With over 20 years' experience in IT Sales, Jim has held a variety of Business Development Manager, Strategic Account Manager and Sales Director roles in Europe (France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and Greece) and the US. He has a proven track record in VMware consultancy, Microsoft solutions selling and IT Managed Services sales. His recent focus has covered IT infrastructure projects based around VMware vSphere, MS Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) and Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG).

Jim lives in Newbury, Berkshire with his family and is a keen golfer and passionate rugby fan.

Wayne Emerson, System Professional's Commercial Director explained that "Jim has great experience in new business development, strategic account management and IT consultancy sales. I was impressed with his record of selling and managing IT professional services into the Utilities, Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services and Manufacturing sectors. He has a thorough understanding of Messaging and Archiving solutions, especially around MS Exchange 2010. His brief will be to grow the VMware consultancy and Microsoft solutions practise within System Professional, along with the core IT Managed Services and Network Support offering."