Virtustream, a cloud solutions provider, has appointed Karl Deacon as managing director for EMEA.
Deacon joins Virtustream from Capgemini where he was most recently vice president strategy and global CTO of the Infrastructure Services strategic business unit.
Prior to Capgemini, he was director of international operations and engineering, EMEA, at WorldCom, where he led a team of more than 800 people as they provided critical services to internal users and commercial services to EMEA clients.
Deacon has also held senior international roles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Logica and American Express, and served in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy.