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PubMatic expands EMEA management team

Posted on March 22, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Digital advertising outfit PubMatic has expanded its EMEA leadership team.

Hitesh Bhatt has been promoted to the role of Senior Director, CTV/OTT, leading the rapidly growing CTV arm of the company’s business. PubMatic’s OTT/CTV global revenue grew by more than six times in the fourth quarter of 2021 over the fourth quarter of 2020 and now monetising OTT/CTV inventory from more than 167 publishers globally. Bhatt will report directly to Emma Newman, CRO, EMEA.

Jacqueline Boakye takes the role of Vice President, Customer Success, EMEA, and is now responsible for the strategic leadership of the EMEA customer success team that support PubMatic’s publisher clients. With consumers’ time increasingly fragmented across screens and channels, omnichannel solutions are becoming more important to publishers as they seek to maximise revenue. A key focus for Boakye will be helping to drive the adoption of PubMatic’s omnichannel solutions, including OpenWrap – a header bidding solution that drives incremental yield across all channels, including CTV.

HP announces new channel head

Posted on March 11, 2022 by - Moving People, News

HP has named Neil MacDonald its new UK&I channel director tasked with “go-to-market” strategy and sales performance of HP’s print, personal systems, services and solutions.

The role also includes looking after the commercial, consumer and distribution sales teams, as well as the relationships with the vendor’s channel partners.

He replaces Neil Sawyer, who left the business late in 2021 to step into the role of UK&I managing director and general manager at Lenovo.

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CrowdStrike shuffles channel management

Posted on March 11, 2022 by - Moving People, News

CrowdStrike is shuffling its channel leadership team.

The firm has announced the appointment of Michael Rogers as vice-president of global business development, channel and alliances.

Former channel head Matthew Polly is moving into the role of vice-president of North America mid-market sales, where he will continue to operate in a channel-friendly position.

Rogers is no stranger to the business, having previously been global vice-president, partner and alliance sales at CrowdStrike. His CV, which spans 25 years in the cyber security industry, also includes time in channel and partner roles at McAfee and Sophos.

Rogers said: “The difference with CrowdStrike – and why we’ve been able to bring together such an elite network of partners – is that we’ve always advocated for an ecosystem approach that puts customers at the centre of our programme.” 

Steel takes over Splunk

Posted on March 4, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Proofpoint CEO Gary Steele is leaving security outfit to take over as Splunk’s new CEO.

Steele was the founding CEO of Proofpoint and has overseen the company’s growth from a startup to a publicly-traded security-as-a-service provider.

He will take over as permanent CEO on 11 April following Doug Merritt’s decision to step down in November last year, just five months after Splunk received a billion dollars of private equity funding from Silver Lake Investment.

“Splunk has built one of the most respected brands in tech and is at the forefront of security and observability. I’m honoured to join the company at such an important moment – for both Splunk and the industry. I’ve dedicated my career to helping companies around the world safeguard their data, systems and infrastructure, and know first-hand how critical Splunk’s products and solutions have become to customers as they navigate hybrid, multi-cloud environments with increasingly complex attacks and threat actors.”

Check Point’s new UK head heralds expansion

Posted on February 18, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Israeli security outfit Check Point’s new UK head will grow the volume of business the security player does with its channel partners, the company has announced.

Adam Bradley has worked for Sophos, Appsense and Forcepoint as regional director for UK and Ireland.

Check Point said that UK companies experienced, on average, 399 cyber attacks per week last year, which was a 103 percent increase from 2020.

Earlier this month, Check Point launched its SMB Security Suite, which armed its channel with a package that includes a firewall, cloud email protection, and endpoint and mobile security. It is available in four options to appeal to a range of customer needs.

Rubrik hires Ghazal Asif

Posted on February 9, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Data security vendor Rubrik has poached Google’s former customer solutions channel partnerships boss as its new vice president of global partners and alliances.

Ghazal Asif joins from Google where she was head of channel partners in EMEA for Google Customer Solutions, leading channel go-to-market strategy and execution for the region.

She has been senior vice president of worldwide channels at Cybereason, vice president of worldwide channels for GSP & cloud providers at AppDynamics, and director of global channel sales at Cisco Meraki.

Rubrik chief revenue office Brian McCarthy said: “We keep investing in the success of our extensive partner strategy and Ghazal’s leadership and channel experience will continue to fuel our data security growth. She will act as a catalyst for scaling our partner enablement and accelerating our go-to-market channel strategy around the world.”

