SmartCIC will leverage its network of 25,000+ engineers to rapidly deploy the solution across 30 countries around the world. Customers gain secure, scalable, and cost-effective connectivity across remote and challenging locations. The addition of LEO satellite expands SmartCIC’s Through the Line solution that provides field services and end-to-end connectivity across more than 200 countries.

Walter will lead EMEA sales for xvolv’s artificial intelligence (AI), data as a service (DaaS) performance monitoring, and consultancy solutions. He has over 20 years of experience defining and implementing sales strategies in the networking and wireless connectivity space. His past roles include SVP EMEA at RANlytics, Senior Director of Sales at JMA Wireless, VP Sales EMEA at Nextivity, and Senior Sales Director at IP.Access.

Hemingray will lead initiatives at a group level that support its diversity, culture and values across its two businesses, SmartCIC Global Services and xvolv. Hemingray co-founded SmartCIC alongside Group CEO, Toby Forman in 2008. Over the last two years, she has led the sales team as Sales Director at SmartCIC Global Services. In her new role, Hemingray will build on the group’s heritage as a customer-centric, agile, and solution-focused organisation.

Valverde brings extensive experience in AI, IoT, and product development from her time at Telefonica, O2 and Vodafone to the newly launched xvolv brand 

The new members of the sales team bring decades of experience in the Middle East and Africa and across the globe with roles at Epsilon, Liquid Telecom, Colt and Globalgig.

SmartCIC, a global managed service provider, has partnered with Maxim Nyansa Foundation, an African non-governmental organisation (NGO), to provide young people across Africa with IT training, hardware, and micro-financing.