Infinigate names former Nuvias CEO Simon England as new chief growth officer

England has been tasked with spearheading the VAD’s ongoing rapid development

Swiss value-added distributor Infinigate Group has named former Nuvias CEO Simon England as its new chief growth officer.

Joining the Infinigate executive management team, England's new role is focused on enabling and maintaining the VAD's "above market average", double-digit growth rate, which has been fuelling the company's expansion for the past few years.

Infinigate said England is ideally positioned to lead the VAD, having steered Nuvias through an upscaling phase since 2019.

England also played a hand in Infinigate's acquisition of Nuvias in July 2022, and most recently, acting as an advisor to the Infinigate Group's CEO.

Infinigate says he brings extensive experience in value added distribution across Europe, building leadership teams and driving growth in other large players such as Ingram Micro, Westcon-Comstor and TD Synnex.

"Growth is at the essence of our strategy. It is our ultimate objective, our promise to everyone who works with us," said Infinigate Group CEO, Klaus Schlichtherle.

"Growth has been our constant trend, surpassing industry averages, with 25 per cent average growth and we plan to sustain that trend. That is why I am delighted to entrust this very core part of the Infinigate strategy to Simon, who has an excellent track record of driving impact and delivering results and the experience and capability to lead us into the next phase of expansion".

England will work closely with regional managers to enable the delivery of Infinigate's ‘Spark your Growth' mission, taking group wide responsibility across vendor strategy and portfolio development, cloud services, professional services, marketing and branding, reseller strategy and analytics.

He said: "I am excited to be part of the next development phase of this extraordinary company after having been closely involved in the merger of the companies that are now part of the Infinigate Group.

"I know the potential is there to be a valued growth agent for our partners, applying our deep expertise across cybersecurity, secure networks and secure cloud, priorities for businesses of all sizes."