Personnel news February 2016
Hitachi Data Systems appoints head of Germany
Daniel Dalle Carbonare took over the vacant management position at Hitachi Data Systems in Germany at the turn of the year 2016. The Swiss national was previously responsible for the company as Regional Vice President for the Central Region.
As part of an organizational restructuring of the European regions, the German market will now also be part of the EMEA Central Region. As a result, the area for which he is responsible now includes the markets in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Central/Eastern Europe (CEE) and Israel.
"The German market will be by far the largest in terms of sales in the restructured EMEA Central Region. I am very much looking forward to creating new momentum and synergies here together with the German team."
Dalle Carbonare comments.
He joined Hitachi Data Systems in 2010 as Sales Director Switzerland and took over as General Manager in Switzerland on April 1, 2011. During this time, the company has continued to develop positively and, in addition to the core business of enterprise storage, has recorded excellent growth across the entire portfolio of infrastructure solutions.
Since April 2013, Carbonare has headed the EMEA Central Region as Regional Vice President. Before joining Hitachi Data Systems, Daniel Dalle Carbonare was Head of Key Account Business for the software portfolio at IBM Switzerland and in this role was largely responsible for success in Switzerland. Before that, as Country Manager, he successfully built up the Swiss branch of Quest Software.
Nils Brauckmann becomes CEO of Suse
On December 10, 2015, Nils Brauckmann was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Suse; in addition, he will also have a seat on the board of Micro Focus International in the future. Micro Focus is a global provider of enterprise infrastructure software that addresses the most complex technology needs and challenges.
Since the Attachmate Group acquisition, Suse Borland, Micro Focus, NetIQ and Novell have been subsidiaries of Micro Focus. There are no other personnel or strategic changes for Suse as a result of Brauckmann's appointment.
Brauckmann will have additional responsibilities as a member of the Executive Board. At the same time, Stephen Murdoch was announced as CEO of Micro Focus, and he too will become a member of the board. Kevin Loosemore will again focus entirely on his role as Chairman of the Board of Micro Focus International - this separation of CEO and Chairman of the Supervisory Board had already been announced by Micro Focus International in April 2014.
The board of Micro Focus International is thus banking on the potential of Suse. With the appointment of Nils Brauckmann to the board, Suse's needs and growth strategy can be better supported in the future.
The security engineer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) has over 20 years of professional experience in the IT industry in various positions and areas of responsibility.
Reinforcement in the SAP PLM team at Cenit
Jürgen Kroll joined Cenit's sales team at the turn of the year as Key Account Manager. His area of responsibility is the regions South-East Germany and Austria. The sales focus is to market Cenit solutions in the IT environment of SAP PLM solutions and applications.
Kroll has been a partner to its customers and companies for many years in a wide variety of roles and functions, and has always been dedicated to the topic of optimizing corporate processes and procedures.
Cenit as a leading SAP PLM, Dassault Systèmes as well as IBM partner and Kroll will jointly support and accompany the Industry 4.0 initiatives and business process requirements of their customers and prospects with their PLM solutions.
Automic Wins OpenStack Founder as CTO
Business automation vendor Automic is getting a new chief technology officer in IT industry veteran John Purrier.
The founder and board member of OpenStack most recently worked on current and future cloud technologies, including multi-cloud interoperability and DevOps, as CTO of CenturyLink Innovation Labs.
He has more than 20 years of hands-on experience as an executive in the IT industry. Automic CEO Todd DeLaughter explains:
Going forward, Automic will benefit from Purrier's valuable experience spanning the entire spectrum of modern computing - from storage and networking solutions to Platform as a Service (PaaS), cloud and DevOps.
Trend Micro with new Country Manager Switzerland
With Mirko Casarico, Trend Micro has a Swiss boss for the first time. In the newly created position, he is responsible for the development and implementation of new strategies and the further development of sales channels, as well as for the acquisition of new and support of existing customers and partners.
The Japanese IT security provider has been on a growth course here for some time: the number of employees has now risen to eleven, and an office was opened in Lausanne just under a year and a half ago, while the branch in Glattbrugg near Zurich continues to look after the needs of the German-speaking part of the country.
Casarico draws on more than 25 years of sales experience gained with leading vendors in the IT and telecommunications industries.
Renato Del Favero becomes sales manager at Alegri
Alegri Switzerland, Microsoft and SAP business partner, has appointed a new sales manager. Renato Del Favero, who has many years of experience as a key account manager with a wide range of major software manufacturers, will in future be in charge of sales for the entire Alegri portfolio at Alegri in Zurich and will also join the management team.
Del Favero joined Alegri in the spring of 2015 and previously helped manage the customer base as a key account manager.
"It is especially important to me to introduce clients to the possibilities of business process optimization through the integration of Microsoft and SAP"
is how Del Favero describes his future role. The sales professional previously worked as a Strategic Account Manager at Red Hat and Oracle, among others.
Management consultancy Horváth & Partners has appointed Ulrich Teuscher as its new Managing Director for Switzerland. He joined Horváth in 2006 from Migros, where he was previously responsible for the Controlling & Finance and CIO & Project Advisory consulting segments in Switzerland.
Since November 1, Roger Halbheer has been Managing Director of Accenture's newly formed department for security issues in the financial sector in the DACH region. The focus of his activities is on Resilience, Security and Regulation Technologies.
Yvette Cameron is the new Global Vice President of Stategy at SuccessFactors. She reports directly to Mike Ettling, president of SuccessFactors. Cameron brings 30 years of professional experience in the HCM environment to her new responsibilities. Most recently, she was Research Director HCM Technologies at Garnter.
Fabiola Gianotti is the first woman to head the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). From 2009 to 2013, the Italian experimental particle physicist was spokesperson for the Atlas Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. She succeeds German physicist Rolf-Dieter Heuer.
Elisabeth Volkmar takes over as HR Director at Qlik, a provider of visual analytics. She will be responsible for Culture & Talent in the DACH region with immediate effect. Her focus will be on human resources development. She previously worked at Ernst & Young Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft.
Achim Sieren joined the management team of the IT consulting company Consenso in January 2016. Previously, he was a member of the management board for many years, developing the SAP consulting business in the retail sector of Wincor Nixdorf in the German market. Most recently, Sieren was Chief Operating Officer at GK Software.
