Logicalis Board of Directors
Jens
Montanana
Chairman
Jens is the founder and chief architect behind Datatec, which he
established in 1986. Between 1989 and 1993 Jens served as managing
director and vice-president of US Robotics (UK) operations, a
wholly owned subsidiary of US Robotics which was acquired by 3Com.
In 1993 he co-founded US start up Xedia Corporation in Boston, MA,
an early pioneer of network switching and one of the market leaders
in IP bandwidth management, which was subsequently sold to Lucent
Corporation. In 1994 Jens became Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of Datatec which listed on the JSE in November 1994
and on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock
Exchange in 2006. Jens is also Chairman of the 100% owned
subsidiary company Logicalis, a role he assumed in March 2007. Jens
is non-executive director of Versatile Systems, Inc. a Toronto and
London listed Canadian company.
Ian Cook
Chief Executive
Officer
Ian Cook joined Logicalis as CEO, European Operations in 2003
and became CEO of Logicalis Group in March 2007. Since then
Logicalis has become an international brand and a respected partner
of the major technology vendors.
Ian has extensive experience in the technology industry spanning
more than 25 years. He joined Logicalis from Damovo where he had
extensive involvement in their international operations as COO.
Prior to Damovo in 1990, Ian led the Board of Cablestream which
became Siemens Network Systems Ltd (now Affiniti), one of the UK’s
leading network integrators. Over a 10 year period at SNSL he rose
to Group Managing Director responsible for operations across
Europe. Previously he was Sales & Marketing Director at Case
Communications Ltd, a manufacturer of data communications equipment
with operations in the UK, USA and Asia Pacific.
Mark Rogers
Chief
Operating Officer
Mark Rogers joined Logicalis in 2003 as Finance Director for
Logicalis UK, and in 2004 he became Chief Financial Officer,
European Operations. Since March 2007, he has taken on the role of
Chief Operating Officer for Logicalis Group.
Mark has extensive experience in the technology and service
sectors both in the UK and internationally. He spent 20 years at
Racal Electronics/Thales of which 13 years were at Finance Director
level within divisions providing Managed Network Services, Telecoms
and Survey & Positioning Services. Whilst at Thales he was also
Chairman of Citylink Telecommunications, a joint venture company
which had secured a £1.2 billion, 20 year PFI contract by London
Underground. Also, he has significant M&A experience including
the sale of Racal Telecom to Global Crossing for £1 billion as well
as acquisition and integration of smaller businesses.
He started his finance career with Revlon where he qualified as
a Chartered Management Accountant.
Nigel
Drakeford-Lewis
Chief Financial
Officer
Nigel Drakeford-Lewis is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and Wales and also has an honours degree in
Economics and Accountancy from Exeter University. Nigel joined
Datatec in June 2000 initially to help build an advisory services
division which was subsequently merged with Logicalis. He then
moved across to Logicalis Group in November 2000 to focus on the
reshaping of the Logicalis Group and help redefine its strategic
direction. Since April 2001 Nigel has been Chief Financial Officer
of the Group with responsibility for the financial management and
control of all the operations, covering 20 companies in 9
countries.
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Grant Thornton,
Nigel held senior financial positions with Black & Decker,
Grand Metropolitan (now Diageo) and Dixons Group. Prior to joining
Datatec, Nigel worked for 5 years as a senior consultant with
Arthur D Little on strategy, corporate finance and performance
improvement assignments, primarily in the fixed and mobile
telecommunications sector.
Joanne
James
VP International Marketing
Joanne James was appointed to Vice President of Marketing in
August 2004, to head up the UK marketing department, and in
addition, take responsibility for the corporate marketing function
of the Logicalis Group. In January 2008, she became VP
International Marketing with responsibility for corporate strategy,
branding and analyst relations across the organisation.
Joanne brings over fifteen years of ICT marketing experience to
her role having previously worked at Ericsson Enterprise, and then
its spinoff, Damovo, where she was VP Marketing &
Communications, across the Group. She had sole responsibility for
re-branding the multi-million dollar global Communications Provider
(then ranked 36th top global brand, Interbrand, Citigroup, August
2001) and managing the global corporate marketing function across
20 markets worldwide.
Joanne has first-hand international experience, having studied
at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT), Nice, Côte
d'Azur, France, and at Haarlem Business School, in The Netherlands,
and worked in Antibes, South of France.