EMEA Management Team

Richard Warley
International Managing Director

Richard Warley joined SAVVIS in September 2000 and is currently International Managing Director for SAVVIS. Prior to joining SAVVIS, Mr. Warley was a director in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in New York.

Mr. Warley has worked in the equity research department of Cazenove & Co. and also served as a corporate finance attorney at Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer. Mr. Warley holds degrees from the London School of Economics in History and Economics and received his law degree from the College of Law in London.

Brian Klingbeil
Deputy Managing Director and Finance Director EMEA

Before taking this role, Brian was the Vice President of Finance and Strategic Planning for SAVVIS in the US for 4.5 years. With over 10 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry, Brian was the Vice President of

Finance of GTS Telecommunications prior to joining SAVVIS and has also held key finance and planning positions at Qwest Communications in Denver, Colorado. Brian studied engineering at Miami University and holds a BS degree in Finance from The Ohio State University.

Deborah White
Head of Client Services EMEA

Deborah White joined SAVVIS in
May 2003 and is currently Head
of Client Services – EMEA. Prior
to joining SAVVIS, Deborah was
an Operations Manager for Intel
Online Services. Deborah also
worked for ICL as their Internet
Managed Services Manager.

Deborah has been an accredited IT Service Manager since 2000.

Mike Bennett
Head of Technical Operations EMEA

Mike Bennett has served as Head of European Technical Operations since June 2004. Before this Mr Bennett was Hosting Engineering Manager for Savvis UK. Mr. Bennett was employed by Intel Corporation in a variety of positions, most recently as a Customer Account Manger,

and before that as a Shift Operations Manager. Previously, Mr. Bennett served in various roles at Cable and Wireless’ Internet and Data communications Divisions.

Neil Cresswell
Director - Sales and Account Management EMEA

Neil Cresswell joined SAVVIS as Sales Director of EMEA in 2007. Neil is responsible for SAVVIS’ sales organisation throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa including sales, marketing and partners. Neil has worked in the IT industry for over 20

years. Prior to joining SAVVIS, Neil has held sales and marketing roles in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East for companies such as and IBM and Fiserv Inc. More recently, Neil has been responsible for leading the sales teams at European IT managed services providers Netstore - Intercea Plc and Attenda Ltd. Neil holds an honours degree in business studies from the University of Westminster.

Marion Stewart
Head of Customer Solutions EMEA

Marion Stewart joined SAVVIS in 2003 and is in the role of Head of Customer Solutions EMEA. Marion manages the support of pre-sales support including Bid Management and Technical Pre Sales Support, and also post-Sales Account

Management and Consultancy Services for SAVVIS in EMEA. Prior to joining SAVVIS, Marion spent over 15 years in the IT industry in both the Public and Private sector. In these roles, Marion had responsibility for the delivery and the procurement of IT services in mission critical environments, including emergency services. Marion holds a BA in Business Studies from Stirling University.

Jill Gates
Vice President of HR International

Jill Gates joined SAVVIS in August 2006 and is responsible for HR in EMEA, Asia Pacific and Japan.Jill has worked in HR for the past thirteen years with six of these years being spent exclusively in the IT and communications

industries with senior HR management and consulting roles at Computer Associates, Huawei Technologies, Redstone Communications and Fastnet Systems. Previous to these roles, Jill spent six years with Adecco managing their temporary staff division in the Reading area. In the course of performing these roles, Jill has gained experience in, and advised on, HR management across multi-division environments and different geographic locations.

Edward Mueller
Legal Director EMEA

Ed Mueller joined SAVVIS in 2008 as Legal Director for EMEA and has 15 years experience as an in-house lawyer. Prior to joining SAVVIS, Ed worked for BT Global Services, where he led on the commercial and legal aspects of large IT/telecoms outsourcing transactions.

Before this role, Ed worked as a procurement lawyer for both MCI WorldCom and the UK Post Office. Ed studied at Oxford University and gained a BA (hons) in Jurisprudence.

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