PEOPLE 01732 759725 42 David Basson, NTT DATA UK&I Ed Savory, Enable X Jim Hartshorne, Paragon Helen Ranaghan, Enable X Ralph Tucker, NTT DATA UK&I Colin Bain, ANS Group Evans has more than 30 years’ experience in the AV/IT industry, including senior positions at Viju and Cisco and commercial director roles at integration leaders Electrosonic and Kinly. In his new role, Evans will oversee TD SYNNEX Maverick’s smart spaces strategy for Europe, including channel sales and its relationships with vendors such as Logitech, Absen, Crestron, Samsung, Lenovo, Avocor, Epson, Microsoft, Sony and Zoom. He said: “After years of working with Maverick as a customer I’m very excited to be joining the European team at this pivotal time for the industry and business. Maverick holds the number one position for smart meeting and smart signage technology with an unrivalled portfolio within the channel. My focus will be to work with our partners to maximise the huge opportunities ahead.” www.tdmaverick.eu NTT DATA strengthens insurance practice NTT DATA UK&I, a provider of consulting and IT services, is strengthening its insurance practice with two senior hires to help deliver digital transformation projects for clients in the insurance sector. The appointment of David Basson as Advisor to the UK General Insurance subsector strengthens NTT DATA UK&I’s existing offering in that area, while the recruitment of Ralph Tucker as a Client Partner focusing on Life Insurance and Pensions extends the company’s offering to the Life, Pensions and Investment Management sub-sector. These new hires follow the recruitment in November 2022 of three new Vice Presidents for Insurance (Richard White, Anthony Croydon and Darren Temple). ANS completes board lineup with topranking COO Digital transformation specialist ANS Group has completed the composition of its board with the appointment of Colin Bain to the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Previously COO and then Managing Director of Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner QuantiQ before its acquisition by Avanade in 2021, Bain will take charge of the largest division within ANS, covering professional services, managed services and transformation. Bain’s recruitment follows the Pragma leaders promoted to EnableX Group roles EnableX Group, comprising cloud communications distributor Pragma, digital services company Candio and Techland, a distributor of UC enablement products, has promoted two senior Pragma employees to Group roles. Grace Lawless, part of Pragma’s senior leadership team, has been promoted from Operations Director at Pragma to Group Operations Director with responsibility for leading all EnableX teams; and Helen Ranaghan, who has 34 years’ experience in the telecoms industry, including 18 with Ericsson LG and 10 with Pragma, has been promoted to Group Marketing Manager to oversee marketing for Candio, Techland and Pragma. In addition to these Group roles, Ed Savory, who has been at Pragma for more than nine years, has been promoted from Pragma Business Development Director to Pragma Head of Sales. https://wearepragma.co.uk/ New CEO for Paragon in the UK, Ireland and Luxembourg Business services group Paragon has appointed Jim Hartshorne as its new Chief Executive Officer for the UK, Ireland and Luxembourg. Hartshorne joins Paragon from DHL Supply Chain, where he was most recently Managing Director for the retail and consumer sectors and a UKI board member. In his new role, Hartshorne will oversee the continued growth and diversification of Paragon across its seven business lines in the region: Consulting and Agency; Customer Communications; Lead Supply; Supply Chain Management; Business Process Outsourcing; Workplace Solutions; and Print Solutions. Hartshorne will report to his predecessor Jeremy Walters, who has been promoted to CEO of Paragon across the four regions in which it operates: Belgium and the Netherlands; DACH and CEE; Western Europe; and the UK, Ireland and Luxembourg. https://www.paragon.world/en-gb Evans moves from Maverick customer to Senior Commercial Director TD SYNNEX Maverick, a specialist business of TD SYNNEX has appointed Andy Evans as Senior Commercial Director for its European business. appointment of new CFO Alex Hodgson, as ANS strengthens its leadership team ahead of its next period of growth. The Manchester-headquartered firm offers public and private cloud, hosting, security, DevOps, applications and data services to thousands of businesses and public sector organisations. It owns and operates five IL3-accredited data centres in Manchester and has partnerships with leading technology companies including Microsoft (Gold Partner), AWS, VMWare, Citrix, HPE, Dell, Commvault and Cisco. ANS Group’s acquisition of Preact, a 65-strong Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM Partner and Power Platform Expert, has increased Group headcount to more than 800. Celerity strengthens senior team with double hire BGF-backed hybrid cloud and IT managed services provider Celerity has strengthened its senior team with the appointments of Julie Redfern and Michael Gowen to its board of directors. Redfern, who previously worked at private-equity backed and owner-managed businesses including NSS, Citation and Latitude, joins Celerity as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), with Michael Gowen, previously of Flow, Daisy and Dimension Data, joining as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Craig Aston, Chief Operating Officer at Celerity, said: “We are delighted to welcome Julie and Michael to Celerity – two significant hires that demonstrate our commitment to invest in talent and build a strong and multi-skilled team to help drive growth. Our ambition is to become one of the leading providers of future-focused IT solutions to dynamic and highly regulated companies. Julie and Michael will play a pivotal role in ensuring we reach the next stage of our growth journey.” Celerity, recipient of a £15 million investment from BGF in November 2021, has increased its headcount by 37% in the last 12 months and has plans to take on more staff this year. Three Sync directors promoted from within Following a sustained period of growth, Manchester-based IT specialist Sync has expanded its senior leadership team with the addition of three new directors People Julie Redfern Michael Gowan
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