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technologyreseller.co.uk 41 PEOPLE Charles onto our UKI leadership team is a major step in our ambitious sales strategy focused on building collaborative business relationships and expanding beyond traditional market sectors. His experience will help us to grow the existing sales team, focus on strategic alliances and expand channel business. Charles’s appointment will also help SolarWinds explore new opportunities, growing into new market sectors, including education, public sector and local government.” Walker joins CityFibre Comms industry veteran Matt Walker has joined CityFibre as its new Director of Customer Delivery and Assurance with responsibility for the national digital infrastructure platform’s provisioning, customer service, Network Operations Centre and technical support teams. Walker brings a wealth of customer service experience to CityFibre from his time as Director of Customer Service for Consumer Business at Openreach. He said: “My focus will be on ensuring we provide consistent, reliable performance for our partners and for their customers. I believe transparency on performance is critical, and I look forward to building and developing the relationships we have with our partners so we can jointly innovate to co-create additional value for all and ensure a superior customer experience.” Naren Patel added to inurface advisory board Experiential technology business inurface group has recruited out of home (OOH) technology veteran Naren Patel to its businesses advisory board. Patel led Primesight through a stock market flotation, sale, buy back and massive growth, before finally selling it to Global Radio in 2018, since when he has launched the Geoprove verification system and built-up the Media for All mentoring network. As a member of inurface’s advisory board, Patel will help CEO Josh Bunce and his management team navigate changes in the DOOH and retail sectors and devise and implement a wider business strategy encompassing acquisitions. New Head for Panasonic TOUGHBOOK division Panasonic has appointed Daichi Kato as its Head of Mobile Solutions Business Division Europe. A Panasonic executive for almost 20 years, Kato aims to build on Panasonic TOUGHBOOK’s 25-year history as the leading European rugged mobile computing manufacturer by providing customers New CEO for Flomatik Flomatik, a provider of network design, engineering and project management services, has promoted Dean Checkley from chief delivery officer to CEO. Checkley, who started out as an apprentice at GEC Telecommunications in Coventry when he was just 16, has held senior positions in the public and private sectors, including interim Managing Director for Rural Optic (part of Airband Community Internet), Head of Shared Services and IT operations at The Law Society, and Director of Service and Operations at Virgin Media Business WiFi. Hampshire-headquartered Flomatik provides tailored network services to companies building the next generation of communication infrastructure and services, among them Virgin Media, CityFibre Holdings, toob, Swish, WightFibre and FibreNation. OnBuy recruits C-suite Hot on the heels of its appointment of ex-eBay Director Mark Lister as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), fast growing online marketplace OnBuy.com has announced two more C-suite hires – Chief Financial Officer James Watts and Chief Marketing Officer Aron Cody-Boutcher . Watts joins OnBuy.com after 12 years at Deloitte, WPP Group and, most recently, Richmond Group, erstwhile parent company of Amigo Loans. Cody-Boutcher previously held high-ranking positions at Seasalt, where he was Chief Customer Officer; kitchenware and catering equipment retailer Nisbets, where he was Head of Ecommerce UK and Ireland; and footwear manufacturer and retailer Clarks, where he was Global Digital Brand Manager. Founded in November 2016, OnBuy.com is adding to its 85-person headcount after its third consecutive year of 600+% year on year growth. Expanded UK leadership team to extend Solarwinds’ reach SolarWinds, a leader in IT operations management solutions, has expanded its leadership team in the UK and Ireland, with the appointment of a new Senior Sales Director to work alongside Group Vice President EMEA Sales Ludovic Neveu. Charles Damerell brings more than 20 years’ experience of the technology sector, including spells at Astadia, AVG, T-Mobile and International Network Services (INS). Neveu said: “Welcoming with end-to-end solutions that can help transform the way they operate. He said: “Panasonic TOUGHBOOK has built a strong reputation for innovative, ergonomically designed and rugged notebooks, tablets and handheld devices and we will continue that expansion but plan to go much further. Our end-to-end mobile solutions incorporate Gemba Process Innovation to analyse customer processes and design new technology solutions; Proservices to design, manufacture and support customised deployments; and Enterprise Software Solutions for customer app design, Android and Windows management tools and real- time device monitoring.” www.toughbook.eu More change at TOUGHBOOK In another change at its Mobile Solutions Business, Panasonic has appointed Michael Willett as the division’s UK & Ireland key account manager for retail, transportation & logistics (T&L) and manufacturing. Chris Turner, Country Manager for UK & Ireland at TOUGHBOOK, said: “Over the years, TOUGHBOOK has built a successful track record and strong presence with the big players in these sectors. Introducing Michael to the team will help broaden our reach across the wider industry, reaching businesses of all sizes. We’re also looking to drive awareness of our unique TOUGHBOOK-as-a-Service offering and the additional professional solutions we can offer mobile workforces in this sector, moving the focus solely from hardware to our wider mobile business solutions.” www.toughbook.eu CCS promotion for Moffitt Telephony and managed print services provider Corona Corporate Solutions (CCS) has appointed Andy Moffitt as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), following the departure of founder and former CEO James Stephens. Moffitt joined CCS as Service Director in August 2020, after 20 People James Watts, OnBuy Aron Cody- Boutcher, OnBuy Naren Patel, inurface group Charles Damerell, Solarwinds Dean Checkley, Flomatik Matt Walker, CityFibre Michael Willett Daichi Kato, Panasonic TOUGHBOOK Continued...