01732 759725 16 BULLETIN : PEOPLE OKI Europe appoints new MD Takaaki Hagiwara has been appointed Managing Director of OKI Europe, succeeding Tsukasa Takasawa, who has moved into a new business development role in Singapore. Hagiwara has been with OKI since 1990, originally joining the company in the overseas sales and marketing division. He brings a wealth of experience to his role, having already served in many senior positions within OKI, including as Managing Director of OKI Systems (UK) between 2013 and 2018, where he was responsible for building the company’s position in the business to business printer, document output and management markets, while growing relationships with channel and business partners and core business customers across the UK, Ireland and Nordic regions. In his new role, Hagiwara’s focus will be on the continued development of solutions for verticals and new applications within the professional print technology market in the EMEA and India regions, and to explore opportunities for the application of OKI technology that has already been commercialised in other regions. www.oki.com/eu LastPass expands leadership team LastPass has appointed Terry Murphy as its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining LastPass, Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer at Qualio, a SaaS B2B life sciences provider. He’s also previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Kenna Security and Whitehat Security. The company has also promoted Abby Miller to Senior Vice President of Customer Experience. Since joining the company in 2017, Miller has played a pivotal role in shaping how LastPass approaches customer success and has helped define and execute the company’s retention strategy across all customer segments. She already led LastPass’ customer success team, helping business customers find value throughout the customer lifecycle. In her expanded role, Miller is now also responsible for setting the retention strategy for all customer touchpoints and evolving the support model to give customers the best experience possible. www.lastpass.com Cohesity names Kit Beall CRO Kit Beall, former VMware, Cisco, and Uhana executive has joined Cohesity as Chief Revenue Officer. Beall brings more than 30 years of highly relevant experience to Cohesity, with deep expertise in software, cloud, security, artificial intelligence and managed services. In this role, he will use his vast international experience in overseeing all sales and partner functions worldwide. “I’m thrilled to join Cohesity at this important juncture of the company’s evolution,” he said. “Cohesity sits at the junction of three of the highest priority business issues today – security, cloud, and data management, and it provides a radically simple yet highly differentiated approach to securing, protecting and deriving value from data. I look forward to helping customers and partners succeed and working with this incredibly talented team.” www.cohesity.com Management changes at Brother UK Brother UK Sales & Marketing director, Andy Forsyth, has retired after a 40-year long career in business technology and 11 years with Brother UK. His retirement sees Brother UK establish new distinct business lines to support its strategic growth plans reporting directly to Managing Director Phil Jones. Greig Millar is appointed to Chief Revenue Officer to lead the firm’s sales teams and partner strategy, with Terry Caulfield appointed Chief Commercial Officer to lead the vendor’s category management, and specialist printing solutions division. Mike Anderson has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer leading demand generation and branding.. www.brother.co.uk Paessler hires UK&I channel sales manager David Durrant has joined Paessler as Channel Sales Manager. He will be charged with spearheading the UK channel strategy and developing relationships with new customers across the UK & Ireland. He will focus on selling Paessler’s product portfolio to enterprise, data centre and industrial markets as well as working with customers and partners across the network monitoring ecosystem. Durrant brings 12 years of experience in the IT industry to his new role at Paessler, with expertise in building and growing channel partners. He has a background in cyber security and monitoring solutions as well as a breadth of experience in business development. www.paessler.com Takaaki Hagiwara Greig Millar David Durrant Kit Beall Terry Murphy Abby Miller
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