The appointment of Gavin Lyons to the post of Executive Chairman at Pinnacle Technology Group underlines the firm's plans for securing acquisitions and keeping the overall strategy on track.
Lyons takes over from Dr James Dodd, Non-Executive Chairman, who will remain on the board as a Non-Executive Director until the company's annual general meeting in March 2016.
Lyons has much experience in the TMT sector, most recently joining IT security specialist Accumuli as CEO in 2012 and spearheading a successful buy and build strategy that saw it sold to NCC Group for £55m in October.
Prior to Accumuli Lyons was Head of Telecoms and Utilities UK&I at SAP and he held various senior positions at Trend Micro, having also worked at Xerox, Compuware and The Caudwell Group.
During his career Lyons has been involved in three exits, generating close to £100m in value, as well as completing several acquisitions and integrations.
He is also a Partner at MXC Capital, the AIM-quoted technology-focused merchant bank, appointed by Pinnacle to advise on the company's strategy and identify acquisition opportunities.
Non-Executive Director of Pinnacle Technology Group, Tom Black, said: "Gavin's experience of buy and builds and track record of achieving transformational growth will be a powerful asset to the company.
"As a result, we believe we will be better positioned to expand our solution set across a growing base of customers."
Pinnacle offers a range of managed IT Services, IT security, connectivity, mobile, telephony and infrastructure services. It operates in the SME market and the broader mid-market and public sector.