Expereo acquires global managed Internet access provider, Brodynt

AMSTERDAM, July 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Expereo, a leading global provider of managed Internet, SD-WAN, SASE, and Cloud Access solutions, announces that it has agreed to acquire Brodynt, a provider of global managed Internet services. This acquisition further strengthens Expereo’s position in providing global managed Internet & SD-WAN services to its global enterprise customer base and service provider partner community.

This news follows the acquisitions of GlobalInternet, Comsave, and Videns IT Services, a leading provider of managed SD-WAN and SASE services, late last year and earlier this year. These acquisitions solidify Expereo’s position in leading the global transformation to software-defined and internet-based networking. With the full support of majority investor, Vitruvian Partners, and minority investor, Apax Partners SAS, Expereo intends to continue its acquisition strategy.

Global enterprises are accelerating their network transformations following the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following an initial rush to get their global networks fit-for-purpose for remote working, global enterprise connectivity is now migrating rapidly to software-defined and internet-based solutions, including through accelerated adoption of cloud applications. Expereo’s depth and breadth of expertise in providing and managing software-defined and internet-based networks and Cloud Access allows a globally operating enterprise to do so with ease, trust, and security.

“Expereo brings additional global reach, leading digital user and operations platform, and complementary SD-WAN and SASE experience that our customers and partners will greatly benefit from,” says Marcus Munoz, Brodynt Co-CEO. “We have built a great customer and partner base, as well as a superb team supporting them,” adds Marc Mateo, Brodynt Co-CEO. “I am excited to see this integrated into Expereo, enabling faster expansion and adding broader capabilities as the market very rapidly transforms with internet services now being core to global enterprise connectivity networks; Expereo brings the scale to do so efficiently.”

“It is all about scale and delivering world-class customer experience,” says Irwin Fouwels, CEO Expereo. “Where our ability to effectively source, manage, and improve performance of any type of internet-based networking service anywhere in the world complemented traditional wide-area-network technology, we are now effectively replacing such legacy solutions. Overlaying our own cloud fabric and digital customer interface takes a global internet-based solution to the next level in terms of performance and experience – we are excited to bring this to Brodynt’s customers and partners.”

About Expereo

Expereo is the leading provider of managed network solutions, including Global internet connectivity, SD-WAN, SASE, and Cloud Access services. Expereo is the trusted partner of 30% of Fortune 500 companies and powers enterprise and government locations worldwide, helping to enhance every business’s productivity with flexible and optimal Internet performance.

Vitruvian Partners, an international growth capital and buyout firm headquartered in London with offices across London, Stockholm, Munich, Luxembourg, San Francisco, and Shanghai, acquired a majority shareholding in Expereo earlier in 2021. Apax Partners SAS, a leading European private equity firm based in Paris, owns a minority shareholding alongside Vitruvian. Paris-headquartered Apax Partners SAS and London-headquartered Apax Partners LLP have a shared history but are separate, independent private equity firms.

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About Brodynt

Brodynt provides global managed Internet and SD-WAN services to global enterprise customers and service providers such as ISPs, Carriers, and System Integrators. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Barcelona, Spain, and offices in Austin, Texas, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Q Advisors is a global TMT investment banking boutique, acted as exclusive financial advisor to Brodynt in connection with the transaction.

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Global Research Finds Lack of Alignment in Leadership and Talent Jeopardises Post-Pandemic Growth

Boyden reveals strong confidence in growth potential among business leaders is not matched by confidence in having the right talent to align to strategy, with different skills needed on the board

Global Organisational and Talent Confidence Charts

Global Organisational and Talent Confidence Charts

NEW YORK, July 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Boyden, a premier leadership and talent advisory firm with more than 75 offices in over 45 countries, reports on its latest talent research, revealing a lack of alignment in talent to strategy, the need for a different skills matrix on the board, and lack of alignment across the leadership team.

The global study, Talent-led transformation in a post-pandemic world: how can global business leaders deliver on ambitions of growth and reinvention? explores the business outlook among CEOs, boards and other senior leaders, and talent trends, priorities and investment in the wake of the pandemic through 2022.

“Boyden has a long-term commitment to anticipating the trends and issues that will affect our global clients,” commented Trina D. Gordon, President & CEO of Boyden. “While business leaders are seeing strong indicators of recovery, alignment between talent requirements and the suite of leadership skills that will drive growth will be imperative to sustainable success. Leadership needs have changed in this new global environment, from C-suite to the boardroom. It is important that organizations synchronize their leadership requirements to strategies that reflect the evolved global landscape.”

