technologyreseller.co.uk 51 PEOPLE and Recruitment Lead in March 2021. As the company’s first female Board member, Mahon will drive new diversity initiatives, promote wellbeing and identify areas where the company can improve and equalise the experience for all employees. This includes ensuring that Totalmobile has the right mix of physical and virtual locations to support teams and bring employees together to collaborate and innovate. www.totalmobile.co.uk New Head of Regulation & Compliance for Glide Group Glide Group, a provider of ultra-fast broadband connectivity and fibre infrastructure deployment, has appointed Max Fernando as Head of Regulation & Compliance. Previously a Regulatory Manager at BT, where he was responsible for several areas of negotiations including open communications and Broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO), Fernando was recently appointed Chair of the Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) Standards Committee. In his new role, he will represent Glide in policy and regulatory discussions around the Telecoms Security Bill, One Touch Switching and Project Gigabit. He said: “It’s one of the most interesting times to be working in an AltNet, especially from a regulatory perspective. Glide sits in a position of huge opportunity over the next few years as it increases its fibre coverage and its ability to offer a unique mix of services to a wider audience. I look forward to raising Glide’s profile to match our size, network coverage and the quality of our offerings.” Brendan Lynch joins FluidOne board as CRO FluidOne, focused on becoming the highest quality provider of connected cloud solutions to mid-market UK businesses through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions, has recruited Brendan Lynch as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Reporting to CEO Russell Horton, Lynch will lead FluidOne’s existing Sales, Marketing and Solution Architecture teams and work alongside the executive directors, CEO Russell Horton, Co-Founder and COO Chris Rogers and CFO Roy Hastings. Lynch has 28 years’ experience in managing Sales and Marketing teams, most recently as Group Sales and Marketing Director at Redcentric and before that as VP of Sales Europe (Wholesale) at Reliance Globalcom and Director, Business and Partner Markets at Virgin Media Business. Established in 2006, FluidOne is an award-winning Connected Cloud Solutions provider with £60m in revenue, 240 staff and 1,300 customers, including 200 channel resellers. Its services include connectivity, SD-WAN, cyber security, IT managed services, mobile, IoT, UCaaS and CCaaS. www.fluidone.com Workflo Solutions appoints first Sales Director Workflo Solutions, the outsourced managed services provider, has appointed Jonathan Weir as its first Sales Director. Weir, who joined Workflo Solutions in 2012, after five years with another managed print services provider, will assume responsibility for the strategic leadership of the field sales and tele-sales departments in both Livingston and at the company’s north-west hub in Accrington, East Lancashire. Weir said: “My new role represents a fantastic and challenging opportunity for me where I can combine both a business development and sales director role. The field sales and telesales teams reporting to me are first class and I have every confidence that our market share will continue to soar as we emerge fully from the pandemic. Ten years on from my first role as a telesales executive with the company, I have reached a significant personal milestone. I’m so thrilled to be given this opportunity as Workflo Solutions’ first ever Sales Director.” The Access Group strengthens data capabilities with ex-Barclays hire Wayne Fraser has joined business software provider The Access Group as Chief Information & Data Officer after working in senior global roles at O2, Vodafone and, most recently, Barclays Bank where he was Global Head of System and Service Management and Technology CDO. With a deep understanding of data management and science, internal systems, analytics and efficiency processes, Fraser will provide internal consultancy and commercial optimisation to support a growing global roadmap and lead the transformation program of internal applications and data functions. Fraser said: “This new role presents an exciting challenge for me. The Access Group is at the forefront of providing technology for the mid-market and by developing and implementing strategic plans through the use of data and automated intelligence, we will continue to enhance the growth of the business.” www.theaccessgroup.com New Finance Director for Burendo Leeds-based agile business transformation leader Burendo has appointed Sadie Alton as Finance Director. Shortlisted for the 2021 Northern Finance Director Award, the Newcastle University graduate joins Burendo’s 150-strong team from a competitor technical consultancy. Burendo, which specialises in empowering large organisations and SMEs to improve their agile adoption and delivery processes, was set up in 2018 by Gary Green, Glenn Crossley and Austen Bell and is on course to achieve £18 million in turnover in the current financial year. Commenting on her appointment, Alton said: “I am excited to be joining Burendo which, in its short history, has established a formidable reputation for delivering large-scale business transformation nationally and globally.” www.burendo.com Checkit follows multi-million-pound investment with recruitment of Chief Product and Technology Officer Checkit, the intelligent operations platform for deskless workforces, has appointed David Cottingham as Chief Product and Technology Officer, following confirmation of £21 million of additional investment in the business. Cottingham joins the Cambridge-based, AIM-listed scale-up from Citrix, where, as Director of Microapps & Integration Platform Product Management, he was the product management lead for 80 engineers in agile teams spread over three continents. In his new role, he will lead product development teams to continually improve the Checkit platform, which provides deskless workforces with a digital assistant that prompts, guides and tracks essential frontline activities. Realtime data (with optional plugins for sensor networks and smart building management) is delivered to management dashboards to enable continuous improvement in agility, customer experience, efficiency and compliance. Cottingham said: “Very few companies are able to capture both sensor and human data and connect those in an analytics engine not only to enable visibility of key metrics but also to provide actionable insights. The outcomes are very important, not least in terms of increasing the engagement of deskless workers, giving them greater autonomy and choice.” www.checkit.net David Cottingham Sadie Alton Max Fernando Glide Group Jonathan Weir Workflo Solutions Wayne Fraser Access Group Brendan Lynch FluidOne
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