12.02.2012

Wynne appoints EU project director

Wynne systems has appointed Olivier Hertu, previously chief information officer at French rental company Loxam, as project director of Europe, Middle East and Africa operations.
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Olivier Hertu

Hertu entered the rental market as an informatics engineer with Louers De France (BTP) in 1998 and spent a total of six years with the company, before moving over to Loxam, which acquired Louers de France.

At Loxam he played a major role in implementing RentalMan throughout the company’s 500 locations in 10 countries. Hertu is not the first Loxam employee to join Wynne, the ex-Loxam alumni includes European managing director Carole Bachmann Cossu who joined the software developer in 2010.

Vertikal Comment

Wynne Systems has a major task ahead in implementing the RentalMan software throughout the Ramirent organisation and desperately needs staff on board that have first-hand experience of the challenges that such a multi-country, multi-currency installation involve.

One wonders though at possible concerns companies like Ramirent might have in giving such open access to a team with such close – albeit past –contacts with one of their largest competitors. Although in this case Ramirent and Loxam have little territorial overlap.

In fact the two would make an impressive merger – but that’s another story.