PRINT IT AWARDS continued... 51 PRINTITRESELLER.UK 23 her hands on approach and focus on customer experience, Kasia earned the trust of several national and international businesses across the industry. She has a wealth of knowledge on MPS, device management, and channel dynamics. Kasia is currently working at Meta Reality Labs, helping businesses across EMEA adapt to the ‘Future of Work’. She is a mum of two, and advocate for flexible working. Jason Howells VP, MSP International Sales, Barracuda MSP Jason previously worked for companies such as McAfee and Secure Networks, before becoming Regional Sales Director at Barracuda Networks in 2011. He has over twenty years of sales and management experience driving profitable growth in IT security and data protection. He is responsible for building the MSP business unit for Barracuda Networks internationally and executing the international business strategy. www.barracudamsp.com Brendan Perring, General Manager, IPIA After graduating from Edinburgh University with an MA (Hons) in English Literature and History, Brendan worked as an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of Scotland. Following this experience he moved to Wales and attained a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from Cardiff University and carried out freelance work for a number of regional newspapers. devices; digital transformation, managed print services, workflow and collaboration, alongside emerging trends such as augmented reality and 3D printing. www.quocirca.com Alison Haley, Marketing Specialist, Tangerine Design and PR Alison Haley is a highly experienced marketeer within the office equipment industry. With a career spanning 28 years, at the heart of the office equipment dealer channel, she has an excellent reputation within the industry, for building valuable relationships and helping reseller businesses to achieve their potential through creative tailormade marketing, in-house and external communications, PR and events. For the last 17 years she has driven channel marketing activity as the UK Marketing Manager of Olivetti and, previously, spent 11 years raising the profile of Konica Minolta, and its dealers, as Advertising, PR and Events Manager. Now, running her freelance creative marketing services business, Tangerine Design and PR, Alison continues to devote her time to the wider channel arena as well as providing marketing expertise to many other industry segments. www.tangerinedesignandpr.co.uk Kasia Holthouse, Strategic Account Manager, Reality Labs, Meta Kasia is an experienced sales professional with a passion for strategy, customer service and digital transformation. She spent 13 years in the print industry working for both OEMs and ISVs. Through Brendan’s next move took him into the printing world as Editor at Signlink magazine and Deputy Editor of Print Monthly magazine. After two years he was promoted to Editor of Print Monthly and then this was shortly followed by becoming Managing Editor of Link Publishing, which owns these national print titles. After helping to found Link Exhibitions, and with the successful launch of The Print Show, which took place for the first time in October 2015, Brendan was made director of Link Publishing and Link Exhibitions. After a spell working in PR, looking after clients in the insurance, marketing, outsourcing and exhibition sectors, Brendan joined the IPIA to take up its newly created position of General Manager. He has been in his post for three years and the IPIA continues to go from strength to strength. https://ipia.org.uk Jeff Root, UK Country Manager, Mobi Systems Jeff can be described as a true industry veteran. His first foray into the world of technology was back in the day when typewriters and then fax machines were cutting-edge! He has forged a successful career path working with companies including Canon, Samsung, Panasonic, Sagemcom and Philips. Jeff has extensive experience in sales, management and marketing across product categories including print, mobile, telecoms, imaging, scanners, audio visual and IT and has held a number of senior positions within the sector, most recently as General Manager of Sagem UK. Having ‘left’ the industry 12 months ago to lead a Microsoft-led change programme for one of the UK’s largest housebuilders, he is currently Country Manager for Mobi Systems, a pioneer in multi-device, cross-platform mobile app development. www.mobisystems.com
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