Slough, 14th September 2015 – Logicalis UK, the international IT solutions and managed services provider, has appointed Ben Gale as its UK Managing Director, effective from the 14th September 2015. Gale will report to Arnaud Spirlet, Head of Logicalis Europe.
Gale brings nearly two decades of experience in leading successful sales and growth plans in the technology industry. Gale joins Logicalis UK from Tensator Group where he was Chief Executive Officer. Before that, he worked as Vice President of The Logic Group, having previously been Vice President of NCR Corporation where he defined the company’s sales and growth strategy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Gale has also worked as National Sales Director for Reed Business Group and at Xerox, where he was General Manager for the EMEA region.
CEO of Logicalis Group, Mark Rogers, commented, “We are delighted to have Ben leading our UK business. He brings the industry knowledge and leadership skills required to navigate a changing UK market, where software, analytics and cloud are becoming ever more important to customers, and where Logicalis UK needs to have a strong market position.
“Arnaud Spirlet, Head of Europe, has overseen the UK business for the past six months and has strengthened its management team and operational structure considerably during this period. I am confident that Ben will build on Arnaud’s successful stewardship and they will now work together to take the business, its customer relationships, solutions and services portfolio and vendor partnerships, to new levels of success.”
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ABOUT LOGICALIS
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration; data centre and cloud services; and managed services.
Logicalis employs over 4,000 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, deploy and manage complex IT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 6,500 corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware and ServiceNow on an international basis. It has specialised solutions for enterprise and medium-sized companies in vertical markets covering financial services, TMT (telecommunications, media and technology), education, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing and professional services, helping customers benefit from cutting-edge technologies in a cost-effective way.
The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of over $1.5 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and is one of the leading IT and communications solution integrators, specialising in the areas of advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the AIM market of the LSE and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with revenues of over $6 billion.
For more information, visit www.logicalis.com
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Source: RealWire
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