Study findings show that while 77 percent of respondents are extremely confident or confident in their organisation’s growth potential, just 47 percent are extremely confident or confident in having the right talent to align to strategy. For industrial and consumer companies, this drops to 42 percent and 41 percent respectively. Half of all respondents describe their business approach in 2022 as one of growth or expansion mode and just over a quarter, 26 percent, as a learning or transformation opportunity; this bullish approach versus lack of talent alignment jeopardises post-pandemic growth and reinvention.

This lack of alignment goes up to board level, with 52 percent of respondents saying that a different mix of skills is needed on the board. Despite this, only 38 percent of respondents are likely to conduct a board assessment review over the next two years, although the figure is higher, at 45 percent, in North and South America.

Findings show that respondents are reinventing talent: 74 percent are extremely likely or likely to invest in leadership development for high potentials; 66 percent to hire new leadership talent; and 65 percent to redeploy or retrain existing people. In our disrupted work environment, 51 percent are considering new approaches to measuring performance; the top driver is to tie culture and behaviours to business objectives.

Priorities in hiring new leadership talent reveals lack of alignment across the leadership team, particularly around:

  • Diversity: 57 percent of marketing and 47 percent of HR leaders think it is extremely likely or likely that their organisation will hire talent into diversity roles, compared with only 35 percent of CEOs;
  • Sustainability: 42 percent of marketing leaders think it is extremely likely or likely that their organisation will hire talent into sustainability roles, compared with 31 percent of CEOs;
  • Supply chain: 37 percent of finance leaders think it is extremely likely or likely that their organisation will hire talent into supply chain roles compared with 29 percent of CEOs.

Over the next 12 months, 69 percent of respondents expect ‘more emphasis on leadership assessment/development,’ 50 percent expect ‘executive talent retention challenges’ and 49 percent ‘executive recruitment challenges’.

In attracting leadership talent, respondents consider the top two drivers to be ‘a strong overall company reputation’ (57 percent) and ‘a purpose-driven organisation’ (52 percent), followed by ‘workplace of the future’ with hybrid work arrangements (38 percent).

About the research

This research was conducted in Q2 2021 among senior executives worldwide. A total of 528 complete responses comprise 43 percent from Europe, 35 percent from the Americas, and 18 percent from Asia/Pacific. Respondents include 37 percent board/president/CEOs, 23 percent division or country heads, 22 percent HR leaders, with a remainder across finance, operations, marketing and technology.

Industrial sector and consumer & retail each account for 23 percent of responses, followed by 14 percent within professional services, 12 percent from technology/media/telecoms, 11 percent from financial services, and 10 percent from healthcare & life sciences. The remainder are from private equity, social impact (non-profit/government), and academic sectors. By organisation, 27 percent are from publicly quoted, 35 percent from private/independent, 20 percent from private/family-owned, with the remainder from social enterprise, start-up and private equity backed businesses.

About Boyden

Boyden is a premier leadership and talent advisory firm with more than 75 offices in over 45 countries. Our global reach enables us to serve client needs anywhere they conduct business. We connect great companies with great leaders through executive search, interim management and leadership consulting solutions. Boyden is ranked amongst the top companies on Forbes’ Americas Best Executive Recruiting Firms for 2021. For further information, visit www.boyden.com.

Contacts:

Chris Swee
Global Head of Marketing
T: +1 914 747 0172
E: cswee@boyden.com
Joanna Goncalves
Global Senior Director of Marketing
T: +1 416 214 4208
E: jgoncalves@boyden.com

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Sophi.io ของ The Globe and Mail คว้ารางวัล North American Digital Media Award จาก WAN-IFRA

โตรอนโต, July 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sophi.io ระบบอัตโนมัติ การเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพ และการคาดการณ์ที่ใช้ปัญญาประดิษฐ์ของ The Globe and Mail ได้รับรางวัล North American Digital Media Award ประจำปี 2021 จาก WAN-IFRA ในหมวด Best Paid Content Strategy นี่เป็นรางวัลที่สี่ของ Sophi ในเดือนที่ผ่านมา

รางวัล North American Digital Media Awards มอบให้เป็นเกียรติแก่ผู้เผยแพร่ที่ได้นำเสนอโครงการสื่อดิจิทัลที่ล้ำสมัย โดดเด่น และไม่เหมือนใครในปีที่ผ่านมา

