Theodosis Michalopoulos has been named the acting CEO of Microsoft in Greece, Cyprus and Malta, upon the departure of Peggy Antonakou, until a new Chief Executive Officer is appointed, according to a press statement sent to Business Malta. In his new interim role, he will focus on contributing to the transformation and growth of the company’s customers and partners in Greece, Cyprus and Malta.

After leading the branch for seven years, Ms Antonakou will pursue a career outside Microsoft, and her role will temporarily be filled by Mr Michalopoulos, who is a member of the Leadership Team of the company and currently holds the position of Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector Sales Director for Microsoft in Greece, Cyprus and Malta.

Mr Michalopoulos joined the Microsoft in 2014, as of the Director of the Consumer Channels Group. Despite the challenging macroeconomic environment, he contributed to achieving a “highly-prosperous period in the sales sector” for three consecutive years, Microsoft says.

Becoming the Enterprise Commercial Sales Director, he led the transformation of a traditional sales approach into a modern customer-centric model “to significantly empower the digital transformation of Microsoft” in Greece, Cyprus and Malta, the Microsoft press statement adds.

Mr Michalopoulos holds a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Sussex, an MSc in Communications & Signal Engineering from the Imperial College of Science & Technology of London and an MBA from the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA).

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“One of our main drivers at BMIT is the dedication to keeping customer’s data constantly safe and accessible. The introduction of our new BaaS solution further reinforces this commitment. We’re giving our clients even more flexibility and control in how they implement their backup setup,” says Jack Mizzi, Chief Marketing Officer of BMIT.

“We’ve pitched this new solution during our meetings here at ICE 2019, and the feedback has been very encouraging. We’re excited to start working with these new customers and not only improving their backup system but also simplifying the management of it,” he adds.

The new cloud solution can be stored in BMIT’s data centre facilities or within the client’s premises. BaaS supports multi-platform backups with workstation backups.

Under the recently-announced partnership, Microsoft Azure products will become more accessible to local businesses.

BMIT is set to open this new state of the purpose-built facility in Żejtun by next year, with works already underway.

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Microsoft Azure products will become more accessible to local businesses following a strategic partnership between Microsoft and BMIT Technologies, which incorporates BMIT Limited and Kinetix IT Solutions Limited.

Due to the partnership, which incorporates BMIT Limited and Kinetix IT Solutions Limited, BMIT expects to offer new services to customers, including the possibility to purchase Microsoft’s Azure services directly from BMIT.

“The strategic partnership is the positive outcome of our discussions between Microsoft and BMIT, always with the scope of bringing together Microsoft as a worldwide leader in cloud services and BMIT, whom we consider as one of Malta’s leading IT and cloud managed services provider, perfectly able and equipped to drive cloud-based innovation among Maltese businesses,” said Peggy Antonakou, Microsoft’s CEO for Greece, Cyprus and Malta, during the announcement.

“We already enable a good number of organisations by leveraging our local infrastructure and our expertise to deliver a variety of cloud-based scenarios including public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure and productivity solutions, said Christian Sammut, CEO of BMIT. He also said he expects additional synergies to come up between BMIT Technologies and Microsoft.

“This closer collaboration will take such efforts to a new level, allowing us to deliver a broader range of emerging technologies based on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 to both our Malta-based and international customers,” Mr Sammut said.

“Our agreement with BMIT forms part of this commitment to work and collaborate closely with trusted and responsible partners so that they can apply the right technologies that help the community achieve economic and social prosperity,” added Ms Antonakou.

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