2019's biggest Australian channel job moves

2019 saw Australian channel execs move jobs a lot! Some went up the greasy pole. Some slid down.

So CRN has compiled the biggest moves we reported in 2019.

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Trend Micro promotes Evan Thomas to head of partnerships and alliances

11 January

Trend Micro promoted regional account manager Evan Thomas to head of partnerships and alliances, the security vendor's Australian head of channel. 

Thomas took over responsibilities shortly held by Tim Falinski, who had taken on ANZ channel duties on top of his role as head of consumer for Asia-Pacific following the exit of Trend's Peter Hewett.

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Storage vendor Cohesity unveils first Aussie channel chief

11 January

Cohesity named Kathryn Ramanathan as its first channel chief for the Australia and New Zealand region.  

Appointed as channel and alliances manager, ANZ for Cohesity, Ramanathan drives growth and manage and support partners in the region, according to Cohesity ANZ general manager Theo Hourmouzis.

Ramanathan joins the hyperconverged storage vendor from Hitachi Vantara, where she was partner manager for the vendor's southern region. 

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Sophos ANZ boss Ashley Wearne departs

14 January

Sophos Australia and New Zealand general manager Ashley Wearne exited the security vendor early in 2019.

Wearne led Sophos’ trans-Tasman operation for the past seven years, having been hired out of Adobe, where he was the creative suite vendor’s Aussie channel chief, in 2012.

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McAfee channel chief Adam Boreham defects to Kaspersky

21 January

Kaspersky Lab recruited McAfee's channel director Adam Boreham as enterprise account manager for its northern region.

Boreham joined rival McAfee in January 2016 as channel account manager  and was promoted to the channel director role in August 2017. 

In his new role, Boreham will be responsible for growing Kaspersky's enterprise business.

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Fronde hires new CEO Jason Delamore from Auckland International Airport

22 January

Trans-Tasman IT provider Fronde Systems selected its new chief executive officer in Auckland International Airport's Jason Delamore.

Delamore was previously Auckland International Airport's general manager of marketing and technology.

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Dell EMC appoints new ANZ channel chief

23 January

Early in 2019 Dell Technologies appointed a new channel chief.

Shant Soghomonian, who acted in the role since Geoff Wright’s August 2018 departure to Huawei, was made permanent in the role late in 2018, but Dell did not make the news public.

Soghomonian’s deep knowledge of Dell – he previously served as director of channel strategy for across the Asia Pacific and Japan and has worked for the company for a decade – were influential factors in his appointment.

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Kronos names Charles DeWitt as new ANZ, Southeast Asia managing director

23 January

Workforce management software vendor Kronos named Charles DeWitt as its new Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia region boss.

DeWitt replaced Peter Harte.

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Former DXC vice president Stephen Kowal joins Aussie services conglomerate FTS Group

30 January

Former DXC vice president Stephen Kowal joined technology services conglomerate FTS Group as its new chief executive.

FTS Group is a federated group of technology services businesses that specialise in their own areas of expertise. It includes Anatas, Cubic Consulting, FTS Data & AI, FTS Resourcing, Kobold, SME Gateway and Veritec.

Kowal worked for CSC for more than ten years, joining the company in 2006 as CIO and director of business excellence. In 2015, he took on the general manager role where he was responsible for leading the company's push into the financial services sector and growing its footprint in Asia, Japan, the US and UK.

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Artis Group boss Chris Greatrex exits, company appoints Mark Bennett as chief executive

13 February

Artis Group managing director Chris Greatrex departed the national IT service provider after more than seven years leading the organisation.

The exit has made way for the company to appoint Mark Bennett in the new role of chief executive of the company. Bennett, who brings some 20 years of experience to the IT industry, said Greatrex’s contribution to Artis had been significant.

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Kemp appoints Tony Sandberg as ANZ leader

14 February

Application delivery software vendor Kemp hired Tony Sandberg as its regional director for Asia-Pacific, with immediate responsibility of expanding the business in Australia and New Zealand.

Prior to joining Kemp, he was director of solutions and industry marketing for Polycom, and held various positions in Singapore and Europe with Ericsson for 10 years.

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Louis Abdilla resigns as chief executive of Content Security after 19 years

18 February

Content Security founder and chief executive Louis Abdilla resigned from the cybersecurity MSP after more than 19 years leading the company.

