Gale breezes out of Metrologie

Metrologie UK managing director Adrian Gale is leaving the computer industry to return to his original career as a mining engineer.

Gale ? who holds a doctorate in mining engineering ? is to re-open a cobalt mine in Uganda on the foothills of the great lakes, closed by Idi Amin in the 1970s.

Talking to PC Dealer, Gale said: ?I heard voices from my past calling. You can count on the fingers of one hand the people who have been involved in cobalt mining, and I am one of them. A friend I used to work for asked me to join this project. There was a lot of peer pressure to get involved.?

Gale joined the channel in 1987, after returning from his first stint in Africa.

He spent three years at Planning Consultancy, before joining Trinitec (later part of Metrologie) in 1990. He moved up the ranks to head the company?s reseller arm Rapid Recall, until its disposal in 1995. He stayed on at Metrologie, originally as group operations director, at the company?s Paris headquarters.

Gale is the second Metrologie director to leave the computer industry. In 1994, marketing director Eric Jedwab left to run a small farm in Cornwall and to join the police.

Gale did not rule out returning to the computer industry, pointing out that the lifestyle of Africa may not suit him.

It is not yet known who will replace Gale as MD when he leaves the distributor.