Contributors to MicroscopeUK
Current Contributors
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Klaus Allion is managing director at ANT Telecom, a bespoke telecommunications provider based in High Wycombe. Klaus has over 25 years’ experience working in the telecommunications industry, including roles as divisional manager at Bosch Telecom UK and sales and marketing director at ASC.
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Tim Anderson has been a freelance journalist since 1992, specialising in software development and cloud computing
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Warwick Ashford was security editor at Computer Weekly until September 2019. He joined the CW team as chief reporter in June 2007, focusing on IT security, business continuity, IT law and regulation, compliance and governance. He was appointed security editor in May 2012. He is now senior analyst at Kuppinger Cole.
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Ian Ashworth is the EMEA channel director at Netwrix Corporation and is responsible for running Netwrix’s global channel programme and expanding partner network
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Caroline Baldwin is a freelance editor, writer and B2B journalist experienced in creating content in the technology, retail and consumer trends space
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Kayleigh Bateman was the special projects editor for Computer Weekly, until August 2015. She covered IT skills, education, jobs and recruitment in addition to women in technology, managing the WITsend blog for Computer Weekly. She is also the editor of CW Europe.
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Matthew Beale is modern datacentre architect at Ultima Business Solutions, an automation and transformation partner.
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Lieven has been with Barco for more than 15 years, taking up different technical-commercial and marketing roles for the company.
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Nick Booth is a freelance writer.
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Paul Clapham is a marketing consultant who also writes on business topics in trade magazines. He has more than 30 years experience in the marketing world and has been actively involved in all the main sectors of marketing.
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Ryan Compagnone has over 10 years’ experience in bringing emerging cyber security vendors, such as Thycotic, Lieberman Software (Now Beyond Trust) and Venafi, to market in EMEA.
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Jason Daly is software-defined storage business development manager for Exertis Hammer.
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Richard is vice president, strategic advisory at DXC Technology and managing director of the Leading Edge Forum
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Chris Davies is the founder of an award-winning, UK leadership and sales coaching organisation that helps channel CEOs and sales professionals reassess, then increase, their planned growth potential. He formed Sandler Training in 2013, after having grown a healthy cynicism of training that was impossible for clients to re-enact for themselves and coaching from people who’ve never actually done it.
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Greg Day is vice-president and chief security officer (CSO) for Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) at Palo Alto Networks. As part of Palo Alto Network’s Office of the CSO team, Greg is a regular writer and contributor of essays and blogs on cyber security issues, as well as a keynote speaker and expert panellist on industry forums across EMEA.
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As director of channel sales at iland, Stuart truly understands the trends and nuances of the ever-changing cloud industry. With more than 17 years of IT industry experience gained within a range of startup and mature technology organisations, Stuart has held senior channel focused positions at companies such as Zerto, Isilon (now Dell EMC) and DDN
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Caroline Donnelly is a senior editor at Computer Weekly, having joined the site in March 2015. Her beats include datacentre, cloud and virtualisation technologies, and finding out all about the end users deploying them.
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Zach Emmanuel is a reporter for Computer Weekly and MicroScope.
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Paul Evans is the CEO and co-founder of Redstor. Following a brief spell as a lawyer, he has been working in the business of data management since 1994. After starting out with Memory and Shuttle Technology, he set up Redstor with fellow co-founder and lifelong friend Tony Ruane in 1998
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Cath Everett has been a journalist and editor for around 25 years. She specialises in employment and workplace issues and writes about the impact of technology on society.
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Farrington is Pluralsight’s senior vice-president for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, and oversees the strategic direction, expansion, and operation of commercial and enterprise sales
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Michael Frisby is managing director of cloud aggregator Vuzion, which was created to help IT providers build sustainable and profitable cloud businesses.
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Peter Geytenbeek is the senior manager of channels and distribution for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Thycotic.
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Bryan is editor in chief of Computer Weekly, responsible for managing and developing the team producing all Computer Weekly editorial content.
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Bill Goodwin is Computer Weekly's premium content editor. He is an award-winning journalist, who has written for national newspapers, magazines and has worked as a researcher on investigative television documentaries.
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Mukesh Gupta co-founded cyber security specialist e92plus in 1989, and continues to lead the organisation as chief executive.
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Lynn Haber is the senior writer for SearchITChannel.com. Prior to joining TechTarget she worked for many years as an independent business and technology editor.
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Thomas Honoré is CEO and president of Columbus. He has more than 20 years’ leadership experience at tech firms including IBM and Oracle. He regularly writes and gives speeches on digitisation.
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Christine is a channel journalist and former editor of ChannelPro and ChannelBiz, as well as a contributor to most of the UK channel publications
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Jason Howells is the director EMEA of Barracuda MSP. He has more than 20 years of sales and management experience driving profitable growth in IT security and data protection.
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Andy Jane is chief technology officer at Olive Communications, the UK’s market leading cloud telephony and unified communications (UC) provider
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Ian Jenkins is responsible for VMware’s network and security (NSX) business in the UK and Ireland, reporting in to the wider networking and security business unit within EMEA.
