SysGroup plc announced that a number of strategic changes to the Sales and Marketing functions were implemented in the period as part of the integration process of Systems Professional Ltd. and to support the new Group structure as a Managed IT Services business. The sales function has been restructured to create a single team focused fully on Managed IT Services, headed up by the appointment of James Rush as Group Sales Director. James previously held senior sales management roles with NCC Group, Getronics and IBM Global Services. All supporting teams have likewise been integrated across the Group with single teams operating across the service desk, infrastructure team, cloud delivery team and professional services team. In Marketing, the Group initiated a complete overhaul of the marketing efforts to create a new strategic marketing function. This included the appointment of Emmy Lippold to the newly created role of Group Marketing Director. Emmy has previously held senior positions in technology companies with Data8 Limited and Upland Software Inc.