News Article Business Solutions

8 December 2010
In a significant development, Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd has restructured its Board of Directors with the creation of a new Leadership Team following a series of strategic appointments. With the new Leadership Team in place the company will refocus as a leading provider of full bespoke Optimised Print Solutions.

An intense recruitment campaign has resulted in a high-calibre leadership team drawn from every sector of industry, with excellence being the overriding selection criterion. Heading the leadership team is Neil Dingley, Konica Minolta’s Operations Director & Company Secretary. In key management roles for the company are:

• Mr Yuki Kobayashi, Managing Director
Mr Kobayashi joined Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) in 2007, following senior positions held at Konica Minolta corporate headquarters in Japan and the United States, mainly related to communication and investor relations.
 
• Neil Dingley, Operations Director & Company Secretary
Neil reports directly to Mr Kobayashi as head of the leadership team. He joined Konica Minolta in 2007 having held European and UK Board positions in multi-national corporations such as Dow Chemicals and Sony.
 
• Jonathan Millbank, Director of Sales
Jonathan brings a wealth of experience in key leadership roles and extensive experience in the document imaging industry with companies such as eCopy and Nuance. In his sales leadership role with Konica Minolta, Jonathan oversees all UK sales operations, both direct and channel.

• Martin Tierney, Director of Service
Martin has 25 years industry experience with previous service management roles in the document imaging industry. Martin has expertise in building strategic service provisions to deliver Konica Minolta’s Optimized Print Services.

• Richard Buitenhek, Director of Marketing
Richard Buitenhek has joined Konica Minolta following a career in high-level strategic marketing in the automotive and petro-chemical industries. Richard is responsible for communicating Konica Minolta’s strategic vision as a provider of managed print services and solutions.

• Eric Green, Director of Finance & IT
Eric has a wealth of experience in a number of high level management roles holding finance and managing director positions in large blue chip organisations such as Marconi. He heads up the Konica Minolta UK finance function.

• Merri Applegate, Director of HR & Corporate Services
Merri heads Konica Minolta’s Human Resources and People Development function and has 15 years’ experience in HR and management development. Merri plays a pivotal role in driving culture change in the organisation through development, integration and promotion of HR best practice and L&D activities. Previously working in a range of blue-chip organisations, Merri’s expertise supports Konica Minolta’s strategic objective to build a world-class people organisation and become a true employer of choice.

• Mark Lloyd, Director of Dealer & IT Channel Sales
Mark has been with Konica Minolta for almost 12 years working in Dealer and IT channel distribution sales. Prior joining Konica Minolta he spent 11 years in the IT industry working for some of the leading organisations.
 
• James Goody, Director of Commercial & Public Sector Sales
James leads Konica Minolta’s public sector and commercial sales teams and has 15 years B2B and solutions sales expertise in the consumer electronics sector. James leads Konica Minolta’s drive into the commercial and public sector Managed Print Services market.

Commenting on the new Konica Minolta Business Solutions leadership team, Mr Kobayashi, Managing Director, said “Our corporate philosophy is centred around the creation of new value. We pride ourselves on building strong customer and stakeholder partnerships that bring mutual benefit in advanced imaging solutions for businesses. I am delighted to have such a strong leadership team on board to provide the inspiration and energy to drive our UK business forward as an essential imaging organisation.”

Neil Dingley, Operations Director continues “We now have the right team in place to lead Konica Minolta forward as a leading provider of Optimised Print Services and consultancy in the UK document imaging market. Konica Minolta is not just a hardware supplier, but a provider of full bespoke optimised end-to-end print solutions, including Managed Document Solutions, Business Printing Optimisation and Managed Print Services.

“Our strategy is to build on our continuing success in the SME and public sector by broadening our routes to market. We want to take our new value proposition to clients in the public sector and the major corporate enterprise market. The leadership team now in place have the vision, skills and drive to take us there.”

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Notes

1. Konica Minolta Holdings Inc was established in 1936, has 36,000 employees and has global reach across 40 Countries in Europe, UAE, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The global HQ is located in Japan, our European HQ is in Germany and our UK HQ is in Essex.

2. Established in the UK in 1973, Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) trades as the UK HQ and is supported with 15 direct sales and service centres along with 130 independent dealerships.

3. Specialising in the provision of Multi-Functional, Print Production Devices and Optimised Print Solutions, our best in class teams’ offer specialist support, advice and consultancy to the commercial, public and governmental sectors.

4. Our strategy has our customers at its core. With strong and mutually beneficial customer partnerships, our aim is to achieve mutual sustainable growth through technological innovation. We bring flexible solutions that not only meet our customer expectations, but exceed them, time after time. 

5. In an office environment, our range of world beating copy, scan and print technologies are deployed as single and national networked installations, through to full tailored document management and digital imaging solutions. In the commercial print environment our range of modular, award winning production print technologies are scalable and successfully used across the country in a range of environments. For those organisations wishing to outsource the management of their digital imaging, document management and print requirements, we offer a full and bespoke managed print service.