Canopy, the Atos Cloud which is powered by EMC and VMware, has today announced the appointment of Philippe Llorens as CEO.

Philippe Llorens, CEO, Canopy, said: "I am excited to be joining Canopy which offers clients the complete cloud portfolio to support them on their journey to becoming digital businesses tomorrow."

"We have an excellent basis on which to further strengthen our business and I am looking forward to working with the Canopy team and our clients."

Ursula Morgenstern, Global CEO of Canopy, the Atos cloud, and Enterprise Software said: "We are delighted to welcome Philippe to Canopy and are sure that with his experience, he will lead the team to further improve our service to our clients."

Philippe joins Canopy from Compuware where he was leading the EMEA sales and field operations for nearly 15 years.

Canopy, which is one of Europe’s largest cloud service providers and Philippe’s role will be to strengthen its offering and market positioning to establish itself as the European leader in cloud. Canopy’s goal is to reach €700m of cloud revenues in 2016.