WESTCON Group has unveiled a number of changes to its European operations that sees the resignations of executive VP of Westcon Group Europe, Barry Shakespeare, and European financial director Jon Toohey.

SECURE communications company, Freedom Communications, has appointed Clare Frost as its new head of marketing.
 
Frost joins Freedom from COA Solutions, an ERP provider for mid-market services organisations, where she was corporate marketing manager for eight years.
 

COMSEC Consulting, global provider of Information Security consulting services, has announced the appointment of Stuart Okin as managing director for Comsec Consulting in the UK.

CENTRIX Software has announced the appointment of David Myers as worldwide sales director.

NORTHGATE Public Services has announced another appointment in the form of Peter Rottier as innovation director.
 
Northgate says Rottier has more than fifteen years’ experience of managing “transformational programmes� for large-scale organisations.
 
The appointments of Rottier, and also of Ian Noble as chief operating officer, follow the recent acquisition of Anite Public Sector.
 

VEROPATH, specialist in telecoms expenses management, has appointed Steve Cove as channel account director. Cove is a sales professional whose experience in the IT and telecoms industries includes companies such as Avaya, Sterry Communications, the Pink Telephone Company and STC.

OKI PRINTING Solutions has appointed George Lawson as its channel development manager in Scotland with immediate effect. George will be based at OKI’s manufacturing plant in Cumbernauld.
 
Before joining the company, Lawson worked for reseller group Danwood and for Xerox. He spent 14 years at the latter as a sales manager, with responsibilities including meeting budgetary targets, managing a large sales force and overall performance.
 

MANAGED network service provider Solution1 has appointed Karlton Jarvis to director of sales and account development.

Jarvis will be responsible for leading and motivating the Solution1 sales team to deliver growth and customer acquisition.

Jarvis has been with Solution1 since its formation, and has more than 17 years of experience within the IT and telecoms sector having held positions at BT and Global Crossing and specialises in the outsourced and managed services sector.

IDENTITY and access management (IAM) firm the for the healthcare sector, Sentillion, has announced the appointment of Colin Wicks as UK regional sales manager, to further increase the company’s sales and channel operations in the UK.

NETSERVICES, provider of converged business communications, has announced that Paul Foley has agreed to join the company’s board as sales director.
 
Foley (43) has more than 20 years proven experience in various business-to-business sales environments, predominantly in the SMB sector and most recently as head of business sales (North UK) at O2 UK. He also spent six years with Cable & Wireless securing channel partners.