Ian French, Ideal Hardware's CEO, is to work full time on European M&As and growth for parent company Bell Microproducts Europe.

BME has set up five new European subs in its quest to be come the continent's definitive storage services distributor."

Joining him at BME as CFO is Steve Lundy, previously finance and operations director at Ideal.

Alex Tatham, Ideal's commercial director is promoted to country manager for the UK, reporting to French (who retains the Ideal CEO job title)

Nick Lee, Ideal's company secretary and financial controller, has been promoted to be Ideal’s Finance Director. ®

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