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on for nearly two decades. The enterprise customers we work with don’t want to throw out the structure, compliance and control they’ve invested in; they want to extend it with agents that can make judgment calls inside those guardrails. “The hard part isn’t building a single clever agent; it’s coordinating agents and people together across business-critical processes, with a clear record of who, or what, made each decision and why. This is precisely where BP3 excels.” BP3 is a Camunda platinum partner, with advanced process orchestration capabilities, and also has an established workload automation practice, partnering with Broadcom to manage and orchestrate workloads across enterprise environments. https://www.bp-3.com/ … CUK appoints James Drummie as Technical and Training Manager Specialist AV distributor CUK Group is enhancing its support for residential AV dealers in the UK and Ireland with the appointment of James Drummie as Technical and Training Manager. In his new role, Drummie will provide CUK’s residential AV resellers with technical support, dealer training, system design assistance, product demonstrations and content creation. He will also work closely with manufacturers on product launches, training programmes and customer projects. CUK Group CEO Stuart Thomson said: “James combines deep technical expertise with extensive dealer-facing experience. His background in home cinema, training and technical support will strengthen the value we provide to residential AV dealers.” www.cuk-group.com … PJ Farr named one of the most ambitious business leaders PJ Farr , founder of UK Connect, a provider of advanced wireless connectivity solutions for the construction, warehousing & logistics and manufacturing industries, has been identified as one of the UK’s most ambitious business leaders by private equity investor LDC, part of Lloyds Banking Group. His inclusion on the LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders for 2026 list, compiled in partnership with The Times, follows the setting up of UK Connect Defence earlier in the year to provide field-ready, supportable connectivity solutions to defence companies and humanitarian organisations operating in challenging environments. https://bit.ly/4rBJ845 … Neil Coulthard joins NFON NFON AG, a European provider of integrated
Leyard Europe expands UK & Ireland team Leyard Europe has expanded its UK and Ireland
team to meet growing demand for high-performance LED display solutions in corporate, retail, education, control room, hospitality, broadcast and public sector environments. The extra headcount reinforces the company’s commitment to support its European manufacturing capability in Prešov, Slovakia with local expertise and follows the opening of a Leyard and Planar UK showroom in London. The new hires include Guy Phelps (ex Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe, NEC Display Solutions Europe and Panasonic), Territory Head for the UK & Ireland; Dublin-based Matt Stone (ex Lightware Visual Engineering, Haivision and Kinly), Regional Sales Manager for Ireland, Northern England and Scotland; Esther Rowe , Marketing Manager, with responsibility for Leyard’s marketing strategy across Europe; and Catherine Bartrum , Inside Sales Executive. In addition to these strategic hires, Leyard has given new roles to several existing employees, including Lee Baxter , now Director of Channel UK & Ireland,
New additions to Leyard Europe’s UK Team
with responsibility for growing the company’s channel ecosystem and developing a new partner programme; and Luke Marler-Hausen , now Director of Strategic Projects | Business Development, focusing on strategic business development and bespoke LED projects. Filip Cogghe, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Service for Europe at Leyard Europe, said: “Demand for LED technology continues to grow across the UK and Ireland, making it an important strategic market for Leyard Europe. We’re investing in the people, facilities and infrastructure needed to support that growth.” www.leyardeurope.eu
platforms – CyberProtect, an External Attack Surface Management platform connecting dark web monitoring, domain defence, social impersonation, threat intelligence and vulnerability scanning in one operating layer, and PenX, a continuous penetration and security assessment service that uses autonomous AI agents to simulate hacking attempts. Aaron Brown, CEO and co-founder of CyberSentry Group, said: “Jesse has already provided valuable insight as we have developed and deployed our platforms, and there is no better person to help us spread the word about our unique proposition as we take the business forward to become a global leader.” cybersentry.com … Pulsant bolsters UK leadership Pulsant, the UK-wide digital infrastructure and data centre platform used by hundreds of businesses to securely connect to data, cloud, connectivity and digital services, has appointed Jon Arnold as its new Chief Commercial Officer. Joining from international data centre operator Global Switch, where he served as Executive Group Director for Sales and Strategic Accounts, Arnold has more than 25 years’ experience in digital infrastructure, data centres and enterprise technology, including senior leadership roles at Volta Data Centres, Daisy Group, MCI Worldcom and Siemens. As a member of Pulsant’s Executive Leadership Team, Jon will lead the company’s sales, commercial and client relationship functions, helping clients accelerate their digital transformation ambitions whilst navigating growing demand for sovereign and AI-ready infrastructure.
business communications, is aiming to strengthen its position in the UK market with the appointment of Neil Coulthard as Head of Sales and Managing Director of NFON UK. Coulthard joins NFON from Charterhouse Group, where he was Director of Sales Operations. Before that, he was Channel Director at Focus Group and held senior sales leadership roles at Gamma. In his new role, Coulthard will be responsible for developing existing partner relationships through cross-selling and upselling, attracting new strategic partners, growing NFON’s enterprise business and driving demand for its AI-powered portfolio alongside its core business telephony offering. Coulthard said: “Partners are how we grow in the UK. I want to pinpoint where we can genuinely move the needle, turn that into clear joint plans and create new opportunities for our partners to grow their businesses. We will keep the core cloud telephony business central while moving quickly to unlock opportunities across NFON’s wider AI-powered communications portfolio.” www.nfon.com … Hacktivist Jesse Tuttle now CyberSentry brand ambassador CyberSentry Group has appointed ex ‘hacktivist’ Jesse Tuttle as its Global Brand Ambassador. Under the name of Hackah Jak, Tuttle featured on the FBI and Interpol’s most wanted lists before becoming an ethical hacker and cyber security specialist. As brand ambassador, Tuttle, who has provided consultancy and testing services to CyberSentry for some time, will advocate for the Group and its two
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