Logicalis US Names Jim Cook Vice President, Services Sales

NEW YORK, March 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider (www.us.logicalis.com), today announced it has appointed Jim Cook to the position of Vice President, Services Sales.  Cook comes to Logicalis from IBM where he most recently served as Consulting Partner for IBM Global Services.  A 33-year IBM veteran, Cook also held a number of increasingly responsible sales and executive roles within the company making him a specialist in global services, consulting, and business development.  At Logicalis, Cook will head up the company's U.S. services sales effort, focusing on developing and managing the services sales team in key customer segments including healthcare, software provider (ISV), and mid-market companies.

"As the 'Third Platform' takes shape, the market for IT services and disruptive technologies is poised to take a significant leap forward accelerating innovation and growth.  This new wave of 'innovation accelerators,' built on the pillars of cloud services, mobility computing, analytics and social networking, will create new opportunities for our customers and will cause enterprise IT departments to begin relying more heavily on as-a-service offerings to fulfill their companies' core business technology needs," says Vince DeLuca, CEO of Logicalis US.  "That makes the timing perfect for us to bring in someone with Jim's invaluable skill sets in consulting, international business, technology services, and business transformation because that's exactly what our customers are doing – they're transforming the way they think about, procure and use their IT solutions.  Jim's track record in helping businesses adopt a services orientation will give our clients the voice of experience they need to help them transition to a services-defined enterprise as they embrace new ways to use Third Platform solutions to open technological doors to more expansive business opportunities."

"This is a time of great change in IT," Cook says.  "It speaks volumes about Logicalis' leadership in the industry that this company was one of the first to both identify and study the services-defined enterprise movement among mid-market and enterprise clients, and to create an array of as-a-service offerings to meet their needs.  I look forward to being an integral part of these changes as they unfold and to working with Logicalis' clients to help them realize a higher level of business value from their IT services, strengthening their engagements with partners and customers alike."

About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration, data center and cloud services, and managed services.

Logicalis employs over 3,800 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex IT infrastructures to meet the needs of almost 6,000 corporate and public sector customers.  To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, EMC, NetApp, Microsoft, VMware and ServiceNow.

The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of $1.6 billion from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific and is one of the leading IT and communications solution integrators specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and services.

The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues of approximately $6 billion.

For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.

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