{"id":14897,"date":"2026-02-04T11:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=14897"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:20:03","slug":"m247-global-announces-the-appointment-of-pete-wakelam-as-chief-executive-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=14897","title":{"rendered":"M247 Global announces the appointment of Pete Wakelam as Chief Executive Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Following Alex Baloi\u2019s decision to step down for personal reasons, M247 today announces the appointment of Pete Wakelam as Chief Executive Officer of M247 Global.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pete has held senior leadership roles within the M247 Group for several years, most recently as Managing Director of M247 UK and previously as Chief Operations Officer. During this time, he has played a central role in strengthening commercial performance, improving customer experience and building high-performing teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As CEO, Pete will lead the next phase of M247 Global\u2019s growth strategy, including continued investment and expansion across its Global Network, Hosting and Cloud platforms, alongside the development of a new data centre. Strengthening the Group\u2019s infrastructure, resilience and service capability for customers will be a key focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Darryl Edwards, Executive Chairman of M247 Global, commented:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPete has played a central role within the M247 Group over recent years, helping to deliver significant improvements in operational performance, customer experience and culture. The Board has full confidence in his leadership. His appointment provides continuity and momentum as we continue to invest in our Hosting and Cloud platforms and expand our data centre footprint to support long-term growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Commenting on his appointment, Pete Wakelam said:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">\u201cI\u2019m proud to be appointed CEO of M247 Global. We have strong foundations, loyal customers, a highly capable team and a clear strategy. I\u2019m excited to lead the business as we continue to invest in our Hosting and Cloud capabilities and build the next phase of our infrastructure, including our new data centre.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About M247<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M247 Global is a global connectivity, hosting and cloud services provider, delivering advanced network, cloud and security solutions to customers worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Alex Baloi\u2019s decision to step down for personal reasons, M247 today announces the appointment of Pete Wakelam as Chief Executive Officer of M247 Global. Pete has held senior leadership roles within the M247 Group for several years, most recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,6,3,148,17,317],"tags":[1198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14900,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897\/revisions\/14900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}