Datacraft Asia, the systems integrator 51%-owned by Dimension Data, has announced that its chairman and executive director Derek Althorp has resigned for health reasons after 14 years with the company. Datacraft says Althorp will relinquish all his appointments and retire in the UK.
Patrick Quarmby, DiData`s director of corporate finance, who has been on the Datacraft board since 1997, has replaced him. Quarmby is to remain based in Johannesburg.
DiData says he will not hold both the chair and an executive position at Datacraft as Althorp had, and that there are no immediate plans to fill the executive spot.
Datacraft has credited Althorp with much of the success the company has achieved to date.
"Althorp was instrumental in driving the growth of the company from 1988, when it had 20 employees, to the size that it is today," the Datacraft board said when announcing the change.
In January, Datacraft reported a six-month turnover of $217 million, down almost $50 million from the same period in the previous year.
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