INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
Veeam appoints Kate
Hutchison as Chief
Marketing Officer
Veeam Software announced that Kate
Hutchison has been appointed Chief
Marketing Officer. Hutchison will lead
Veeam’s global marketing organisation
and continue to strengthen the company’s
brand momentum as the Availability
provider for applications, data, cloud.
Hutchison will report directly to Veeam Co-
CEO and President, Peter McKay.
Hutchison brings to Veeam more than
20 years of experience as CMO at a variety
of software and hardware technology
companies, including Riverbed, Polycom,
VMware, Citrix and BEA. Most recently,
Hutchison was Senior Vice President and
CMO of Riverbed. Hutchison successfully led
Riverbed through a re-positioning and re-
branding effort that took the company into
a much larger – approximately 11x larger –
market overall.
Prior to Riverbed, Hutchison was
Executive Vice President and CMO at
Polycom, a leader in business-grade
conferencing communications solutions.
Preceding Polycom, Hutchison was
CMO and Vice President of Marketing
for VMware, where she expanded the
company’s position from a hypervisor
vendor to a provider of virtualisation
solutions to help customers build private
and public clouds. Prior to VMware,
Hutchison helped Citrix develop the strategy
to double the company’s revenue to $1B in
revenue in three years, and emerge as the
leader in application access and delivery.
Yarob Sakhnini joins Juniper Networks
as Head of META
Juniper Networks announced that Yarob
Sakhnini has been appointed as Head of Middle
East, Turkey and Africa. In this role, Sakhnini
is responsible for all aspects of sales strategy,
planning and operations across Juniper’s Middle
East, Turkey and Africa business.
Prior to joining Juniper, Sakhnini held
several senior management and technical posts
at Brocade Communications. He previously
worked for Foundry, 3Com and CNS, also in
technical and sales roles. Throughout his career
of more than 20 years in the high-tech industry,
Sakhnini has focused on Middle East, Turkey
and Africa and has thorough knowledge and
understanding of the region’s market landscape
across service providers, private enterprises
and the public sector.
SAS promotes Alaa Youssef to Managing
Director for Middle East
Analytics software leader SAS has
promoted Alaa Youssef to Managing
Director for its Middle East operations. In
this expanded role, he will have additional
management responsibilities in the Middle
East for the Gulf and Emerging Markets
sales and operations teams, as well as his
already existing management of sales and
operations in SAS Saudi Arabia.
Since he joined SAS in 2011, Alaa Youssef
has served in a variety of leadership
capacities within the professional services,
sales and operations business units of
Saudi Arabia. During his leadership, the
Saudi Arabian sales team solidified SAS’
position in banking and telecom industries,
and expanded SAS’ presence into utilities
including oil and gas.
Alaa has over 20 years of experience
working in the ICT sector. He has held
managing positions in several multinational
technology companies.
Orange Business appoints Mohammad Turki
Al-Otaibi as Country Manager for Saudi Arabia
Orange Business Services has appointed
Mohammad Turki Al-Otaibi as Country
Manager, Saudi Arabia. He is a Saudi
national with more than 20 years of
experience of technology solutions for
both enterprise and government sectors.
His career spans more than a decade in a
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variety of leadership roles, including Vice
President for Sales and Solutions with
Ericsson Saudi Arabia, Project Manager
in the oil and gas sector at the Royal
Commission for Jubail & Yanbu and Lead
Software Engineer with the Saudi Arabian
Air Force.
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