INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
Digital Shadows expands executive leadership
Digital Shadows has strengthened its
management team by appointing Dan
Lowden as Chief Marketing Officer; Schwark
Satyavolu joins the company’s board and
Paul Kenealy joins as Director of Intelligence.
Dan Lowden has more than 20 years of
executive-level experience in technology
marketing. He has driven brand leadership
and marketing excellence that has
substantially grown startups and large
enterprises in security, mobile computing,
wireless services, enterprise software and
cloud. As CMO at Digital Shadows, he will
lead all aspects of the company’s strategic
marketing efforts to expand its global
market presence, develop new partnerships
and relationships, and continue to focus on
customer needs.
Previously, Dan was Chief Marketing
Officer at Invincea, a machine learning
next-gen antivirus company. Prior to that, he
was VP of Marketing at vArmour, a leading
datacentre and cloud security company. He
has held marketing leadership positions at
IBM, NEC and Sharp Electronics.
Dan Lowden, new Chief Marketing Officer.
Schwark Satyavolu joins the company’s board.
Industry veteran Schwark Satyavolu
has joined the company’s board and will
bring considerable expertise and advice
to the business. Schwark is a General
Partner at Trinity Ventures focusing on
Fintech, Security and Artificial Intelligence
investments. For almost 20 years, he has
built and complied with security standards
for large financial institutions. Before joining
Trinity, Schwark served as EVP at LifeLock
and was head of MasterCard’s global
rewards and offers initiatives.
Paul Kenealy has joined Digital Shadows
as Director of Intelligence tasked with
expanding the company’s human-led closed
source coverage and intelligence. Kenealy
has 14 years’ experience running intelligence
programmes and was previously at KPMG
where he was responsible for Cyber Threat
Intelligence and Response. He has also held
cybersecurity roles at Barclays Bank and
Betfair among others. Since joining, Kenealy
has already expanded the Digital Shadows’
human-led closed source coverage and
intelligence capabilities.
Microsoft appoints new General Manager for Gulf region
Microsoft has appointed Sayed Hashish
as the Regional General Manager for
Microsoft Gulf. In his new role, Sayed will
be overseeing the company’s operations
across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and
the UAE, driving strategic planning and
shaping growth initiatives to enable digital
transformation across sectors in the region
through developing youth capabilities,
encouraging local innovation, furthering the
digital agenda and fostering a knowledge-
based economy.
Sayed, who joined Microsoft in 1998,
has spent more than 10 years in Dubai and
held key positions in the region to drive
the company’s mission in empowering
individuals and organisations to achieve
more. Most recently he was General
Manager for Microsoft’s Public Sector in the
Middle East and Africa. During his tenure, he
led a diverse team of Microsoft employees,
based in 79 countries, covering government,
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education, healthcare, public safety and
national security sectors.
“Technology can transform education,
nurture community innovation and create
employment opportunities that fuel a
sustained cycle of social and economic
development,” Sayed said. “Digital
transformation, applied strategically, can
engage customers and citizens, empower
employees, optimise operations and
transform products and services. With Gulf
governments marching forwards with bold
economic visions, this is an exciting time for
us to play an important role in progressing
Microsoft’s commitment to fuel growth and
bring prosperity in the region by transforming
businesses, societies and economies.”
Sayed will continue to be based in Dubai
and lead the Gulf region to drive Microsoft’s
ambitions through forging new partnerships.
He believes that all industry sectors in the
Gulf can benefit from Microsoft’s holistic
security platform and technologies such
as cloud computing, big data, artificial
intelligence, mobile enterprise apps and the
Internet of Things.
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NTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS
Veeam appoints
Graham Porter as
Head of Channels for
Middle East
Veeam Software has appointed IT veteran
Graham Porter as Middle East Channel
Manager. Graham will be responsible for
the company’s regional channel sales
team spread across Dubai, Riyadh and
Qatar, managing relationships with major
distributors such as Aptec, Redington and
Logicom, and building opportunities along
with ecosystem alliance partners like HPE,
Cisco, NetApp, Microsoft and SAP.
Graham started his career with IBM in
the UK in 1984 in a technical support role
and had various sales and channel roles
in the UK and across EMEA. In 1994, he
relocated to Saudi Arabia where he worked
with IBM/SBM to set up the company’s
channel network. Since then, he has
held various channel leadership roles at
companies such as HP, Sun Microsystems,
Cisco and lastly at NetApp, where he spent
three years rebuilding its distribution and
channel business and getting the company
into the security business.
Graham will be primarily focusing on
Saudi and the UAE, the region’s two biggest
IT markets, where Veeam is experiencing
exponential growth. The company also sees
huge opportunities in Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt,
Levant and Iraq.
Veeam promotes Andrei Baronov
and Peter McKay to Co-CEO roles
Veeam Software has also announced that
it has promoted Co-founder, member of
the Board of Directors and CTO, Andrei
Baronov, and President & COO and member
of the Board of Directors, Peter McKay, to
the positions of Co-CEOs. Current CEO and
member of the Board of Directors, William H
Largent, will take on a new role as Chairman
of the Finance & Compensation Committees.
Veeam’s Co-founder and Director, Ratmir
Timashev, continues in his existing role.
These executive changes add extra focus
and strength to help the company continue
its rapid expansion into the enterprise and
cloud segments, and enable it to accelerate
growth into the Americas and APJ markets.
Also, Veeam reaffirms its goal of becoming a
$1 billion in revenue company by 2019.
As Co-CEOs, Mr Baronov and Mr McKay
will focus on key functional competencies
and they, along with Mr Largent and Mr
Timashev as members of the Board of
Directors, will be responsible for optimising
the company’s growth potential.
As Co-CEO, Mr Baronov will continue
his existing CTO responsibilities, and shall
oversee Veeam’s R&D, market strategy and
product management functions with the
focus on continued expansion of Veeam’s
total addressable market (TAM).
Mr McKay will spearhead Veeam’s go-to-
market, finance and HR functions, as well as
work in tandem with Mr Baronov as Co-CEO
to drive the company’s future growth.
As Chairman of the Finance &
Compensation Committees, Mr Largent
will be responsible for the oversight of
all corporate governance matters, tax
structure, investment management and the
internal audit function.
Seclore expands role of Channel Director
to include key Saudi and Africa regions
Seclore Technologies, a provider of
Enterprise Digital Rights Management
(EDRM) solutions, has expanded the role
of Regional Channel Director to enhance
its Go-to-Market Strategy.
Seclore is expanding its GCC
presence and regional operations in
response to increased demand for
its award-winning solutions. The role
of Rohit Oberoi as Regional Channel
Director for India and the Middle East
has now been expanded to include the
key Saudi Arabia and Africa territories,
with the aim of developing the
company’s markets with the support of
a new team based at Seclore’s regional
office in Dubai. Rohit was previously
Director of Channel Sales in India and
the Rest of the Middle East for Seclore.
Amit Malhotra, VP Sales India, Middle
East & Africa, Seclore, commented:
“Developing the channel is an integral part
of our strategy for the India, Saudi Arabia,
Rohit Oberoi, Regional Channel Director
for India and the Middle East.
rest of the Middle East and Africa region;
the Channel Director plays a key role in
driving our expansion plans for the region
as we continue to invest for growth from
our new regional base in Dubai.”
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