Noticias

A new director for Interact
2012-04-18
Belgium : Rudy Lennaerts, who was the managing director of Interact Distribution, the local Value arm of broadliner Ingram Micro, has left the company. He is replaced by Eric Pringiers. Eric is not a newcomer at Ingram Micro, as he worked for the broadliner between 2003 and 2006, after the distributor acquired his company, SDB.

Ingram to attack physical security business
2012-03-08
Gerhard Schulz, the director of the German office of broadliner Ingram Micro, has unveiled plans to attack the physical security market through a dedicated division before the end of the year. It will follow on this market Danish broadliner EET, who expanded its Safevision business in whole Europe some months ago.

Ingram Micro names Alain Monié CEO
2012-01-30
Broadliner Ingram Micro has promoted Alain Monié to CEO. Monié, who will also retain his current title of president, succeeds Gregory Spierkel, who will remain at the company until April 15, 2012, to assist in the management transition. Monié, a 61yo French national, is currently the company's president and COO. He joined Ingram Micro as executive vice president in January 2003 and was appointed president of the APAC region a year later. He was promoted to president and COO of the corporation in August 2007 and resigned three years later to become chief executive officer of April Management, a Singapore-based pulp and paper industry giant. On Nov. 1, 2011, Monié returned to Ingram Micro in his current role, re-assuming his prior responsibilities : a nearly flawless engagement for someone who was groomed to be Spierkel's successor. Before Ingram Micro, Monié was the head of LATAM operations at Honeywell International and APAC operations at Allied Signal, where he led the company's expansion into China and India. Monié has been a member of the board of directors of Amazon since November 2008, and was recently elected to the board of Ingram Micro in November 2011.

Ingram Micro in conferencing with Polycom
2011-12-30
Conferencing vendor Polycom has appointed broadliner Ingram Micro as a new official distributor in the Benelux. Ingram will push Polycom software and hardware video- and audioconferencing solutions to about 9000 resellers in the region, through its offices in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Ingram unveils its Channel Transformation Alliance
2011-10-07
Broadliner Ingram Micro EMEA has unveiled an alliance aimed to promote and help spreading cloud computing and managed services in the channel. Named Channel Transformation Alliance, it gathers as founding members beside the distributor APC, CA Technologies, HP, Kingston, Microsoft, SNIA Europe, Solution Provider Community International and Symantec. The alliance will promote education around cloud, managed services and emerging technologies, in order to help the channel to be more efficient in those areas in the future. Education offered will focus on helping resellers through the transition from established business models to the more flexible ones used in the cloud and helping partners establish new methods of measuring success for customers. An initiative several other distributors have already started separately, in different countries, including for example Best'Ware in France since more than one year. Beside the Alliance, Ingram Micro is also preparing a new website which will allow its resellers to activate cloud services for their clients. Almost ready in the US, it will be available in the EMEA region later.