Management Board

A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Gestion business school and holder of a degree in Economic Sciences from the Université Paris X, Olivier Breittmayer began his business career in 1987 at Quaternaire Informatique, an importer of connectivity solutions for corporate clients. He advanced within the company from sales to marketing manager, sales director and managing director. In 1997, he got together with Philippe Dambrine to buy the company and one of its subsidiaries in Bordeaux (Cirel Système, which manufactures multi-protocol routers). Read more…

Philippe Sanchez holds a post-graduate degree (DESS) in International Trade from the Université Paris I, and has over 20 years’ experience in international finance and business management. Having begun his career as a management controller, he joined the IT consumables division of the Rhône-Poulenc Group as International Management Controller in 1989, and was subsequently appointed as Head of the Management Control Department before moving on to become Chief Financial Officer. In 1995, Philippe Sanchez was appointed as Deputy General Manager of Parfums Via Paris. In 2000, he was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of telecoms operator Tradingcom Europe. He joined the Exclusive Networks Group as Chief Financial Officer in July 2007.

After his time as a student in technical and commercial further education, Franck Laga spent two years in the industry before joining the BULL Group where he held a series of sales management positions in France and abroad over a period of 11 years.

In 1999, Franck was appointed as a Director of ESG, the added value distribution entity of Ingram Micro. At ESG, he was responsible for the distribution of servers, network solutions and storage solutions to around 3,000 resellers, integrators and service providers.

Franck joined the Exclusive Group in March 2008 to head up Exclusive Networks France, the Group’s flagship company.

Stuart Reay has 30 years of experience in the IT industry. He began his career as an IT technician in a UK engineering company. In 1989, he was appointed as IT Manager with responsibility for a $20M mainframe to UNIX migration project.

In 1993, he joined value-added distributor Ethix Distribution as Sales Director. In 1995, he launched the value-added distributor Easy/IP, which marketed solutions from Attachmate and NetManage. Easy/IP was bought by EuroTelecom Group in 1999.
In 2001, Stuart Reay started IP Connect, a distributor that merged with UniDirect in 2002 to form Arc Technology Distribution.

Arc Technology Distribution joined the Exclusive Group in July 2009.

Robert Hellemans has over 15 years’ experience in the IT industry. In 1992, he took over as Head of Digicom NT, the company that pioneered the marketing of switches in the Belgian market (NBase). Between 1999 and 2004, Robert Hellemans co-founded Delta Link, which quickly established itself as the leading distributor of Ethernet (D-Link and NBase) solutions and software (NetOp RC and Sophos AV).

Between 1999 and 2003, he set up and ran Netdirect, a division of Delta Link specializing in IT security solutions, infrastructures and networks. At the end of 2003, Netdirect became an independent company with the aim of establishing itself as a major distributor in the IT security market through continuous and rapid growth towards early profitability.
Netdirect was acquired by Exclusive Networks in July 2007.

With more than 20 years’ experience in the IT market, Laurent Daudré-Vignier began his career as a Key Account Manager at Quaternaire. In 1989, he set up the added-value distributor NewLink Spain, which he headed for 5 years. In 1991, he brought US software house Attachmate to Spain, and opened offices in Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon.

In 1996, Laurent Daudré-Vignier founded the security and network solutions added value distributor Newlink, which became Allasso Spain in 2000.
Laurent joined the Exclusive Group in September 2007 to set up its Spanish subsidiary company.

Hendo Weernink has more than 30 years’ experience in the distribution market. His career began in 1976 at Auriema, one of the first US distributors to establish a presence in Europe. Auriema was acquired by Acal in 1982.

In 1985, he launched the IT division of Acal, and boosted revenue consistently to achieve the figure of €20 million in 2001. Also in 2001, he founded Allasso Benelux, which was generating revenue of €5 million when he left the company in 2003. He then started his own added value distribution company called Qdis, which was the first Fortinet distributor in The Netherlands. Qdis was acquired by Exclusive Networks in November 2007.
 

With over 20 years’ experience in the Italian IT market, Edoardo Albizzati began his career in 1988 at Italian wholesaler Condor Informatics, where he managed a portfolio of 300 resellers.

In 1994, he joined software house Attachmate as Sales Director. In 1998, Edoardo took over as head of added value distributor Allasso, covering the whole of Italy. There, he managed a team of 22 in two branches (Milan and Rome) for a business generating annual revenue of €24 million. Following the 2006 acquisition of Allasso by InTechnology, Edoardo became Partners Manager at Fortinet, the world leader in UTM systems.

Edoardo joined the Exclusive Group in February 2008 to set up the Italian subsidiary company.

With more than 20 years’ experience in the IT Network and Security market, Fredrik Armandt began his career as a Key Account Manager at Måldata Teknik AB back in 1992. In 1996, Fredrik joined Salcom Communication who became Cygate 1998. During his time at Cygate he moved up to salesmanager for Bank and finance and later on Marketing manager for Sweden.
Late 2000 Fredrik founded the company Netsecure, who was a System Integrator focusing on Networking and Security. Netsecure became after some years the most respected company in Sweden within Network/Security. In 2005 Netsecure were acquired by Integralis, a public company in Germany.
In 2009, Fredrik decided to join Exclusive Networks and with the mission to build up the Nordic region.

With more than 20 years’ experience in the IT market, Ralf Karlsson spent his career at Nokia in Finland. He began Product Manager and became Country Manager for different business units of Nokia. In 2006, Ralf took over head of sales IT channels and after head of business Mobility Solutions. In 2009, Ralf joined Check Point Technologies as Channel Manager. Ralf joined the Exclusive Group in 2010 to set up its finnish subsidiary company.

Philippe Birot has 20 years’ experience in the IT industry. He began his career as Branch Manager at Insight, before moving to Lotus Software as Partners Manager in 1992. In 1996, he became Sales Director of Fujitsu France, joining Attachmate two years later. In 2000, Philippe joined Websense as head of southern Europe, where the business was generating revenue of $14 million after 5 years.