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BYTES... New management leads
EPSILON HAS APPOINTED Lee Myall (pictured) as
its Chief Commercial Officer. The appointment
marks a new phase of Epsilon’s transformation
as it expands its presence in the global enterprise
market. Myall will be leading the sales and
business development units and will be based in
Epsilon’s London office.
“I see tremendous potential for Epsilon to
expand its scope and use its Software-Defined
Networking (SDN) platform to serve growing
enterprise demand. In this role, I will build on my
experience in transforming wholesale businesses
to compete in the enterprise space and support
Epsilon’s global growth,” said Lee Myall, CCO at
Epsilon. “It is a unique business with a model that
is aligned with new enterprise expectations for
service delivery, performance, and control. It is an
exciting time to join Epsilon."
Vickerage joins Ascentae
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WOODWARD
Sir Clive Woodward has been appointed
to board role at Aura Technology. Sir
Clive, who won the World Cup with
England’s rugby team in 2003 and led
Team GB to Olympic success as Director
of Sport from 2006 to 2012, will help
shape Aura Technology’s strategy in a
non-executive role.
SCOTT DEACON
pure technology group (PTG), has
appointed Scott Deacon as sales
director to grow its current customer
base by 30%. The move aligns with
the Group’s strategy to increase its
turnover – from £30 million to £50
million – over the next three years.
ANDY JONES APPOINTED TO DRIVE
DAAS AT EXERTIS
Exertis has announced the appointment
of Andy Jones as Business Development
Manager (BDM) for its Device-as-a-
Service (DaaS) proposition, reporting to
Rik Hubbard, Exertis, commercial and
services director for mobile.
NEW CEO
Vodafone Group has appointed Vinod
Kumar as Chief Executive Officer of
Vodafone Business with effect from
2 September 2019. Vinod will join the
Executive Committee from that date
and report to Vodafone Group Chief
Executive Nick Read.
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CREATIVE WORKSPACE SOLUTIONS distributor
Ascentae has announced the appointment of John
Vickerage (pictured above) as channel director.
With over two decades of audio visual and
unified communications industry experience,
Vickerage has latterly worked at Huddly before
making the move back into distribution.
On his decision to join Ascentae, Vickerage
comments “The modern distribution landscape
is highly competitive and the large broadline
distributors dominate the market, representing
few key brands.
This can be a challenge for new vendors
trying to gain their attention and for clients who
may require technical or commercial help in
selling to end-users. Ascentae represents an
underserved market by offering true value-add to
the channel.”
Adept snags heavy hitter Richard Bligh
RICHARD BLIGH HAS been appointed as a nonexecutive
director of AdEPT Technology Group plc.
Richard was formerly Chief Operating Officer of
Gamma and during his 13 years with Gamma was
instrumental in building that company to over £1
billion market capitalisation. Richard’s knowledge
of the UK technology market, and how to develop
businesses, will be a great asset to AdEPT.
Richard Bligh (pictured), Non-Executive
Director commented: “I am delighted to be given
the opportunity to join the board at AdEPT. The
development of the Group to one of the UK leading
managed service providers, across particularly the
last 4 years, gives an excellent platform for future
growth to which I believe that I can add value.”
Ian Fishwick, Chairman said, “We are delighted
that someone with Richard’s wealth of experience in
the UK technology space is joining AdEPT. Richard’s
detailed knowledge and insight of the converging
communications and IT markets will provide
significant value to the Company. Through our
communications sector focus I have known Richard
for a number of years and on behalf of the Board I
would like to welcome Richard to the AdEPT team.”
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