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VIRTUALISATION Former Optus GM joins ICT Networks to drive regional growth
VIRTUALISATION Former Optus GM joins ICT Networks to drive regional growth | Former Optus GM joins ICT Networks to drive regional growth |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Wednesday, 16 September 2009 | |
  
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Kingma began his career at Link Telecommunications and Bell South before joining newly formed Optus Communications and later joined Citadel Securix as General Manager, consulting to multi-national and mid-sized companies including Verizon Business, Alcatel and Sumitomo Mitsui Bank. A spokesperson for ICT Networks says the company is a “new breed of young Australian businesses that have carved a niche for themselves and have looked beyond Australian shores for growth opportunities in a tight market,” and that Kingma “is an integral part of the company's expansion plans,” who will “oversee the finalisation of a recent restructure which will support the company’s push into the Asia Pacific region and building out the company’s solution suite to enable the delivery of a more complete secured networking solution to business.” Kingma said today that ICT Networks’ long term goal is to be “recognised as a leading systems integrator in the financial services and data centre markets. “We have a history of strong technically complex deployments in this space, with an enviable client book of major deployments with companies such as Sky News, AC3, Fox Sports, Bank of South Pacific and the major banks to our credit.” According to Kingma, “the time of the generalist is dead,” and he says that businesses that are specialists in a particular field are winning work away from larger businesses as CIOs look for more “cost effective ways to address their IT priorities.” Kingma cites ICT Networks’ recent win with the Bank of South Pacific, and subsequent interest from other banks in that region, as evidence that the company’s strong security heritage and specialisation in complex networking solutions based on the Juniper platform, as key factors supporting its expansion into the region. Kingma also says that, with security services budgets projected by Gartner to grow almost three per cent, significantly outperforming other service areas, he believes ICT Networks is well placed to grow revenues by 80 percent for the 2009/10 financial year. |
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