vrijdag 27 februari 2015

Data centre supplier Minkels appoints Christiaan van Terheijden as its new CEO





Minkels, a worldwide provider of information centre solutions and a part of the quoted company Legrand (Euronext Paris: LR), has appointed Christiaan van Terheijden (38) because the company’s new Chief military officer (CEO). Christiaan van Terheijden has the task of strengthening the world positioning of the Minkels whole by rolling out the business in new export countries. mister van Terheijden has conjointly been appointed with the aim of consolidating the present business and making any synergism between Minkels and Legrand.


Minkels specialises in knowledge centres, a manufacturer that has accumulated a few years of information at intervals the international data centre sector, giving standard and integrated total solutions for the event of company and industrial knowledge centres. The Legrand parent organisation could be a worldwide specialist in electrical intelligence and digital infrastructures for buildings.


Christiaan van Terheijden has been brought in to strengthen the world position of the Minkels whole within the knowledge centre market, to consolidate existing business and to form any synergism between Minkels and Legrand.


Mr van Terheijden’s previous roles embrace a spread of international functions at the parent company Legrand. His most up-to-date perform was because the industrial Director for Legrand cluster in Oesterreich and FRG, wherever he managed four branches and also the Austrian capital head workplace. Before that he was Export Manager for several years, each for the Legrand cluster and for the cable management specialist Van Geel, that like Minkels was conjointly noninheritable by Legrand some years past.


Combining forces


“Minkels is one in every of the leading players within the knowledge centre market,” said Mr. van Terheijden. “It could be a sturdy and durable whole with innovative solutions, a whole that we’d pretty much prefer to expand any internationally. The infrastructure solutions that Legrand installs in buildings square measure terribly attention-grabbing for Minkels customers. This offers a major extension to however well we are able to meet their knowledge centre needs, with innovative and evidenced technologies from a worldwide specialist in electrical intelligence. On prime of that, each Minkels and Legrand supply solutions that square measure extraordinarily energy-efficient.”


At constant time, increasing the Minkels portfolio with solutions from Legrand that square measure targeted at knowledge centres can permit Minkels to urge concerned in new knowledge centre comes at associate earlier stage. “Legrand carries out countless electrical and technical installation comes,” explained mister van Terheijden. “This means Minkels will have access to the tendering method prior it presently will, from the instant that the essential construction of a knowledge centre starts. I anticipate this giving a major boost to any turnover growth at Minkels.”


International enlargement


Mr van Terheijden’s information and experience in commercialism and international selling approaches at intervals the Legrand cluster will contribute to any international enlargement of Minkels’ international key accounts. He adds, “Minkels is that the centre of excellence for knowledge centres at intervals Legrand and encompasses a strategic leading position for rolling out knowledge centre ideas within the market.”


Mr van Terheijden conjointly expects that thickening the cooperation between Minkels and also the branches and production units of Legrand throughout the globe can build a positive contribution to the presently adopted strategy of a world presence with native excellence. “I recognize the Legrand organisation as good as currently, having visited all the Legrand countries myself in my former role as Export Manager. therefore it’s not simply a matter of knowing the German and Austrian markets alright – the links and contacts with alternative Legrand corporations square measure gift too. thickening the interactions in terms of sales and information transfer between Minkels and Legrand can make certain that we tend to square measure ready to break open new markets for Minkels.”



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