Open source database software and services outfit Percona, has named Martin James vice president of sales for the EMEA and APAC regions.
James has more than 25 years of experience building and leading sales teams in Europe, James will be responsible for the entire Percona EMEA sales operation, including direct sales, business development and partner channels.
Before joining Percona, James was the regional vice president of Northern Europe for open source database vendor DataStax (the company behind Cassandra), where he led the enterprise sales, business development and partner management, teams; helped grow the business by significant double-digit growth year-over-year; and was an author and spokesperson for DataStax in various publications, including Forbes and ITProPortal.
Before DataStax, James was a sales director at Pitney Bowes Software, where he built a team of data management sales specialists across EMEA, growing revenue in the region fivefold from 2014 to 2016. Before Pitney Bowes, James held executive and director-level sales positions at Talend, DataSynapse, OpenPages, Sonic Software and Candle Corporation.
James said: “As the recent surge of MongoDB and PostgreSQL have demonstrated, a massive market opportunity for open source database solutions is being fueled by the migration to the cloud and the digital transformation strategies enterprises are now employing. I look forward to helping Percona take advantage of its unique ability to support companies in managing their complex hybrid open source database environments.”
Peter Zaitsev, Co-founder and CEO of Percona said: “We are extremely pleased to have Martin join our team. His experience building and managing sales teams across Europe, including for three open source software companies, provides the insight and on-the-ground expertise we need to accelerate our growth in this region.”
