Secarma appoints new managing director

Manchester cybersecurity consultancy Secarma has appointed a new managing director as part of wider plans to “challenge the biggest players”.

Paul Harris has re-joined the UKFast group of companies following a three-year spell as marketing director at UKFast from 2009.

Since leaving the cloud provider in 2012, he has held the role of UK marketing director at global enterprise software company Sage and co-founded BrightHR.

“Secarma is an innovative, disruptive player in the market,” commented Harris.

“It’s full of extremely talented people delivering a quality service to blue chip clients. Because of that talent and quality service, it’s grown organically through word of mouth and repeat business.

“There’s great potential for growth in marketing our proposition on a global scale. Businesses are waking up to the fact that security is the most important element of managing their environment online.

“Looking at where Secarma and UKFast are right now and I see that we’re in a perfect position to challenge the biggest players in the industry.”

Secarma is owned by UKFast chief executive Lawrence Jones. Secarma boasts a team of more than 50 ethical hackers and security experts following the acquisition of Pentest Ltd in July 2016.

Jones said: “The business has got huge potential and needs a strong leader – which is exactly what Paul is. He has my full support and I look forward to working with him.”

“What I’ve learned about leadership of the UKFast Group of companies is that you can’t develop them all yourself and you need fantastic people around you to take the ball and carry it.”