EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Oct. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PCM, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCMI), a leading technology solutions provider, announced the hiring of Alan Lawrence as President, PCMG, PCM’s Government and Education subsidiary. Mr. Lawrence will report to Jay Miley, President, PCM. In this role Mr. Lawrence will be responsible for scaling the company’s Government, Education and Healthcare businesses to deliver accelerated growth in this space. Prior to his current role at PCMG, Mr. Lawrence spent a number of years at GTSI having served as Vice President and General Manager in charge of the Strategic Programs Divisions where he was responsible for an organization of more than 300 people and full P&L responsibility. Following GTSI, Mr. Lawrence was an active part of HP’s Federal and Public Sector organizations and more recently he served in senior roles with Cisco in its Public Sector and Global Public Sector Compliance efforts. In all, Mr. Lawrence has served well over 25 years in the public sector space and is a noted strategy, sales and execution leader. Mr. Miley stated, “Alan understands what it takes to be successful and grow in collaboration with strategic vendor partners. With his deep experience in government, including proven growth strategies in both the channel and OEM environments within the Public Sector, we expect that Alan will drive significant growth in our public sector business."
According to Mr. Lawrence, “PCM is poised for significant growth in the government, education and healthcare markets given the company’s continuing investments in solutions, services, technology infrastructure as well as the recent acquisition of En Pointe Technologies. As someone who has spent his career in the public sector focused on developing replicable solutions, I am excited to be leading the team to make PCM the preferred solutions provider for these markets and to provide our public sector customers with a best-in-class experience.”
Mr. Lawrence earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from George Mason University and is an active member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) as well as a member of the American Council for Technology / Industry Advisory Council for Government. Mr. Lawrence will work out of PCMG’s Chantilly, VA office.
About PCM, Inc.
PCM, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a leading technology solutions provider to small and medium sized businesses, mid-market and enterprise customers, government and educational institutions and individual consumers. Including pro forma results from our acquisition of En Pointe in April 2015, we generated over $1.7 billion in revenue in 2014. For more information please visit investor.pcm.com or call (310) 354-5600.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding our expectations, hopes or intentions regarding the future, including but not limited to, statements related to our hiring of Mr. Lawrence including without limit his ability to drive growth and statements regarding the positioning of PCM for growth in the government, education and healthcare markets. Forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those discussed in any such statement. Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially include without limitation risks and uncertainties related to our ability to attract and retain key employees, our ability to receive expected benefits of our hiring of Mr. Lawrence, the impact on our sales from the potential lack of availability of government funding applicable to our Public Sector business, risks associated with our ability to integrate our En Pointe acquisition and its related impact on our Public Sector business growth, availability of key vendor incentives and other vendor assistance, our IT infrastructure, the relationship between the number of our account executives and productivity, increased competition, increased pricing pressures which may affect our pricing strategy in any given period, potential decreases in sales related to changes in our vendors products and availability of products from third party suppliers at reasonable prices. Additional factors that could cause our actual results to differ are discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in Item 1A, Part II of our Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2015, on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in our other reports filed from time to time with the SEC. All forward-looking statements in this document are made as of the date hereof, based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.