Six Degrees: New Senior Appointment: ‘Providing Best Value’

Six Degrees appoints new Chief Financial Officer to support clients in navigating an increasingly complicated technological landscape.

London, UK, Monday 4th April, 2022 – Six Degrees has appointed David Manuel to the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). David joined Six Degrees on 1^st April 2022.

David joins Six Degrees from Capita, where he served in a variety of roles, including Director of Group Finance and Interim Group CFO. David has previously worked in senior leadership roles with several pedigree brands, including Vodafone, Colt, BT Openreach, RBS, and Deloitte.

David said: “Six Degrees’ fantastic portfolio speaks to what sets them apart from the mid-market; security is integrated through all of their products and services, particularly their cloud technology and their array of innovative solutions, which supports our new, hybrid way of working. There is immense opportunity in this space and Six Degrees has been up-front about its ambitions to scale; I’m excited to be at the forefront of that journey. We’re in an increasingly complex, increasingly crowded space and I believe Six Degrees has the capacity to make doing business easy for our clients.”

Commenting on the appointment, Six Degrees CEO Simon Crawley-Trice said: “David is right about our ambitions to scale – Six Degrees has set its eye on being the UK’s number one provider of secure technology services.

“Businesses today are faced with so many digital transformation challenges, including public and hybrid cloud adoption, and integrating agile working technologies securely. Six Degrees is well-placed to support mid-market and low-end enterprise customers to tackle these issues. We have specifically geared our business around accelerating in this space: security, public cloud and agile working. Powered by our incredible team, we’re aiming to provide superior secure solutions to wider markets.

“I am really excited about David’s appointment as CFO; as we continue to scale, his deep technology, strategy and transformation expertise will really help us ensure that we’re best positioned to help our clients navigate this array of challenges, and ultimately to help them achieve more.”