Leadership Team

Matt Sanderson

SVP & MD UK & Ireland

Matt has had a long and distinguished career at Ingram Micro since joining in 1994, holding senior leadership roles at a country and regional level in both EMEA and APAC since 2010. Having successfully managed some major turnaround projects over that period, Matt returned to lead the UK & Ireland operation in mid-2016 and joined the Ingram Micro Global Leadership team in 2019.

Ben Gamble

Chief Financial Officer

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Ben joined Ingram Micro in 2016 as a Financial Business Partner, progressing through the business to his current role as Chief Financial Officer.

Maria Jackson

Director of Marketing

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Maria joined Ingram in April 2014, leveraging both local and global experience gained in senior marketing roles at Unify, formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications, latterly as its Director of UK Marketing, Maria works alongside Ingram’s sales and commercial leadership team to drive aggressive market strategies, improve ROI for vendors, embed customer communities in the channel and leverage Ingram’s unique business intelligence capabilities.

Mike Farrah

Director, Core Solutions

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Mike Joined Ingram Micro in 1998 as a Sales Manager. He moved to the Commercial function in 1999 and has held a number of roles of increasing responsibility across different disciplines including purchasing, product management, marketing and vendor management. Mike holds a BA and BPl in Town Planning from The University of Manchester.

Julian Thompson

Director, Advanced Solutions

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Julian first joined Ingram Micro in 1995 as Account Manager. Julian was instrumental in supporting the launch of Ingram Micro’s Advanced Solutions division in 2013, assuming the role of Senior Director of Advanced Solutions. Thompson holds a BSC in Psychology and Law.

Ovi Gherghel

Director Cloud & Cyber Security

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Ovi Gherghel joined the Ingram Micro Team in 2016 as a Sales Manager for the Software Team. Since then he has been instrumental in driving our Cloud Business success through innovation and execution excellence. With over 20 years management experience, Ovi is a DISC Certified Trainer and a member of the Institute of Sales Management.

Alison King

Director of HR

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Alison joined Ingram in January 2020 as part of the local Leadership team but also part of the EMEA HR Leaderships team based out of Milton Keynes. Prior to Ingram she has been extremely impactful in transformation and change management at Santander Technology where she held the role of HR Director. More recently she worked for a Sales Promotion Company as HR Director, which was a greenfield site, where she utilized her in-depth HR knowledge. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Personnel and Development and a qualified personal development coach, which will be intrinsic in the on-going development of Ingram’s employees and local HR team.

Sara Horton

Director of Operations

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Sara joined Ingram in March 1999, originally in an Accounts Payable role, over the course of the next 8 years she worked in a number of finance areas gaining managerial and project experience. Sara now head up the Operations and manages shared servicing, business improvement projects, ecommerce & web, customer service, pricing and sales controlling. Sara holds a BA in Sociology, Psychology and English.

Raj Pandya

Director, Speciality Solutions

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Raj began his career at Ingram Micro in 2012 to establish and lead the PRO AV business unit, In 2014 he assumed the role of Head of Europe for PRO AV. Raj came back to the UK in 2016 to lead the volume commercial division and later that year was appointed as General Manager for Retail and PRO AV.

Raj holds a BA in Business and Finance and has previously held various leadership positions within Sony UK.

Rob Billingham

Director of Operations

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Rob has supported all of the major integrations during his years with Ingram - for technology solutions (HP CCD / Paradigm / Brightpoint) and in 2015 the new CFS business start up in Drayton Fields, Daventry

In 2016 Rob became involved with the global LEAN transformation, selected to be the UK LEAN leader - under his leadership the Crick site became the first site to achieve a "Bronze" LEAN status

In 2018 Rob became a certified LEAN practitioner & Leader, following this up in 2019 by completing his LEAN Six Sigma black Belt in both service and industiral sectors (ISO18404 compliant)

Alex Wilmot

Managing Director - Comms-Care

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Alex has 20 +years of experience developing and leading sales, solutions, product, and transformational change for managed service providers in the UK. This includes restructure and rebrand activities based around outcome led economies, commercial cost analysis and management, portfolio refresh and transformation with key focus on efficiency and time to value via automation.