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Bullguard CEO moves on Talk & Vision’s operational policy, now head of Cisco’s new R&D centre.
DANISH security player BullGuard from customer services to planning Cisco Ireland confirmed the
has announced that CEO Heini and installation. Before he joined numbers to IT Europa: “Mike Conroy
Zachariassen will step down after Talk & Vision, Rob was Head of Fault has been in post of MD of the Galway
five years in charge. During this time, Management at Easynet. R&D Centre for about 10 months.
BullGuard’s revenues have more than Sven Lagerweij, Managing Director There are currently approximately
doubled every year and employees of Talk & Vision tells IT Europa about 100 people employed at the Galway
increased dramatically. The company other growth plans: “System sales R&D centre with a variety of career
is moving into profitability after five- account for approximately 60% of our histories. eW are still recruiting from
years of rapid growth. business, the rest are services. For the both within Ireland and more broadly.”
Commenting on his decision to next three years we expect our non- When the centre was announced
move on Heini Zachariassen tells IT hardware revenue to grow to around last November, Cisco said it would
Europa: “I’ve been with BullGuard for 60% of total sales.” take on 50 skilled graduates initially
five years, and now think it’s time for Talk & Vision is authorised for and would grow to 200 staff over the
a change. It’s been an interesting and Polycom, Sony and Tandberg products next three years.
rewarding job and we have reached provides hardware, installation and www.cisco.com
our targets.” managed services globally. www.nortel.com
Zachariassen says that the fact that “e sW ervice our global customers
BullGuard has grown from a company from our new Customer Services
of three employees to a 100 shows Center and Headquarters in the
that the job as its CEO has been Netherlands. The Netherlands is
challenging. “I feel that I now want known for its multilingual work force,
to get back to basics and maybe start which helps us a lot obviously. Talk &
something from scratch. For the next Vision has further offices in Frankfurt,
six months I’ll be focusing on some of Brussels and London, while for 2008
my own online projects.” a fifth office is planned in France.”
George Tennet is the new CEO, Videoconferencing is moving
joining from Mobility Electronics where up fast as a business critical
he held the position of Managing communication tool, he says mainly
Director for the EMEA region. because it enables organisations to
www.bullguard.com communicate more efficiently, and a
way to help reducing Co2 emissions.
Talk & Vision offers its customers
Mavis, a fully managed video service,
Andrew brown
that makes it easy to implement video
at multiple offices without putting
pressure on the internal organisation. Email manager goes big
“eW install the solutions, train across Europe
staff, support the user, set up and C2C, the provider of email data
monitor the calls and make sure our management solutions, has made
customers get full insight in the usage Andrew Brown Sales Manager
of video (and its ROI).” for EMEA with immediate effect.
www.talkandvision.com Previously, Andrew held the position
of Senior Account Manager for the UK.
“Email management is an issue
Cisco takes Nortel’s staff for all sectors of the market and for
AROUND one-quarter of the staff all companies large and small. The
employed at Cisco’s research and continued growth in both email
Boomgaard
development (R&D) centre in Galway numbers and size coupled with
have come from rival networking demand for data to be online, all the
Videoconferencing boom - company Nortel, which also has a time has seen a gradual shift from
new job, new offices significant research facility in the email archiving being a “nice to have”
DUTCH specialist videoconferencing city, according to The Irish Times and to a “must have” application,” he tells
company Talk & Vision has made Rob subsequently confirmed by IT Europa. IT Europa. Part of his plan is growth
van den Boomgaard its new manager Among those who moved was in Nordics and western Europe:
of operations. In his new role Rob Nortel’s top-ranking executive and its C2C says it has had 40% revenue
will be responsible for all aspects of head of R&D in Galway, Mike Conroy, growth (Q3/Q4 2007). Andrew Brown
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