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A former general manager of Optus has joined enterprise solutions provider, ICT Networks, as the company looks to cement recent growth and its position in the Asia Pacific region off the back of recent contract wins.
The company announced today that Rob Kingma, a
former general manager of mobiles sales at Optus when the company was
formed in 1992, and with over 20 years experience in the ICT industry,
has been appointed ICT Networks managing director after a period of
“strong growth” for the company, including recent contract wins with
major banking and media organisations.
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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