Schneider Electric, a provider of Digital Transformation, energy management and automation solutions, has announced the appointment of Karlton Gray as its new IT channel director for the UK and Ireland. Gray is a seven-year veteran of Schneider Electric’s Secure Power Division and since joining he has held numerous roles within the company, managing large-scale enterprise, corporate and e-commerce channel partners including CDW, Softcat, Comms Express, Ebuyer, CCS Media, Misco, Amazon and Bechtle.
In his new role Gray will take charge of Schneider Electric’s IT channel sales divisions across the region and will be tasked with driving continued success of Schneider Electric’s Secure Power Division, which provides critical power protection, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), racks, enclosures, power distribution units (PDU) and cooling solutions for data centres, server rooms and edge computing environments.
Gray joined Schneider Electric as a channel account manager in 2015, driving sales for APC, its flagship brand of physical infrastructure and software solutions via UK direct market resellers (DMR), VARs and traditional hardware resellers. In 2017 he was promoted to senior channel account manager, where he was responsible for establishing and managing relationships with partners to deliver growth across the UK and Northern Europe.