TD Azlan has appointed Phil King as Technology and Services Director, a newly created position. He will also be in charge of the Business Solutions Centre (BSC) at TD Azlan's Heathrow location.
King brings more than 15 years of business development experience in value-added distribution, vendor and reseller businesses to the post. He has worked closely with data centre and systems integration vendors such as Cisco, EMC and VMware, and with VADs and VARs, helping them to formulate and execute their services- and cloud-led business strategies.
His career has included a five year period as Sales Manager for Enterprise Software and Specialist Solutions at ETC Distribution and over four years working in senior business development roles at storage vendor EMC. King has also worked for Veeam Software and for distributor CCD and reseller Esteem Systems.
His most recent appointment was as UK Business Development Manager for Canopy Cloud, the cloud solutions business of Atos. He vacated this role to take a six month break during which he hiked from Mexico to Canada.
Sarah Deller, Azlan Software Director, stated: "The Technology Practice is at the very centre of our value proposition and Phil will lead our strategy here to build differentiated market solution propositions."
King said: "The whole channel is changing radically and Azlan is in the vanguard of that transformation. We will now integrate Azlan's presales technical practice with our service delivery team providing seamless availability of skills and value to both partners and customers throughout the whole project lifecycle."