Management Team

Olivier Breittmayer, President & Founder
Olivier Breittmayer founded the ITGS Group and is behind the Group's strategy. His role is to ensure international development, to cultivate synergy between countries and focus areas as well as to supervise the Group's business units. Mr. Breittmayer has more than 15 years of experience in new technologies. For the past 4 years he served as President of the French and Italian branches Allasso (Newlink), Europe's leading distributor of IT security products and services. Mr. Breittmayer led an annual sales increase from 8 to 45 million Euros during his time at Allasso. Prior to this, he directed the company Cirel, which was sold to Bintec, a German router manufacturer. Mr. Breittmayer holds a B.A. in Management from l'Ecole Supérieure de Gestion and in Economics from the University of Paris X.

Greg Atkins, Director, ITGS UK
Greg Atkins manages the UK subsidiary of the ITGS Group and is in charge of the Group's development in Northern Europe. He has more than 17 years experience in new technologies. Over the last two years Mr. Atkins served as European VP of Allasso, a leading European distributor in IT security, where he managed 6 European subsidiaries that totaled 160 million Euros in sales by the time he left the company. Prior to this, he created the German subsidiary of Integralis, one of the leading systems integrators in Network security. Mr. Atkins holds a B.A. with honors in Business from Nottingham University in the UK.

Stéphane Pitavy, General Manager
Business Development, France & Founder
Stéphane Pitavy founded the company as IBD (ITGS Business Development) in 2001. In 2002, when ITGS was formed, Mr. Pitavy joined the company full time. Mr. Pitavy has over 12 years experience in the high technology sector. He directed the South European operations for Stonesoft, a Finnish security-related software vendor. Prior to this, Mr. Pitavy started and managed the French, Italian and Spanish subsidiaries of Visio, a graphics software vendor later acquired by Microsoft. He was instrumental in increasing the sales for Visio in his region from 0 to 9 million Euros within 2 years. Mr. Pitavy holds a B.A. from of the Weller Business School in Paris, and a Certificate of Management and Business from the California Institute of International Business.

François Vigna, General Manager, ITGS Italy
François Vigna founded and directs the Italian subsidiary of ITGS. He has more than 15 years experience in the technology sector. Over the years, Mr. Vigna has created and developed a number of subsidiaries, particularly in southern Europe (Spain, Italy, Portugal) and in the Middle-East (U.A.E, Saudi Arabia, Israel). Prior to joining ITGS, Mr. Vigna was the General Manager for Southern Europe, Middle East and Mediterranean countries at Attachmate, a software vendor specialized in connectivity, web services and e-business. During his time at Attachmate, he increased revenue by 35% each year in his region. Mr. Vigna is a graduate of the French National Institute of Communication.
 

Barry H. Horn, Founder and Member of the Board of Directors

Barry Horn is a co-founder of IT Global Services Group and serves on the company board and brings over 20 years of experience managing and leading software companies. He currently holds the position of Director, President and CEO of Liberty Financial Group, Inc. and is the Director and CEO of B & C Lending, a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty.

In 1998, Mr. Horn founded International Ventures and he and his Paris based partner purchased a security software company and executed the strategic and tactical operational growth plans that developed the company into a major European distributor with offices in several countries. International Ventures was sold to a German public company in 2001. In 1990, Mr. Horn became Executive Vice-President, Office of the President, at Attachmate Corporation, a leading supplier of enterprise information access and management software and services to major corporations and government agencies worldwide. With the remarkable ability to promote and secure successful business environments, Mr. Horn built Attachmate from a privately owned software company based in Seattle into a worldwide organization with sales of $400 Million. A large percentage of his time was devoted to building a worldwide business model capable of achieving maximum efficiency and profit objectives through the efforts of a strong management team. Prior to this, Mr. Horn held the positions of Vice-President, responsible for worldwide sales, at Wall Data, a public software company specializing in middleware, and of CEO of Saltmine, a global web development company with revenues of $75 million. His planning, strategic goal setting and overview of financial management skills were further fostered by participation on a number of Boards.

Mr. Horn began his career at IBM where he worked for 15 years in various capacities including Director of PC Marketing, Regional Manager, Branch Manager, Director of Strategic Planning and Assistant to the Chairman of Board. He graduated from Taylor University and is active in many organizations such as TEC and is an active investor in many companies located in USA and Europe.  Living a balanced life of hard work and maintaining strong relationships, Mr. Horn continues to demonstrate the remarkable capacity to formulate and execute major policies, programs and objectives to promote and ensure continuing success and growth.