“เทคโนโลยี [Dynamic Paywall] ทำให้ The Globe and Mail เข้าใจพฤติกรรมของผู้อ่านอย่างแท้จริง นำไปสู่แนวทางปฏิบัติที่ดีที่สุดในการโฆษณาและเนื้อหาที่ต้องชำระเงิน พร้อมปรับกลยุทธ์ทางธุรกิจอย่างชาญฉลาด” WAN-IFRA กล่าวในตอนที่ประกาศผล

Phillip Crawley, CEO และผู้เผยแพร่ของ The Globe and Mail กล่าวว่า: “การได้รับรางวัล WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Award เป็นปีที่สองติดต่อกัน แสดงถึงความสามารถของ Sophi ในการแสดงให้อุตสาหกรรมการพิมพ์เห็นว่าอนาคตจะเป็นอย่างไร เราภูมิใจที่สามารถนำเสนอเครื่องมือที่ขับเคลื่อนด้วย AI และ ML เหล่านี้ให้กับองค์กรทั่วโลก”

Sophi.io ถูกพัฒนาขึ้นโดย The Globe and Mail เพื่อช่วยห้องข่าวในการตัดสินใจเชิงกลยุทธ์และยุทธวิธีที่สำคัญ ซึ่งเป็นชุดเครื่องมือที่ประกอบด้วย Sophi Automation และ Sophi for Paywalls รวมถึง Sophi Analytics ซึ่งเป็นระบบสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจสำหรับห้องข่าว

Sophi เป็นระบบปัญญาประดิษฐ์ที่ช่วยให้ผู้เผยแพร่ระบุและใช้ประโยชน์จากเนื้อหาที่มีค่าที่สุดของตนได้ ซึ่งจะมีความสามารถในการคาดการณ์ที่มีประสิทธิภาพ โดยใช้การประมวลผลภาษาธรรมชาติ Sophi Dynamic Paywall เป็น Paywall ระบบอัตโนมัติบนไซต์แบบไดนามิกเรียลไทม์เต็มรูปแบบที่ปรับแต่งได้ตามต้องการที่วิเคราะห์ทั้งเนื้อหาและพฤติกรรมของผู้ใช้เพื่อกำหนดว่าเวลาใดที่จะเก็บเงินจากผู้อ่านหรือสอบถามอีเมลแอดเดรส และเวลาใดที่ไม่ควรทำ

ในฐานะผู้ชนะรางวัลในอเมริกาเหนือ ทำให้ตอนนี้ Sophi เป็นผู้แข่งขันสำหรับ WAN-IFRA World Digital Media Awards ซึ่งมีผู้ชนะจากอเมริกาเหนือ ละตินอเมริกา เอเชีย ยุโรป แอฟริกา อินเดีย และตะวันออกกลางเข้าแข่งขัน

เกี่ยวกับ Sophi.io

Sophi.io (https://www.sophi.io) เป็นชุดเครื่องมือเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพและการคาดการณ์ที่ขับเคลื่อนโดย AI ที่พัฒนาโดย The Globe and Mail บริษัทสื่อข่าวระดับแนวหน้าของแคนาดา เพื่อช่วยผู้เผยแพร่เนื้อหาในการตัดสินใจเชิงกลยุทธ์และยุทธวิธีที่สำคัญ โซลูชันของ Sophi มีให้บริการตั้งแต่ Sophi Site Automation และ Sophi for Paywalls ไปจนถึง Sophi Analytics ซึ่งเป็นระบบสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจสำหรับผู้เผยแพร่เนื้อหา Sophi ถูกออกแบบมาเพื่อปรับปรุงเมตริกที่มีความสำคัญต่อธุรกิจมากที่สุด เช่น การรักษาผู้สมัครสมาชิกและการเข้าซื้อกิจการ การมีส่วนร่วม ความใหม่ ความถี่และปริมาณ

ติดต่อ

Jamie Rubenovitch
หัวหน้าฝ่ายการตลาด, Sophi.io
The Globe and Mail
416-585-3355
jrubenovitch@globeandmail.com

COVID-19: West Java starts vaccinating people with disabilities

Bandung (ANTARA) – The West Java provincial government on Thursday rolled out COVID-19 vaccinations for people with disabilities at the Wyata Guna Social Rehabilitation Center for People with Visual Sensory Disabilities (BRSPDSN), Bandung.

Governor Ridwan Kamil reviewed the administration of vaccines to ensure the event ran smoothly.

“The total number of people with disabilities in West Java is around 80 thousand,” Kamil said. As many as 50 people with disabilities registered with the BRSPDSN Wyata Guna Bandung received COVID-19 shots with assistance from the committee on Thursday.

