Dell expands management team

Peter Dinham
Friday, 22 January 2010 10:19

IT People - People

Dell has beefed up its Australian and New Zealand management team with three new appointments for its SMB and channel divisions.

The company has appointed a dedicated SMB channel director for Australia and New Zealand, with an eight-year Dell veteran, Jay Turner assuming the role of ANZ Director of Channels, charged with driving growth and investment into Dell’s PartnerDirect channel program, and to focus on expanding the company’s SMB footprint, including working with partners to enhance modular services offerings for small and medium businesses.

Turner has worked in senior leadership positions within Dell including marketing, strategic planning, and brand and database marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan, and prior to Dell he spent two years at Gateway as marketing manager for consumer, and four years at Tech Pacific.

Also appoint ted by Dell is Cath Hodgson-Croker as SMB Marketing Director for Australia and New Zealand. Hodgson-Croker will be responsible for Dell’s SMB marketing and brand teams.

Hodgson-Croker joins Dell from 13 years at Symantec where she was most recently vice president for channel sales across Asia Pacific.

And, James Arnold has been appointed as Dell’s new channel manager for ANZ, returning to the company after seven years working with Lenovo and IBM in Australia, Taiwan and New Zealand.

Arnold assumes the role of Dell country channel manager and will oversee the expansion of partnerships in that country.

Dell say this leadership expansion supports the continued investment into delivery of Dell SMB-specific solutions and technology to the more than 72 million small and medium-sized businesses worldwide, and more than two million in Australia and New Zealand.