Abdilla wrote to partners and customers to announce his decision, revealing that co-founder Phil Wurth would become the company’s new CEO.

Abdilla said that while moving on had been a tough decision, he had no doubt Wurth would take the business to the next stage. Abdilla will remain a stakeholder in the business.

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Cirrus Networks co-founder Grahame Gilson exits for Pure Storage

1 March

Cirrus Networks co-founder Grahame Gilson departed the company for a role at enterprise storage vendor Pure Storage.

Gilson’s exit marked the last of Cirrus’ founding executives’ departures for the Perth-founded provider. He follows Frank Richmond, who exited the business in July 2017 before returning to the UK, and Mark Oliver, who departed Cirrus in July 2018, becoming a senior systems engineer with Cohesity.

The three founded Cirrus in 2012 out of a desire to improve the value for money customers were getting out of their IT, Gilson told CRN.

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Cloud integration vendor Talend appoints first ANZ channel chief out of GitHub

5 March

Cloud data integration vendor Talend appointed Helen Larcos as its first ANZ channel and alliances manager.

Larcos was hired from software development platform GitHub, where she was channel sales manager for ANZ and Southeast Asia.

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ERP vendor Unit4 names Lee Gale new ANZ managing director

13 March

ERP vendor Unit4 named Lee Gale as its new managing director for Australia and New Zealand, replacing Chris Tithof.

Gale joined the Netherlands-headquartered vendor from OpenText, where he last held the role of APJ regional vice president of channels and alliances.

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CSG boss Julie-Ann Kerin steps down after seven years

14 March

CSG chief executive and managing director Julie-Ann Kerin stepped down from her role after seven years leading the company.

She was replaced by chairman and executive director Mark Bayliss as acting CEO until CSG’s board finds a permanent leader.

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Klugo boss Annaliese Kloe departs, appoints Mark Culverson as replacement

25 March

NetSuite partner Klugo Group revealed that CEO Annaliese Kloé has departed for sister company Next Technik where she will serve in the same role.

General manager Mark Culverson has taken over from Kloe effective immediately. Kloe will remain on Klugo’s board.
 

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Zendesk appoints Amy Foo new Australian managing director

28 March

Customer experience software vendor Zendesk selected Amy Foo to lead its Australian and New Zealand business.

Foo joined Zendesk in 2013 as financial director for Asia-Pacific and was promoted to vice president, finance and operations two years later. She will retain her current position while also taking on managing director responsibilities for ANZ.

She replaced former MD Brett Adam, who moved into the chief architect role at Zendesk's headquarters in San Francisco.

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Optus appoints new wholesale chief and shuffles exec ranks

3 April

Optus made changes to its executive team, appointing Ben White to lead its SMB and wholesale business and hiring Matt Williams out of Vodafone New Zealand.

Ben White assumed the new role of managing director for business and wholesale, moving from his previous role as managing director for marketing and product.

White replaced Stuart Bird, who led the telco’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business from 2017 to April this year, but he also now leads the small business team in the expanded role.

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Karl Sice joins Alcatel-Lucent as sales leader

4 April

Alcatel-Lucent Enterpris hired channel veteran Karl Sice as sales leader for Australia and New Zealand.

Sice told CRN he thinks Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has an opportunity to build on strengths in vertical industries, especially education, hospitality, healthcare and government. He hopes to become part of digital transformation discussions, telling CRN that he feels there are opportunities to assist with efforts such as New South Wales’ Service NSW online self-service portal.

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NEC Australia boss Mike Barber departs

8 April

NEC Australia confirmed that managing director Mike Barber left the business.

NEC said “a change in leadership approach” was appropriate after making changes to its business model and more closely aligning to NEC Japan.

Barber was succeeded by NEC veteran Mitsuhiro Murooka a few weeks later.

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ERP vendor Syspro appoints Pronto's Albert Lau as new Aussie channel chief

10 April

ERP software vendor Syspro made two key executive hires to lead its Australasian business, with a new channel chief and sales director joining the ranks.

Former Pronto channel chief Albert Lau was appointed as strategic alliances and channel manager for the manufacturing and distribution software specialist. Lau worked for Pronto for close to two decades before joining Syspro, most recently as channel manager before his departure in 2015.

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CommsChoice boss Ben Gilbert resigns

18 April

Ben Gilbert stepped down as chief executive of managed services provider CommsChoice.

Non-executive director and former Nextgen Group chief executive Peter McGrath was appointed interim CEO and managing director in his place.

