Ingram Micro's David Lenz heads for Hills

Senior Ingram Micro figure David Lenz has moved to Australian IT distributor Hills Limited, the company behind the historic Hills Hoist.

Lenz started yesterday as head of sales at Hills. A Hills spokesperson said the role was a new one, though added that group manager for sales Matt Old has been appointed director of sales strategy, operations and systems.

Lenz spent seven years at Ingram Micro in various senior roles; in September, he spearheaded Ingram's push into physical security and pro AV as the head of its Specialty Division.

This experience will no doubt come in handy at Hills, which supplies video surveillance from Axis, Mobotix and other vendors as well as industrial perimeter detectors, smoke detectors and emergency lighting systems, as well as network security from Sophos, Dell and others.

Hills chief operating officer Grant Logan described Lenz as an “experienced sales operator”. The company, known for the Hills Hoist, was a $448 million technology business in its 2014 financial year.

At Ingram, Lenz also held roles as senior director and general manager for Ingram’s Enterprise Technology Business; prior to that he was director of the distie’s Enterprise Technology Group, as well as state manager for New South Wales.

He tenure at Ingram Micro coincided with the distie’s move into “social wi-fi”, the launch of amanaged service unit focusing on SMBs and Ingram Micro’s appointment as Microsoft’s first value-added distributor in Australia under a global program. Other key partnerships while Lenz was at Ingram included a business group created around VBlock and an IBM Software distribution agreement. 

An Ingram Micro spokesperson said: “We sincerely thank David for all his hard work over the past seven years and we wish him all the very best in his future endeavours.”