Getronics has appointed Gerard Schiebroek (age 43) as Vice President of its Global Service Centre activities for Europe and the Middle East. Prior to this new position, he was General Manager of Managed Services in The Netherlands. Together with Steve Sullivan, Vice President of Global Service Centre activities in the Americas, Gerard Schiebroek will be responsible for all remote service delivery decisions. He and Steve Sullivan report directly to the Getronics board member Kevin Roche.
Gerard Schiebroek will be responsible for the Global Service Centre (GSC) that opened on 1 October in Budapest, Hungary, and the network secure operating centre (NSOC) in Brussels. During Q4 2004, Getronics expects to service the first five clients from the Hungarian GSC, which has a staff of 50 employees. Besides Hungarian, these employees’ language skills include English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and Russian.
The Hungarian centre replicates the GSC in Mexico, which opened in 2003 and now supports ten clients with a staff of 250 employees. Also in Q4, Getronics will assess implementation requirements for a similar Global Service Centre in Asia-Pacific.
The Getronics Global Service Centres provide a full range of network and desktop outsourcing services, in combination with local on-site operation. The GSCs operate on state-of-the art technology provided by Getronics’ strategic partners Cisco, Microsoft and Dell.
About Getronics
With approximately 22,000 employees in over 30 countries and ongoing revenues of EUR 2.6 billion in 2003, Getronics is one of the world's leading providers of vendor independent Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions and services. Getronics today combines the capabilities of the original Dutch company with those of Wang Global, acquired in 1999, and of the systems and services division of Olivetti. Getronics designs, integrates and manages ICT infrastructures and business solutions for many of the world's largest global and local companies and organisations, helping them maximise the value of their information technology investments. Getronics headquarters are in Amsterdam, with regional offices in Boston and Singapore. Getronics's shares are traded on Euronext Amsterdam ('GTN').
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