Business Wire

CORRECTING and REPLACING SHI International Hires Donavan Hutchinson to Lead UK Sales Operations

6.1.2021 01:35:00 EET | Business Wire | Press release

Share

Please replace the release (dated January 4, 2021) with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.

The updated release reads:

SHI INTERNATIONAL HIRES DONAVAN HUTCHINSON TO LEAD UK SALES OPERATIONS

SHI International, one of the largest IT solutions providers in the world, has hired Donavan Hutchinson as Managing Director, SHI Corporation UK LTD, a wholly owned subsidiary of SHI. He will be responsible for managing sales growth and operations in the United Kingdom from the company’s office in Milton Keynes.

“We’re excited to add Donavan’s experience and leadership to our team,” says Celeste Lee, Senior Vice President International Sales and Global Programs for SHI. “Whether building a new team or driving additional efficiency within an existing organization, Donavan’s proven track record of success leading sales organizations to achieve long-term growth in the channel will be a valuable addition to SHI’s ability to support customers in the U.K. and beyond.”

Hutchinson has accelerated international business growth in a variety of roles for nearly two decades, including global enterprise experience with multinational solutions providers. Hutchinson spent the last year managing UK/European expansion for Paragon Micro UK, a fast-growing global IT solutions provider.

Prior to Paragon Micro, Hutchinson served in a similar capacity at U.S.-based PCM for nearly three years. As Managing Director UK/International, he helped grow sales from ground level to $62 million in his first calendarized trading year with second-year revenues surpassing $95 million.

SHI opened its U.K. office in 1998 and now employs 150 people there.

ABOUT SHI

Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is an $11 billion global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry’s most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT services professionals, SHI delivers custom IT solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Academic customers. With over 5,000 employees worldwide, SHI is the largest Minority and Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. For more information visit https://www.SHI.com.

Press Resources

SHI Corporate Website: http://www.SHI.com
SHI Blog: http://blog.SHI.com
SHI Twitter Handle: @SHI_Intl

To view this piece of content from cts.businesswire.com, please give your consent at the top of this page.

Contact information

For SHI International:
Gregory FCA
Matt McLoughlin
610.228.2123
Matt@GregoryFCA.com

About Business Wire

For more than 50 years, Business Wire has been the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure.

Subscribe to releases from Business Wire

Subscribe to all the latest releases from Business Wire by registering your e-mail address below. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Latest releases from Business Wire

1NCE and Pessl Instruments Connect Smart Farms Worldwide29.7.2026 11:00:00 EEST | Press release

1NCE, a company offering a plug-and-play platform for creating and managing the world’s best IoT products, and Pessl Instruments, a global leader in smart agriculture, announce today the roll-out of the METOS by Pessl Instruments weather network solution powered by 1NCE. The smart farming solution provided by Pessl Instruments connects thousands of weather stations and field sensors through a single platform, providing farmers real-time data of precipitation and soil moisture, extreme weather forecasting and crop disease risk in more than 80 countries. The main challenge for the deployment of smart farming solutions is always providing good coverage in rural areas. Thanks to 1NCE’s global connectivity service available in more than 170 countries, Pessl Instruments can now offer its smart farming solution at global scale with a 99.97% service availability. This consolidates Pessl Instruments as a smart farming powerhouse, helping customers make more informed irrigation and fertilizer de

Cognita Reply Named an OpenAI Advanced Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Frontier AI29.7.2026 11:00:00 EEST | Press release

Cognita Reply, the Reply Group company specialising in OpenAI technologies, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Advanced Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260729234340/en/ Cognita Reply, the Reply Group company specialising in OpenAI technologies, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Advanced Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, to accelerate enterprise adoption of frontier AI The OpenAI Partner Network is a global programme for partners to build, sell and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep industry expertise, delivery capabilities and customer relationships, while equipping them with resources, enablement and support to help enterprises adopt OpenAI frontier models and products and turn them into measurable impact. We’re pleased to welcome Cognita Reply as an OpenAI Advanced Partner. The Cognita Reply

T964 Named as Uptime Institute Business Partner to Power Iraq’s Digital Infrastructure29.7.2026 10:02:00 EEST | Press release

Uptime Institute and Tech964 Holding Limited (T964), Iraq’s leading digital infrastructure company, today announced a landmark strategic partnership to accelerate Iraq’s digital transformation. The partnership combines the world’s leading authority in digital infrastructure standards with the company building the critical infrastructure underpinning Iraq’s digital economy. The agreement was signed at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S.-Iraq Business Summit on July 17, 2026, during the official U.S. visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi, at a historic summit that produced more than 50 agreements valued at over USD $60 billion and marked a powerful new era of economic cooperation between the United States and Iraq. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260728066813/en/ T964 named as Uptime Institute Business Partner to power Iraq's digital infrastructure, landmark agreement signed at U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S.-

PK MED Strengthens Its Strategic and Scientific Governance to Support the Development of Its Therapeutic Micro-implants29.7.2026 10:00:00 EEST | Press release

PK MED, a French biotechnology company founded by Truffle Capital (founder of Abivax and Carvolix), developing therapeutic micro-implants to address major medical needs, today announces a significant strengthening of its governance. The company is strengthening the structure of its Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board to support the upcoming Phase 2 entry of its most advanced drug candidate, ARTHRELIS (treatment of gout flares), and to accelerate the preclinical development of ENGRAFTIS (treatment of poor graft function following bone marrow transplantation). The Board of Directors of PK MED welcomes four key new members: François Romaneix, appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors. Senior Partner at Truffle Capital, former CEO of the French National Authority for Health (HAS), and former Deputy CEO of the Institut Pasteur, he brings his strategic vision for market access and healthcare corporate governance. Isabelle Buckle, PhD, Board Member. With more than three decade

ELFA Vape Aerosols Less Harmful Than Cigarette Smoke: Study29.7.2026 10:00:00 EEST | Press release

Levels of 17 constituents in aerosols from ELFA, a pod system vape by ELFBAR, are undetected or substantially lower than those in cigarette smoke, reveals the latest peer-reviewed study published by iScience, a scientific journal. Aerosols in this study are generated by facilities under standardized laboratory conditions. The tests involve 17 cigarette smoke-related analytes during vaporization of vape liquid from ELFA’s pods in four flavors, including Super Tobacco, Spearmint, Strawberry Ice and Watermelon. Findings indicate that adult smokers completely transitioning to ELFA pod system could reduce, or even eliminate, their exposure to multiple harmful constituents compared with consuming combustible cigarettes. “This study adds to the growing scientific evidence supporting the effective role vaping products play in reducing, or even eliminating, exposure to harmful chemical substances for adult smokers,” said an ELFBAR spokesperson. “Providing adult users with quality cessation alte

In our pressroom you can read all our latest releases, find our press contacts, images, documents and other relevant information about us.

Visit our pressroom
World GlobeA line styled icon from Orion Icon Library.HiddenA line styled icon from Orion Icon Library.Eye