Trustmarque CRO Calvin Goom leaves after 60 days
Goom was hired in July and tells CRN his departure was driven by ‘personal reasons’
Trustmarque chief revenue officer Calvin Goom has left the company after 60 days of employment, CRN has learned.
Goom joined the IT services provider in July from business consulting firm Smart/tasking.
According to sources, Goom’s employment was terminated.
However, Goom told CRN his departure was a “mutual agreement” between himself and Trustmarque, driven by “personal reasons”.
He also felt it was a “misalignment of culture”.
Goom “wished Trustmarque all the very best”, adding it’s an “organisation with a lot of potential” and a very talented leadership team.
Trustmarque told CRN it will make “no further comment” and announced Goom’s departure on LinkedIn.
Channel management shake-up
As CRO, Goom reported directly to CEO Simon Williams and oversaw the sales, marketing, and alliance divisions, heading up the group's strategic growth initiatives.
He replaced Donavan Hutchinson, who left the CRO post in March after just 12 months to pursue his DEI consultancy venture, D&A Services International.
According to Marc Sumner, CEO of IT channel recruitment firm Robertson Sumner, H1 2024 was a period of “leadership reshuffle.”
The year so far has seen Bytes and Six Degrees shake things up dramatically with new CEOs.
Channel veterans Hayley Mooney and Miriam Murphy both packed in their roles for a return to former businesses.
While the likes of Version1 and Node4 have welcomed new faces.
Speaking with CRN recently, Sumner believes Q1 2025 is set to bring a deluge of senior management roles for highly skilled candidates, particularly across the top VARs.
"Even though financial results have been quite flat in recent months, we're now seeing a real fluid market of salespeople and marketeers, and a real influx of new leaders," Sumner tells CRN.
"Currently we have a lot of new leaders in situ, because over the summer, over the last 5-8 weeks, we've had so many people swapping in and out of roles."