Al-Futtaim Technologies appoints Dr Hayan Sayed as CEO
Nuvias appoints Karl Roe as Vice President for services and cloud solutions
INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
Al-Futtaim Technologies appoints Dr Hayan Sayed as CEO
Al-Futtaim announced appointment of Dr Hayan Sayed as Chief Executive Officer of Al-Futtaim Engineering and Technologies. Part of Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate, Al-Futtaim Engineering is a multidisciplinary engineering organisation operating across UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia with over 30 years of successful operations. Al-Futtaim Technologies is a leading Converged Systems Integrator and provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers. With over 30 years of experience across the Middle East and
Europe, Hayan brings with him a wealth of knowledge in strategic planning, market assessment, project feasibilities, mergers and acquisitions, engineering business unit management and process re-engineering.
In his new role as CEO of Al-Futtaim Engineering and Technologies, Hayan will build and deliver the strategic direction and future vision along with the management team, drive a shared commitment to business excellence, improve the business model and reduce critical risk exposures. Hayan holds a PhD in Industrial Systems Engineering, Business Strategies from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine, France and Bachelor’ s degree in Industrial Systems Engineering from Ecole des Mines, France.
Al-Futtaim Technologies is a provider of Converged Systems Integration. Al-Futtaim Technologies provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include Networking solutions, IP Telephony, Infrastructure, Contact Centre solutions, Business applications, ELV Systems, Professional Audio Visual Solutions, and Managed Services.
The solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts. Al-Futtaim Technologies partners with vendors such as Panasonic, Alcatel-Lucent, Eutech and Microsoft Business Solutions amongst others.
Nuvias appoints Karl Roe as Vice President for services and cloud solutions
Karl Roe has been appointed Vice President Services and Cloud Solutions for pan-EMEA value distributor Nuvias Group. He will focus on transforming the delivery of services at Nuvias, utilising and enhancing current distribution routes to enable further channel adoption of cloud and annuity-based models.
Roe has over 20 years of proven experience in qualifying, creating, selling and delivering profitable datacentre, ASP, SaaS, IaaS, cloud and outsourced ICT business solutions into SMB and enterprise markets. He was instrumental in founding and developing the UK and MEA Software as a SaaS and cloud marketplaces. Roe has held global channel, service transformation and cloud enablement leadership positions, working on both vendor and reseller transformation, as well as working at major software companies such as Odin, Microsoft and Oracle. He has previously led Buy and Build service acquisition strategies for venture capital backed businesses, and has created customersuccess driven organisations with double digit business growth.
Over the last ten years, he has focussed on enabling cloud services across the Middle East, Africa and Australia.
Damian Wilk to join Veritas as Senior Regional Director, Middle East
Veritas Technologies, a vendor in information management, has announced new leadership appointments for the Middle East, where it plans to expand its enterprise business and grow operations and the team at its new regional offices in Dubai, over the next three years. The expansion is in response to growing demand from customers in the region for a data management platform that provides greater insights into data and protection of what Veritas describes as an organisation’ s digital currency.
Veritas announced the appointment of Damian Wilk as the new Senior Regional Director for the Middle East, based at the regional head office in Dubai, UAE. In his new role, Wilk will head the new leadership team and is responsible for the strategic development of the business in the Middle East, where the company aims to expand its operations across the enterprise market.
Prior to joining Veritas, he held Regional Director roles with Good Technology and BlackBerry, responsible for the UK and Middle East region. He spent his career in the technology sector, with experience in roles including engineering, sales, regional management, and also as managing director.
Earlier this year the Veritas Global Databerg Report, uncovered new findings regarding three major types of data stored by organisations- business critical, redundant, obsolete, trivial ROT; and dark data – unidentified and unclassified data which could be an asset, threat or liability.
The research discovered that companies in the UAE have one of the highest rates in EMEA of ROT stored in their corporate networks.
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