Sammy Kinlaw, Kevin Kennedy and Stacy Nethercoat step into new roles to drive growth in edge technologies and advanced solutions, Tech Data said.
Tech Data, a global IT distributor and solutions aggregator, announced three key leadership appointments as part of ongoing business transformation efforts.
The Tech Data Americas leadership appointments include Sammy Kinlaw who has been named Senior Vice President of North American Sales. Kinlaw has 25 years’ experience and has had previous leadership roles at IBM, Lenovo and Lexmark. He joined Tech Data in October 2020 to lead the Endpoint Solutions business.
Kevin Kennedy has been announced as Senior Vice President of Endpoint Solutions. Kennedy also comes with 25 years of experience in technology and leadership and used to work at Arrow Electronics, VCE and Dell. He joined Tech Data in 2017 to lead the Advanced Solutions business.
And finally, Stacy Nethercoat was named Senior Vice President of Advanced Solutions. Nethercoat comes with 20 years of experience from leadership roles spanning marketing, sales, product management and cloud computing.
“Change creates opportunity. The transformation work Tech Data has been pursuing created an opportunity to tap into the talents of our experienced leadership team,” said Tech Data President of the Americas John O’Shea. “Sammy, Kevin and Stacy are all channel technology veterans who will add value at every step of the Tech Data partner and vendor experience.”
As part of these leadership changes, Marty Bauerlein will be exiting the business. O’Shea noted that Bauerlein joined Tech Data in 2005 and thanked him for his contributions.
The Tech Data Americas leadership reorganisation supports a strategic shift to a more unified and simplified strategy by bringing together cloud, security, and data and IoT practices under Advanced Solutions and establishing a technical centre of excellence, the company explained.
“Our channel partners rise to the challenge of transformation every day to meet their clients’ needs,” said O’Shea. “As a leadership team at Tech Data, we’re committed to constantly challenging ourselves to transform to meet the needs of our partners, so they can help companies do great things with technology well into the future.”
O’Shea also added that the professional backgrounds Sammy Kinlaw, Kevin Kennedy and Stacy Nethercoat bring to these new leadership roles enhance the depth and diversity of IT channel experience on the Americas Executive Board and reinforce a culture rooted in the Tech Data shared values of Inclusion, Excellence, Accountability, Collaboration and Integrity.
