New leaders Appointed for gen-i Business Groups
New leaders Appointed for gen-i Infrastructure and Ventures Business Groups
AUCKLAND, Thursday July 13, 2000 – Two key appointments for Internet Integrator gen-i limited (formerly Wang New Zealand) of Stephen Gilbert and Cherry Vanderbeke have been made to lead two major business groups.
Stephen Gilbert has been appointed General Manager for gen-i’s new Infrastructure group. Stephen has been both a customer and a provider of IT services across many industries in the past 20 years. This has provided Stephen with an extensive knowledge of both sides of the IT service relationship and gives him a strategic view of applied IT in real-world business terms.
Focusing on client needs in enterprise enabling platforms, Infrastructure is at the forefront of leading-edge technologies such as thin-client, remote management, active directory, and wireless. It also provides innovation in messaging, security, operating systems and technology design. The group’s capabilities include technology design and implementation, project management, business consultancy, facilities management and remote management.
More recently, Stephen Gilbert was General Manager of Premier Print Services and prior to this, General Manager of Focus Travel - roles in which Stephen utilised IT to leverage business success. Stephen has also held general management roles in IT, Logistics and Sales and Marketing.
Cherry Vanderbeke has been appointed General
Manager for the Ventures group. Responsible for the division
charged with internet innovation, Cherry will lead the
company’s activities in building internet sites, intranets
and extranets as well as developing, implementing and
supporting a wide range of e-commerce and business
applications.
Central to the Ventures group’s success
is their strong integration capability in best of breed
software and disparate systems to optimise internal
operations and external supply chains.
“We are at the forefront of the digital economy, especially in the areas of business to business and business to employee solutions,” says Cherry. “gen-i has proven success by leveraging off the things that it does exceptionally well - we are expert integrators, capable of understanding that there is much more to a successful application than the technology itself. Clients rely on us to make the technology work for their businesses – both strategically and operationally – and that is where we excel.”
Prior to joining gen-i four years ago,
Cherry Vanderbeke was a senior management consultant with
Coopers & Lybrand, specialising in business process design
and organisational change management. She has also held
management, technical and senior consulting roles at Unisys
and Digital Equipment Corporation.
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About
gen-i
gen-i is the first and largest New
Zealand-based e-business Internet integrator, focussing on
designing, building, implementing and supporting e-business
solutions and systems for large corporate
customers.
gen-i employs more than 400 people at
offices in major centres in New Zealand, and extends
customer support worldwide – both online and through a
network of service partners.
gen-i has four
major areas of focus and expertise: Infrastructure,
Ventures, Field Force and Procurement.
gen-i
Infrastructure is geared to providing and supporting all the
hardware, software and networks required for today’s
e-business – and to achieve that in a number of new ways.
For example applications can be delivered and maintained
over the web using the ASP model, and a sophisticated web
portal allows customers to tailor online services ranging
from product selection and purchasing to sophisticated
remote management and maintenance technology.
gen-i Ventures is an Internet innovation operation geared to
providing knowledge and experience in a wide range of
Internet technologies – the ‘connected intelligence’- which
a modern e-business requires to take their business to the
web and compete in the digital economy. This includes
building e-commerce sites, Intranets, and extranets and
implementing and supporting a wide range of e-business and
traditional applications.
gen-i Field Force is
New Zealand’s leading technology engineering onsite
capability, expertly trained and ready to deploy or maintain
the country’s leading technology networks. It has the
capability of delivering tailor-made solutions for clients
with a range of technology requirements.
gen-i
Procurement provides a fast, easy and cost-effective way to
select, purchase, install and maintain office technologies.
It will be a reseller of major hardware and software brands
including HP, Compaq and Microsoft.
gen-i
limited is a private company, majority owned by Qixel
Capital. Prior to its name change in 2000, gen-i traded
successfully for more than 20 years as Wang New
Zealand.
For further information please contact:
Garth
Biggs, Chief Executive, gen-i, tel: +64 9 3064 603, email:
garth.biggs@gen-i.co.nz
Nimita Morarji, Botica Conroy &
Associates, tel: +64 9 3033 862, email: nimitam@bca.co.nz