Bytes Managed Solutions appoints new Retail, Petroleum and Hospitality Solutions Lead

Issued by Bytes Technology Group
Johannesburg, 01 Jun 2016

Paul Grayling.

Bytes Managed Solutions, part of the Altron group of companies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Grayling as the new Retail, Petroleum and Hospitality Solutions Lead. This is part of the organisation's ongoing focus on business development in current and new market sectors.

Grayling is an experienced, effective and successful sales and marketing professional, with an excellent track record in both the selling and marketing of high value technology-based products for the international petroleum convenience, retail and hospitality market. During the past 30 years, Grayling has worked with many international oil companies and restaurant operators including the likes of Edacom Data Systems, ICL Retail Systems, Wincor Nixdorf and NCR (as well as Radiant Systems which was acquired by NCR). Within all of these companies Grayling performed a sales/client leadership role and, before "retiring" from NCR last September, was the Managing Director for the Radiant and then NCR Hospitality business unit, responsible for the EMEA region. Grayling has now settled in Cape Town with his wife.

Grayling had an interesting journey into sales - after leaving school he joined Barclays Bank in London, but six weeks later he signed for Tottenham Hotspur as a professional soccer player where he was part of the 1st Division Squad (old premier league) for two years. Injury brought this career to an end and Grayling suddenly found himself running a modern petrol filling station with the first electronic POS interfaced to a pump control system. After six months he joined the POS company and the rest is history - three decades of selling POS solutions to the petroleum convenience and hospitality market.

Fourie van der Merwe, Managing Director of Bytes Managed Solutions, says of Grayling's appointment: "Paul and Bytes Managed Solutions had regular contact while he was at NCR and now that he is settled in South Africa, he is well positioned to lead the business' growth in the retail, petroleum and hospitality sectors. We are excited to have Grayling on the team and look forward to seeing our Retail, Petroleum and Hospitality business grow under his capable and experienced leadership."

Bytes MS

Bytes Managed Solutions (Bytes MS) is a services led, software driven and hardware enabled organisation that markets, supports and maintains enterprise-wide end-to-end technology solutions and related services that enable medium to large enterprises to effectively delivery their offering to the end consumers in South Africa and Africa. Bytes MS leverages on partnerships, thought leadership and capabilities to deliver world class technology solutions and related services enabling its customers to achieve their growth and success.

Bytes MS is the exclusive distributor for NCR products in South Africa and strategically partners with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Alcatel, Burroughs, Unity, Postec, Unisys, Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco, and delivers complete solutions for the financial, retail, petroleum and infrastructure sectors.

Bytes MS enables businesses with over 107 service points, backed by extensive supply chain and logistics management. It supports in excess of 1 200 000 devices in more than 46 500 locations throughout South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Bytes Managed Solutions is a division of Bytes Technology Group and wholly-owned by JSE-listed Altron.

Allied Electronics Corporation Limited

Allied Electronics Corporation Limited (Altron), through its principal subsidiaries, Allied Technologies Limited (Altech), Bytes Technology Group (Bytes) and Power Technologies (Powertech), is invested in telecommunications, power electronics, multi-media and information technology. The Altron group employs more than 12 500 employees globally.

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