INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
Sanjay Ahuja takes
over as CEO of FVC Olaf Duennweller moves from
Veritas to join Commvault
FVC, one of the region’s value-added
distributors, has appointed Sanjay Ahuja as
its new CEO. Ahuja will focus on delivering
leadership, growth and development of the
company’s expansive regional operations,
which counts more than 350 major
enterprise customers in 50-plus Middle East
and African markets.
Based in Dubai, Ahuja will play a pivotal
role in driving FVC’s growth via increased
partner engagement and providing market-
leading end-to-end solutions that deliver
optimum, cost-efficient performance for FVC
clients. Ahuja will oversee FVC’s strategic
in-country hubs in Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
Morocco, Kenya and Nigeria amongst others.
Ahuja will be focused primarily on
strengthening and expanding FVC’s channel
breadth and depth with its respective OEMs
and streamlining overall operations across
business units including sales, services,
finance, human resources, administration,
marketing, supply chain management and
other support functions. Commvault, a global vendor in enterprise
backup, recovery, archive and cloud,
announced appointment of Olaf
Duennweller as Area-Vice President - EMEA
Central. Duennweller comes to Commvault
after nearly 17 years at Veritas, growing
through the ranks from Pre-Sales Manager
to Country Manager for the entire business
in Germany.
In this new position Duennweller takes
leadership of Commvault’s business across
the Germany, Austria, Switzerland markets,
with responsibility to strengthen regional
alliance and partner networks, and increase
Fahmi Jabri to lead
Honeywell’s META
Commercial Security
Honeywell, the global software-industrial
company, has appointed Fahmi Jabri
as its Business Leader for Commercial
Security in the Middle East, Turkey and
Africa. Jabri’s new role will see him grow
Commvault revenue
and market share
through new pan-
regional customer
implementations
and partnerships.
With a focus on delivering simplified,
market-leading backup and recovery data
protection solutions, specifically supporting
pressing GDPR, ransomware, hybrid cloud
and scale-out customer requirements,
Duenweller plans to increase penetration
across public sector, enterprise and mid-
market sectors.
Honeywell’s security business and drive
greater customer focus. He will also advance
the organisation’s portfolio of commercial
security hardware and software solutions
for connected buildings in the region,
leveraging advances in analytics, big data,
cloud and Internet of Things IoT technology.
Jabri is tasked with reinforcing
Honeywell’s position as a key player in the
small and medium business SMB segment,
the high-end CCTV market, and the access
control and commercial intrusion business
for Honeywell.
Prior to this role, Jabri was Strategy and
Marketing Director of Security and Fire, for
the Middle East, Russia, Turkey and Africa.
He has been in the building technologies’
industry for more than 17 years, and joined
Honeywell in April 2015.
Rabih Itani elevated to drive
Aruba regional security Oren Yehudai joins
Equinix as channel head
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company, has appointed Rabih Itani to lead
its security business development across the
region. Rabih Itani is a network and security
industry veteran who is tasked with helping
organisations reduce risk in today’s changing
threat landscape and address new and unknown threats.
He joined Aruba in early 2012 as a system engineering manager
for the telco sector across Middle East and Turkey and rose to
manage the business in 2015. Equinix announced it has appointed Oren
Yehudai to lead its EMEA Channel Partner
Programme. Yehudai joins from Palo
Alto Networks where he led EMEA inside
channel sales and was credited with driving
significant growth for the cybersecurity firm through channel sales
and partnerships. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Yehudai
held senior channel roles for several high-growth tech companies
including NetApp and ClickSoftware. He will be based in Equinix’s
European headquarters in Amsterdam.
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