Vodafone has hired EMC veteran Brian Humphries as group enterprise director – responsible for Vodafone’s local and international markets and Vodafone Global Enterprise.

Vodafone Global Enterprise business serves more than 1,700 enterprises globally. Vodafone’s enterprise business accounted for 28 percent of Group revenue as of 30 September 2016.

Brian Humphries will join the Group Executive Committee on 1 February 2017 and will report to the Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao. He succeeds Nick Jeffery, who became the chief executive officer of Vodafone UK in July 2016.

Brian Humphries is currently the president and chief operating officer, Infrastructure Solutions Group with Dell EMC.

He was previously with Hewlett-Packard where prior roles included senior vice president, Emerging Markets, senior vice president, Strategy and Corporate Development and chief of staff to the chairman and chief executive.