Microland Limited

Responsible for driving the company's growth and service delivery in the region. This includes developing and implementing strategies to increase market share, enhance customer relationships, and ensure service delivery. 

Have a deep understanding of the EMEA market and a proven track record of success in leading and growing teams. Skilled in building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, partners, and employees.

Have delivered ~40% growth in the first two years of this role. Developed and implemented effective strategies, established strong partnerships, and multiple go-to-market initiatives across Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing, Business Services and Local Government.

SVP and Head of EMEA

Responsible for driving the company's marketing strategy and overseeing all marketing initiatives. This includes developing and implementing plans to increase brand awareness, lead generation, and customer engagement. Plan and execute integrated marketing campaigns across a variety of channels, including events, social media, email, and content marketing.

Work closely with cross-functional teams to align marketing efforts with the overall business goals and objectives. 

Skilled at leveraging data and insights to inform marketing decisions.

Chief Marketing Officer (Interim)

Helping IT service providers to scale fast and accelerate growth.

Senior Vice President -  Global Technology Alliances

Responsible for the company's business in the ANZ/ASEAN region. I'm also responsible for the global solutioning and bid management for Microland.

Part of Microland since 2003 and have played many critical leadership roles in the US, UK, Australia and India. I have extensive experience in leading strategic, operational and functional pursuits in the IT outsourcing space with a keen eye for digital technologies and their application in support services. I have led many global deals for Microland and acquired customers that are strategic/top 10 accounts today.

Senior Vice President & Geo Head - ANZ

I was responsible for setting up the company locally and building the business from the ground up. This included developing and implementing strategies to establish a strong presence in the market, establish key partnerships, and drive revenue growth.

Vice President and Country Head (ANZ)

Was responsible for leading the company's information technology strategy and overseeing all IT initiatives. This included developing and implementing plans to improve system infrastructure, data management, and cybersecurity.

I worked very closely with the executive team to define and execute the company's IT vision, and I was instrumental in delivering innovative and cost-effective solutions, including two large transformation programs that supported the organisation's growth.

Chief Information Officer

Responsible for developing end to end solutions and bid responses for all prospects and customers of Microland globally across verticals. This includes presales support, collateral creation, solution design and bid management. Also responsible for commercial modeling and overall business realization.

Vice President - Solutions & Bid Management

AVP - Solutions & Services

Associate Vice President & Head -  Application Management Services

AGM & Practice Head - Infrastructure Application Services

Associate General Manager – Technology

Consultant/ Sr. Consultant / Group Consultant

Microland

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EMEA Business Head | Intrapreneur |Technology Solutions | Revenue Growth | Ex-CIO | Ex-CMO | Generative AI Enthusiast - Follow me for GPT Enterprise Use Cases

I am an accomplished business leader and intrapreneur with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. I currently lead the EMEA business at Microland Limited, a global digital transformation company that provides innovative solutions to customers across various sectors. I am responsible for driving the company's growth and service delivery in the region, developing and implementing strategies to increase market share, enhance customer relationships, and ensure service excellence.

I have a deep understanding of the EMEA market and a proven track record of success in leading and growing teams. I have delivered ~40% growth in the first two years of this role, established strong partnerships, and launched multiple go-to-market initiatives across Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing, Business Services, and Local Government. 

I have also served as an interim CMO and a CIO at Microland Limited, gaining valuable insights into the marketing and technology functions. I have an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School and a PowerMBA certification, which have enriched my knowledge and skills in business administration and management. I am also an advocate and enthusiast of Generative AI, a transformative technology that has immense potential for innovation and value creation.

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VP, Sales and Business Development

Byte Night

To increase awareness of the charity within my network of contacts, to help build strategy for expanding sponsorship reach including where possible recruit new team members and to lead a local team on the national sleep out events.

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Fujitsu UK

Business Development Director, Private Sector

Computacenter

Responsible for new business acquisition team within the Majors sector, a sector within the UK which is responsible for our most strategic clients.  Our target market are clients with global footprints who have the potential to become strategic "podium" clients within the UK portfolio and therefore also headquartered in the UK.  

Have responsibility for overall business strategy and communications into both the clients senior stakeholders and Computacenter exec, leading major campaigns and ensuring we have the right win strategy and P&L ownership within the clients once into "run".

Client Director, Majors Accounts

In my current role I am part of the leadership team within the UK Enterprise Sector which covers all verticals outside of Finance, Central Government, Media and Service Provider. I am fortunate enough to run accounts within businesses spanning; Global Manufacturing, Global Law, Retail and Utilities, as such a diverse and exciting position, with the ability to learn about new markets on a daily basis. I have a team of experienced Account Managers and Specialists who have day to day account responsibility, whilst my role as Client Director covers 5 key area's;

- Account Strategy and investment plan
- "C" level relationship ownership
- PnL responsibility for supply, professional services and outsourcing and associated in year target's
- Lead for major campaign opportunities such as complex transformation and outsourcing 
- Developing others within the team

Client Director, Enterprise Accounts

Responsible for helping grow the UK Cisco business to well over a $100m business across all technology streams: Datacenter, Collaboration, Borderless Networking and Security. We provide services and solutions into Enterprise accounts across all sectors - and have been doing so since 1982. 

At Computacenter we understand where Cisco technologies will provide technology and business benefits to our clients. Our experience in workplace, datacenter, cloud and major IT transformation projects makes us uniquely positioned to help you on your journey. 

We have hosted datacentre services, global service desk and operational control centres that deliver multi lingual, fully monitored, 24 * 7 outsourced and managed services to allow our clients to focus on growing their own business as we will keep the lights on.

Alliances Director - Cisco

This role is demanding with high target expectations of a minimum of £1m profit, but gives the opportunity to shape my own pipeline over multiple sectors if I desire.  I currently deliver the majority of my number within the financial services sector, and since being at Computacenter I have achieved around 90% of my number via net new client acquisitions.  As a solution speciliast I am expected to lead complex multi tier technology campaigns along side the wider account team which is the main reson I joined the team, as this is where Computacenter excel.

Areas of expertise are:
- Senior and day to day relationships with key vendors
- Building an "A" team structure to give the best possible chance of succeeding with campaign activity
- CxO/Director level relationship building within FTSE companies
- Driven new business sales leader with proven track record
- Drving campaigns which are made up of multiple business lines

Solution Specialist - Network, Security and Unified Communications

BT Global Services

£1M GP target
Cisco LAN, UC, Sec and Data Centre
2 internal Account Managers

Business Development Manager

Cisco Sales Specialist

Account Manager

A driven individual who always strives to over achieve in any role he undertakes, evidenced in current and previous roles.  A great team player and builder, passionate about digitisation and the role it plays in changing the world we live in. Wakes up in the morning to be an expert in his customers business.

Soon to be married and lucky to have 5 amazing children. 

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