01732 759725 16 BULLETIN : PEOPLE ABBYY names Opitz CTO and CPO Scott Opitz has been appointed Chief Technology and Product Officer (CTO and CPO) at intelligent automation company, ABBYY. He is charged with overseeing a 40% increase in research and development investment in 2022. Opitz’s responsibilities include leading the strategy, development and execution of the company’s product and innovation efforts based in Europe and the US, solidifying the company’s commitment to continuous enhancement of its intelligent document processing platform Vantage and process intelligence solution Timeline. Opitz joined ABBYY with the acquisition of TimelinePI in 2019, of which he was co-founder, President and CEO from its inception. www.abbyy.com Key leadership appointments Ginger Sanfilippo, a former Neo4j VP, has joined TigerGraph as Senior Enterprise Sales Director. In this role, Sanfilippo will lead efforts to support the brand's ongoing market dominance and further develop the company’s position as the definitive graph analytics platform for AI. The company has also announced two key promotions. After leading the America’s sales team, Bobby DeMartino has been promoted to SVP of Worldwide Sales, responsible for all new revenue and partners in the Americas, Asia Pacific, India, China, and EMEA and Tish Looper has been promoted to VP of Customer Success. The team additions and promotions come after TigerGraph wrapped a noteworthy 2021 with compelling corporate and product momentum as well as more than 300% customer growth. www.tigergraph.com Board changes at Exertis Exertis has announced changes to its senior leadership team. Vishal Chhatralia who joined Exertis in 2019, focusing his efforts on developing digital capabilities within Exertis UK, will move into a global role, driving digital transformation across Exertis International. In his new role, Chhatralia will take these capabilities and accelerate the digital journey of the Exertis Group internationally, while also taking on responsibility for Exertis’ own brand portfolio and global vendor account management. He will report into Tim Griffin, Managing Director of DCC Technology. Exertis UK has also announced structural changes. Phill Turner, Global Head of Voice of the Customer, is moving into the position of Chief Experience Officer, reporting to Paul Bryan, Managing Director of Exertis UK. The newly created role is responsible for delivering a seamless customer experience across all stages and touchpoints in the customer journey, helping the business continually achieve greater customer satisfaction and increased efficiencies. Robert Fitzsimons, UK Marketing Director, and Kati Eagle, Purchasing Director, will also now report directly into Bryan. www.exertis.co.uk New channel chief joins GoTo GoTo, the recently launched flexible work software company formerly known as LogMeIn, has appointed UCaaS channel veteran Michael Day, as its new Vice President of Partner Sales. Following the recent rebrand, GoTo also announced the new GoTo Partner Network, which Day will now lead in his new role. The enhanced programme includes a greater global focus and more ways for the growing ecosystem of partners to bring in more customers and increase revenue. After an onboarding and transition period, GoTo’s current head of the Partner Programme, Patrick McCue, will become Vice President of Partner Sales for the LastPass partner programme, which is being spun-off as a standalone cloud security company. www.goto.com Nutanix adds seasoned experts to team Nutanix has named Mandy Dhaliwal as Chief Marketing Officer and Shyam Desirazu as Head of Engineering. Each brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling high performing, mission-driven organisations. They will both report to Rajiv Ramaswami, the Chief Executive Officer at Nutanix. “Both Mandy and Shyam are exceptional leaders with proven technological savvy and unique insight into what it takes to build and drive industry leading solutions that meet the needs of the market,” said Ramaswami. “The addition of Mandy and Shyam to our organisation will be instrumental in driving our vision as Nutanix continues its next phase of growth.” www.nutanix.com Rankine re-joins Workflo Solutions Workflo Solutions has welcomed David Rankine back into its team as it gears up for further expansion of its core services across the UK. Rankine re-joins the business following a spell as a freelance IT consultant to take on a newly created role – Managed Service Specialist – which sees him have overall responsibility for all managed services activities within the organisation, providing technical expertise to prepare value-add innovation for new and existing platforms, and overseeing complex migrations solutions for Workflo’s 1,000-strong UK-wide client base. His core specialism will be to identify customer needs for operational support, assessments, and to support framework adoption of areas such as managed hosting services, cloud, and infrastructure solutions. Managing Director Michael Field, said: “I’m truly delighted to welcome David back to Workflo Solutions. He is a proven innovator in the managed services space and when he left us last year, we acknowledged his ambitions to set up his own IT consultancy. We’ve seen that today’s business landscape is dominated by advancing technology and many businesses find their own IT resources can struggle to stay current with the latest systems and trends. David is the right person to have on the team to create that buzz for our clients.” www.workflo-solutions.co.uk Scott Optiz Mandy Dhaliwal Shyam Desirazu David Rankine
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