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Lee Harris (left) Lee Baker (middle) and Ross Floyd (right)
MIDWICH APPOINTS DIVISIONAL DIRECTORS
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TRADE DISTRIBUTOR TO the audio visual
(AV) and document solutions market
Midwich has announced the promotion of
both Lee Harris and Ross Floyd (pictured
above) to Divisional Director, following
the planned retirement of long serving
Commercial Director Lee Baker.
Harris will become Divisional
Director focusing on AV (Midwich Ltd)
and Ross Floyd will assume a wider
role as Divisional Director covering
AV, Document Solutions and further
technologies.
Baker will be passing over his
responsibilities to Lee Harris and Ross
Floyd in January following an extensive
handover period.
Lee Baker, Commercial Director,
commented, “I’ve had a fantastic time
at Midwich and met so many brilliant
people. I’m proud of how Midwich has
grown from a small Diss-based business
to a global player. It’s been an amazing
journey and I’ve seen some amazing
things.”
Mark Lowe, Midwich Managing
Director, said, “I am sad to see Lee leave,
having worked together as friends and
colleagues for many years. Lee’s legacy
will live on in our business in the way
that we work with our vendors and he
will leave a lasting impression. We say
goodbye to Lee, but at the same time, we
are excited about the succession plan
that has afforded Lee Harris and Ross
Floyd a well-deserved promotion.”
NetApp appoints VP Partners and Pathways from EMEA
NETAPP HAS NAMED Kristian Kerr its new
transformation in the partner ecosystem,”
Vice President Partners & Pathways for
the EMEA region. He will take responsibility
for developing and executing the channel
strategies and programs that support
partners to deliver innovation with cloud
services, build cloud infrastructure to
accelerate new services, and modernize
IT architectures with cloud-connected
all-flash storage. Kerr reports to NetApp
Senior Vice President & General Manager
EMEA Alexander Wallner and will be based
out of the UK office.
“The market is moving with increased
velocity with Cloud leading this
said Kerr. “As partners evolve
their business, they are looking to
NetApp to capture this huge opportunity
to modernize infrastructures and take
advantage of the seamless path to the
cloud that NetApp provides. I firmly believe
embracing this change and its pace is
a huge opportunity. We are seeing new
business and partnering models, new
ways of consumption and scale, and new
players entering the space daily. NetApp
partners are set up exceptionally well for
this new world, and I am confident we’ll
find great success together.”
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