Ipanema thinks Pink

Networking vendor continues its policy of recruiting former Cisco staff with appointment of Nigel Pink as UK boss

Application traffic management vendor Ipanema Technologies has appointed its second former Cisco employee this year, in the form of Nigel Pink.

As the vendor’s new vice president and general manager for the UK and Ireland (UKI) Pink joins the company with experience from Cisco and SAP, having led the creation of Cisco’s EMEA business with giant IBM.

Earlier this year, Reza Madhavi became Ipanema’s president having previously spent 14 years at Cisco, initially as head of global and strategic partners, and later as president of emerging and developing countries in EMEA.

Reza Madhavi, president of Ipanema Technologies, said: “The UKI market is an exciting and increasingly important one for Ipanema. We are ramping up to meet strong demand for our offerings.

“Nigel’s appointment is central to our UKI growth. He brings the right mix of leadership skills, high-tech experience and knowledge of global markets through key prior management roles.”

Pink said: “Performance of business critical applications across the network is essential to every organisations success. Ipanema's Autonomic Networking System ensures applications such as point of sales and supply change management perform at all times.”