On the move: January

Mikaelian spent 13 years with Acer followed by a short stint at MSI. He plans to grow OKI's channel over the next 12 months.

Coullomb previously ran the Paris ASE Venture with Capgemini France, where he applied the process for clients including Bacardi, Baxter, Air France, KLM, Axa and Airbus.

Based in Sydney he manages a team of five to work with Capgemini clients throughout Australia and Asia Pacific. Philippe also looks after the operation of three dedicated ASE centres in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.

He previously held the position of director for Health and Human Services, Microsoft Australia. Gration takes over from Pip Marlow who was recently appointed the managing director. Gration is based in Canberra.

He's tasked with establishing local operations of Silver Peak, also a vendor of wide area network (WAN) optimisation products.

Gordon took over from Chris Carr who moved back to Australia to become the general manager for Australia & New Zealand.

Giveen joins Tecala with 15 years of sales and engineering experience in the health and IT industries and is responsible for driving demand for the company’s IT infrastructure portfolio. Formerly, Giveen was sales and business development dxecutive at Sirona Dental Systems, a German-headquartered manufacturer of premium high technology dental equipment. Prior to working for IT vendors, Giveen spent ten years with the Royal Australian Navy working in technical specialist roles and supporting weapon electrical systems.

He was previously research manager for Frost & Sullivan based in Singapore. During his five years with the company, Chandrasekaran was responsible for consulting and research on information security, cloud computing and managed services. Prior, he worked in India for CSC.