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APPOINTMENTS

HP Africa appoints VP and MD

HP Inc has appointed Bradley Pulford as VP & Managing Director for HP Africa, effective December 1, 2020. His
responsibilities include supporting customers and partners across the region, country leadership and the profitable
growth of HP’s printing, personal systems and services businesses.
Pulford will also lead several ongoing strategic initiatives for HP in Africa. Among these are advancing the company’s
diversity and inclusion vision across the continent, supporting education projects that remove barriers to doing business
for young entrepreneurs, and broadly deploying future technologies and innovations, including VR and 3D solutions.
Joining from Dell Technologies where he held several leadership positions, including most recently Executive Senior Director for Channel
and Distribution in Africa as well as the interim marketing lead position for Middle East, Russia, Africa and Turkey, Pulford brings 25 years’
experience in operations and management within the IT industry.

Nutanix appoints Rajiv Ramaswami as Chief Executive Officer

Nutanix has appointed Rajiv Ramaswami as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective 9 December 2020. As a
member of the Board of Directors, Ramaswami will succeed co-founder Dheeraj Pandey, who previously announced his
plans to retire as CEO of Nutanix upon the appointment of a successor.
Ramaswami is a seasoned technology industry executive who has held senior executive roles at industry leaders
including VMware, Broadcom, Cisco and Nortel, after having begun his career at IBM. Ramaswami has an impressive
30+ year track record of building and scaling businesses in cloud services, software and network infrastructure. In his
most recent role as Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services at VMware, Ramaswami co-managed VMware’s portfolio of products
and services. During his tenure, Ramaswami led several important acquisitions and was playing a key role in transitioning VMware towards a
subscription and SaaS model.

Infinidat appoints new Bosch Rexroth South Africa
chief executive officer and appoints business
chief financial officer intelligence manager

Infinidat has appointed Phil Bullinger as the Dianne Seymour has been appointed Group
company’s Chief Executive Officer. Phil will Business Intelligence Manager at the Bosch
be joining the Infinidat executive team Rexroth South Africa Group of Companies,
following a 30 year career in enterprise effective 1 October 2020.
storage, most recently as the Senior Vice President and General Her appointment follows a 15-year period of experience in
Manager of the Data Centre Business Unit for Western Digital. enterprise resource management (ERM), during which time she began
Infinidat was recently recognised, for the second year running, a consulting company specialising in Syspro ERP. Her focus was
as a leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for primary helping clients across the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, mining and
storage arrays, on the strength of its product, operations and distribution industries with Syspro ERP.
customer experience, as evidenced by its leading status in the The corporate sector attracted Seymour with the offer of a position
Gartner Peer Reviews. as a business analyst in 2015, and after only two years, a promotion to
"Phil is a proven leader with over three decades of experience business systems manager was the beginning of her rise through the
building and operating world class organisations in the data storage ranks. The position saw her managing and overseeing business
industry," said Scott Gilbertson, member of the Infinidat Board of software development, support, maintenance, acquisitions,
Directors. "Enterprises are facing growing pressure to source faster, consultants, budgets, software projects and junior personnel.
larger, more efficient and more secure storage solutions under
constrained budgets. Phil's breadth of experience overseeing product
development, strategy and operations will enable him to lead Infinidat
as it delivers the innovative and agile storage technologies its
customers require for sustained competitive advantage.”
The company also announced that
Alon Rozenshein will be joining Infinidat as
the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Alon
brings more than 20 years of experience to
the position, mainly with technology growth
businesses. Most recently, Alon was the CFO
and COO of Clarizen, a leading provider of
collaborative work management solutions.

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