Outsourcery PLC Appointment of Managing Director (4440E)

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Outsourcery PLC

04 November 2015

4 November 2015

OUTSOURCERY PLC

("Outsourcery" or the "Company")

Appointment of Managing Director

Outsourcery (AIM: OUT), a leading Cloud Service Provider offering cloud-based IT and Unified Communications solutions for the commercial and public sectors, is pleased to announce the appointment of Emma de Sousa as Managing Director, with a primary focus on driving Outsourcery's sales and marketing activity.

Ms de Sousa will be based in Outsourcery's Manchester headquarters and joins Outsourcery from Insight, a leading technology provider of integrated solutions to business and government clients, where she was Managing Director, UK & Ireland. Ms de Sousa joined Insight in 2003 and has held a variety of positions within that firm, including Operations Director for EMEA, Managing Director of Germany and Regional Vice President of Southern Europe.

The appointment will take effect on 1st April 2016.

Piers Linney, Co-CEO of Outsourcery, commented:

"We are delighted to announce Emma's appointment. I have no doubt that Emma's extensive experience and strong track record will prove to be of immense value to the business as we look to further develop our go-to-market activities for the public and commercial sectors. There is a great opportunity ahead for our Skype for Business and IaaS solutions and I am confident Emma can drive our sales strategy in areas where Outsourcery has a clear competitive advantage."

Commenting on her appointment, Emma de Sousa added:

"I am thrilled to be joining this leading Cloud Services organisation. Outsourcery has fantastic capabilities with a proven track-record of helping customers transform their businesses, reduce costs and improve productivity. There is a substantial market opportunity in this area and I look forward to leading the strategic initiatives that will see Outsourcery accelerate growth and increase market share."

For further information please contact:

 
 Outsourcery plc 
  Piers Linney, Co-CEO 
  Simon Newton, Co-CEO                        [phone] 
 Investec 
  Andrew Pinder / Patrick Robb / Dominic 
  Emery                                       [phone] 
 FTI Consulting 
  Matt Dixon / Dwight Burden / Rob Mindell    [phone] 
 

About Outsourcery

Outsourcery is a world-leading UK-based Cloud Service Provider ("CSP"), which aims to remove the need for organisations to own and manage on-premise IT, unified communications and collaboration applications and infrastructure.

Outsourcery offers hosted software applications (software-as-a-service), cloud infrastructure (infrastructure-as-a-service) and next generation unified communications and collaboration solutions based on Microsoft Skype for Business and is capable of fully integrated solutions to meet the needs of customers, partners and the UK public sector alike.

Outsourcery's O-Cloud platform has been certified to run government classified information at 'Official' and 'Official sensitive' over the internet. This gives Outsourcery CESG Pan Government Accreditation ("PGA") to meet data sovereignty and security specifications for the public sector. The Company's Assured O-Cloud platform has been certified to run government classified information at 'Official' and 'Official sensitive' over the Public Services Network (PSN) and is aimed at UK central government departments. Outsourcery was a Finalist for Microsoft's worldwide Government Partner of the Year 2015 award and the only UK finalist.

Outsourcery has 110 employees, with offices in Manchester, London and Leicester.

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