Envisian recruits former O2, Westcon and Imperva staffers

Melbourne solutions provider Envisian has announced five appointments - including the position of "cloud guy" - with staff drawn from O2 Networks, Westcon and Imperva.

Former Imperva regional sales manager Steve MacDonald has been recruited to be Envisian's "cloud guy", or cloud business development manager in more traditional terminology.

"Steve has sales experience and success with niche IT solutions, which is valuable, but he also has something else we were looking for: that all-important passion for cloud technology," said Envisian's director of sales, Shane Lyell. "We weren't just looking for someone who can sell anything."

MacDonald has also worked for HP and Check Point in the past.

Martyn Worthington, a former senior consultant at O2 Networks, has landed in the position of Envisian's head of network and security. Senior technical consultant Scott Richmond and technical consultant Will Robinson have also come across into that team from O2 – occurrences that Envisian admitted were not entirely coincidental.

"Following Telstra's acquisition of O2 Networks, respected in the industry for its high quality technical specialists, Envisian began talks with a number of personnel looking for other opportunities," said a statement from Envisian.

Worthington said that the network and security practice would include "professional services around core and data centre networking, cloud networking and security, and software defined networking solutions".

Meanwhile, Envisian's SMB hardware resale brand Digiworld has had a general manager appointed. Former Westcon staffer Saurabh Madan will transfer internally from a sales executive role to fill that seat.

"When a small, tightly-knit business like Envisian adds four people -­ especially of the calibre of our new hires - and acquires a complementary business, it is an exciting indicator of growth," said Lyell.

Envisian purchased the Digiworld business in August, shedding its retail activity and retaining the SMB operations. Envisian was known as PPR Solutions prior to 2010.