Flintfox International Appoints Stewart Gibbs as Chief Operating Officer

Flintfox International Appoints Stewart Gibbs as Chief Operating Officer to Meet Demand of Exponential Growth

Flintfox International is pleased to announce the appointment of Stewart Gibbs as Chief Operating Officer, who will collaborate with the management team to develop and implement plans for the operational infrastructure of systems, processes, and personnel designed to accommodate the rapid growth objectives of our organization.

A veteran of the IT industry, Mr. Gibbs has over 25 years’ experience in selling and implementing Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management solutions throughout the Asia Pacific region. A believer in using software solutions to drive improved business performance, Mr. Gibbs has enjoyed tenures at JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Oracle delivering business solutions to organisations across a vast array of industries including manufacturing, retail, professional services, consumer goods, wholesale distribution and the public sector.

Immediately prior to joining Flintfox, Mr. Gibbs led the Microsoft Dynamics channel business across the Asia Pacific region. Based in Singapore, he was focused on driving local channel growth and mentoring international organisations to enable their entry to the massive potential that is the Asia Pacific market.

“We are delighted to have Stewart on board,” says Mike Ridgway, CEO. “Not only does he bring to us an abundance of business skills and knowledge, but he also provides a huge amount of insight into our ongoing relationship with Microsoft, experience in expanding our market opportunity into both mature and emerging economies, and a wealth of expertise through working with customers in our target industries.”

As COO, Mr. Gibbs will manage day to day business operations, establishing a management framework and infrastructure to ensure the company is able to meet the heavy demands of its exponential growth.

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Flintfox International extends outreach in LATAM with AlfaPeople

Flintfox International confirmed today their latest partnership with AlfaPeople LATAM. This partnership will ensure manufacturers and distributors across South America get the best-of-breed TPM for Dynamics solution.

The first initiative of AlfaPeople is to showcase the Flintfox TPM for Dynamics solution to the most important distributors in the region at a special event for the distribution sector: “Dynamic Solutions to enhance Operational Effectiveness”, co-organized by Microsoft at Microsoft offices in Panama, on April 23rd.

“I’m thrilled AlfaPeople LATAM is already proving a highly active partner,” says Mike Ridgway, Flintfox CEO. “We are confident this regional event will unlock opportunities for both of us.”

The next day, AlfaPeople and Flintfox will meet with distributors within the Free Trade Zone in Colon. As the world’s second largest Duty Free Trade Zone after Hong Kong, the Colon Free Zone is a gigantic entity at the Atlantic gateway to the Panama Canal, dedicated to re-export an enormous variety of merchandise to Latin America and the Caribbean, with over 2,500 operating companies.
Specially architected for manufacturers and distributors, Flintfox TPM for Dynamics is a scalable solution for enterprises to optimize their trade funds management. The unique product structure and flexibility extends Microsoft Dynamics trade functions so businesses are able to:

• improve and more accurately measure their trade spend impact and profitability,
• maximize their trade spends effectiveness with advanced pricing and deal flexibility,
• gain a full financial control on chargebacks and deductions,
• align their trade promotion budget with the actual spending.

Felix Sastoque, Country Manager at AlfaPeople, is verydefinitely enthusiastic about this partnership: "After a deep evaluation process our Presales Team concluded that Flintfox and its TPM Solution is the best solution we can offer in our region. Actually, we defined that this will be part of our sales strategy this year in LATAM."

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