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technologyreseller.co.uk 51 PEOPLE Rimmer CEO appointment made permanent AIM-listed funding solutions provider Time Finance has appointed Ed Rimmer as CEO on a permanent basis. Rimmer, who was once Chief Operating Officer at the company, was appointed Interim CEO in April, since when he has been reacquainting himself with the business. Rimmer first joined Time Finance in 2017 as Managing Director of its newly established Commercial Finance division. Prior to that he was UK CEO of Bibby Financial Services, which he helped build into the largest independent operator in the invoice finance market. Operating from five locations across the UK – Bath, Cardiff, Abingdon, Manchester, and Warrington – Time Finance specialises in Asset Finance, Invoice Finance, Loans and Vehicle Finance, each year arranging £150million of funding for UK businesses. Other recent appointments at the company include Rob Walters , who has been made Business Development Manager of its Invoice Finance division, and Joe Ralphs , who has been made Head of Operations of the Asset Finance division. www.timefinance.com Walter Heck promoted to HeleCloud Group Technology Officer HeleCloud, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner based in the UK, Bulgaria and the Netherlands, is eyeing further growth with the promotion of Walter Heck from Netherlands Chief Technology Officer to Group Chief Technology Officer. His appointment comes after a year of strong growth in which HeleCloud increased revenues by 70%, took on an extra 30 AWS consultants and engineers and completed the acquisition of cloud-native software development company DataStork. The latter has taken HeleCloud into the cloud-native software development and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) space. As CTO, Heck will be responsible for integrating these capabilities with HeleCloud’s professional and managed service offerings, so that customers can leverage the best in new technology. www.helecloud.com Expert advice for Chargifi Former WeWork Chief Workplace Experience Officer Shaun Ritchie has joined Chargifi as a board advisor to help drive further adoption of the company’s Chargifi Wx hybrid working platform, which makes it easy for users to book desks and car park spaces, check-in, find colleagues, arrange meetings, monitor Asolvi launches regional MD strategy Field service management software provider Asolvi is devolving decision- making and responsibility to a regional level with the creation of three regional Managing Directors, for the DACH region, the Nordics and the UK and Ireland. The three new positions will be filled by Armin Alt, Jørgen Nytrø and Michael Burke respectively. Previously Chief Customer Officer at Asolvi, Michael Burke has extensive industry experience including a 12-year stint as CEO of Purpose Software, creator of the 2serv and CBS service management solutions. Asolvi provides market-leading service management solutions for copy/print (Evatic and Vantage Online), fire & security (AlarmMaster, Tivapp and Winserv) and foodservice equipment (Tesseract). www.asolvi.com UK head for start-up investor Clearco Clearco (formerly Clearbanc), an investor in e-commerce, mobile app and SaaS start-ups, plans to strengthen its presence in the UK with the appointment of Sarah Clark as its first international country manager. As UK Head, Clark, who led Paypal’s growth across EMEA and has held senior roles at Barclays Bank, Virgin Group, Sainsbury’s and British Airways, aims to build relationships with UK-based founders. She said: “Since entering the UK market in October 2020, we’ve invested £70M into more than 250 UK companies, including Druids Golf, Safiyaa and Piglet. I believe every founder building a business in the UK should be working with Clearco.” In a second major hire, Clearco has appointed serial entrepreneur, author and longtime Clearco investor Ruma Bose as Chief Growth Officer tasked with ensuring the company has the right strategy to expand into markets outside North America, including mainland Europe – Clearco started operations in the Netherlands in June – and Asia Pacific. Clearco, which recently completed a $100M Series C funding round, aims to democratise access to capital by using proprietary algorithms that are gender-, race-, and region-agnostic. In 2020, it funded eight times as many companies headed by female founders as traditional VC firms and directed 13% of its funding to companies headed by founders of colour, compared to 2.6% in traditional VC firms. Since it was founded, one third of all Clearco funding has gone to founders of colour. In the UK, 70% of businesses funded by Clearco are located outside London. clear.co Shaun Ritchie office occupancy levels and more. Ritchie joined the flexible workplace disruptor WeWork in 2018, when it acquired Teem, the workplace experience platform he co-founded in 2013. Delphix appoints Steve Barrett to EMEA role Fast growing programmable data infrastructure pioneer Delphix has taken on Steve Barrett as Senior Vice President of International Operations with responsibility for leading revenue operations in EMEA and APJ. With more than 20 years’ experience in enterprise software and SaaS companies, Barrett joins Delphix from PagerDuty, where he led the European business from early stages to post-IPO as Vice President of EMEA. Based in the UK, Barrett has also served as Regional Vice President of the UK for Demandware, a Salesforce company, and held senior positions at EMC and Bottomline Technologies. Through its multi-cloud data platform, Delphix, which recently achieved non-GAAP profitability powered by a growth rate of 85%, enables enterprises to adopt cloud 30% faster, release software 50% faster and access 90% more data for AI/ML, while protecting personal data privacy and compliance. www.delphix.com Web security expert Jeremiah Grossman to take on advisory role at PureID Web security expert Jeremiah Grossman is taking on an advisory role at PureID, the startup on a mission to eliminate passwords. With 20 years’ experience in the security industry, during which time he founded WhiteHat Security and built the world’s largest professional ‘hacking army’, Grossman has a track record of advising successful security start-ups. PureID, which delivers Passwordless- Authentication as a Service through resilient, multi cloud clusters, has completed its first full year of operation out of stealth mode and, with Grossman’s help, is looking to expand in the US, Europe and Australia. PureID Founder Ajit Hatti said: “To be able to offer the best authentication service, it’s critical that we’re aware of new techniques, innovative attacks and adversary tactics of the future. This is exactly where Jeremiah leads. His advice will help us to make our authentication service resilient and reliable for all our customers. Not only that, but his rich network will give us an incredible advantage over other startups in the infosec space.” www.pureid.io . Sarah Clark, Clearco Ed Rimmer, Time Finance Ruma Bose, Clearco Walter Heck, HeleCloud Michael Burke, Asolvi Rob Walters, Time Finance Jeremiah Grossman