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Antalis makes series of
new appointments
Antalis has bolstered its office division with
three new senior appointments.
Richard Adams joins as Retail Development
Account Director, tasked with further growing
Antalis’ retail channel through the identification of
new customer opportunities and adding value to
existing client relationships.
Former Antalis employee and paper industry
veteran Simon Wyers, has rejoined the firm
as Retail Account Director. In his new role, he
will focus on building relationships with retail
customers nationally and growing market share.
In addition, Sham Ahmed, a longstanding
Antalis employee, has been promoted to the newly
created role of Digital Consumer Sales Manager.
He will continue to head up Antalis’ digital arm
as well as assume additional responsibility for
leveraging the growing B2C market, working
closely with the product marketing team to drive
forward the category in terms of product innovation,
promotional activity and other channel specific
initiatives.
Bruce Munro, National Sales Director said:
“These three new appointments are an important
step for us.
These really are exciting times ahead for
Antalis and we’re confident this latest move
will help drive the business forward and further
consolidate our position as the office paper
merchant of choice.”
Kyocera appoints new President
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. has named Norihiko Ina as the new
President of the organisation.
Ina will assume this prestigious position as of 1 April 2017, with outgoing
President Takashi Kuki operating in the capacity of Vice Chairman.
As President, Ina will lead the strategic direction of the organisation, driving
exceptional group performance in the business’ ongoing transformational
change within the digital and software arena.
Kodak Alaris IM hires new Sales Director
Simon Hill has been appointed Sales Director, Northern Europe
for Kodak Alaris Information Management (IM). Hill joins from
imaging and communication company, Nuance, where he led a
$20 million software sales team throughout the UK and Ireland.
With this appointment, Kodak Alaris IM has added valuable experience
to its sales function. Hill has more than 20 years’ experience selling,
designing and implementing document technology solutions and services.
Before Nuance acquired eCopy, he grew the eCopy business five-fold since
joining the company in 2003. He also developed SCC’s Print Management
Division into an $8 million business within two years and has sales
achievements at EMC and Xerox.
Gerry Kelliher, EMEA Sales Director, Kodak Alaris IM, said Hill’s
appointment will ensure the business maintains and builds on what has been a successful year for
the IM division.
“It’s an exciting time to be at Kodak Alaris IM as we continue to transform our business,
bringing together the science, technology and partnerships required for companies large and
small, to exploit data to drive business efficiency, agility, speed, growth and profitability,” Hill said.
RISO strengthens
northwest team
RISO has strengthened its presence
in the northwest of England with the
appointment of Godfrey Gummer as
Regional Sales Manager. Gummer
previously worked at RISO for six years as
Indirect Channel Manager, and then with
RISO distributor Midshire Business Systems
Northern.
Tatsuo Murakami, who heads up RISO in
the UK, said: “Godfrey is widely respected and
has a huge amount of experience in the print
industry, helping to deliver solutions to people’s
print requirements. RISO built its reputation in
education, but more and more organisations are
now seeing for themselves just how powerful an
asset a RISO solution can be, and that’s why we
are adding to the team.”
Virtual Instruments
expands leadership team
Virtual Instruments, the leader in
application-centric infrastructure
performance management, has announced
the appointments of Sheen Khoury as
Executive Vice President of Worldwide
Sales and Rick Haggart as Senior Vice
President of Professional Services. The
executives join the Virtual Instruments
leadership team to help drive growth and
better service customers worldwide.
CEO Philippe Vincent said: “Rick and Sheen
are high-performing, proven individuals that bring
strong industry knowledge and experience to
our leadership team. They are wholly committed
to ensuring that our customers achieve their
business goals and benefit from our app-
centric infrastructure performance management
solutions.”
New recruit for Woodbank Office Solutions
Woodbank Office Solutions has appointed Martyn Peer as its new Corporate Account Manager
to further strengthen its sales division.
Peer brings 25 years’ experience in the business-to-business market working for a variety of office print
resellers and manufacturers. His role will focus on building relationships with existing and new corporate
customers.
Sales Director Dave Duffy said: “With Martyn on board, our plans for 2017 are both ambitious and
exciting. Over the past few months, we have focused on growing our sales and marketing channel which
has led to company growth. I am sure Martyn will be a real asset to our corporate sales team and will help
continue the sales growth.”
Martyn Peer
Simon Wyers
Richard Adams
Norihiko Ina
Simon Hill
