Channel Futures' People Mover: Cisco, SAP, Commvault, More
These are people you know from the biggest names in the IT channel.
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Trevor Eddy joined ObserveIT as SVP of worldwide sales. He’s responsible for field engineers, sales and the channel. Eddy brings more than 25 years of experience to the job, including holding a similar role at both SkyHigh Networks (acquired by McAfee) and Clearwell Systems (acquired by Symantec).
Longtime SAP veteran Robert Enslin landed at Google just two weeks after SAP announced he was leaving the company. Enslin is the new president of global customer operations for Google Cloud. In his last two years at SAP, Enslin led the cloud business group and was a member of the executive board.
Nutanix channel chief Rodney Foreman (pictured) followed his colleague, executive VP and chief revenue officer Lou Attanasio, out the door of the cloud computing software provider. The company’s status has been questioned as of late, with a recent 31% stock fall, or almost $3 billion in market value, last month. Both Foreman and Attanasio had long tenures at IBM before joining Nutanix.
Logicalis, the IT solutions and managed service provider, promoted Mike Houghton to president of Logicalis U.S. He will lead the go-to-market strategy that positions the company for growth. Houghton joined the company as chief sales officer less than two years ago. During that time, he has spearheaded a new approach to drive focus and alignments around Logicalis’ core partners and markets, the company said.
Commvault, the data backup and recovery vendor, named Sanjay Mirchandani as its new president and CEO. Mirchandani previously was CEO for Puppet, an IT automation software company based in Oregon, but he’s also held senior leadership positions with VMware, EMC and Microsoft. He replaces longtime CEO Bob Hammer, and will also take a seat on the company’s board.
HiveIO tapped George Nealon as its new VP of global sales and chief revenue officer. The software-defined data center provider says Nealon has more than 20 years of experience in sales and API integration dating back to his days at IBM and other industry leaders. He’s tasked with creating mutually beneficial customer relationships.
NS1, the provider of domain name system (DNS) and traffic management offerings, is prepping its first formal program. To facilitate that, it hired Warren Mead (right), previously Nusani’s VP of business development and channel sales, as its VP of channel and strategic accounts. Also new is Rob Clifford, who most recently was SevOne’s VP of enterprise sales for the Americas. Clifford will have a similar role with NS1.
Disaster recovery and IT resiliency provider Zerto tapped Jim Ortbals, a former VMware and Cisco channel exec, as its new VP or worldwide channel and cloud sales. He’s tasked with leading a single, unified partner strategy, growing the company’s newly combined worldwide channel partner and cloud business.
Rance Poehler is a 25-year IT and channel vet taking charge as the new VP of global sales and chief revenue officer at Pivot3, the hyperconverged infrastructure vendor. He spent the last two years heading Dell’s VDI organization and 23 years before that at Panasonic, where he was president of various divisions and served in a number of other roles.
15-year SAP veteran Jennifer Morgan gets the nod as president of the software company’s cloud business group. She most recently served as SAP’s president of Americas and Asia-Pacific/Japan regions. SAP also promoted 13-year company veteran Karl Fahrbach to the new role of chief partner officer. He previously served as senior VP and COO for SAP’s global partner organization. His new job involves leading its next-generation partnering strategy, which entails evolving its channel model to drive more innovation, platform adoption and the sale of cloud solutions.
Server Farm Realty, the data center developer and operator, appointed Ziv Catriel (left) to executive CP of InCommand services. He’s tasked with IT (data center and cloud) management and InCommand services. His last job was head of DevOps and managed services for Rean Cloud. Also new at the company is A.J. Matel, senior vice president of sales, North America. Matel most recently was SVP of sales at vXchnge, a data-center-as-a-service partner. He also was VP or sales, colocation, at CenturyLink.
Rick Snyder, who led Cisco’s Americas Partner Organization, announced his retirement, effective July 31. He’s been in that role since 2015. Overall, Snyder has been with Cisco for 10 years, arriving after Cisco acquired Tandberg, the maker of TelePresence. He was president of the Americas with Tandberg. He would later take over the Americas channel organization at Cisco from Wendy Bahr when she was promoted to worldwide channel chief.
Jeni Weinstein is the new senior national channel manager with 365 Data Centers. Her job is to grow the company’s partner program through broadening its master-agent and service-provider relationships. Weinstein is well-known for channel-related stops at Tata Communications, 8×8, ACC Business and WTG.
Jeni Weinstein is the new senior national channel manager with 365 Data Centers. Her job is to grow the company’s partner program through broadening its master-agent and service-provider relationships. Weinstein is well-known for channel-related stops at Tata Communications, 8×8, ACC Business and WTG.
We’re back with another edition of the Channel Futures People Mover.
These are some of the people from the biggest names in the IT channel that have either taken new jobs, left high profile positions or been promoted at their companies.
In the slideshow above, you’ll learn what led a 27-year veteran of SAP to leave and take a job with Google Cloud. Also of note is Nutanix’s channel chief calling it quits at the cloud computing company not long after another key executive there stepped away from his post.
Those are just a couple of the 16 movers and shakers we profile in this latest edition of the People Mover. Some are the people working in the channel trenches, while others are in the C-suite making business decisions that impact partners.
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