S-RM reinforces EDI
Maria Petnga-Wallace has joined global intelligence and cyber security consultancy S-RM as its new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead. In addition to her work developing and implementing EDI policies, procedures and guidelines at S-RM, Petnga-Wallace will continue to work with Colorintech, a non-profit focused on improving diversity in Europe’s tech economy. https://www.s-rminform.com/
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Extended reach for Hornetsecurity
Cybersecurity specialist Hornetsecurity has brought in Irvin Shillingford to run its Northern European regional team and extend its reach across the UK, Benelux and Nordics.
Daniel Blank, COO of Hornetsecurity, said: “Northern Europe is a key strategic region for us, with increasingly high revenue potential. Outside the US, it holds the greatest footprint of Microsoft 365. Our flagship solutions excel in these environments, so it was essential we appointed the right candidate to lead the growing team and to support mutual success with our resellers, MSPs and distributors.”
Hornetsecurity provides cloud-based security, compliance, backup and security awareness solutions, including its flagship product for Microsoft 365, 365 Total Protection. www.hornetsecurity.com.
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Geyer Jones appointed COO at Cylera
Healthcare cybersecurity specialist Cylera is aiming to build on recent successes in the UK and US with the appointment of Geyer Jones as Chief Operating Officer, with responsibility for leading the company’s go- to market teams and scaling the business.
Jones said: “Hospital networks are becoming increasingly complex with
tens of thousands more medical devices coming online over the next couple of years which are essential to critical patient care and diagnostics. As hospitals experience rapid digitalisation to streamline, fast track and improve patient care, this is increasing attack surfaces and potential vulnerabilities in their IT infrastructure.”
Before joining Cylera, Jones was an Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners and prior to that Chief Strategy Officer at RSA, sitting on the team that led RSA’s divestiture from Dell. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions at Symantec and Riptech.
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Sustainability veteran joins circular IT champion
Circularity First Group, a UK-headquartered provider of Sustainable IT advisory services and solutions, has appointed technology and sustainability veteran Alastair Borissow as Chief Growth Officer. Working with Founder Anthony Levy and CEO Søren Sørensen, Borissow has been brought in to help ‘scale the sustainable IT movement’, reach more businesses ready to embrace circular IT and onboard new vendor relationships. Borissow has 35 years’ experience in IT, circular IT and telecoms including spells at distributor Westcon- Comstor, Cisco Refresh (Cisco’s Global Remanufactured Equipment division) and telecoms provider Telstra. www.circularity-first.com
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Kress appointed CRO at C+C
David Kress, previously MD of multi-cloud services company Cloudreach (acquired by Atos in 2021), has joined Content+Cloud in the newly created role of Chief Revenue Officer. Working closely with the company’s commercial leadership, Kress will pursue a growth and go to market strategy to maximise opportunities in the Microsoft Cloud ecosystem.
Kress said: “Microsoft has been a foundation for transformation and innovation for decades and, together, C+C, Advania and Microsoft are in a tremendous position to help clients achieve their unique and specific ambitions.”
Content+Cloud was acquired by Nordics IT services provider the Advania group in December 2021. www.contentandcloud.com
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Blofield joins Six Degrees as COO
Managed cloud services provider Six Degrees has appointed Chris Blofield to the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Blofield was previously Global VP, Client Success at Clario, a provider of clinical trial endpoint services, and before that, interim COO and VP – Customer Success and Operations for EMEA at Rackspace.
Commenting on his appointment, Blofield said: “Six Degrees has undertaken a huge amount of work over the last 12 months to reshape itself and its services in line with the needs of businesses today. I’m excited to be picking up the mantle and sharing with our first-rate portfolio of customers what their own ‘great leap forward’ could look like.”
www.6dg.co.uk
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Gallimore to head up new People Management division at Advanced Global software and services company Advanced has chosen Nick Gallimore, previously Director of Innovation for People Management, to head up its new business division specialising in the delivery of products to improve workforce management and employee attraction and retention.
As Managing Director of People Management, Gallimore will consolidate the people management brands Advanced acquired in 2019 and 2020 – ASI, Mitrefinch and Clear Review – and provide a clear strategy to drive sales in this growing area of the software market. www.oneadvanced.com
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New UK&I MD at Kinly
Kinly, the global provider of AV integration and collaboration services and support, has appointed Taj Ghere as Managing Director of the UK & Ireland, responsible for supporting and executing the global vision of
CEO Tom Martin. Ghere joined Kinly as Group Finance Director in 2020
after leading the finance function at companies like Nortel, Dell and Agfa Healthcare. www.kinly.com
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