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3Com Announces New Country Manager |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
3Com has announced the appointment of Grant Howe as its latest Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand and will oversee the newly combined 3Com and H3C Technologies sales and marketing teams.
Howe will be responsible for all sales, customer and partner
programs, as well as the day-to-day operations in both Australia and
New Zealand. He will report directly to Peter Chai, Vice-President
& General Manager (Asia Pacific), 3Com Corporation.
Joining
3Com in February 2008 Howe is now responsible for driving all of the
networking vendor's operations across these two key Asia Pacific
markets. Previously national sales manager for Avaya partner,
GlobalConnect Australia, he was also channel director for Avaya's South
Pacific Business Partner program and, more recently, Director of
Business Development for ANZ where he developed business opportunities
within top 100 South Pacific companies.
"We are very fortunate
to have Howe as part of our management team in APR. With him at the
helm of the Australia and New Zealand team, I am very confident that we
now have the leadership in place that will help us win in both the
large enterprise and SMB markets in those countries," said Chai.
Added
Chai, "Howe's hands-on channel and sales experience gives him an
excellent insight into 3Com's distribution model as well as the local
operations of our resellers. His appointment will help up drive partner
relationships, leading 3Com into the next phase of growth."
In
March 2007, 3Com announced its acquisition of 100 percent of H3C
Technologies of China, thus creating a single unified organisation and
the appointment of Howe to the Country Manager's job is the first of
the integration we have seen in Australia.
3Com was recently
left standing at the alter after a Private Equity deal with Bain
Capital Partners failed late last month. Bain claimed its decision to
not go through with the deal was because the US Government's Foreign
Investment review Committee planned to try to scuttle the deal.
However, 3Com plans to pursue Bain to collect a US$66 million break up
fee.
Under the terms of the deal China's Huawei Technologies would have become a 16 per cent partner in the new Bain company
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