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01732 759725 50 PEOPLE Never a better time to be part of Union Street, says new Sales Director Union Street Technologies, a supplier of billing and provisioning solutions, has appointed Gary May as Sales Director, reporting to Managing Director Vincent Disneur. Known throughout the industry as founder of the channel-focused sales training consultancy Salesology, May will be pivotal in driving business growth and developing go-to-market strategies for new products and services. May said: “Back in 2013, I met Vincent at an industry event and Union Street went on to become one of Salesology’s first clients. We stayed in contact over the years and I’m very pleased to now be joining the Union Street team. New private investment, combined with a range of innovative new software products and cross-sell opportunities within the group, mean there’s never been a better or more exciting time to be a part of Union Street.” unionstreet.co.uk Birch joins Ensono Hybrid cloud provider Ensono has appointed Hannah Birch as General Manager and Deputy Managing Director, Europe. Birch is joining Ensono from Accenture where she led the company’s UK Technology Business for Insurance and was a member of the Technology Leadership Team for UK & Ireland. Before that she held leadership positions at Fujitsu Services UK and Computacenter. Barney Taylor, Ensono Managing Director, Europe, said: “With our recent acquisition of Amido and KKR’s investment in Ensono, we have significant momentum and an accelerated opportunity to invest and grow in both the UK and European markets. Hannah is the right person to drive our growth ambition and to continue to build on our reputation as a leader in the technology space.” https://www.ensono.com/uk New Director of Channel Sales at Pulsant Cloud and co-location specialist Pulsant has appointed Rob Darby as Director of Channel Sales to help channel partners capitalise on growing cloud and emerging edge opportunities through its colocation services. Darby has held several senior roles in the IT industry, including Sales Director and Commercial Director at channel-only IT services provider Comms- Care, acquired by Ingram Micro in 2016. He said: “We recognise the huge emerging opportunities for channel organisations through the exponential growth of data from connected devices. This is resulting Tech Data appoints business manager for AR/VR As part of a strategic investment to help partners realise the growth potential of augmented and mixed reality in training, healthcare and retail applications, Tech Data has appointed Harry Ellis as dedicated business manager for mixed and virtual reality. Ryan Thomas , Tech Data Business Unit Manager, Mobile and Consumer Electronics, UK and Ireland, says that the combination of Tech Data’s hardware offering (Facebook Oculus, Microsoft Hololens and Google Glass) and the relationships it has with experts in cloud, collaboration and IoT solutions gives it a real edge in the market. He said: “It means that we can bring together all the pieces of the jigsaw – the cloud services and software, integration services, the sensors that might be required at the edge, and the AR/VR devices themselves – to support partners in delivering complete solutions that make use of mixed and augmented reality to solve real-world needs.” www.techdata.com New management appointments to drive transformation at Digital Space Managed services provider Digital Space (previously Timico) is advancing its customer-first growth strategy and cloud technology proposition with changes to its senior management team. David Jones , who joined Timico as Chief People Office in December 2019 after spells at Travis Perkins, Daisy Group and Vodafone, has been promoted to Managing Director of Corporate and SMB, with a focus on driving double-digit sales growth and increasing market share in the enterprise space and public sector; Jon Portlock , previously Head of Cloud Services at Exponential-e, has been made Customer Solutions Director; and Andrew Vize , the recently appointed Strategy and Marketing Director, has been promoted to the Executive Board as Chief Marketing Officer, with responsibility for driving Digital Space’s strategic transformation into a cloud-first managed services provider. digitalspace.co.uk in an ever-growing need for edge computing, high capacity and low latency networks and multi-cloud strategies. Our aim is to be the go-to provider of colocation, cloud and networking services to the UK channel.” To this end, Pulsant recently invested £8 million in its edge infrastructure, using Zayo’s high performance fibre network to connect its 10 UK data centres and create an agile, high-capacity and low-latency network capable of delivering sub 5 millisecond latency and covering 97% of the UK. Steve Preston takes reins at TrapX Security TrapX Security, a specialist in deception- based threat detection and response, has promoted Steve Preston to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Previously Senior Vice President of Strategy and Growth, Preston will take over from Ori Bach and assume day-to-day leadership of the company. Preston said: “The year 2020 made a huge impact on cyber security. Remote work, accelerated cloud adoption and the explosion of connected things have created a new landscape that conventional security simply cannot defend. Change is needed and we’re seeing the shift toward Active Defence. I’m honoured and excited to accelerate TrapX through the next stage of its journey.” www.trapx.com DWS Board of Directors now complete Digital Wholesale Solutions (DWS), the 100% channel focused technology platform, which was demerged from the Daisy Group in January, has completed the formation of its Board of Directors with the appointments of former Sage CEO Paul Walker and former Deloitte Senior Audit Partner Damian Sanders as independent non-executive directors. Paul Walker, currently non-executive chairman of Halma Plc and non-executive chairman of Ashtead Group, was Chief Executive of Sage Group from 1994- 2020 and has previously served on the boards of Diageo, Mytravel, Experian and Sophos. Damian Sanders, who was until recently a Senior Audit Partner at Deloitte in Manchester and a member of Deloitte’s North West Leadership Team, has acted as an advisor to a number of FTSE Boards and in 2020 was appointed independent non-executive director for The Hut Group (THG Holdings Plc) and Cineworld Plc.. www.digitalwholesalesolutions.com People Hannah Birch, Ensono Rob Darby, Pulsant Ryan Thomas, Tech Data Gary May, Union Street Steve Preston