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Communications. The initial
phase, integrating these
acquisitions as a group between
2015 and 2017, resulted in the
creation of Europe’s leading
challenger in the high-value
distribution landscape. Nuvias
Group has 20 regional offices
across EMEA, as well as serving
additional countries through
those offices. Turnover is more
than $500 million.
What is your company’s
M&V statement?
Nuvias mission is to provide
a market-leading range of
best-in-class technologies and
products to enable the channel
to deliver business solutions
to its customers and success to
their business. Nuvias acts as
an integrator for the channel,
providing high-quality services
designed to accelerate sales
growth.
business value to customers,
enabling a new standard of
channel success.
What were the biggest
initial hurdles to building
your business and how did
you overcome them?
Nuvias was built by integrating
existing successful businesses,
expert in their respective fields.
The integration of separate
companies to form a new organic
business is always a challenging
process. It takes strong, engaging
leadership and clear objectives
communicated to all employees,
to ensure cohesive effort and
direction. It is crucial to ensure
the brand promise is not only
recognized and understood by
all employees, but that all teams
embody the brand through the
way they operate, both internally
and externally.
Nuvias vision is to redefine value What is your greatest fear,
distribution to the IT channel. We and how do you manage
provide services and solutions to to overcome the same?
enable the channel and vendor
community to deliver exceptional
My greatest fear is losing
the edge, personally and/or
The preeminent leader behind the
success of Nuvias Group
corporately, as we grow. The way
to prevent this from happening
is to stay in the challenger
mindset, driving proactivity to
stretch the envelope and holding
opportunity as a core value,
recognizing and rewarding extra-
mile engagement and new ideas
driving impact.
What would you say are
the top three skills needed
to be a successful CEO?
Leadership: anticipating
change, creating a journey and
an experience others want to be
part of, then driving strategies
and execution to get there first.
Integrity and Accountability:
being fair and predictable,
accountable to a set of values,
helping to inspire the same in
others.
Team focus: building teams,
winning and retaining key talent,
creating an environment that
engages and empowers team
members in and outside of the
company.
SR
Simon England serves as the Chief Executive
Officer of the Nuvias Group. He has a remarkable,
wide-spanning career in IT Value-Added Distribution.
Simon England is leading Nuvias into the next phase of
its growth and development, leveraging its service-led
and solution-rich platform and completing its vision to
become Europe’s leading high-value IT distributor, by
accelerating growth for partners.
He has developed and led businesses in the IT Value-
Added Distribution space for almost 30 years. In his
previous role, England led the development of new
business segments and models for Tech Data, as SVP Next
Generation Technologies, after significantly expanding
the company’s value businesses, under the Azlan, Datech,
and Maverick brands across Europe, as SVP Value Added
Business. England joined as CEO for Nuvias in March
2019.
Simon England, CEO