COMMS PEOPLE 4Com gets Sargood
JOHN Sargood has joined 4Com Channel Partners as National Distribution Sales Manager. With over 20 years industry experience under his belt he will leverage his expertise to manage 4Com’s existing partnerships and develop new reseller relationships. Sargood has held positions within several companies in the comms industry including Datasharp, East Central and Daisy Telecoms. 4Com hasn’t sold to end users under its own brand since 2010 having switched its focus to the distribution of telephone equipment and the development of hardware and software. Sargood commented: “I am excited at the prospect of working with 4Com because although the brand is well known the role still raises its own challenges. 4com has been successful as a reseller and therefore I believe resellers still see us as competition. That’s not the case. We are now channel-only and we want to develop new relationships.”
4Com is an authorised distributor of Toshiba and Samsung products and offers exclusive manufacturer branded universal leasing documents designed to improve leasing figures for resellers by allowing them to use a universal document that is accepted by virtually all of the main primary funders.
Fidelity to drive mobile business
FIDELITY Group has appointed Mark Stuart as Mobile Business Development Manager. Stuart is a mountaineer in his spare time and recently scaled Mount Kilimanjaro. He is now tasked with selling Fidelity’s mobile portfolio which includes a
Mark Stuart John Sargood
High level hires beef up Timico
Leanne Baeza
Nimans swoops on headset guru
NIMANS has appointed a new headset specialist with a remit to forge closer customer relationships and drive sales. Leanne Baeza is an experienced sales professional with a decade of industry expertise at her disposal. She previously worked at Rocom in headset sales for over seven years and joins Nimans following a two year spell in account management and field sales with a Yorkshire-based office supplies company. “It’s great to be back in comms distribution,” said Baeza.
TIMICO has appointed Fraser Anderson as Group Sales Director and Neil Armstrong as Marketing Director. Anderson brings 25 years of sales and general management experience in the UC market. The majority of his career has been spent with Siemens where he held a variety of senior roles in the UK and overseas including Managing Director of Siemens ASP business Solution 1 and VP of Global Sales. Meanwhile, Armstrong is to lead the Timico marketing team. He is an industry veteran having led product marketing for BT Wholesale, launched the UK’s first consumer LLU broadband product at UK Online and held the position of Products & Marketing Director at Plusnet where he won nine out of 11 uSwitch Broadband awards and the ISPA Best Consumer ISP award.
INCOMING Business Development Executive at Oxfordshire-based STL Stephen Evins crossed the finishing line of the London Marathon on 17th April achieving his ambition to run the race in three consecutive years, each one faster than the last. With a time of 3 hours and 29 minutes he not only achieved a personal best time but also raised over £4,000 for a local Oxfordshire charity, Helen and Douglas House, as a result of
his marathon runs. Evins, who has just joined STL, said: “I was delighted with my time and with the amount of money I’ve raised for such a worthwhile charity.”
customer ownership model which truly excites the former Yes Telecom man. “After working for six years at Yes under Keith Curran, with an ethos of ‘True Partner Relationships’ the commercial packages at Fidelity truly take this ethos to the next level with complete and part ownership of the customer with the channel partner. I was impressed with the dynamism of the team and their refreshing approach to the dealer community, and look forward to helping them achieve their vision of creating a dealer channel based on loyalty, trust and delivery.”
Nine celebrates a record quarter
NINE Telecom marked a record Q1 with a Wild West themed evening organised by the billing team. Every quarter Nine Telecom staff are treated to a night out in recognition of their hard work and dedication. Matthew Lambert, MD of Nine Telecom, commented: “The event gives me an opportunity to brief the company on our financial results at the end of each quarter, set the strategy for the coming quarter and ensure we are aligned with the Nine Telecom Group objectives. It also allows us to welcome on board any new starters, reward our employee of the month as nominated by the rest of the staff, and provide an open forum for staff to ask questions and provide really useful feedback on what is working and what we can do better moving forward.”
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