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Adrian Keward is chief technologist, public sector, at Red Hat. Responsible for defining strategy for customers, focusing on the translation of business and technical issues, Adrian leads work with UK government (central and Local) on their journey to open standards, open source and open architecture.
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A leading and influential figure in the IT channel, Ian Kilpatrick heads up the Nuvias cyber security practice. He has overall responsibility for cyber security strategy, as well as being a Nuvias board member.
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Alistair Mackenzie is the founder and CEO of Predatar, and chairman of Silverstring
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Chris Mellor is storage editor at The Register.
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Miriam Murphy serves as senior vice-president, advanced and specialised solutions business across Tech Data in EMEA.
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In her role at Quadient, Nicola helps service providers, BPOs and partners to create and deliver innovative CCM and customer experience solutions for their clients
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Nick Offin is an experienced sales and marketing professional. His role at Dynabook includes managing sales teams across public, corporate and education sectors, and partners across UK&I and the Nordics.
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As vice-president channel at Betty Blocks, Tom Oudhuis initiated the vendor’s international partner programme back in 2016.
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Joe O'Halloran is networking editor at Computer Weekly
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Jeremy Payne is international vice-president at Enghouse Interactive.
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Tony Pepper is the CEO and co-founder of Egress. With nearly 15 years’ experience in taking high-tech data security products to market, Tony has a strong track record of successfully creating innovative technology solutions designed to meet the demands of modern business trends.
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Leonidas Plagakis is a security engineer for leading cyber security, data analytics and cloud security consultancy, RiverSafe.
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Nick has been with Exertis Hammer since 2004 and has held various business development roles prior to becoming general manager for components in 2014
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Simon Quicke is the editor of MicroScope.
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Ben Richardson is the head of channel, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Forcepoint spearheaded a relaunch to its partner programme, following that with an accredited service partner programme, a fresh portal, an MSP scheme, and a platinum level for top partners.
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Karl Roe is vice-president of services and cloud solutions at pan-EMEA, high-value distributor Nuvias Group.
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Nick Sacke is head of products and internet of things (IoT) at Comms365. He has over 30 years of telecommunications experience, ranging from sales to director roles.
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Steve Santini is the UK&I channel director of APC by Schneider Electric. In his role, Steve is responsible for leading the UK and Ireland IT channel group to support partners with industry-leading technical expertise, mission-critical IT and disruptive technologies that enable rapid digital transformation
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Cliff Saran is the managing editor (technology) on Computer Weekly magazine responsible for commissioning, writing and overseeing the magazine strategy concerning all matters relating to technology from up-and-coming research and development to systems management challenges and legacy support and maintenance.
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Yvette Steele has led CompTIA’s workforce communities for three years. Working with a team of executive council members, she drives strategy and execution of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. She creates on-ramps to technology careers for under-represented groups, equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in the tech industry while providing tools and resources in support of DEI policies and practices for enterprise organisations.
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Adam Tarbox is the director of global system integrator (GSI) business for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Nutanix, where he is focused on driving go-to-market (GTM) activities with GSIs around joint offerings for both horizontal markets and industry verticals.
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Alex Tatham is the managing director of Westcoast and has 22 years of experience in the IT channel worldwide – from components to software, and consumables to servers.
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Joining A10 Networks in September 2018, Adrian is responsible for driving growth through direct customer engagements, as well as leveraging channel, service provider and technology partnerships.
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Nigel Thorpe is technical director at SecureAge. From a software development background, he started his career in IT security with Entrust Technologies, in the early days of PKI.
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As Editorial Director of TechTarget's CIO, IT Strategy and Channel Media Group, Sue Troy steers the editorial coverage of SearchCIO.com, SearchCompliance.com, SearchITChannel.com and SearchCloudProvider.com.
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Mav Turner is group vice-president of product management for SolarWinds MSP, overseeing all product management and product marketing activities and bringing two decades of technology experience to the role.
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Archana Venkatraman is the former Datacentre Editor for Computer Weekly.
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Jonathan Wagstaff is global lead for market and business intelligence, and data asset management and strategy, at Exertis Group.
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Warner joined Glide just over two years ago as sales and marketing manager and, having been recently appointed as managing director, plans to continue the investment into providing next generation infrastructure to liberate businesses nationally
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With more than 15 years of business experience in IT, Whitley has held senior positions at several software companies, including WatchGuard, Clearswift, Secure Computing, Sophos, Dr Solomon's Software, Wolfram Research and triCerat EMEA
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Davey Winder is an award winning journalist who has been using, and writing about, emerging technologies for 20 years.
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Bart van Moorsel is a Solutions Design Specialist EMEA at Tech Data, and has worked at the company for almost two years. Bart’s role is part of the European Security Competence Centre, which creates new programmes for businesses based around new vendors and product lines – specialising in specific security solutions.
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Ian van Reenen is the vice-president of engineering for RMM products at Datto.
