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BULLETIN
Canon Europe takes Young People
Programme to next level
Following a number of successful activities
to engage young people across Europe
on visual storytelling, Canon Europe’s
Young People Programme has entered
a new stage. This will involve offering a
series of interactive workshops to young
students in which they will be encouraged
to take photos or videos of subjects that
relate to the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), and express
their views on the need for change. The aim
is to show the power of visual storytelling
and raise awareness of the need to deliver
the 17 SDGs, which were created to
eliminate poverty, protect the planet and
achieve prosperity for all.
The company has been delivering visual
storytelling workshops for young people since
2015, and to date, 14 countries across Europe
have run events, reaching more than 1,100
students including many who would not have had
the chance to have their talents identified.
PEOPLE
BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions
appoints new UK CEO
Jean-Michel Boyer has been appointed
as the new CEO for BNP Paribas Leasing
Solutions in the UK. Boyer succeeds
Tristan Watkins who was recently
promoted to Programme Manager of
the BNP Paribas North America Growth
Plan, a joint initiative with Bank of the
West to significantly expand the Group's
equipment finance business in the US and
Canada over the next three years.
Boyer has worked with the group for over 30
years and has held several
senior managerial, sales,
and business development
positions within the
Agriculture, Technology
Solutions, and International
Business Lines Equipment
& Logistics Solutions (IBL
ELS) divisions.
As UK CEO, he will be responsible for
providing strategic leadership and management
for the 450-strong team, as well as overseeing
key customer relationships.
Mike Quinn has also been named as the new
Head of Technology Solutions. Quinn previously
held the position of Head of Risk at BNP Paribas
Leasing Solutions UK, and brings over 25 years of
experience in finance, encompassing risk, sales,
operations and IT project work.
Key hires for Exertis
Exertis has boosted the team at its print
centre of excellence in Norfolk with two
new appointments, to take advantage of
the growth in its large format business.
Matthew Jeffrey joins as LFP Business
Manager and will own the commercial
responsibilities of the Epson LFP business
including vendor and
customer engagement.
Rebecca Lawrence has
been appointed as Epson
LFP Account Manager
taking ownership of the
day to day management
of key customers focused
in this area.
Jamie Brothwell,
Exertis Print General Manager said: “These
appointments reflect our commitment to add
investment in specialist areas where we see
opportunities to support our vendors and
customers. Our dedicated print team in Norfolk
is testament to that and has been instrumental
in driving the success of our print, LFP and OA
business, catering for the different demands of
the retail, B2B and OA markets.”
The distie has also made three key hires in its
specialist AV division, Exertis Medium, appointing
a business development manager and two
account managers for its Promethean sales team.
MPower UPS strengthens UK sales
team
MPower UPS, has announced the
appointment of Chris Kitiris as Area Sales
Manager to help introduce its recently
launched UPS system, CumulusPower, to
the UK Market.
Kitiris has a degree in electronic engineering
and many years’ experience in electronic field
services. He joins MPower UPS from PPS Power
Ltd and has also held senior roles at Data Centre
Response Ltd and Uninterruptible Power Supplies
Ltd.
Toru Maki named PFU President
and CEO
Toru Maki has been appointed as the new
President and CEO of PFU (EMEA) Ltd. Toru
Maki's dedicated aim
is to further expand
PFU's position as the
number one provider
of document capture
solutions in EMEA.
The company wants to
achieve this by not only
growing the hardware
business but also putting
a strong focus on the PaperStream and ScanSnap
software and on professional services.
Surge in European IT sales
The European IT market has surged in the first quarter, says the Global Technology Distribution Council
(GTDC), looking at the sales through distribution in the first three months of 2017. “On a 13-week trend
basis, the European market is now growing faster than that of the US,” Tim Curran, CEO GTDC said at
the annual GTDC European Summit held in Vienna. “Virtually every country is showing growth. January
was up 3%, by March 2017 this 13-week average had risen to 6%, and this sort of growth is holding.”
Cyberattacks on UK
businesses increase
The number of cyberattacks targeting
UK-based businesses increased by more
than half in the second quarter of 2017,
according to a new report from Beaming,
the business ISP. Firms were, on average,
subjected to almost 65,000 internet-borne
cyberattacks each in the three months to
June, an increase of 52 per cent on the first
quarter of 2017.
While two thirds (68 per cent) of attacks
hitting corporate firewalls targeted connected
devices such as networked security cameras and
building control systems, there was a substantial
increase in attacks on company databases.
On average, each UK business experienced
105 attempts to take control of their database
applications per day in the second quarter of
2017, compared to just 14 in the first three
months of the year.
Jean-Michel Boyer
Rebecca Lawrence
Toru Maki
