Tech Data nombra a John Tonnison vicepresidente de Comercio Electrónico

21 de marzo de 2001 - En inglés

CLEARWATER, FL — Tech Data Corp. has appointed John Tonnison, an internationally experienced technology industry veteran to the position of vice president, electronic commerce, sales and marketing systems.

In his new position, Tonnison will be responsible for leading Tech Data's enterprise-wide e-commerce initiatives. The company's vast e-commerce infrastructure includes a customer web application, providing complete product fulfillment and account management service, a real-time Web-based procurement solution to provide reseller customers with the capacity to create their own branded e-business storefront, vendor-partnered reseller marketplaces and CRM (customer relationship management) tools. In addition, Tech Data provides extensive electronic data interchange capability to its customers and vendors.

"John brings a winning combination of cross-cultural, technical and general management expertise to our e-commerce and Web initiatives. With his leadership, we will significantly expand our worldwide e-commerce strategy leveraging our European and U.S. strengths and focusing on rapidly implementing next-generation solutions to expand market share," said Joe Osbourn, executive vice president and worldwide chief information officer, Tech Data.

Tonnison's 15 years of European and U.S. market experience includes e-commerce, ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementations, call-center development, data warehousing, EIS projects and warehouse automation in both dot-com and bricks-and-mortar environments. Most recently he was a consulting partner with ASPassist Inc., specializing in software development and migration, data-center planning and operation and service-level management in the Application Service Provider marketplace.

Tonnison has held executive management positions in the U.S., U.K. and Germany with such companies as Technology Solutions Network, Ameriquest Technologies (Computer 2000), Log 2000, (Computer 2000), Frontline Distribution and Mancos Computer. Numbered among Tonnison's key career achievements are design and deployment of the U.K.'s first technology distributor e-commerce system, integration of process and systems for acquisitions in the U.S. and U.K. and successful and timely implementation of 13 ERP systems including SAP. He is a member of the Ambit iASP advisory council.

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