 

Neil MacDonald runs HP’s UK and Ireland channel biz

Posted on February 1, 2022 by - Moving People, News

HP has tipped Neil MacDonald to run its UK and Ireland channel business.

MacDonald has been with the HP business since 2011. He was the vendor’s consumer director for the UK and Ireland for almost five years before taking a new role in March 2020 as EU head of excellence for marketplaces and Amazon.

He will begin the new role today.

MacDonald will be responsible for go-to-market strategy and sales performance for HP’s print, personal systems, services and solutions business across the region, as well as leading the commercial, consumer and distribution sales teams along with the relationships with HP’s channel partners.

Fitzpatrick defects from Vole to Chipzilla

Posted on January 31, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Intel has appointed Microsoft’s former general manager for worldwide partner sales to head up its own partner sales organisation.

Alyssa Fitzpatrick told her LinkedIn friends about her new role as the chip maker’s vice-president and general manager of global partner sales after six years with Microsoft.

Her responsibilities are listed as “leading the programmes, support, and end-to-end partner journey under the Intel Partner Alliance with a focus on ISVs, systems integrators and cloud partners”.

Anzu.io hires Blight

Posted on January 24, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Chris Blight has joined in-game advertising company Anzu.io to lead its global demand team.

Blight has been part of the UK ad industry for 18 years, having worked as UK Commercial Director at Opera Mediaworks and Sales Director at Autotrader, and spent significant time working at various titles across Haymarket Publishing and Reed Business Information.

He was part of the original team from 4th Screen Advertising acquired by Opera in 2012 and was instrumental in itsrapid growth ahead of the surge in mobile advertising.

Paris surrenders at Sopra Steria

Posted on January 18, 2022 by - Moving People, News

French reseller Sopra Steria’s has appointed Cyril Malargé to succeed the departing Vincent Paris as CEO.

Paris said that after 30 years at the company he wished to be relieved of his CEO duties for personal and family reasons.

Malargé currently leads the group’s operations as a chief operating officer and will take its helm as CEO on 1 March.

Paris said: “I would like to thank Pierre Pasquier sincerely for the trust and the constructive and exacting support he has always given me. I am proud to have been able to contribute in my various functions to the development of Sopra Steria, to which I remain committed. “

Ingram Micro gets new CEO

Posted on January 14, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Ingram Micro has appointed Paul Bay is its new CEO, replacing Alain Monié who has become executive chairman.

Bay previously held the position of executive vice president and president of Global Technology Solutions at the distributor, as well as several other roles including president for the Americas and senior vice president of vendor management.

Ingram Micro is a remarkable organisation thanks to Alain and his leadership over the last decade”, Bay said.

NTT poaches Tech Data’s Murphy

Posted on January 11, 2022 by - Moving People, News

NTT has appointed Miriam Murphy as its European CEO reporting to Global Chief Executive Officer Abhijit Dubey.

Murphy brings more than 25 years of IT experience and joins NTT from Tech Data. At Tech Data, she was a member of the European Executive Board and served as Senior Vice President, Advanced and Specialised Solutions business, EMEA. Murphy was responsible for go-to-market strategy and P&L management, spanning data centre and next-generation technology solutions portfolios including cloud, internet of things, analytics, security collaboration and associated services.

Whitty exits Cisco to join rivals

Posted on January 10, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Former Cisco UK&I channel boss Angela Whitty has left the networking giant to head Crawley-based IT solutions provider Ampito Group.

Whitty said taking the CEO role at Ampito was a “compelling opportunity” after 29 years at Cisco, the last seven of which were spent as MD of UK&I partner sales.

She said that it intrigued her to see how the other half lived after being part of the vendor space for so long.

Assis named Big Blue’s EMEA GM

Posted on January 7, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Ana Paula Assis has been appointed general manager for IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)succeeding Marta Martínez Alonso, who is retiring from IBM after 19 years as a suit.

Assis will be responsible for the business operations, driving revenue growth, client satisfaction, and employee engagement across EMEA.

Cohesity to obey the Law

Posted on January 6, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Cohesity has hired Kirk Law  as senior vice president of R&D where he will have global responsibility for engineering, product management and Cohesity’s ecosystem business.

The tech veteran brings over 30 years of relevant experience to Cohesity with a passion for developing products.

Law said: “We will continue to deliver next-gen solutions that can help organisations radically simplify data management, improve their security postures in the face of sophisticated ransomware attacks, benefit from AI-powered insights, and do more with data, which is their most valuable digital asset.”