Personnel announcements July/August 2017
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Roger Mallett Country Manager UK at Aspera

Aspera, a provider of strategic software asset management (SAM), has appointed SAM specialist Roger Mallett to strategically expand its market position in the UK.
Mallett is considered a renowned expert and consultant on software asset management within the industry. He has also been providing his knowledge in the area of software architecture and solutions throughout the EMEA economic region for many years.
As an idea generator and strategy consultant, he supports corporate clients around the globe, most recently as Senior Architect & Chief Technologist for EMEA, Strategy & Technology at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software.
"In my estimation, Aspera not only has future-proof solutions, but also has the strongest consulting team. My new role provides me with the ideal opportunity to work with existing customers and support new customers on their journey to a high-quality SAM solution. There are still many companies that can reduce cost and risk to their business and achieve compliance quickly and efficiently"
Mallett explains.
Previous positions prior to joining Hewlett Packard included Peregrine Systems, Deloitte and PwC. As one of the first worldwide, Roger Mallett received the IAITAM Fellow award for his services to the IT asset and SAM industry. He lives in London. The new SAM Enterprise Architect is Geoff Worsley.
SAP specialist Fiona Graham will be joining the sales team as Senior Sales Engineer SAP. She has been working for over
25 years for and with SAP, including twelve years in Pre-Sales and Operations at SAP.
Secude: New Marketing and Communications Manager

Secude, IT security provider in the SAP environment, has appointed Ramakrishnan Ramani as its new Head of Global Marketing and Communications.
Ramakrishnan will be based in the company's Indian operations in Chennai and will report directly to Holger Hügel, Vice President - Products & Services.
"With this expansion in mind, Secude felt it necessary to hire a global marketing and communications leader to manage the company's brand and marketing communications across regions. We are therefore pleased to have Ramakrishnan Ramani on board."
explains Hügel.
Ramakrishnan Ramani is a communications specialist with 14 years of diverse experience ranging from journalism work for publications to IT.
Prior to joining Secude, he led integrated marketing communications for Intellect Design Arena, a leading financial technology company. He was instrumental in improving brand presence by leveraging all communication channels.
"I'm excited to become part of Secude's dedicated team and lead communications efforts to inform organizations about current and upcoming threats and help them close security gaps"
Ramani is looking forward to his future tasks.
Ramani holds two master's degrees from the University of Madras and recently submitted his doctoral dissertation in Defence and Strategic Studies. He also holds a postgraduate diploma in Journalism and Communication.
Ralf Kuhlmann manages Cpro office in Ratingen

On May 1, Ralf Kuhlmann took over as head of the Ratingen office of the SAP consulting firm Cpro Industry Projects & Solutions.
Since opening the Ratingen office in 2005, Claudius Seja has successfully built up and expanded the Central Region.
Kuhlmann has more than 20 years of professional experience in the IT environment and was, among other things, employed as overall IT manager at a leading global producer of laminate flooring. In October 2007, he joined Cpro and has since been active in the areas of logistics consulting and project management.
As branch manager, in addition to his current responsibilities, he will assist with staff expansion, regional sales, and positioning the branch in the regional SAP market.
Management change at Atos Switzerland

After more than sixteen years at Atos Switzerland, including almost six years as CEO, Walter Kägi is stepping down from his functions. He hands over the helm to Eric Krapf, who joins Atos from Wipro.
Krapf was previously Country Manager of Wipro, an IT services and outsourcing provider. Prior to that, he was Head Global Manufacturing at CSC, Head Strategic Customers at Tata Consultancy Services and held other positions of responsibility.
He brings expertise in managing the Swiss operations of internationally active technology companies.
Krapf studied psychology at the University of Zurich and completed an Executive MBA in International Management at Yale University. Krapf assumed his role as CEO on July 1.
New Varonis manager comes from NetApp

Thomas Ehrlich is the new Country Manager for German-speaking and Eastern Europe at Varonis System, a provider of software solutions to protect data from insider threats and cyberattacks.
His main tasks include building a focused and mutually profitable partner network and expanding the data security specialist's Professional Services.
This allows the channel - especially in the run-up to the GDPR - to offer its customers real added value through the identification and GDPR-compliant handling of data, especially data with overly broad access rights. Ehrlich comes from data storage and management expert NetApp, where he was vice president.
Digital agency Namics restructures management

The Swiss full-service digital agency Namics has appointed a new management team.
Bernd Schopp, previously Chief Client Officer, took over the strategic development of the digital specialist as CEO on July 1.
Long-time CEO and Partner, Jürg Stuker, moves to the Board of Directors to focus on consulting and innovation. Florian Heidecke, previously Client Service Director, succeeds Bernd Schopp as Chief Client Officer and thus becomes part of the Executive Board.
Schopp started his career at Namics in 2002. Just three years later, he became a partner and later headed the Swiss country organization.
Since 2013, he has been responsible for client development in Germany and Switzerland as Chief Client Officer.
Maurycy Mioduski joins the Cubewise DACH team in Zurich as Practice Manager with immediate effect. He joins the globally active IBM Platinum Partner with broad know-how in the area of Financial Analytics & Planning and a lot of experience with Cognos TM1.
Informatica, a provider of enterprise cloud data management, has a new Managing Director EMEA Central in Oliver Schröder. In this position, he is responsible for the operational business of Informatica EMEA Central Europe in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Avaya, a provider of business communications software, systems and services, has appointed Lukas Baur as Head of Sales Germany.He has been with the company since 2005, where he started as SAP Business Architect Sales before being appointed Senior Manager German Sales Operations in 2006.
Christian Mehrtens will assume responsibility for the midmarket and partner business area at SAP on August 15. He was previously Director Commercial Channel and Midmarket Sales for Germany and Austria at HP Germany. Susanne Kummetz took over this position after his departure.
Marcus Jewell is the new senior vice president and general manager for networking equipment vendor Juniper's EMEA business. He joins from Brocade Communications and has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry and a number of senior sales positions in networking companies.
With Merten Slominsky, the enterprise open source provider Alfresco is bringing on a German for the first time as EMEA Vice President. Slominsky brings 28 years of experience in the software industry. Before joining Alfresco, he was responsible for the DACH region for Kofax, a smart capture & process automation vendor.