Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that Lee Miles has been appointed as Regional Director for the Middle East. Lee will be responsible for the growth across all Infor products spanning all industries in the region.
His appointment is the latest stage of Infor’s execution on a plan to invest significantly to grow Infor’s sales in the region, including Infor’s continued investment to expand and support the Infor Partner Network (IPN).
- Based in Infor’s Dubai office in Media City, Lee will be responsible for developing sales (both direct and through partners) throughout the region in the key industries of manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, public sector, healthcare and hospitality.
- Lee has over 16 years’ experience in enterprise software from sales leadership roles at Computer Associates, SSA Global, Infor and SAP. For the last five years Lee has been based in the Middle East in various positions for SAP including; Head of Strategic Customers Emerging Markets and General Manager for the telecommunications industry at SAP EMEA.
- In January 2013 Infor opened a new customer support centre within its rapidly expanding office in Dubai Internet City servicing Infor customers throughout the Middle East, which include King Hamad University Hospitals, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Saudi Diesel, Awal Gulf, Saudi Printing, Pan Emirates and Zahid Group.
“Infor has seen incredible growth and momentum in the Middle East over the last few years as our micro-vertical focus has really started to paid dividends,” said John Flavin, executive vice president, Infor. “We are significantly investing in the Middle East and will soon be announcing the opening of a subsidiary in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We plan to build on these solid foundations to address the key vertical markets in the fast-growing Middle East region, and Lee’s appointment is instrumental in accelerating our drive to build market share.”
