Cloudy Virtana announced that Leslie Maher, former Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) channel executive has joined the company as its Vice President of Worldwide Channels & Alliances.
Maher brings more than 20 years of sales and general management expertise from enterprise organisations including HPE, Cisco and Sun. At Virtana, her focus will be to manage and develop all partner routes to market, including Solution Providers, Managed Service providers (MSPs), Systems Integrators, Distributors, OEM and Strategic Alliances.
Her expertise includes delivering data centre infrastructure and as-a-service hybrid cloud solutions, and she has a track record of providing revenue growth and profitability success. Maher has a diverse background in building high-performing teams across enterprise sales, specialised product sales, inside sales and SMB, channels and alliances, and product category management.
Virtana CRO Steve Hershkowitz said: “Maher is respected as a ‘focused and driven sales professional’ and we look forward to sharing that drive with our channel partners and strategic alliances.”
Maher said: “I look forward to jumping in to grow existing alliances and increasing partner engagement, which will create greater value for customers with our hybrid cloud capabilities.”
