Efficient IT leader 1E appoints Christian Laloy as Managing Director, France
1E expands into France, establishes office in Paris and hires dedicated team to drive commercial
growth locally
Paris, France, Embargoed until 09.00 BST, 22nd September 2011 - 1E, the global leader in Efficient IT
solutions, today announced the appointment of Christian Laloy as Managing Director and Simon
Glusman as Solutions Engineer of its French operations. The appointment marks 1E’s expansion into
France and will help the company address the needs of local customers more effectively and
efficiently.
With more than 16 years’ experience in the enterprise software industry, Laloy is a seasoned
business development expert in the French market. He honed his expertise at companies such as
Good Technology, where he launched the company’s French subsidiary, developed new business
opportunities and drove the company’s channel sales programme locally. He also held Global
Account Manager roles at Quest Software, Insight and Microsoft, where he worked with partners and
integrators to build up key relationships with strategic accounts from the French CAC 40 and beyond.
Simon Glusman joins 1E as Solutions Engineer. He brings with him a decade of experience in building
key customer relationships and working on large-scale deployments at an EMEA level and has a
breadth of expertise in systems management, virtualization, data security and process management.
Prior to joining 1E, Glusman worked as Technical Account Manager at LANDesk Software for over
four years, and spent five years as Desktop Engineer at PagesJaunes.
Of their new roles, Laloy commented, “We are excited by the opportunity to build 1E’s presence in
France. Simon and I join at a time when companies are realizing the importance of improving IT
efficiency and reducing waste in the face of rising energy costs and an increased pressure to lower
CO2 emissions. We look forward to making a positive difference.”
Commenting on the appointment, Sumir Karayi, CEO, 1E says: “We welcome Christian Laloy and
Simon Glusman to 1E. I am confident that the team’s wealth of commercial expertise and
relationships will enable us to serve our existing customers in the region better and achieve our
aggressive growth plans for EMEA.”
Both Laloy and Glusman are based in the 8th arrondissement in Paris.
About 1E
Globally over the past five years €6 trillion has been spent on IT, which is more than half the US GDP. Maintaining this huge amount of IT
accounts for 70-80 percent of each year’s IT budget. CIOs want to reduce this figure to save money or to have more discretionary spend,
but lack the tools to do so. 1E is the pioneer and global leader in Efficient IT solutions. 1E’s mission is to identify unused IT, help remove it
and optimize everything else. 1E solutions help reduce servers, network bandwidth constraints, software license bills, energy consumption
and many time consuming IT tasks. Some of world’s most prestigious names feature among 1400 organisations using 16 million 1E
software licences to reduce their IT maintenance bills while providing a more responsive service to their users. For more information,
please visit www.1e.com or follow us on www.twitter.com/1ENews.
Media Contacts
Karolina Shaw | Pauline Hagan
Office: +44 (0)20 8326 3495 | +44 (0)20 8326 9012
Email: karolina.shaw@1e.com | pauline.hagan@1e.com
[i] PCs
- There are 20 million Professional computers in France (Rapport TIC et Développement durable)
- Total kWh used by PCs left on during weeknights and weekends is 520 kWh (1E/Alliance to Save Energy, PC Energy Report)
- 20 m x 520 kWh = 10.4 bn kWh of potential savings
- To calculate GHG emissions based on kWh used (France): kWh x 0.090 (Econologie.com)
- 10.4 bn kWh x 0.090 = 936,000 metric tonnes of potential CO2 savings
- Electricity - industrial consumption in France = €0.0659 per kWh (EU Energy Portal, June 2011)
- 10.4 bn kWh x €0.0659 = €685.4 m potential cost savings
Servers
- There are 1.3 m servers in France (Rapport TIC et Développement durable)
- One server emits 3,100 kWh of energy per year, including cooling (Source)
- 15% of servers are not being used (1E/Alliance to Save Energy, Server Energy & Efficiency Management)
- 3,100 kWh x 15% = 465 kWh
- 465 kWh x 1.3 m = 604.5 m kWh of potential savings
- 604.5 m kWh of potential savings x 0.090 (Econologie.com) = 54,405 metric tonnes of CO2
- 604.5 m kWh x €0.0659 per kWh (EU Energy Portal April 2011) = €39.8 potential cost savings
Total
- Potential savings in kWh = 10.4 bn + 604.5 m = 11 bn kWh
- Potential CO2 savings = 936,000 + 54,405 = 990,405 metric tonnes of CO2
- Potential cost savings = 685.4 m + 39.8 m = €725 196 550