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Forterro announces regional organisation design and hires industry veterans

European ERP software provider Forterro has announced a regionally oriented organisation design that will help oversee its eleven localised European ERP product brands, accelerating its growth in the region. 

“With this change, we’ll continue to honour our principle of each brand being local, whilst giving each region the power to accelerate growth through access to exceptional talent, strategic skillsets, and the resources and governance possibilities offered by the scale of the full Forterro organisation,” said CEO Dean Forbes (pictured).

Alongside this announcement, the firm has also appointed three industry veterans to lead its Northern, Western and Central Europe operations, reporting to CEO Dean Forbes.

Appointed to the role of regional presidents are Richard Furby for Northern Europe, David Coste for Forterro Western Europe, and Marcus Pannier for Central Europe. 

Previously, Furby oversaw and significantly grew Forterro’s abas ERP abas product line up, a role he will hand over to Pannier. Furby will fulfil a dual role, serving as president of M&A for the group, as well as overseeing Forterro’s Jeeves, Garp, and 123insight products as president of Forterro Northern Europe.  

Currently, Coste leads Forterro’s Sylob, Clipper, ProConcept, Helios and Silog ERP products and will continue to do so as president of Forterro Western Europe. 

Pannier, who will officially join the firm on March 1, most recently served as managing director, DACH at ERP vendor IFS. He will be responsible for overseeing the abas, myfactory, and BPSC product brands as president of Central Europe.