Data management as a service outfit Komprise has hired two new executives joining the company’s EMEA division based in the UK.
Martin Gibbons joins as Channel Director, EMEA, and is responsible for leading channel strategy across the region. Gibbons has over 25 years of experience working in the channel, recently serving as EMEA Channel Director at Cohesity and, before that, at CommVault.
Ben Conneely joined Komprise in January 2021 as Regional Sales Director for the UK, Ireland and Northern Europe and was promoted to VP of EMEA in April. Conneely brings more than 20 years in senior-level sale roles in the data management industry, including at HPE and EMC.
Komprise wants to grow its EMEA presence. In November 2020, Fortune 500 technology reseller/distributor Tech Data signed on to add Komprise to its solutions for the pan-European market.
Gibbons said that a smaller, focused technology vendor relies more upon a strong team pulling in the same direction.
“Komprise is a fantastic opportunity for our partners to change the game of data management. The old practice of throwing more storage at the problem is no longer a viable financial option. Customers are eager to take an analytics-first approach to data storage and leverage new technology and cloud models to be more productive, efficient, and cost-effective.”
Conneely said he observed similar trends in the marketplace in recent years.
“Organisations are looking to get meaningful insight from their data, reduce their data centre footprint, stop the continual three-year purchase of yet more disk capacity and accelerate their adoption of public cloud”, he said.
