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Fujitsu Services Appoints New Managing Director of UK Commercial Business

Posted on: Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 06:00 CDT

LONDON, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Fujitsu Services has appointed John Wheeler as its managing director of UK commercial business. John will be directing the company's private sector business units in order to drive the business forward and establish itself as the one of the leading IT infrastructure management services provider in this area.

Based at Fujitsu Services HQ in London, John will report to chief operating officer David Courtley. John will lead the financial services, retail, travel, telecoms, utilities and manufacturing business units.

John has run companies in the telecoms and technology sectors for more than 30 years. He joins Fujitsu Services from Neos, an optical ethernet service provider, where he held the position of chief executive officer. In April 2003, Neos was acquired by a top FTSE-60 company, Scottish and Southern Energy Plc. Before Neos, he worked at Madge NV as chief executive officer of the global managed IP network and hosting services division.

Prior to joining Madge NV, he founded and managed the European subsidiary of ANS Communications Inc, which built the European network infrastructure for America Online (AOL). ANS was acquired by WorldCom in 1998. Before setting up ANS in Europe he held a number of senior management roles at BT, including the position of director of corporate clients. The division generated revenues of approximately £3.5 billion per annum. In this role, he had full P&L responsibility for 3,500 personnel and the top 5,000 business customers. John is also a non-executive director of Chloride Group Plc. John started his career at Burroughs Corporation, now Unisys, before moving to Wang Labs.

John Wheeler said, "I am really delighted to join a company with such a strong and growing reputation. I hope that my broad base of experience and expertise can help to accelerate our market share in the private sector. This is a great company and I can't wait to make a difference in a tough but exciting market place."

Notes

Fujitsu Services is one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa. It has an annual turnover of 1.86 billion pounds sterling (euro 2.8bn), employs 13,100 people and operates in over 20 countries. It designs, builds and operates IT systems and services for customers in the financial services, telecom, retail, utilities and government markets. Its core strength is the delivery of IT infrastructure management and outsourcing across desktop, networking and data centre environments, together with a full range of related services, from infrastructure consulting through integration and deployment.

Headquartered in London, Fujitsu Services is the European-centred IT services arm of the Fujitsu Group. The Fujitsu Group is a US$38 billion (euro 35 billion) leader in customer-focused IT systems and services for the global marketplace.

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