Rob Evans named CFO of Datatec
Rob Evans has been appointed chief financial officer of international Information and Communications Technology group Datatec (DTC), with effect from June 1, 2012.
He will be nominated to the Board and become CFO-designate from 1 March. Ivan Dittrich, the Group’s current CFO, has accepted the position of chief financial officer of Vodacom (VOD) and will leave Datatec in June after its full year results are published.
Evans (46) has held a wide range of international operational and financial roles, both within the Group and in a number of other international companies.
Having worked for Datatec earlier in his career, Rob rejoined the group in 2008, initially as an integration and transformation executive with oversight for the group’s emerging markets operations in Africa, India and the Middle East (AIME).
He then became chief operating officer of Westcon AIME. Since 2010 he has been Head of the Consulting Services division and was recently appointed chairman of Analysys Mason. He is on several of the group’s subsidiary boards.
Between 2000 and 2008, he worked in a variety of UK and international roles including sales leadership and business development at NCC Group and independent management consultancy where he undertook various assignments for Tech Data, Intermec and Citrix.
Between 1996 and 2000, he was Datatec’s UK finance director and then group M&A director during which time he worked on more than 20 acquisition projects. He was also closely involved in the operational review and integration of newly acquired businesses around the world.
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