IT provider Softcat welcomes new deputy managing director
Marlow, UK, 15 October 2012 – Today, fast-growing IT provider Softcat is reinforcing its senior management team by appointing former Microsoft UK board member Colin Brown as deputy managing director.
Colin, an IT industry veteran, is joining Softcat after four years as general manager of the UK services organisation at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Colin spent 20 years at Computacenter, including four years as chief executive of its German business, where he had some 4,000 people reporting to him, and five years as its government sector director.
Colin commented, “I have had a fantastic time at Microsoft, but now I feel it is time for a new challenge. Softcat is growing at an incredible pace, doubling both its headcount and turnover in just two years, and attributes that in large part to its focus on employee and customer satisfaction. I look forward to helping the company to build on the remarkable things that it has achieved.”
Martin Hellawell, Softcat’s managing director, commented: “Colin and I were contemporaries at Computacenter. We have never worked in the same area but I have always had tremendous respect for him and for what he has achieved. I think he will be great for us because he has bags of experience of managing growth organisations but does it with great humility and has excellent people skills.”
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About Softcat
Softcat (www.softcat.com) is a leading provider of software licensing, hardware, security and related IT services. Softcat, founded in 1993 by chairman and majority shareholder Peter Kelly, remains privately owned and currently employs more than 500 people. It achieved a turnover in excess of £300 million in its last financial year and has been profitable since inception, resulting in a strong balance sheet and very firm financial foundations.
The company sells and supports products and solutions from all the world's leading IT companies. On all its portfolio products and solutions it offers a full range of services, including advice and guidance, technical design, product sourcing, implementation, support and project management. It enjoys a trading relationship with over 1,500 longstanding customers, predominantly from the UK corporate sector but also including large enterprises, small businesses and public sector organisations.
As an organisation Softcat cares passionately about two things – outstanding employee satisfaction and world class customer service. It believes the former drives the latter.
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