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Over Panduit

Panduit is al ruim 60 jaar een toonaangevende leverancier van innovatieve oplossingen voor de fysieke en elektrische infrastructuur in datacenters, industriële en gebouwautomatisering en aanverwante diensten. Het hoofdkantoor bevindt zich in Tinley Park, IL, in de Verenigde Staten, en stuurt 112 vestigingen overal ter wereld aan. Panduit staat voor kwaliteit en innovatieve technologieën. Het familiebedrijf met ruim 5.500 gekwalificeerde medewerkers genereert wereldwijd meer dan een miljard euro omzet. Panduit dankt zijn uitstekende marktpositie aan het voortdurende streven naar innovatie en de onvermoeibare inzet van zijn medewerkers. Verder investeert deze wereldspeler bovengemiddeld in onderzoek en ontwikkeling, in hoogwaardige productie, in de beste ondersteuning van zijn verkoopkanalen en in een uitstekende klantenservice. Deze inspanningen gecombineerd met een sterk partnernetwerk, vormen de basis voor duurzaamheid en een solide bedrijfsgroei in de huidige en toekomstige geconnecteerde wereld.

Contact: 

Martin Kandziora                                             Marlies Schaillée                                
Senior Marketing Manager EMEA                  Marketing Manager Benelux                              
Tel. +49 6196 78530 – 46                             Tel. +32 (0)2 467 40 94 
[email protected]                    [email protected]   

Presentation Ralph Lolies

Presentation Ralph Lolies

Resources - SmartZoneTM UPS

Veilige stroomverdeling en -beveiliging in het datacenter met geïntegreerde bewakingsfunctie - zeer efficiënt en betrouwbaar.

Resources - FlexCoreTM ODF

Een veelzijdig oplossing voor kabelmanagement met toegang aan de voorzijde dat de nodige bescherming biedt voor kritieke verbindingen - het summum van flexibiliteit, beheerbaarheid, schaalbaarheid en veiligheid.

Resources - Single Pair Ethernet

The new physical layer technology transforming communications for automation devices - for smart buildings and the process technology.

Resources - VeriSafeTM

Verifies the absence of voltage before equipment is accessed, making it easier for qualified electrical workers to determine an electrically safe environment in a fraction of the time required by hand-held portable test instruments.

Abdul Halim
Abdul Halim

Business Manager, Panduit


Abdul Halim is a Regional Business Manager based in our Middle East Regional office in Dubai, UAE. In this role, he leads the regional team with key focus areas include Business Strategy, go-to-market planning, Business Development, and evangelizing Panduit’s overall strategy of offering end to end Solution in Electrical, Enterprise and Data Center Market among end users and its partner organizations. Abdul has more than 27 years of technology industry experience, 15 years with Panduit. Prior to joining Panduit in 2007, he worked as Dy General Manager for one of the largest System Integrator in UAE. Abdul holds a Bachelor of Science (H) Physics from Delhi University, India, and Executive Business Management Program from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C).



Mike Vermeer
Mike Vermeer

Engineering Strategy Manager, Panduit


Michael Vermeer is Engineering Strategy Manager at Panduit for their Enterprise and Industrial businesses. He has earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from Purdue University and an MBA from DePaul University. In his 15 years at Panduit he has taken various roles as engineer, inventor, product line manager, services manager, and acquisition lead. He most enjoys learning from his customers’ perspective and helping to bring innovative solutions to common challenges, including technologies that simplify customers communication networks, and those that help transition serial networks to ethernet.

Steve Morris
Stephen Morris

Sr. Product Manager, Panduit


Stephen is Senior Product Manager for Panduit’s Data Centre connectivity solutions.​
Further to ensuring commercial success and managing product lifecycle Stephen’s responsibilities include Data Centre market research, identifying technology trends and working with industry experts, customers, consultants and partners to drive Panduit’s new product roadmap forward.​
Stephen has over 30 years experience in the communications industry and is a subject matter expert in physical layer network connectivity solutions. ​
Prior to joining Panduit (in 2012) his roles have included business leadership, business development, product management, product design and solution development for mission critical Data Centres, Enterprises, and Carrier/Telecom Networks across the globe.​
Stephen graduated with higher level diplomas in Mechanical and Manufacturing (Engineering) and holds 7 Patents.

Frederic Kalb
Frederic Kalb

Business Development Manager, Panduit


After starting his career in a large electrical equipment distribution group, Frédéric held various roles in the technical-commercial field with a varied industrial clientele, consisting mainly of contractors, installers and end customers. 
With more than 30 years of experience in industry and in various fields of activity, as well on the OEM as the IC/MRO side, he has been Senior Business Development Manager for more than 5 years, for IEI activities at Panduit in EMEA.

Ralph Lolies
Ralph Lolies

Managing Director EMEA, Panduit


As Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Panduit EMEA Ralph J. Lolies is directly responsible for executing Panduit’s business strategy in Europe, Middle East and Africa since 2014. He is well-acquainted with Panduit. Since 1998, he has served as Managing Director of Pancon Corporation in Europe. Between 2011 and 2014 he was appointed as Managing Director Milestone Partners, a private equity organization. Prior to that, he was Director and General Manager of Pancon in Germany and Slovenia for 13 years. Before this, he served in various leadership roles in product development, production, R&D engineering and supply chain with Panduit in Germany before it was acquired by ITW and became Pancon. Ralph holds a mechanical engineering diploma from Wiesbaden University.

Martin Kandziora
Martin Kandziora

Sr. Manager Marketing, Panduit


Martin Kandziora has been the Senior Manager Marketing at Panduit in Europe, Middle East and Africa since 2019. He began his career after studying electrical engineering in Stuttgart as a project planning engineer. Martin then moved into the media industry as an electrotechnical trade magazine editor, where he successfully expanded the readership and revenue. From 2004, Martin was responsible for global marketing at Rittal as the VP Marketing and Communication. Martin is involved with various professional associations and committees. He also writes numerous articles for both the German and English-language press and holds a Masters degree in Business Administration.