Zones Executive Vice President Tom Ducatelli Departs

After more than eight years with the solution provider, Zones Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development Tom Ducatelli has left to pursue other opportunities, CRN has learned.

Ducatelli told CRN that he resigned amicably from the solution provider, No. 31 on the CRN 2014 Solution Provider 500 list, at the end of January. Zones confirmed Ducatelli's departure, but declined comment on the news, citing a policy not to comment on personnel issues.

Ducatelli said there was "no drama" about his departure, he simply was looking to pursue other opportunities, although he wasn't quite sure yet what those would be.

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Ducatelli said he was proud of his time at Zones, where he helped the solution provider retool its sales and business development strategies to help it transform to a global IT solution provider from a national reseller. He said he believes the company is well positioned for growth in 2015 and beyond.

"I can't say enough great things about the company. I've just chosen to look at other organizations to do what I did at Zones, which is to transform the sales organization to more solutions-centric from product-centric," Ducatelli said.

He praised the leadership of CEO Murray Wright, saying he has helped position the company for strong future growth. As the company sees growth in advanced technology solutions sales, Ducatelli said he is looking for the challenge of replicating that success elsewhere.

"I think with Murray coming, Zones is in great capable hands. They’ve got a great future ahead of them. I just decided I want to pursue my passion to innovate and build," Ducatelli said. "That’s where my passion is. There's a lot of opportunities out there -- a lot of companies looking to move from national reseller to global IT solution provider. That what I'd like to be focused on," he continued.

In addition to Zones, Ducatelli has held executive positions at other major channel companies. Before joining Zones in 2006, Ductelli was senior vice president of U.S. dales at Tech Data. Prior to that, he spent more than 11 years at CompuCom as senior vice president of U.S. sales and business development.

KEVIN McLAUGHLIN contributed to this story.

PUBLISHED FEB. 17, 2015