Following the acquisition by household funding agency, Meyer Mundell Restricted earlier this yr, Portman is delivering on its promise of increasing into key markets with the appointments of Pieter Meissenheimer within the Center East and Andy Shields in North America.
Pieter joins Portman as a brand new companion within the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with greater than 15 years’ expertise as a finance skilled with a key concentrate on cloud answer integration. He started his profession working as a monetary accountant in a undertaking lead position for various conglomerates inside a number of industries in Europe, earlier than transferring into consultancy throughout a spread of areas, together with EMEA, APAC, the US, India, Africa and Singapore. By making the strategic shift into the world of recruitment, Pieter hopes to assist construct the expertise pipeline for the longer term leaders of the digital infrastructure sector.
To help companies in North America, Andy Shields joins with over 20 years of expertise inside the information middle business. Andy’s intensive background with senior stage relationships throughout the business will allow Portman to additional broaden its community of C-level executives. Having operated and carried out enterprise internationally throughout 50 completely different nations, Andy’s cross-cultural expertise will play a pivotal position in creating Portman’s place within the US and Canada, creating new alternatives for Portman’s purchasers.
Mike Meyer, Managing Director of Portman Companions, says Andy and Pieter will play a key position in strengthening the agency’s world presence: “I’m delighted to welcome Pieter and Andy to the worldwide Portman group as companions for the Center East and North America respectively,” he says. “Their expertise, information and experience throughout the digital infrastructure business shall be invaluable for Portman and its purchasers as we proceed to broaden our community and world attain – and as we launch new providers sooner or later.
“Investing in our group is vital to supporting our purchasers, so we hope to discover additional partnerships to strengthen our group and to proceed discovering the best-fit and leadership-ready folks as demand for our providers will increase,” Mike concludes.