For vaccinating people with disabilities in 27 districts/cities, West Java will later use the facilities provided by the Social Services and the Ministry of Social Affairs, Kamil said.

“We have started (vaccinations) in places managed by the Social Services, in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs,” the governor said.

“Hopefully, we can finish this as soon as possible,” he added.

Source: Antara News

Thohir asks SOEs to convert tankers for oxygen distribution

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Indonesian government has directed state-owned enterprises, such as Pertamina and Pupuk Indonesia Group, to convert their tankers so they can help distribute oxygen amid a surge in coronavirus infections.

To tackle the transmission of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Indonesia, all stakeholders need to work hand-in-hand, State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir said.

“That’s why, yesterday, we asked Pertamina and state-owned fertilizer companies to start aiding oxygen distribution through their tankers that are required to be converted,” he disclosed at a working meeting with House of Representatives’ Commission VI here on Thursday.

In response to the request, Krakatau Steel and state-owned fertilizer companies have started converting some extra facilities to produce oxygen since yesterday, he added.

“The demand for oxygen will hike day by day. So, like it or not, we need to accelerate (oxygen production), akin to medicine supply or the number of patient beds,” the minister emphasized.

As reported earlier, Thohir visited the enterprises to secure their support for meeting the oxygen needs of patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during the enforcement of emergency public activity restrictions (PPKM). Some strategic SOEs — such as Pertamina Group subsidiaries such as PGN, Krakatau Steel, and Pupuk Indonesia Group subsidiaries Petrokimia, and Pusri— have played an important role in building the nation’s logistics infrastructure, the minister noted.

As they have the facilities in place to manage sourcing of materials as well as distribution, the country’s SOEs should focus on assisting pandemic handling, Thohir said.

He said he is optimistic that quick action from SOEs would help speed up the response to meet the needs of COVID-19 patients on site.

Apart from ensuring the distribution of medicines and at affordable prices, SOEs are also ensuring oxygen tube supplies for several hospitals, he added.

Pertamina Group and PGN have utilized their infrastructure to distribute oxygen tubes to health facilities, he informed. Pupuk Indonesia Group has sent a total of 96.73 tons of oxygen to hospitals in Jakarta, Central Java, and Yogyakarta, he added.

In addition, Krakatau Steel has a large oxygen allocation for steel production which will be diverted to secure oxygen supplies for hospitals, Thohir said. (INE)

Source: Antara News

House Speaker hands over 30,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to East Java

Surabaya, E Java (ANTARA) – House Speaker Puan Maharani handed over 30 thousand COVID-19 vaccine doses for the people of East Java while reviewing mass vaccinations at 10 November Sports Stadium in Tambaksari, Surabaya on Thursday.

“I hope this vaccine will accelerate the attainment of the vaccination target and the creation of herd immunity in Surabaya (in particular) and East Java (in general),” Maharani said.

Under the six-day mass vaccination drive at the sports stadium, which kicked off on Wednesday (July 6, 2021), East Java authorities are targeting to vaccinate at least 50 thousand people per day.

“Insyaallah (God willing), we can achieve the vaccination target earlier than expected. At least when we commemorate Indonesian Independence Day on August 17 (2021), we will come close to achieving the target. It would be better if we can achieve it on schedule,” Maharani said.

While reviewing mass vaccinations at the sports stadium, the House Speaker, who was accompanied by East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa and Surabaya Mayor Eri Cahyad, also interacted with several vaccine recipients. According to the East Java COVID-19 Response Task Force, the province has recorded 182,076 coronavirus cases as of Tuesday (July 6), with 85.92 percent, or 156,444, patients recovering from the virus and 7.21 percent, or 13,138, patients succumbing to the infection. Meanwhile, 12,494 people are currently being treated for COVID-19 in the province.

On Tuesday, East Java recorded 1,808 new COVID-19 cases, 1,077 recoveries, and 122 deaths.

As many as 20 districts and cities in the province have been classified as red zones, or areas with a high risk of coronavirus transmission, the task force reported.

The 20 red zones comprise the districts of Banyuwangi, Ngawi, Lamongan, Sampang, Malang, Bangkalan, Pamekasan, Magetan, Ponorogo, Sidoarjo, Situbondo, Nganjuk, Lumajang, and Bondowoso as well as the cities of Probolingo, Madiun, Mojokerto, Malang, Kediri, and Batu.

