AlfaPeople specializes in the retail market and is led by Michael Gaardoe, the founder and former CEO of Columbus IT Partner, a Dynamics reseller based in Copenhagen. AlfaPeople is somewhat the organization that the Danish company used to be having acquired Columbus IT's business in Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Germany and Switzerland just over a year ago. Hansen was founder and CEO of the former Aston Group, which had operations in this country. Aston was then purchased by Tectura where he served as SVP from July 2004 through August 2007. Hansen joined Columbus IT and worked as COO from August 2007 through November 2008 and was then CEO through this month.