INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
Alteryx announces appointment of Jon Pexton as CFO, Steven Birdsall as CRO
Alteryx, an AI platform for enterprise analytics, announced the appointment of Jon Pexton as Chief Financial Officer and Steven Birdsall as Chief Revenue Officer to lead the company’ s next phase of growth. These key additions to the executive team
Steven Birdsall underscore Alteryx’ s commitment to helping customers scale their AI and analytics automation journey.
As Chief Financial Officer, Pexton will oversee all global financial operations, including strategic planning, budgeting, and investor relations. Pexton brings more than two decades of experience in financial leadership including equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, international expansion, and strategic planning at high-growth technology companies.
He has been the CFO of five companies, most recently serving as CFO of Tebra, a healthcare practice automation software company. Prior to Tebra, Pexton was the CFO of UserTesting, an on-demand SaaS platform for user research and feedback.
In the role of Chief Revenue Officer, Birdsall will drive Alteryx’ s global revenue strategy, focusing on sales and customer success, retention and acquisition, along with partnerships and market expansion.
With more than 25 years of experience in scaling revenue operations in both public and private companies, Birdsall most recently
Jon Pexton served as CRO at Qlik, where he drove revenue growth and implemented datadriven strategies.
He was previously Senior Vice President of HCM Cloud Application Sales at Oracle and CRO at Anaplan, the company’ s sales organisation ahead of and through an IPO. Birdsall also held leadership roles as CRO at Radial and Chief Operating Officer at SAP.
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Westcon-Comstor announces unified European business under Rene Klein
Westcon-Comstor, a global technology provider and specialist distributor, unveiled a unified leadership structure for its European business with the promotion of Rene Klein to the role of Executive Vice President for the region.
Rene Klein
The move reflects the distributor’ s commitment to delivering exceptional experiences for partners, vendors and its own people across Europe, while driving innovation by continuing to develop pioneering new capabilities.
Rene was previously head of Westcon Europe, a role in which he delivered significant growth fuelled by innovations including the launch of Westcon’ s specialist Next-Generation Solutions go-to-market proposition for cybersecurity-focused partners and high-growth and emerging security vendors.
His expanded remit will see Rene assume European leadership of the distributor’ s Cisco-focused Comstor arm while maintaining leadership of Westcon Europe.
In taking on leadership of Westcon- Comstor’ s entire European business, incorporating both Westcon and Comstor sales and go-to-market functions, Rene will
leverage each arm’ s specialised focus to drive growth for partners and vendors. He will also oversee the distributor’ s revenue operations, services and global customer functions within Europe.
“ It is an honour to step into this new role as we begin the next chapter of our growth journey in Europe,” said Rene Klein, Executive Vice President, Europe at Westcon-Comstor.
“ My vision is to leverage the unparalleled expertise within both Westcon and Comstor to deliver consistent and world-class experiences, creating a future-ready and connected organisation with a shared culture and mindset rooted in a relentless focus on driving partner and vendor success.”
“ Since joining Westcon in 2005, Rene has demonstrated exceptional leadership and dedication in growing our Westcon business within Europe,” said David Grant, CEO at Westcon-Comstor. •
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