travel and
supporting remote working as one of
the key drivers for implementing video
conferencing technology.
INGRAM
Veracity has signed a UK distribution
agreement with Ingram Micro to
extend the reach of its products to a
wider partner community. Veracity’s
portfolio of IP transmission solutions
are used in markets such as video
surveillance, VOIP, IT, transport,
process control, data-logging, and
more.
SCALEFAST
SSE Enterprise Telecoms has launched
Scalefast FTTC, a new solution for
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
to quickly improve their business
and consumer broadband services.
ISPs can avoid the heavy costs of
unbundling BT Openreach exchanges
directly and instead virtually unbundle
them leveraging SSE Enterprise
Telecoms’ existing footprint.
EXERTIS PROMOTES
BEAUMONT
EXERTIS HAS ANNOUNCED the promotion
of Andrew Beaumont, Exertis Supplies,
Operations Director to the role of
Managing Director, reporting to Paul
Bryan. He succeeds Raj Advani who has
relocated to Europe but will remain with
the business as Commercial Director.
“Andrew has been part of our
succession planning process and
is the natural choice to continue the
great work that Raj and his team have
delivered since we acquired Advent
Data. Raj has led our successful
supplies business for the past eight
years, ensuring its continued growth
and reputation as a leading distributor
in this specialist market. I am delighted
that he is staying on in a new role
that will provide continuity in the
relationships that he has developed
with vendors and customers as well
as offering support for his successor”,
said Paul Bryan, Exertis UK& I,
Managing Director.
“I am looking forward to leading
the business, which is full of talented
people and ensuring that we continue
to support and delight our customers
and vendors. It’s an exciting time to
be at Exertis and I am committed to
ensuring that the supplies division
continues to be a key, specialist area
within the Group’s activities,” said
Beaumont.
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