Meanwhile, 18 cities and districts have been listed as orange zones, or areas with a medium risk of COVID-19 transmission. They comprise the cities of Pasuruan, Blitar, and Surabaya and the districts of Gresik, Sumenep, Madiun, Pacitan, Kediri, Probolinggo, Tuban, Tulungagung, Blitar, Jember, Trenggalek, Pasuruan, Bojonegoro, Mojokerto, and Jombang.

“Last week, only three regions, Banyuwangi, Bondowso, and Madiun, (were marked as red zones). The number swelled to 20 regions this week,” Dr. Makhyan Jibril, the task force’s spokesperson, noted in Surabaya on Tuesday night.

Jibril attributed the spike in COVID-19 cases in several districts and cities to the increase in the number of red zones in the province.

He said he believed that rising mobility of people two weeks ago, coupled with the entry of the new coronavirus variant, contributed to the increase in COVID-19 cases in nearly all cities and districts of East Java. (INE)

Source: Antara News

Jakarta: Papua governor completes self-isolation, prepares to fly home

Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe prepared to fly back to Jayapura on Thursday evening after completing self-isolation in Jakarta following a visit to Singapore for medical treatment.

“Governor Lukas Enembe appeals to the people of Papua to pray for his good health and safe arrival in Jayapura,” the provincial government’s spokesperson, Muhammad Rifai Darus, said here on Thursday.

Enembe, who had been admitted at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital since May 25, 2021, arrived back in Jakarta on July 1, 2021, he informed.

The governor started self-isolation the day he arrived, in compliance with the government’s health protocols, he added.

His flight for Jayapura was scheduled on Thursday evening, he continued.

Enembe has urged Papuans to refrain from planning a welcome for him since crowd-pulling activities are prohibited amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Darus said.

Instead, the governor has asked the people to continue to comply with the government’s COVID-19 prevention measures to protect themselves and their families from infection, he added.

The governor has also expressed his readiness to return to Papua and resume his services following a full recovery, Darus said.

Enembe was in the media spotlight after Papua New Guinea authorities deported him in early April this year.

As reported by ANTARA earlier, the Papua governor admitted to entering PNG by motorcycle taxi (ojek) for medical treatment.

“I know what I have done is wrong since I crossed and entered the PNG territory through a small path by a motorcycle taxi,” Enembe said after taking a COVID-19 antigen test. He said he visited Vanimo on March 31, 2021 for medical treatment.

He was deported soon after in the company of Indonesia’s consul in Vanimo Allen Simarmata.

PNG Consul General Geoffrey L. Wiri and chief of border affairs and foreign cooperation of the Papua provincial administration, Suzana Wanggai, received him in the neutral zone, from where he headed back to Jayapura.

In June this year, Enembe again caught the attention of local media outlets after he protested the Home Ministry’s decision to appoint Papua provincial government secretary, Dance Yulian Flassy, as acting governor of the province. (INE)

Source: Antara News

Possible for Indonesia to regain upper-middle income status: official

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesia can return to its upper middle-income status in one to two years, if annual economic growth reaches 5-6 percent and population rises 1.2 percent per year, Presidential Special Staff for Economic Affairs said.

“In the next one-two years, we can return to our position as an upper-middle income country, although there has been an increase in the World Bank’s threshold from gross national income of US$4,046 to US$4,096,” Arif Budimanta said here on Thursday.

As per the World Bank’s latest report in June, 2021, Indonesia is currently in the lower middle-income bracket, he noted.

Indonesia had achieved upper middle-income country status in 2019. However, its status declined after the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, Budimanta said.

“Saving public health is a priority (currently), and this effort is being carried out by implementing large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) and restrictions on community activities (PPKM), which will reduce community mobility and contract the rate of economic growth,” he noted.

When Indonesia became an upper middle-income country in 2019, its per capita income had reached US$4,050, which was just above the lower threshold of US$4,045 set by the World Bank, he said. But, when Indonesia’s economy contracted due to the impact of COVID-19, the nation’s per capita income fell to US$3,870, Budimanta added.

As a result, Indonesia returned to the category of lower middle-income countries, he said.

“Besides Indonesia, several countries have dropped from upper middle-income to lower middle-income status, for example, Belize, Samoa, and Iran,” he said.

Iran has recorded a sharp decline in per capita income from US$5,240 to US$2,870, he added.

“There are also several countries that have dropped in rank from high-income countries to upper-middle-income countries, such as Mauritius, Panama, Romania,” he pointed out. (INE)

Source: Antara News