Meet the Chiefs: Karl Soderlund, Aruba Networks

Karl Soderlund is the vice president of Worldwide Channels at Aruba Networks, where he is responsible for recruitment, developing global alliances and managing the company’s international distribution structure for partner training, enablement and pre-sales support. Prior to working with Aruba, Soderlund was vice president of Americas Channel Sales at Avaya, a voice and data networking solutions vendor. He has also held executive sales and global alliance positions at companies including Certeon, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Fortinet (FTNT), Extreme Networks (EXTR) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

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