Mark Beaumont is group manager of product management/development and marketing for the IT Solutions portfolio at Verizon Business. He leads a global team providing data centre services, managed hosting, application Management and IT solutions to customers operating in sectors including education, government, finance, retail, and manufacturing. The solutions enable large enterprise customers to enter new markets and compete in a global world, supported by a hosted, IP-enabled network. Beaumont’s role includes instigating new hosting and managed hosting solutions and services, reviewing existing solutions, cloud services and expanding the data center capabilities.
Beaumont brings several years experience in managing cross-functional teams to this role. Prior to this, between November 2006 and January 2008, he worked as product manager for the company’s International Data Centers and IT Services group. In this role, he was responsible for the complete service delivery of customer solutions, ranging from contract generation, implementation, and 24x7 support to service level agreement reviews, benchmarking, competitor analysis, and business case proposals. He also managed third-party providers.
Prior to this, between July 2002 and November 2006, Beaumont worked as general manager of managed hosting in the U.K. In this role, he had profit and loss responsibility for the European business unit, and led a team of more than 50 personnel from functions including sales, procurement, billing, accounting and finance as well as logistics, facilities, security, information systems and technology, and human resources. This role included assessing business case proposals needing capital investment approval to ensure the designs could be scaled in line with customer needs.
Prior to this, between May 2000 and July 2002, Beaumont worked as procurement and logistics manager for Digex, which was later acquired by MCI. In this role, he was responsible for assessing the effects of a changing marketplace environment, for generating the annual budget, and providing supporting performance metrics. He was also responsible for escalating faults and resolving disputes, both technical and commercial.
Before joining the company, Beaumont worked as lead commercial specialist for Bechtel, a large U.S. engineering company.