CommsChoice said Gilbert’s decision to leave was for personal reasons, citing “the burden of travel commitment on his young family”.

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Kyocera ANZ managing director departs

18 April

Kyocera Document Solutions' managing director for Australia and New Zealand David Finn left the company, naming Ryosuke Okochi as his replacement.

Okochi steps up from his role as process improvement manager at Kyocera Australia, a role he held since 2017. He is expected to lead a restructuring effort to shift Kyocera's focus from manufacturing to services.

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Huawei Australia replaces 'best-ever' CEO

1 May

Huawei Australia posted record results, and appointed a new CEO to replace George Huang.

The two announcements may seem incongruous – why appoint a new leader after revenue hit $735 million, an 18 percent year-on-year increase?

We’re told that Huawei likes to rotate its senior leaders every two or three years, that Huang’s time was up and that perhaps his Australian success has him marked for another gig.

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Former Gigamon country manager Ian Teague joins SailPoint

1 May

Former Gigamon country manager Ian Teague joined enterprise identity governance solutions vendor SailPoint Technologies to lead its local business.

Teague brings more than 25 years of experience to his new role of ANZ regional director. He joined Gigamon as country manager in 2015 before his departure earlier this year. Prior to that, Teague worked for Akamai from 2004 to 2014, most recently as ANZ country manager.

It marks the second major hire for SailPoint's Australian business in six months, having recruited former IBM channel sales manager Craig McGregor in October last year to lead its channel.

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ASG Group boss Geoff Lewis departs, COO Dean Langenbach named successor

2 May

ASG Group founder and chief executive Geoff Lewis retired after 23 years and was replaced by chief operating officer Dean Langenbach.

Langenbach joined ASG in 2005 as chief financial officer, and was later appointed COO in 2011. He previously held various leadership and finance roles at OneSteel, Entertainment UK, Diageo, GE Capital and Deloitte.

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Nick Verykios to depart Arrow

3 May

Arrow Electronics announced that Distribution Central founder Nick Verykios will leave the business on 30 June.

Verykios is a channel legend who came to Arrow through its 2016 acquisition of Distribution Central, the distie co-founded by Verykios, which he led to $300 million of annual revenue over 11 years at the helm.

“After more than 15 years of leading a high-growth and award-winning business I’m ready to take a well-earned break,” Verykios said. “My leadership team is intact and well-prepared – in fact they’ve been ready for a long time, and now the time is right for me and the team.”

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Microsoft Australia appoints Rachel Bondi as new channel leader

6 May

Microsoft veteran Rachel Bondi took over the reins of Microsoft Australia’s channel leadership.

Bondi joined Microsoft 21 years ago as a partner account executive before moving Redmond to the vendor’s headquarters.

She returned to Australia in July 2016 to take on the COO role at the Australian arm of Microsoft, where she was accountable for centralised marketing, programs and communications for all products and services.

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Lenovo names Sunny Gandhi as new SMB channel lead

8 May

Lenovo ANZ promoted its distribution lead Sunny Gandhi to a new role as head of channel and distribution for SMBs.

In his last role, Gandhi was responsible for transforming the vendor's distribution business and increasing partner reach. During his time in the role, Lenovo has beefed up its channel tools for partners with features like the Lenovo Partner Portal and Deal Registration Program.

He joined Lenovo in November 2017 after a five-year stint  at Ingram Micro, one of Lenovo's Australian distributors.

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Veritas ANZ channel chief Janet Docherty jumps to Veeam

13 May

Veeam hired Veritas Technologies’ ANZ channel chief Janet Docherty as head of channel sales for ANZ.

Docherty first confirmed the change on LinkedIn, saying she started the role this month. A Veeam spokesperson also confirmed the hire.

Docherty will report into Veeam ANZ vice president Gary Mitchell and will lead the channel team in both Australia and New Zealand.

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BlueJeans channel chief Adam Noall jumps to Akamai

15 May

Former BlueJeans channel chief Adam Noall jumped to content delivery network provider Akamai technology, where he will serve as ANZ channel manager.

Noall joined BlueJeans in January 2018 as a global channel director for Telstra, one of the video conferencing vendor's largest partners in Asia-Pacific.

He was promoted to APAC channel director four months later, tasked with building out BlueJeans' channel team and expanding its presence in the region by working with cloud service providers, integrators and consultants.

