Computacenter
Senior Management
Mike
Norris
Chief Executive Officer Mike graduated with a degree in computer science and mathematics from East Anglia University in 1983. He joined Computacenter in 1984 as a salesman in the City office. In 1986 he was Computacenter’s top national account manager. Following appointments as Regional Manager for London operations in 1988 and General Manager of the Systems Division in 1992, with full national sales and marketing responsibilities, he became Chief Executive in December 1994 with responsibility for all day-to-day activities and reporting channels across Computacenter. |
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Tony
Conophy
Group Finance Director Tony has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants since 1982. He qualified with Semperit (Ireland) Ltd and then worked for five years at Cape Industries plc. He joined Computacenter in 1987 as Financial Controller, rising in 1991 to General Manager of Finance. In 1996 he was appointed Finance and Commercial Director of Computacenter (UK) Limited with responsibility for all financial, purchasing and vendor relations activities. In March 1998 he was appointed Group Finance Director. |
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Simon Walsh
Managing Director As Managing Director, Simon has executive responsibility for the UK business, customer relationships, strategic development and overall commercial leadership of the UK Profit & Loss. Simon joined Computacenter in 1993. He has held various field and headquarters management positions, in Sales and Services, as well as being senior client executive to some of the UK’s largest organisations. Simon is a member of the Board of Computacenter UK Ltd and also the Group Executive Committee. Simon has participated in Computacenter’s executive development programme, including studying at Harvard Business School, Boston. |
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Chris Webb
Managing Director Chris Webb joined Computacenter UK in 1990 as an account manager. He has held a number of management positions since 1995 including Government Sector Director, Enterprise/High Growth Technologies Director, National and Commercial Sector Director, UK Chief Operating Officer and most recently four years as CEO of Computacenter France. Chris is now one of two Managing Directors in the UK and is responsible for running all Service Operations. The team is responsible for customer satisfaction and productivity and ranges across project management, consultancy, networks and cabling, call centres, datacentres, applications and infrastructure management, business take-on, governance, tools, customer engineering, on-site customer service teams and service management. Chris has over 26 years experience in the industry and is a graduate of Management and Chemical Sciences from UMIST. |
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Oliver Tuszik
CEO Computacenter Germany Oliver Tuszik was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Computacenter Germany in June 2008. He joined Computacenter in 1995 and from 2002 through 2004 he was, as Managing Director, responsible for the Networking Business. In 2005 he was appointed Managing Director, Consulting & Technology Solutions with responsibility for the German partner strategy, the consulting and solution business and portfolio management. In January 2008 Oliver became a member of the German Board. Oliver studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University. He is a member of the Management Board of the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) and a member of the Presidial Board of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN). |
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Frank Kottman
Managing Director Computacenter Germany Frank Kottmann was appointed a member of the board of Computacenter Germany in January 2008, with responsibilities for all sales activities and customer segments. He joined Computacenter in 1998 and was appointed Managing Director of ECS Sales in 2001. In this role he was significantly responsible for the implementation of the Datacenter business, which accounts for about one third of the German revenue today. From 2005 he was Managing Director of the Enterprise Division. Frank has a degree in economics from the University of Essen (Universität-Gesamthochschule Essen). Prior to joining Computacenter he worked for several organisations in the IT industry. |
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Henri Viard
Managing Director Computacenter France Henri Viard was appointed Chief Executive of Computacenter France in January 2009. In his former role of Director of Finance and Administration, Henri had initial responsibility for Finance and Facilities, followed by Legal in 2005 and Purchasing in 2006. Before joining Computacenter in 2004, Henri was Director of Finance and Administration at Dolphin Telecom with responsibility for Finance, Legal, Billing, Credit Management and Purchasing. He was formerly Director of Finance and Administration at Thomson CSF (now Thales Group), with responsibility for Finance, IT and Logistics. Henri graduated from HEC (High School of Commerce, Paris) in 1982. |
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Stephen Benade
Company Secretary Stephen graduated with a law degree in 1992 in South Africa and consulted in the area of risk management and corporate governance for 10 years. He joined Computacenter in 2002, initially as Group Risk Manager. In 2005, Stephen was appointed as Company Secretary to the Group. |
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