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2022
John Malone to join ranks with Executive Vice Presidents

    John Malone to join ranks with Executive Vice Presidents

    • Long-standing Managing Director of Bechtle direct Ireland takes on new role
    • Expansion of international IT e-commerce business

    Neckarsulm, 11 February 2022 – Bechtle AG has announced the promotion of John Malone to its team of Executive Vice Presidents. The 48-year-old Irishman has been at the helm of Bechtle direct Ireland since 2010, and, effective on 1 March 2022, will take on the newly created role of EVP IT E-commerce, overseeing the direct sales segment’s activities in Ireland and across southern and eastern Europe. Sales activities for international accounts shared across European Bechtle Group companies, as well as international vendor coordination will also fall within his future remit.

    John Malone first joined Bechtle in 2010 and immediately set out to develop Dublin-based Bechtle direct Ltd. into a leading vendor-neutral IT e-commerce partner in Ireland. In 2014, he began to gradually add more and more connecting tasks to his list of responsibilities within IT e-commerce, in particular pertaining to customers who are active on a global scale.

    As a new Executive Vice President, John Malone will be implementing the group’s IT e-commerce strategy in Ireland, Italy and Portugal, as well as Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, working side-by-side with EVPs Mario Düll, who oversees e-commerce in the DACH region, and Konstantin Ebert in charge of France, Spain and the United Kingdom, while also driving the continued internationalisation of Bechtle’s IT E-commerce segment. John Malone reports to Jürgen Schäfer, COO IT E-commerce, Bechtle AG, who in turn has direct responsibility for the subsidiaries in Belgium and the Netherlands.

    “I am very pleased to have such an outstanding authority on our industry and an internationally recognised and well-connected colleague from within our own ranks take on the critical role of Executive Vice President. John is an esteemed leader within our organisation. He has developed our e-commerce branch in Ireland with a lot of verve, and, most notably, added considerable fuel to the growth of our cross-border business with globally active accounts. He will continue to be a driving force behind the ongoing development of our international activities,” says Jürgen Schäfer, COO, IT E-commerce, Bechtle AG.

    “I am very excited about my new role as EVP and the responsibilities that come with it, and just as grateful for the trust put in me. I have found a true home in Bechtle and I’m looking forward to contributing my experience and my creativity to drive our continued international success. I can see room for enormous growth and a great future ahead,” says John Malone.

    John Malone has a diploma in electronic engineering and a Masters in business administration. Before joining Bechtle, he had accumulated 13 years’ experience in IT, working for HP and Fujitsu, among others.

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    Martin Kaloudis joins Bechtle as Executive Vice President

    Martin Kaloudis is to assume the position of Executive Vice President for Bechtle’s Cluster West, joining the company from BWI GmbH.

     

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    Bechtle appoints Chief Technology Officer

    For the first time in the company’s history, Bechtle will appoint a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) from 01 January 2023, with the position being filled from within its own ranks by Dirk Müller-Niessner, who will take on responsibility for all Bechtle Group platform activities.

     

    Rene Strackerjan

    Rene Strackerjan has held his position as an Account Manager in the field for Bechtle Solingen since 2014. His tasks include the acquisition of new customers and the strategic development and expansion of a partnership for IT solutions for SMEs.

     

    Frank Peter

     

    Ebru Dogan

     

    Olaf Schäfer

     

    Helge Höhn

    Helge Höhn studied business informatics and worked as a consultant with a focus on collaboration and business intelligence in Frankfurt. As Senior Consultant he is responsible for the Microsoft Competence Center at Bechtle Mannheim. His focus topics are Modern Workplace with M365 and Security.

     

    Ralf Beck

    Ralf Beck began his Bechtle career as a product manager for Samsung monitors in April 2000. Since 2007, he has been Head of Bechtle Software Product Management which at first included Microsoft.

     

    Michael Möllers

    Michael Möllers works as a consultant in the Bechtle Competence Center Digital Solutions. His focus is on business model innovation and digitalisation. Previously, he completed his M.Sc. in Strategic Entrepreneurship at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and studied during his bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Maastricht University and University of California, Santa Cruz.

     

    Michael Kind

    In my role as team leader and senior sales consultant for VMware Software Solutions, I am responsible for Bechtle's operative VMware business from the Lead Competence Center & Cloud Transformation. I have been working in IT since my studies and work at the Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster, where I was responsible for the HPC and HTC systems as well as the virtual infrastructure. Based on this technical background I have built up my presales role. Since 2013, I have been supporting Bechtle's sales units on all strategic, sales and commercial topics relating to VMware.

     

    Christopher Diederich

    Christopher Diederich is a trained computer scientist and worked as a software developer and later for a management consultancy in the banking and energy sector before joining Bechtle. Since 2014, he has headed the DMS Competence Centre at Bechtle.

     

    Sebastian Schäfer

     

    Stefan Maurer

    After completing his studies in sport science, American studies and philosophy, Stefan Maurer worked in Munich as a freelance journalist. He has been working for Bechtle AG as a Digital Content Specialist 2018. Before that, he worked for TSG Hoffenheim, taking care of the website and app for the Bundesliga team.

     

    Marius König

    Marius König has been working as a Senior System Engineer in the Security Competence Team since May 2018. He is a trained IT specialist for system integration and has focused on security solutions for the past six years. His focus is on the products of the manufacturer Sophos. In this area he has implemented numerous security projects.

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