Execs from HPE, Accenture and Zoom among those appointed to techUK board

Adobe president and HPE general manager among those announced as new members

TechUK has appointed five new board directors from Accenture, Adobe, HPE, Huawei and Zoom, and has re-appointed 11 members.

Paul Robson, president, International of Adobe; Sue Preston, vice president & general manager of HPE Pointnext Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; and Charlotte Holloway, government relations director, UK & Ireland for Zoom Video Communications made up three of the four available elected director positions.

Simon Hansford, co-founder & CEO of UKCloud, was also reappointed as an elected director.

The board also considered selected director positions, confirming the new appointments of Shaheen Sayed, senior managing director for Technology, UK & Ireland for Accenture, and Joey Pan, director of industry and public affairs for Huawei Technologies UK.

Nine existing directors were re-appointed in their existing roles, and Zahra Bahrololoumi was re-appointed in her new role as CEO, UK & Ireland for Salesforce.

"These appointments will add new and diverse perspectives for our board as it strives to serve its members and support the broader UK economy at a time when the pressures and opportunities for tech have never been greater," Jacqueline de Rojas, president, techUK said.

"We are very grateful to all who have contributed their time and expertise as board members to date, and to our new board directors for joining us on the next stage of our journey."