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Terrie Anderson replaces Adam Gordon as Forescout country manager

5 June

The local arms of network security vendors Forescout and Gigamon played musical chairs with their leadership, leading to the appointment of Terrie Anderson as Forescout's country manager.

She replaces Forescout's former country manager Adam Gordon, who left in January after a year-and-a-half to take on leadership of Gigamon's ANZ business.

Anderson joins from Venafi where she was regional director for Asia-Pacific for three-and-a-half years. Prior to that, she was regional sales director for Riverbed Technology.

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Comms vendor 8x8 hires Michelle Marlan as new ANZ channel chief

5 June

Cloud communications vendor 8x8 hired Michelle Marlan out of Genesys as its new ANZ channel chief, replacing Steve Shaw, who was hired in January 2019.

Marlan took over as senior manager for channel and alliances for Australia and New Zealand, and is expected to support the growth of the vendor’s network of channel partners.

Marlan last worked for call centre software provider Genesys as senior director for APAC customer success, a role she held for over a year. Prior to that, she worked at Genesys subsidiary Interactive Intelligence for more than six years in various sales and leadership roles.

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Mimecast channel chief Rema Lolas departs

6 June

Mimecast ANZ channel director Rema Lolas departed the email and data security vendor after just over a year in the role.

Mimecast ANZ country manager Nick Lennon told CRN that Lolas stepped down from the role to "explore personal opportunities to live and work overseas."

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Lenovo DCG appoints Frank Eagleton as channel chief

13 June

Lenovo Australia's Data Centre Group promoted company veteran Frank Eagleton as its ANZ channel boss.

Eagleton became head of SMB and channel sales for ANZ, succeeding Nathan Knight, who was promoted to ANZ general manager in December 2018.

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Commvault appoints Craig Bastow APAC alliances chief as part of sales shakeup

13 June

Commvault appointed Craig Bastow to the newly created role of APAC senior director WW alliances as the vendor unveils its new ANZ business strategy.

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Snowflake Computing appoints Zac Brandt as Australian boss

21 June

Data warehousing vendor Snowflake Computing appointed Zac Brandt as regional director for Australia.

The newly created role is the top position in Australia, with Brandt reporting into Snowflake APJ vice president Peter O’Connor.

Brandt is tasked with supporting partners and helping push Snowflake’s data warehousing offerings to the Australian public and private sectors.

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Former Artis Group boss Chris Greatrex jumps to Veritec

8 July

Former Artis Group chief executive Chris Greatrex joined Canberra-based digital transformation specialist Veritec to lead its expansion into New South Wales.

Greatrex took on Veritec’s business applications and cloud modernisation operations in the newly created role of general manager for NSW.

Greatrex comes fresh off a short stint working in a product development role at Datacom. Prior to that, Greatrex was managing director of Microsoft app specialist Artis Group from 2011 to 2019.

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Sydney MSP Hotline IT names Jason LeGuier as new chief executive

10 July

IT services provider Hotline IT appointed Jason LeGuier as its new chief executive officer, joining a growing leadership team.

LeGuier replaced Michelle Joosse, who now oversees governance and commercial management as managing director.

Headquartered in Sydney, Hotline IT offers managed services, cloud, security, communications and print services to customers in Australia and New Zealand. It has partnerships with Dell, Cisco, Microsoft, VMware, Veeam, HP, and many others.

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HPE's Patrick Devlin jumps to Aruba

11 July

HPE Australia director for enterprise territory Patrick Devlin joined the company’s wireless networking subsidiary Aruba as its ANZ boss.

Devlin assumed the role of Director of South Pacific in August, replacing Anthony Smith, who was promoted to APJ channel sales director.

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WatchGuard appoints Ingram's Luke Skinner as first ANZ channel chief

22 July

Network security vendor WatchGuard Technologies appointed Luke Skinner as its first dedicated channel and distribution manager for Australia and New Zealand.

Skinner joined from Ingram Micro, where he last worked as business unit manager in the distie’s software business unit on Trend Micro, McAfee and Symantec.

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Voice recording platform vendor Dubber hires former Telstra channel manager

22 July

Voice data capture and analysis vendor Dubber appointed Chris Melican as its first channel chief for Australia and New Zealand.

Melican is tasked with building up the company’s ANZ channel team and helping develop a comprehensive global channel strategy.

