01732 759725 16 BULLETIN : PEOPLE BOSS welcomes new board member Mark Wilkinson, ACCO Brands Regional Vice President, UK and Ireland has joined the BOSS board. Amy Hutchinson, BOSS CEO, said: “I’m thrilled to welcome Mark to the BOSS Board, his extensive knowledge of our sector will be a real asset to the Federation as we strive to build a wider community. I look forward to working alongside him and our ever-supportive existing board members”. www.bossfederation.com New MD for ESET As Managing Director UK, Matt Knell will head up cybersecurity company ESET’s team in Bournemouth, with responsibility for galvanising its partner programme and strengthening its bespoke corporate solutions for enterprises and large SMBs. Knell has almost 25 years’ experience in cybersecurity, including 16 years at McAfee and more than eight years at Sophos as an Enterprise Sales Director and Senior Sales Leader for Strategic Growth and Channel. www.eset.com Debbie Nice named BOSS Interim CEO Debbie Nice has been appointed Interim CEO at BOSS while existing CEO Amy Hutchinson takes maternity leave. Nice has over 35 years’ experience in the business supplies sector having worked in senior strategic roles in procurement, marketing and sales at the EVO Group, CPD, Office Friendly and Spicers. She has extensive channel knowledge and is passionate about the environment and embracing opportunities for growth and change. She has been a trustee of the BOSS Business Supplies Charity since 2015 and was on the committee of BOSS Yorkshire from 2000-2020. www.bossfederation.com Trio of new appointments IT and managed networks provider Evolve has strengthened its team with a trio of new appointments as it embarks on a new growth phase, following the completion of two acquisitions in the last 12 months and a doubling of its headcount. The new hires include Lee Simpson as Chief Financial Officer, Paul Washington as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Dean Lord as Account Director. Simpson brings significant financial and M&A expertise to Evolve, he was previously CFO at UK Hire Group and before that Head of M&A at law firm Slater & Gordon and DCC Technology (Exertis). Washington previously held senior roles at Cognizant, IBM, Sopra Banking Software and Atom Ban, and Lord, a specialist in large scale deployments of solutions such as SD WAN, was previously Head of Connectivity at MLR Networks. https://www.evolvebg.co.uk/ Role changes at TD SYNNEX Simon Bennett, Senior Director, Enterprise Software and Cloud, UK and Ireland at TD SYNNEX, has been promoted to Managing Director, Advanced Solutions, UK&I. Bennett takes over from Matt Child who has moved into a new role leading the distie’s European digital strategy. As Senior Vice President, Digital, Europe, Child steps into the shoes of Andy Gass, who is retiring from the business in January 2024, after a 30-year tenure. Bennett said: “I am really excited to be taking on the leadership of the advanced solutions division in the UK and Ireland. Over the last four years, Matt has built a fantastic team with incredible depth of capability. He has established the advanced solutions business as a leader in the enablement and aggregation of emerging technologies and a genuinely trusted advisor for channel partners. I look forward to continuing and building on that success and taking the business into the next exciting phase of its development.” https://uk.tdsynnex.com/ Konica Minolta hires new CFO Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) has appointed Suzie Thorogood as Chief Financial Officer. Commenting on her new role she said: “I am delighted to be joining the Konica Minolta senior leadership team at this exciting juncture. Following the business’s significant transformation over the last three years in response to broader global changes, I am excited to be taking on the role of Chief Financial Officer during this next phase of growth and change.” www.konicaminolta.co.uk GoTo bolsters leadership team GoTo has promoted Damon Covey to the role of Chief Product Officer (CPO). Covey joined the company in 2021 as Senior Vice President and Head of Product. As CPO, he will be responsible for leading the product teams and UX for the company’s full IT management, support, and business communications portfolio. Ruth Frank has also joined as the company’s new Head of UX within the product team, where she’ll lead the ideation, user research, and design functions for product development. Before joining GoTo, Frank was the Vice President of Experience Design at Pitney Bowes, where she worked for over 18 years. www.goto.com ArtSystems promotes Zac Ambler ArtSystems, the specialist systems distributor and service provider, has promoted Zac Ambler to the position of Supplies Account Manager in its specialist wide-format supplies team. For the last 18 months, he has worked in the Nottingham-based distributor’s sales administration team. Part of Westcoast Holdings Group, ArtSystems serves the design, manufacturing, graphics, sign and display markets with imaging and printing hardware, materials and consumables from leading manufacturers. It employs 70-plus people and has a turnover of more than £70 million. www.artsystems.co.uk Simon Bennett Suzie Thorogood Mark Wilkinson
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