Adobe promotes Phibbs to EMEA role

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: PeopleMcAfee has promoted its former Asia Pacific regional president Steve Redman to the role of executive vice president of global sales, and hired Penny Baldwin as executive vice president and chief marketing officer.

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: PeopleEMC has promoted David Webster to the role of president for Asia Pacific and Japan, and appointed a 12-year veteran of the company as his successor in the Australia and New Zealand role.

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: PeopleSymantec has promoted Tim Bentley to the role of regional sales director for the Symantec.cloud business in the Pacific region.

In January 2012 it was announced Avaya’s head of Worldwide Channels, Jeremy Butt, would be leaving Avaya “to pursue other opportunities.” We now know what those opportunities are: Butt has been tapped to lead Westcon Group’s new EMEA region as executive vice president. In his new role, Butt will oversee Westcon’s converged European unified communications, European security and Africa/India/Middle

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The churn at Groupon’s executive level continues apace. The company has just announced that it has appointed a new vice president for North America, Rob Kilgarriff, who is taking over the role from Chris Muhr.

Twitter announced yesterday that it has started selling advertising services in the Middle East and North Africa after users in the region tripled over the past year.

Identification solutions provider Brady has promoted Stephen Millar to the role of president of the company's Asia-Pacific operations.

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: PeopleMicrosoft's Skype division has appointed Elisa Steele corporate vice president of marketing.