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Digby Jones as New Chairman SHP

IT and Communications Asset recovery

Some of my previously held roles include Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (2000-2006) and Minister of State for UK Trade and Investment (2007-2008), I most recently appeared as the presenter in the BBC 2 series, The New Trouble shooter, helping British companies to rise to the global business challenge and offering them the benefit of my own knowledge and experience.

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Vista acquires Autotask

Autotask a provider of hosted IT business management software, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a private equity firm with approximately $11.5 billion in cumulative capital commitments in software, data and technology-enabled services companies.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in East Greenbush, N.Y., Autotask provides comprehensive, integrated IT business management software and solutions that enable service providers to manage their front, mid and back office through better organisation, automation and optimization of business processes.

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Atos owns 84.25% share Capital of Bull

The Board of Directors of Bull, the trusted partner for enterprise data, met on August 19th 2014 further to the success of the friendly tender offer launched by Atos, the international information technology services company, for all the issued and outstanding shares and all the bonds convertible in existing or new shares (OCEANEs) of Bull, and decided certain changes related to the evolution of the governance of the group.

The Board of Directors acknowledged that Atos now owns 84.25% of the share capital and of the voting rights in accordance with the results of the tender offer published by the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and that the perspective announced by Atos in its information note approved by the AMF shall be the implementation of a mandatory squeeze-out upon expiration of the period of reopening of the offer should the necessary conditions be satisfied or, failing that, of a merger of Bull into Atos.

As a consequence, following the Board meeting, the composition of the Board noticeably changed with the cooptation of Mr. Thierry BRETON, Mr. Charles DEHELLY, Mr. Gilles GRAPINET and Mr. Michel-Alain PROCH as Board members and the appointment of Mr. Marc MEYER and Mr. Philippe MAREINE as observers (censeurs). These cooptations and appointments of key figures linked with Atos took place due to the resignation of six Board members and one observer (censeur).

Nik Stanbridge appointed VP Product Marketing Arkivum

At Arkivum, he occupies the precarious position of VP product marketing. Precarious? 

Arkivum founded in 2011, as a spin-out of the University of Southampton 2011. The company specialises in the management and storage of an organisation's information assets and  delivers systems that can intelligently manage content to efficiently store and retrieve data over the long term while offering a highly cost-effective solution, with low up-front investment and zero risk

Over 15 years’ experience product marketing and product management has taught Nik a thing or two about managing product lifecycles and devising the kind of product marketing strategies that help businesses to flourish and grow.

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New Technical Director for C4L, Alex Cruz Farmer

Alex Cruz Farmer has been appointed Technical Director of C4L Group a Fast Growing Colocation, Connectivity, Cloud & Comms company. With his experience in the IT infrastructure industry, the new Technical Director appointment is a calculated move in the strategic growth plan of C4L.

C4L are making strategic appointments in line with huge market growth and newly launched Connectivity and Cloud products,  the decision to appoint a Technical Director was strategic, and had very specific requirements in terms of industry expertise and experience.

Alex has over a decade of senior experience in wholesale and service provider diligences. He will now be utilising these skills to direct every technical decision over all C4L Group companies including ownership of strategic technical direction and planning and execution of technical automation of C4L’s products and services.

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survey reveals frustrated CIOs struggling to keep IT on the strategic agenda

Most CIOs too busy fire-fighting to plan and drive the business forward

The new survey reveals that Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and IT Directors believe they are no longer playing a major part in shaping business strategy. 

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Lancope Appoints New VP of Channels, Dan Sibille

Sibille to leverage over 20 years of channel sales and marketing experience

Lancope, a network visibility and security intelligence company, have announced the appointment of Dan Sibille as vice president of channels.

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Advanced Micro Devices Planning Up to 2,340 Job Cuts

AMD plans to cut as many as 2,340 jobs, or about 20 percent of its workforce, according to Bloomberg who quotes “A person with knowledge of the matter.

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New head of Global Channel Sales for AMD

AMD have announced that Roy Taylor has joined the company as corporate vice president and head of Global Channel Sales.

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ALSO-Actebis profile

Two european ICT distributors ALSO and Actebis have combined their business at the beginning of 2011. Arising thereby the newly merged ALSO-Actebis Group has become Europe's third-largest distribution and logistics company for information and communications technology and consumer electronics with a turnover of around 6.8 billion Euros in 2010 and more than 3,000 employees.

