Manchester-based colocation provider Teledata UK has appointed Shaun Wilcock as CEO.

Wilcock joins Teledata with ten years’ experience leading technology businesses within both the IT and security markets.

Wilcock has held previous positions at integrated security provider Reliance where he was head of technology.

In this position Wilcock was responsible for overall technology strategy, covering professional services, hosting, monitoring, internal systems and development.

The move to bring Wilcock to the company follows other recent staff investment at board level and within the operations team.

Teledata UK said further recruitment is planned to enhance skillsets within core TeleData service departments such as 24/7 technical support and to deliver new products lines, such as disaster recovery workspace solutions, that are due for launch by the company in the very near future.

 

Paul Finch, Digital Realty appointed to be a voting committee member of the ASHRAE TC9.9
Digital Realty senior technical director of Europe Paul Finch has been appointed as a voting committee member of the American Society if Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ (ASHRAE) Technical Committee 9.9 (TC9.9).

ASHRAE is an international professional engineering organization with more than 51,000 members. Finch joins the group of 16 voting members worldwide for a four-year term. Finch holds one of two seats outside of North America, the other being in APAC.

TC9.9 is made up of owners, developers, manufacturers, consultants, researchers, universities, regulators, contractors and government representatives.

ASHRAE TC9.9 chairman David Quirk said the end-user perspective is extremely valuable to the TC9.9 mission.

“Paul’s international presence in the UK further supports our goals of broadening our global reach with over 60 international members on our roster now,” Quirk said.

ProLabs hires former Cisco optical design engineer
Global optical network infrastructure provider ProLabs has hired former Cisco optical design engineer Giacomo Losio as head of technology.

In his new role Losio will be responsible for developing the company’s technology road map and strategy while supporting its objective to ‘dominate’ the rapidly expanding market for compatible optical technologies.

Losio will be based in Cirencester and will report to newly appointed VP of EMEA Stephen Burke.

Losio has more than 14 years’ experience in optical transport systems design and eight years of experience in project and program management.

At Cisco, Losio helped to develop Cisco’s optical solutions including, DWDM XFP, Tunable XFP, MLSE 10Gbit/s transponder and coherent 40G PM-DQPSK.

Losio has seven international patents; five of which are filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

ProLabs has also recently hired Ward Williams as chief commercial officer from TE Connectivity and Stephen Crick as UK Account Manager from Teneo.

ForgeRock brings in former Forrester analyst
Identity Relationship Management (IRM) solutions provider ForgeRock has hired former Forrester principal analyst Eve Maler as its VP of innovation and emerging technology.

Maler will be responsible for ‘pushing the boundaries’ of IRM and customer innovation and will report directly to found and CTO Lasse Andresen.

Maler has held previous positions at Sun Microsystems where she was technology director and Paypal.

She also co-founded and edited the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standard which is now broadly adopted open protocol for web user single sign-on.

Maler also founded and chairs the User-Managed Access (UMA) working group. UMA is an emerging standard based on the OAuth protocol for API security.

Maler is recognised as a co-inventor of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) data interchange languages used worldwide.

Intermedia chairman and CEO joins IIX board of directors
Silicon Valley-based interconnection solutions provider IIX has announced the appointment of Cloud IT services and business applications company Intermedia chairman and CEO Philip Koen to its board of directors.

Koen has more than 20 years of C-level industry experience including previous positions as CEO of Savvis and president and COO of Equinix.

Koen also served as Equinix’s CFO as well as other senior executive positions at other technology firms.

IIX’s founder and CEO Al Burgio said Koen’s experience is invaluable to IIX as it takes its business to the next phase.

Gyrocom appoints non-exec chairman
IT infrastructure provider Gyrocom has hired Peter Halls as non-executive chairman and advisor to the senior management team.

Halls has held previous positions at network data company Omnetica as CEO. During his time as CEO Halls and his management team increased shareholder value four fold within three years.

Gyrocom has been established seven years and boasts some big hitters in its client portfolio including Kingfisher and the Co-operative.

Company projects have included the international migration of one of Kingfisher’s data centers from France to the UK; significantly reducing its physical footprint while increasing efficiency, and the design and implementation of a firewall solution to over 3,000 Co-operative stores UK-wide as part of a PCI compliance initiative.

Halls said on his new role the quality of the people, their expertise and service delivery rivals that of larger and much longer established businesses in the sector.

“Never more so than in the IT space is there the ‘David & Goliath’ – a few really large players with the smaller companies vying for their chance to shine in the extremely risk averse IT procurement arena,” Halls said.

Identiv appoints Jim Ousley to board
Global security technology company Identiv has appointed Jim Ousley to its board of directors.

Ousley has more than 40 years of experience leading global technology and telecommunications organizations.

On July 1 he joined CVC Growth Capital as senior operating managing partner.

Ousley has held previous positions at Savvis Inc where he was CEO for three years. When Savvis was acquired by CenturyLink he served as CEO of Savvis and president of Enterprise Markets Group, which is now CenturyLink Technology Solutions.

Prior to Savvis, Ousley served as president and CEO of Vytek Wireless which was acquired by Calamp.

Ousley was also president and chairman of Syntegra (USA), a division of British Telecommunications (BT) and president and CEO of Control Data Systems, which was acquired by BT.