technologyreseller.co.uk PEOPLE continued... Jonathan Prew to chair Civiteq board Civiteq, an independent digital and service transformation consultancy for the public sector, is strengthening its board with the appointment of Jonathan Prew as Chair. Prew has extensive experience in leading technology-enabled transformation, operational improvement and business growth in FTSE businesses. He most recently served as Managing Director of the social impact organisation We Are Group (from November 2023 to March 2026) and was formerly a non-executive director at property services provider Liberty. As Chair, Prew will work closely with Civiteq CEO Marianne Betts and the wider executive team in support of the company’s 2026–2028 strategy, focused on growth across four priority areas – People, Proposition, Partnerships and Performance. Betts said: “I’m really pleased that Jonathan is joining us at such an important stage in our development. His operational expertise, understanding of our markets and experience of building high-performing teams make him a great addition to Civiteq’s next phase of growth.” … Rob Kittler joins Nebula as Partner Acquisition Manager Nebula, a SaaS provider of workplace communications software, is marking the next phase of its channel expansion strategy with the recruitment of Rob Kittler as Partner Acquisition Manager. Tasked with growing the company’s 700-strong UK reseller and MSP community, Kittler has spent the last seven years at Gamma, where he worked across connectivity and mobile, ending up as Head of Connectivity Practice. His appointment comes at a time of significant growth for Nebula which last year added more than 42,000 net new users to its CallSwitch One platform and concluded the legacy base migration of almost 200k users onto the company’s 100%-owned IP. Kittler said: “The channel is at an inflection point. M&A among partners is leaving resellers with sprawling product portfolios to rationalise, while at vendor level too much of the IP being sold is outsourced, owned and controlled by someone other than the vendor selling it. Nebula’s position as an IP owner gives partners a level of influence over the roadmap they simply can’t get elsewhere.” Nebula offers a comprehensive portfolio of secure, scalable communications applications across voice, messaging, customer experience, AI and analytics, powered by its proprietary technology. www.nebulacloud.com James Baker joins Infinigate from Giacom Cybersecurity, cloud and network infrastructure distributor Infinigate Group has recruited James Baker, previously Managing Director of Cloud Operations at Giacom, to lead the expansion of its Cloud & Marketplace portfolio. As Regional Vice President, Cloud & Marketplace, Baker will work closely with vendors to scale and integrate Infinigate’s service offering and meet growing demand for expert cybersecurity consultancy and flexible, leading-edge cloud solutions. Marco van Kalleveen, CEO of Infinigate Group, said: “Cloud & Marketplace are strategically important growth areas for Infinigate and a major opportunity for our partners. James brings the leadership, channel expertise and commercial insight to help us scale this part of the business and support our partners in capturing the opportunities ahead.” www.infinigate.com … Olya Scekaturova appointed UKI sales leader at Westcon-Comstor Westcon-Comstor, a technology distributor specialising in cybersecurity, networking and hybrid cloud solutions, has hired Olya Scekaturova as Vice President of Regional Sales for the UK and Ireland (UKI). She joins from digital infrastructure provider Black Box where she served as Vice President, UKI and Europe. An accomplished technology and IT channel executive with a record of driving revenue growth, leading large-scale transformation programmes and building high-performing teams, Scekaturova has also held leadership roles at Computacenter and Insight Enterprises. In her new role at Westcon-Comstor, she will lead a newly integrated UKI sales operation that unifies the distributor’s Westcon and Comstor teams in a single structure, in line with its reshaped European go-to-market strategy. John Nolan, erstwhile leader of the Westcon business in UKI, has been made Senior Director, Vendor Sales. … Michelle Graff joins Veeam from Commvault Veeam Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, has appointed Michelle Graff as Senior Vice President (SVP), Global Partners and Channel. She joins Veeam from Commvault where, as Senior Vice President, Global Partners & Channel Sales, she led global partner strategy and ecosystem execution. She said: “As organisations adopt AI and agentic workloads, trusted, resilient data becomes the foundation – driving a ResOps approach that puts resilience at the centre of how customers protect, optimise and unlock value from their data. With the market’s 41 Rubix Data Centers appoints Josh Joshi as Chairman Following its launch as part of Submer Group in June, Rubix Data Centers, a global developer and operator of AI data centre campuses, has recruited Josh Joshi as its Chairman. Rubix CEO John Eland said: “It is my privilege to welcome Josh as our Chairman. His admirable international track record and valuable experience transforming start-ups and scale-ups into large international businesses will be instrumental to Rubix’s success.” Joshi most recently served as Chairman of AtlasEdge, a pan-European edge data centre platform, and as an Operating Partner at DigitalBridge, a global alternative asset manager focused on digital infrastructure. Before that, he spent more than a decade as CFO of data centre provider Interxion, where he helped grow the business into one of Europe’s leading data centre platforms before its acquisition by Digital Realty. Earlier in his career, Joshi served as CFO of Telecity Group, one of Europe’s leading carrier-neutral data centre businesses, and co-founded Storm Telecommunications, a voice, data and network services provider. Joshi said: “Over three decades, I’ve watched digital infrastructure evolve from a niche industry into critical national infrastructure. AI represents the next great inflection point: data centres are no longer simply part of the plumbing of the digital economy; they are strategic assets for nations, businesses and society. The breakthroughs in AI may rightly capture the headlines, but it is the physical infrastructure beneath them that will ultimately determine how quickly we can realise and benefit from AI’s full potential. “Rubix, together with the wider Submer Group, has all the ingredients to become one of the defining AI infrastructure platforms of the next generation, and I am delighted to be joining at such an exciting stage in its journey.” Rubix’s capabilities span the full data centre development process, from site origination and community engagement to delivery and ongoing critical operations. It will initially develop and operate a portfolio of more than eight gigawatts across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. rubixdc.com Josh Joshi Jonathan Prew Civiteq James Baker Infinigate Olya Scekaturova Westcon-Comstor Michelle Graff Veeam
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