technologyreseller.co.uk 45 PEOPLE Darren Fields IGEL Andy Evans, Bas Dekker TD SYNNEX Maverick Richard Morse Inform Billing David Bloom Kao Data Justin Thorogood IGEL Michael Maas Sprinklr Nicholas St John joins Bluecube as NonExec Director Midlands-based cloud communications provider Bluecube Cloud Services is preparing for further growth with the appointment of new board member Nicholas St John as Non-Executive Director. St John has 35 years’ experience in ICT, telecommunications, mobile and insurance at companies such as nPower, KCOM, Telemonde, Redstone Mobile, Bolttech and other investor-led start-ups. Bluecube Managing Director Paul Reames said: “We are excited to add Nicholas to the board of Directors at Bluecube and I know that the depth of experience that Nicholas brings will be a huge asset. As we reach our 15th year in business, we are also experiencing fast growth and this is something we are determined to manage responsibly. Nicholas will be specifically focusing on strategy and reporting as we develop our place as a leading MSP in the East Midlands region.” bluecubecloud.co.uk Smart Meetings promotion for Dekker TD SYNNEX Maverick has promoted Bas Dekker to the position of Director, Smart Meetings, Europe to lead the company’s collaboration strategy across Europe. Bas Dekker, who joined the AV specialist business of TD SYNNEX in 2021, was previously leader of Maverick’s Netherlands Business Unit, before which he held a variety of leadership roles at companies such as LG, Dell and MediaMarkt. Commenting on Dekker’s appointment, Andy Evans, Vice President, Europe at Maverick, TD SYNNEX, said: “Maverick is strategically focused on accelerating the growth of our smart meetings business and I am delighted that Bas will extend his influence and expertise across our organisation in this new European role to accelerate in this area. Bas will be the key liaison for our key vendor partners, helping to build the future of smart meetings alongside our customers and the wider industry.” wealth of expertise in finance, healthcare and national security to the data and analytics software company and Decision Intelligence (DI) pioneer. Quantexa recently completed a $129 million Series E funding round, led by GIC, and committed to invest over $155 million in the global AI industry over the next three years. www.quantexa.com Founder investor appointed Chairman of Kao Data Kao Data, a developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has appointed David Bloom as Chairman. One of the company’s founding investors and a Partner at investment firm Goldacre NOÉ Group, Bloom will work alongside Kao Data’s management team to help identify new opportunities for site acquisition/development in the UK and Europe. The Kao Data platform was born in 2014 at the Harlow Science Park, where in 1966 Sir Charles Kao first pioneered fibre optics technology. Since then, it has scaled to become a multi-site operator, with industrial-scale high performance data centres precision-engineered for hyperscale, HPC, Generative AI and supercomputing workloads located in West London, the UK Innovation Corridor (between London and Cambridge) and Greater Manchester. Bloom said: “As one of the pioneers of Kao Data, it’s been truly rewarding to see our vision for a hyperscale-inspired data centre platform come into fruition, and I’m excited to join the organisation to help spearhead the next phase of growth. With the ongoing support of our investment partners, the leading reputation of our technical, management and operational teams, and our ethos for energy efficiency and sustainability, I believe Kao Data will see continued success as technologies such as AI and machine learning become embedded in every facet of business and enterprise.” www.kaodata.com New logo growth targeted by Sprinklr Sprinklr, the unified customer experience management platform, has appointed Michael Maas as Senior Vice President of Sales Europe to drive new logo growth through direct sales and the company’s relaunched unified partner program. Maas joins Sprinklr from ServiceNow where, as Vice President for EMEA North, he achieved strong growth in both direct and channel sales across the Benelux & Nordics, UK & Ireland and Central Europe. He has previously held managerial roles at VERITAS, Symantec, EMC, Good Technology and BlackBerry. www.Sprinklr.com New Business Manager for Inform Billing Inform Billing, an independent billing software and services provider for telecoms, mobile, IT, IoT and managed print, has taken on Richard Morse as its New Business Manager. Morse has more than 20 years’ experience in the ICT industry, including key roles at Daisy Telecom, where, as well as being Head of Mobile and a Sales Manager in the company’s New Business division, he was part of the Daisy Telecom Acquisition Team when it integrated 3G and BNS Telecom. Commenting on his new role, Morse said: “I am really pleased to be joining Inform Billing at such an exciting time. I look forward to leveraging our billing services to reach a wider audience and help our existing customers make the most of the existing and new features provided by Inform Billing’s Eclipse platform.” www.informbillingco.uk IGEL strengthens UK operations IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secured access to any digital workspace, has strengthened its UK operations with the recruitment of two former Citrix employees. Erstwhile Citrix sales leader Darren Fields, who has also held sales leadership positions at Vodafone, Telefonica Digital, Thunderhead, EMC and BMC Software, is joining IGEL as Vice President, Sales for UK/Ireland and International markets, while Justin Thorogood, who led Citrix’s partner strategy and development for Northern Europe for 10 years, is joining IGEL as Director of Channels, UK, Ireland and Emerging Markets. A third UK-based appointment, James Millington, who previously held key leadership roles at VMware, Imprivata and Citrix, recently joined IGEL in the newly created position of Vice President, Product and Vertical Marketing with responsibility for developing vertical marketing strategies to drive the adoption of IGEL COSMOS in the healthcare, government, FinServ and retail sectors. IGEL has also strengthened its sales leadership in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the appointment of former Red Hat global executive Brian Cornell as Vice President, Sales for the DACH region. www.igel.com
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