Security outfit Avast announced leadership promotions as part of its cunning plan to boost channel partner support.
Daniel Parks (pictured) is promoted to Sales Director for UK and Rest of World, and Thomas Hefner is promoted to Sales Director for the DACH and Benelux regions, with immediate effect.
Vita Santrucek, GM for Avast Business, said: “One of my areas of focus this year is on ensuring excellence in our products and growth in our partner program. With these promotions, I have assigned additional responsibilities to Daniel and Thomas who will be supporting our delivery in these two core areas and building out our partner channel in their respective geographies. Their contribution will be key to the expansion of our product portfolio, increasing our channel support services, and reinforcing our footprint globally.”
Daniel Parks joined Avast in 2016 from AVG Technologies and was previously responsible for managing distribution, partner and direct channels at Avast over the last four years. During his six years at AVG, he held senior roles managing the business in the UK and Ireland and was responsible for introducing AVG’s CloudCare software to the U.K. partner market.
Thomas Hefner has more than 25 years of experience in channel sales management, most recently at Avast Business where he has held senior positions for the DACH region in the last four and half years. Before this, he spent over six years at Kaseya as Senior Sales Manager DACH and was responsible for building up the company in the DACH region as its first employee. He also held long-term management roles previously at Maxtdata and Actebis Distribution.
