Richard Simmons

Richard is an experienced and successful business and technology leader who relishes and excels in identifying new opportunities and building strategies to exploit them. Passionate about people and building relationships that drive successful, long-term partnerships.

As Group VP Alliances of Logicalis, his mission is to build a successful, profitable and trusted ecosystem of partners that allows Logicalis to deliver on the promise of digital transformation that our customers demand.

Under his guidance, Logicalis has grown its alliance capability to deliver:

• Continued growth and profitability globally with our two strategic partners of Cisco and Microsoft

• Created and lead a global alliance community to drive best practice and identify additional partners that can add value to our ecosystem

• Worked closely with partners to ensure we can work together to deliver on our sustainability goals and support our customers to achieve theirs.

Before his tenure as VP Alliances, Richard held the role of EMEA Chief Technologist, supporting the growth in key initiatives such as IoT, Data and AI and Private 5G. He has worked extensively internationally, ensuring that global strategies can be customized to fit local market needs and deliver the maximum value to our customers.

Richard is passionate about the power of partnerships, building trusted relationships that allow people to engage, collaborate and deliver their maximum value.