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Box has appointed David Benjamin. Box, which was established in 2005, has headquarters in Redwood City, California, United States. The company provides cloud-based collaboration and storage solutions. It currently caters to around 66,000 businesses with major names likes General Electric and P&G as customers. Mr. Benjamin joins Box as Senior Vice President (SVP) and General Manager (GM) in charge of the company’s Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) activity.
Mr. Benjamin joins Box after working with British Telecom (BT) as VP of Global Services for around 10 years. Prior to this he was Divisional COO at Guardian Media Group where he spent 12 years. He has a degree in European Business and an MBA. His role at Box will be to extend its European business as a response to the continent’s “increasing move to cloud technologies”. His appointment comes shortly after the Box’s launch of key new products such as “Box Files”, “Box Notes” and “Box Relay”.
“Box is in a unique and incredibly exciting place,” explained Mr. Benjamin. “I’m thrilled to be joining when we can make a significant positive impact on enterprises across EMEA. Historical obstacles to cloud adoption have been removed, and we’re already helping European businesses to transition from broken legacy IT systems, to brand new ways of working.”
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