{"id":23630,"date":"2026-07-08T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/?post_type=news&#038;p=23630"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:01:53","slug":"infinigate-group-appoints-james-baker-as-regional-vice-president-cloud-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/en\/news\/infinigate-group-appoints-james-baker-as-regional-vice-president-cloud-marketplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinigate Group Appoints James Baker as Regional Vice President Cloud &#038; Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"media-content wp-block media-content--left media-content--media-type--image has-gray-25-background-color has-background alignfull\">\n    <div class=\"media-content__inner\">\n        <div class=\"media-content__content\">\n            \n            \n            <p>Rotkreuz, Switzerland, 08\/07\/2026 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Infinigate Group<\/a>, a leading technology platform and trusted advisor in Cybersecurity, Cloud and Network Infrastructure, has appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/authwall?trk=bf&amp;trkInfo=AQFrjSPX960gGAAAAZ9Bj-CA70_GdnWrKP_5iaGCs8BTVYQsHnf7Xf1e5rhU452GpFsltbZTlbOyjBAmv-_pciWN1nXIyArA-Ow51ChN-RCi5J28y9iXn0stJ9khRhNkUoUUMBs=&amp;original_referer=&amp;sessionRedirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjbaker74\" target=\"_blank\">James Baker<\/a> as Regional Vice President, Cloud &#038; Marketplace, to accelerate a strategic growth area for the business and create greater value for the IT channel.<\/p>\n<p>In this role, James will lead the expansion of Infinigate\u2019s Cloud &#038; Marketplace portfolio and value proposition across all geographies, helping channel partners capture growing demand and build sustainable new revenue streams.<\/p>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"media-content__media\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2026\/07\/James-Baker_625x625.jpg\" class=\"attachment-super size-super\" alt=\"James Baker - Regional Vice President Cloud &amp; Marketplace\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 50vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2026\/07\/James-Baker_625x625.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2026\/07\/James-Baker_625x625-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2026\/07\/James-Baker_625x625-150x150.jpg 150w\" \/>            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">As Infinigate\u2019s cloud business continues to increase in strategic importance, James will work closely with vendors to scale and integrate the company\u2019s service offering, addressing growing demand for expert cybersecurity consultancy and flexible, leading-edge cloud solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">James brings more than 26 years of channel experience across the technology and SaaS sectors, with senior leadership expertise spanning sales, vendor alliances, marketing and general management across resellers, distributors and vendors. He joins Infinigate from Giacom, where he served as Managing Director of Cloud Operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/07\/jamesbaker-news.png\" alt=\"jamesbaker-news\" class=\"wp-image-47797\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">James Baker<br>Regional Vice President <br>Cloud &amp; Marketplace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201eI am delighted to take on this role and lead the expansion of Cloud &amp; Marketplace across Infinigate, working closely with our key vendors and channel partners. There is a significant opportunity to help resellers, systems integrators, VARs, MSPs and ISVs build long-term, future-ready and profitable cloud businesses,\u201d said<strong> James Baker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201e<strong>Marco van Kalleveen<\/strong>, CEO of Infinigate Group, said: \u201cCloud &amp; Marketplace is a strategically important growth area for Infinigate and a major opportunity for our partners. James brings the leadership, channel expertise and commercial insight to help us scale this part of the business and support our partners in capturing the opportunities ahead.\u201d\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/07\/MarcovanKalleveen-ceo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47800\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Marco van Kalleveen<br> CEO der Infinigate Group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is responsible for driving the value-added distributor&#8217;s strategic growth area and creating greater added value for the IT channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":23627,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"technologies":[],"news-type":[],"news_folder":[],"class_list":["post-23630","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":23630},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Infinigate | Switzerland","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch","push-errors":false,"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23643,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23630\/revisions\/23643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"technologies","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technologies?post=23630"},{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23630"},{"taxonomy":"news_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_folder?post=23630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}