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European Reseller profile

If you are expanding across EMEA. European Reseller is an organisation to recruit resellers and distributors in EMEA, either as a service or through our magazine, newsletter & website. We have booths at between 15 & 20 exhibitions each year.

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Keith Goldstein joins Talend as Vice President of Indirect Channels

Keith  Brings More than 25 Years of Software Channel Expertise to Leading Open Source Software Company

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SATO makes strategic appointment

SATO, a pioneer in the Automatic Identification and Data Collection industry and a leader in barcode printing, labelling, and EPC/RFID solutions has announced the appointment of Kaz Matsuyama as Executive Vice President and COO – International Business of SATO Corporation.

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Zetes is Motorola’s ‘Partner of the Year’

Zetes the European  automatic identification solutions and services company for goods and people is pleased to announce that it has been honoured with the Motorola “Partner of the Year” award.

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German Sales Executives Generally Earn 20% More in Europe

A survey carried out by leading IT and Telecoms Sales Recruiter, R.T. reveals that you can earn over 20% more if you sell IT products or services in Germany, compared with countries in Europe.

• German Sales Executives generally earn around 20% more than other Sales Executives in Europe for both basic and OTE salary.
• The average salary for Sales Executives placed by in Germany is €75K Basic and €150K OTE.
• Key Account Managers in Germany generally command 16% more than other Key Account Managers in Europe.
• The average salary for European Key Account Managers placed in Germany is €80K Basic and €160K OTE.
• IT Sales Executives and Key Account Managers based in the Netherlands and Scandinavia also earn considerably more than IT Sales Executives and Managers in other European countries.

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WildPackets Company Profile

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OmniPeek is the only network analyzer offering both Network and Multi-Media troubleshooting and analysis in real-time.

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www.EuropeanDealer.com

We have launched a new website   www.EuropeanDealer.com

In the past we have offered an ideal route to market if you are looking for IT Resellers, now we also recruit IT Dealers. Are you looking for new revenue streams?

Experts at finding European  partners / Dealers for Vendors 

European Reseller ist spezialisiert auf die europäischen IT-Märkte.

Wenn Sie auf der Suche nach Händlern, Distributoren, Value-Added-Distributoren, Resellers, Value-Added-Reseller und System-Integratoren sind:

Wir bieten eine Abo-Verbreitung von 60.000 Exemplaren an europäische Unternehmen. Für ein Gratis-Abo Besuchen Sie uns an unserem Stand!

Wir beraten Sie gerne 

If you are seeking  Hardware Dealers & Resellers,  Software Dealers & Resellers,

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Digital Analytics Association's Global Membership Elects

2014-15 Directors and Officers  and Jodi McDermott is the new President

The Digital Analytics Association (DAA) today announced its 2014-15 Board of Directors, the results of a global election held recently among the DAA members. This year there were five Board seats available, all for two-year terms: Brooks Bell, CEO of Brooks Bell; Casey Carey, Head of Marketing, Adometry at Google; and Michael Rappa, Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Analytics and professor, North Carolina State University, joined the board as new members. Incumbent Directors Eric Feinberg, Senior Director of Product Strategy, ForeSee, an Answers Company; and Jim Sterne, President, Target Marketing, were re-elected.

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Could the Ukulele Transform the Face of Corporate Team Building

Music may factor in very few board meetings but it could be a new and crucial ingredient to corporate success according to one teacher who is setting out to change the face of team building forever.

Ukulele teacher, Lorraine Bow has taught several thousand people to play the Hawaiian instrument, including TV presenters Ant and Dec. She founded Musivate to bring people together through music, reasoning that those who make music together cannot be enemies.

Ms Bow said, “Team building as a concept is an incredible tool for managers and stakeholders looking to motivate staff, build closer bonds between colleagues and increase collaboration, productivity and ultimately profitability. But, many CEOs and employees alike feel a sense of dread at the very mention of the word.”

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Channel Telecom incentive won by Carefree Communications

Channel Telecom, has announced the winner of its 2013 year-end incentive.
A Sony PlayStation 4 games console has been won by James Bradley, Managing Director of Carefree Communications.
This incentive scheme targeted existing partners with selling a modest amount of additional monthly recurring new business and the prize was one of the latest PS4 games consoles.

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Channel Telecom incentive won by Carefree Communications

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James Bradley, Managing Director of Carefree Communications (on the Left) and Matt Donaldson, Sales Director, Channel Telecom

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