An overview of the latest people movement within the IT channel business.
Hitachi appoints Regional Sales Director for ME region Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced that Assaad El Saadi will lead the Middle East and Pakistan geographies as Regional Sales Director and General Assaad El Saadi, HDS Manager. In his new role, El Saadi will be responsible for implementing and driving HDS’s development across the regions, working closely with HDS’s headquarters and regional teams to accelerate growth. Spending over 20 years in the IT sector in the Gulf region, El Saadi comes with experience from Oracle’s Systems line of business, where he successfully led the Gulf region for several years. Prior to his tenure at Oracle, Assaad worked at Sun Microsystems, SAS Institute, Mideast Data Systems and Xerox. “Recently, HDS has made substantial progress in the Middle East and Pakistan region, and I am looking forward to continue to build and strengthen the ties with existing customers, and grow relationships and solutions for new customers following HDS strategic approach,” said El Saadi. “We will heavily drive our key solutions on; content, enterprise cloud and converged infrastructure, which supports both private and hybrid cloud environments with agility.” Business Development Manager for Mobile Devices will help TP-LINK to “cement its footprint and business in the reseller and retail segments in the country.” “I am delighted to join the TPLINK team and look forward to growing this business and cementing the company’s status in the mobile devices segment in the UAE channel,” said Mordani.
Epson appoints new Director of Sales for ME region the Nordics, Middle East Epson has appointed and Africa. After that he Jason Whiley as Director was appointed as Director of Sales for Epson Middle of Business Systems, East. In his new role, where he was responsible Whiley will be responsible for the development for defining and directing and implementation of the sales strategy for strategy for business Epson’s vertical markets in systems products across the Middle East region. Jason Whiley, Epson ME EMEA. Whiley rejoins “I am excited to be back in Epson having spent three years Epson at a time when Epson Middle as Regional Sales Director for East is on a strong growth path. Our Giesecke and Devrient based focus is to enhance our regional in Dubai. He initially joined the structure, continue to develop company in 1997 as a business our partner network and increase unit manager for the Australian our product and services portfolio business systems division, and to further build on our market later moved to Epson Europe leadership,” said Whiley. “I look in 2006 where he became forward to working with the entire responsible for the development Middle East team to achieve this.” and support of system devices in
Huawei appoints new MD and VP Huawei has announced the appointment of Alaa Elshimy in the role of Managing Director and Vice President for Huawei Enterprise Alaa Elshimy, Huawei Business Group, Middle East. Elshimy will be responsible for overseeing the company’s continued growth in the region. Elshimy brings a wealth of experience in the regional ICT sector with a career that spans more than 25 years – of which the last 16 years were with HP. Prior to joining Huawei, Elshimy was Managing Director and Vice
President of HP Enterprise Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa, where he specialised in leveraging global resources, team capabilities and customer relationships. “Huawei is experiencing tremendous growth thanks to its customer-centricity and commitment to developing new ICT solutions through leading innovation that stems from its R&D-driven culture,” said Elshimy. “I am excited to be part of this phenomenal organisation that has established itself as a global ICT leader in such a short span of time, and that is building a successful future based on delivering customer service excellence and innovative technologies for a better connected world.”
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