ECi Strengthens team

Mike Richards takes up the role of Support Team Leader and will be responsible for the day-to-day activities of the Progress Helpdesk, based in Cambridge. Mike has previously been employed at various blue-chip companies where he had customer-facing roles and has many years experience in managing teams of people.

Brian Carbarns joins the sales team. Brian brings a wealth of experience. Coming from a European sales background, he worked across a wide variety of market sectors from manufactured goods to highly technical IT telecom solutions. Brian will initially be responsible for selling EasyOrder, ECi’s current eCommerce offering to corporate businesses across Europe.

Carol Ellis is appointed as Sales Lead Generator and will specifically support the efforts of our Sales Consultants in the field. Carol is a Telesales professional with over 20 years of experience across a variety of industries.

Bas van den Beukel takes overall responsibility for the team of EasyOrder and Bridge Consultants based in the Netherlands. Bas joins us after almost 10 years with IT group Infor Global Solutions. As Professional Services Manager he established their Professional Services organisation in the Benelux and then moved to the position of Professional Services Director for their Asia/Pacific region, where he was responsible for a team of 50+ consultants and revenue in excess of $10M. Bas is very enthusiastic about working in a smaller organisation more like the one in which he started his consulting career.

Michiel Bakker joins the Consulting team and his main role will be to support EasyOrder and Bridge customers across Europe. Michiel has a strong background in consulting and joins ECi from Mambo Five, an e-commerce supplier in the Netherlands. Before Mambo Five, he lived in the US and worked for Radius Solutions, an ERP provider, in Chicago and California for many years.

Paola White, VP Sales-Europe for ECi commented:

"It’s great to be able to recruit, particularly in such turbulent economic times, business is good and we need our team to expand to help us continue to support our ever-growing customer base."