01732 759725 42 PEOPLE ...continued of Tim Mackie as its new Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliances and the creation of two Field Chief Technology Officer roles in EMEA. With more than 25 years’ experience in strategic IT channel management and major account development at cybersecurity companies Armis, SentinelOne and Cylance, Mackie will lead Claroty’s FOCUS Partner Program to enhance the company’s global channel ecosystem, drive strategic alliances and increase market penetration. The EMEA Field Chief Technology Officer roles are being filled by Matt Logan, previously Head of Sales Engineering at SonicWall for UKI, France and META, and Elliot Gidley, who joins Claroty after five years working as a Principal Sales Engineer at Cylance Inc. Logan and Gidley will provide thought leadership and security advisory to customers to make sure they have the right cyber resilience programmes in place to manage their ever-expanding attack surfaces. Andrew Lintell, General Manager, EMEA at Claroty, said: “These appointments are the next step in Claroty’s EMEA customerfocused strategy and add to the wide range of positive changes we are making in the region to better serve our customers throughout their cyber physical security journey. I’m looking forward to the significant impact Matt and Elliot will deliver in helping our customers accelerate their CPS security posture and strategies.” claroty.com .... Nutanix reorganises EMEA channel team Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, has made three changes to its EMEA leadership team. These include the promotion of Sven Schoenaerts to the position of Senior Director, Channel Sales EMEA; the appointment of Philippe Dosset to lead the EMEA OEM & Alliances team; and the appointment of Chris De Vere as EMEA Managed Service Provider (MSP) Leader. Sven Schoenaerts who joined Nutanix as NEEUR Channel Sales Director in January 2022, following spells at Amazon Web Services, NetApp and Brocade Communications, will be responsible for Nutanix’ routes to market, with all EMEA Regional Channel Sales Leaders reporting to him. He said: “Partners have been a cornerstone of the success of Nutanix and will play an even more important role in helping customers achieve the benefits of hybrid and multicloud architectures. I also look forward to building on my extensive work with Service Providers and Hyperscalers, as those routes-to-market take a more important role in Nutanix’s future.” The appointment of De Vere, previously at VMWare for 13 years and IBM for 11, is part of Nutanix’ consolidation of its MSP sales efforts in EMEA to support accelerated development of Service Provider opportunities. He will lead Nutanix’ team of MSP Sales and Business Development Managers, some of whom are already with the company. Others will be recruited as part of approved headcount investments for FY25. Finally, Nutanix is looking to develop new business opportunities through alliances and OEM partnerships with the appointment of Philippe Dosset to lead the EMEA OEM & Alliances team. Based in Paris, Dosset joined Nutanix last year as Channel Director France, EMEA South and North West Africa. Prior to joining Nutanix, he spent most of his career at Dell. www.nutanix.com .... PPDS creates EMEA product management role PPDS, exclusive global provider of Philips digital signage, interactive displays, dvLED and videowalls, professional TVs and AV software, is bringing a European perspective to product development with the creation of the new role of Global Product Management Lead for EMEA. The position is being filled by Andrea Barbuti, who, as PPDS Global Product Manager Total Solutions since 2020, has been instrumental in the development of ‘zero power’ Philips Tableaux ePaper displays. Based in Ghent, Barbuti joined PPDS as an Application Engineer in 2015. www.ppds.com .... Amplitude appoints EMEA VP to drive regional growth Digital analytics platform Amplitude has recruited Lee Edwards as Vice President of Sales, EMEA to grow its customer base in the UK, France, Germany and wider region. Edwards has 25 years’ IT industry experience at Adobe, SAP and, most recently, Oracle’s UK and Ireland applications business. Amplitude’s digital analytics platform gives self-service visibility into the entire customer journey, helping product, data and marketing teams to capture data on how people are using their products and Tim Mackie Claroty Matt Logan Claroty Elliot Gidley Claroty Chris De Vere Nutanix Philippe Dosset Nutanix Sven Schoenaerts Nutanix gain insights into customer behaviour. EMEA customers to date include leading brands such as Skyscanner, Klarna, Schibsted, Le Monde, Canal+, Criteo, Babbel, Decathlon SE and Haven. amplitude.com .... Semperis recruits Trellix veteran to run technology partner programme Semperis, the identity-driven cyber resilience platform provider, has recruited Trellix veteran Nico Devoti to run its Global Technology Partner Program. Devoti is joining Semperis after more than 14 years running Trellix’s Security Innovation Alliance Partner Program. Devoti will oversee the expansion of Semperis’ Technology Alliance Program (TAP), which already includes relationships with Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Veritas, Splunk and, since May, Trellix. Used by 40,000 organisations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, Trellix’s extended detection and response (XDR) platform accelerates the detection and containment of identitybased attacks by providing visibility into identity system breaches. Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman said: “Nico brings a wealth of direct experience to Semperis as he spearheaded the expansion of Trellix’s global technology partner program for more than a decade and built a reliable and sustainable revenue pipeline with the world’s leading technology companies.” As well as running Trellix’s alliance partner programme, DeVoti designed and implemented its co-sell revenue generating model, growing the company’s global partner co-sales pipeline from zero to more than $150 million. https://semperis.com/partners .... New CEO for IDEX Biometrics IDEX Biometrics has promoted Catharina Eklof to the position of Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Vince Graziani, who will support the company in an advisory role. Over the last three years, as Chief Commercial Officer, Eklof has been instrumental in transforming IDEX Biometrics from a biometrics component provider into an authentication solutions provider for payments, access control and digital identity. Before joining IDEX Biometrics, she held positions at global companies including Mastercard and Securitas. www.idexbiometrics.com
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