Channel People on the Move: Five9, Nextiva, CDW, ConnectWise, Intelisys, More
We also have moves at TPx, AppDirect, BCM One, Jenne, Mitel, Juniper Networks and more.
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Mark Merritt III (left) moves from Comcast Business, where he spent eight-and-a-half years, most recently as a partner sales manager, to the other cable giant, Spectrum. There, he will serve as regional channel sales manager for Spectrum Enterprise.
Also, Brian Arena (right) just landed the position of director of mobile product management at the cableco. He spent nearly 19 years at Verizon before making the leap.
Security company Trend Micro promoted Brandon Kirkpatrick, adding “senior” to his role of inside sales engineer.
With the company for two years now, Kirkpatrick also spent a year at RSA Security.
Four-year RingCentral veteran Rob Shelby (left) now has “senior” in his title, getting it added to regional VP of partner sales for the Southwest.
His background includes stops at 8×8, NetFortris, Masergy and Thinking Phone (now Fuze).
On the right, that’s Armando Martinez, who also got a promotion. Previously director, partner success — you guessed it, he’s now senior director.
Martinez’s resume also features Lumen, Sprint and Fusion Connect.
Scotty Belazi got promoted from channel manager to national account director at Sangoma, the communications-as-a-service provider.
A two-year vet of the company, Belazi has also worked at Nitel, Windstream, Charter and more.
Congrats to Morgan Martensen, now a cloud solutions consultant for RapidScale, covering New York City, northern New Jersey and Connecticut. Her job is to support tech advisors, brokers and agents in her region.
She most recently was at DataBank, and has previous experience from INAP and SingleHop, which INAP acquired.
Appointed agent channel chief and director of channel sales at Rackspace earlier this year following the departure of a pair of executives, Vicki Patten is now off to Ntirety, the data security and regulatory compliance company, as VP of channel.
Patten spent more than five years at Rackspace. She’s also a Sungard AS and Oracle alum.
Eric Martorano, well-known in the channel for his time at Microsoft, Intermedia and Nextiva, just landed at Simplilearn, the online boot camp and online courses learning platform, as chief revenue officer.
He will be responsible for leading and scaling the company’s global enterprise business.
Michael Kevorkov is the newest channel sales manager for southern California, at Nextiva, the business communications collaboration software company.
It’s a promotion for the eight-month company vet, whose previous title was inside partner manager II – Southwest. He also has eight years with Verizon on his resume.
Longtime Telarus sales leader and channel manager Mike Gottwalt is on the move to Jenne, the cloud services brokerage and value-added distributor.
Gottwalt, who also brings experience from Broadvoice (most recently), landed the title of VP of cloud solutions and enablement.