Logicalis UK

Alex Louth - Managing Director

Alex has spent more than 20 years in the IT channel, amassing a great depth of experience and knowledge in leading services focused businesses to deliver transformational solutions for customers.

Having worked in both start-ups and more established global businesses, Alex owned e-DBA, a company specialising in Oracle software, hardware, managed and professional service. This business, which become Red Stack Tech in 2015 following a merger with 3sixty-analytics and the acquisition of Polish Oracle Partner, Gridwise, won several notable Oracle awards, including Oracle Partner of the Year 2010, 2011 & 2013 and UK, EMEA & Global Oracle Engineered Systems Partner of the Year 2014.

Red Stack Tech was acquired by Data Intensity, a multi-cloud managed services provider, in 2016 and Alex spent the following 2.5 years as International General Manager, integrating and growing the two businesses and leading go-to-market strategies across Europe and Asia Pacific.

Mark Rogers - Chief Executive Officer

Mark Rogers joined Logicalis in 2003 as Finance Director for Logicalis UK, and in 2004 he became Chief Financial Officer, European Operations. Since March 2007, he has taken on the role of Chief Operating Officer for Logicalis Group and in March 2014, Mark was appointed President and COO of Logicalis Group. Mark became CEO for Logicalis Group with effect from 1st March 2015.

Mark has extensive experience in the technology and service sectors both in the UK and internationally. He spent 20 years at Racal Electronics/Thales of which 13 years were at Finance Director level within divisions providing Managed Network Services, Telecoms and Survey & Positioning Services. Whilst at Thales he was also Chairman of Citylink Telecommunications, a joint venture company which had secured a £1.2 billion, 20 year PFI contract with London Underground. Also, he has significant M&A experience including the sale of Racal Telecom to Global Crossing for £1 billion as well as experience in the acquisition and integration of smaller businesses.

He started his finance career with Revlon where he qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant.

Main business areas

Our aim, here at Logicalis, is to help our customers navigate change to maximise their technology investments over time. Hundreds of leading organisations trust us to provide their IT services, manage their infrastructure and play a pivotal role in their digital transformation.

• Adaptable digital platforms
  In our digital world, it’s adaptability that enables success. Organisations need infrastructure in place that can match their pace of change without becoming less secure or sacrificing reliability. Our Adaptive Digital Platforms provide the agility demanded by digital transformation via software-defined technologies, automation and our ‘lifetime value’ services.
• IoT
  The Internet of Things is joining the world up – extending enterprise beyond the ‘carpeted areas’ to help organisations provide new services, gain new insights and streamline or automate operations. We help our customers overcome the complexity of IoT ecosystems and unify IT with OT to create more responsive, intelligent and connected organisations.
• Data driven business
  Data, when it’s used effectively, is the most valuable asset an organisation has. By guiding our customers through their entire data lifecycle – from point of capture through to storage, governance and analysis – we help them move to fact-based decision making that improves business speed, responsiveness and efficiency.

Market position

We’re part of the international Logicalis Group.  Headquartered in the UK, Logicalis Group’s origins go back to 1997 when Datatec, our South African parent company, acquired Logical Networks plc, a UK based network integrator. From 1997 to 2000, Datatec embarked on a globalisation strategy, acquiring more than 20 IT integration and services companies. Today we are a team of over 6000 people supporting customers in 25 countries. Our operation extends from Europe to the Americas, Africa and Asia and is recognised as one of only five Cisco Gold Partners.