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Optus exec Masseh Haidary joins Canberra reseller Delv as CEO

23 July

Canberra-based services provider Delv appointed Optus' head of ACT and federal government strategy Masseh Haidary as its new chief executive.

Haidary replaced Sam Smair on July 28th. Smair will remain as Delv's chairman, focusing on “exploring new markets” and establishing regional partnerships.

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NEXTGEN appoints new MD, sees business doubling in three years

25 July

Distributor NEXTGEN has a new managing director: former CA, Infor and Oracle Netsuite exec Gavin Lawless has promoted to the top job.

Lawless was appointed director of growth in September 2018 and seems to have had an immediate effect: NEXTGEN’s announcement of his elevation says the company “grew over 20 percent in the financial year just completed, growing all its vendor partners with standouts being, Rubrik, Actifio, Arista, HPE, Rubrik, and Solarwinds.”

“In addition, our Oracle business continues to grow off a large base, even though the business is transitioning from 3 year perpetual licensing to 12 month subscription.” Cloud revenues grew by more than 30 percent.

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IBM Australia boss David La Rose takes global channel role, replaced by Katrina Troughton

26 July

IBM’s Australia and New Zealand managing director David La Rose vacated the role after being promoted to a global position in the US.

La Rose was appointed to the leadership role in 2017 after a near 28-year career with IBM. He’ll relocate to the US for his new role as general manager of IBM’s partner ecosystem, reporting to North America chairman Tom Rosamilia.

Replacing La Rose was another 28-year IBM veteran Katrina Troughton, who was most recently general manager of sales based in Sydney. Troughton’s career includes roles with IBM in Australia, New Zealand, China and the US, including leadership of the New Zealand business from 2004 to 2009.

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ForgeRock names James Ross as new ANZ boss

1 August

Security vendor ForgeRock appointed James Ross as its new managing director for Australia and New Zealand.

Ross replaced APJ senior vice president John Donovan, who left in March to join Sophos as its ANZ managing director.

Based in Sydney, Ross has been tasked with growing ForgeRock’s ANZ presence, focusing on revenue growth and business development.

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Raymond Maisano moves from VMware to lead Cloudflare ANZ

1 August

Cloudflare appointed Raymond Maisano to lead its Australian and New Zealand operations.

Formerly head of VMware Australia’s security business, then its Cloud Foundation product, Maisano is also a former general manager of networking and servers at HPE.

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Epson Australia boss Bruno Turcato departs, promotes GM Craig Heckenberg

2 August

Epson Australia and New Zealand managing director Bruno Turcato retired after 16 years in the role.

General manager for sales and marketing Craig Heckenberg was promoted to replace Turcato, officially turning over the role upon Turcato’s departure in September 2019.

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Former Microsoft Australia MD Pip Marlow to lead Salesforce

8 August

Salesforce announced that former Microsoft Australia managing director Pip Marlow would join the SaaS giant as its Australia and New Zealand CEO after incumbent Mark Innes went "on sabbatical".

Marlow left Suncorp to take the job.

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Ping Identity channel chief Ashley Diffey crowned ANZ boss

13 August

Identity management vendor Ping Identity promoted APAC channel chief Ashley Diffey as its new country manager for Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Diffey replaces APAC regional director Geoffrey Andrews, who left the company in April.

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Extreme Networks ANZ boss Chris Georgellis departs, channel chief Julian Critchlow takes over

14 August

Extreme Networks promoted ANZ channel manager Julian Critchlow to general manager.

Critchlow replaced ANZ regional director Chris Georgellis, who left the company in April 2019 after two years in the role.

Critchlow, who had been the acting ANZ boss since Georgellis’ departure, has been tasked with engaging with Aerohive Networks’ partner and customer base in Australia, as well as promoting Extreme’s own product range. Extreme Networks acquired US-based competitor Aerohive in July for US$210 million.

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Motorola Solutions ANZ boss Steve Crutchfield takes APAC role, Con Balaskas named successor

16 August

Motorola Solutions promoted director of services Con Balaskas to become its new managing director for Australia and New Zealand.

Balaskas replaced Steve Crutchfield, who took on “an expanded government and public safety leadership role” across the company’s Asia-Pacific business.

In the new role, Balaskas will remain Motorola Solutions’ services lead while also leading the ANZ senior leadership team.

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SUSE names Charlie Yates as ANZ boss

20 August

Open source software vendor SUSE appointed Charlie Yates as its new country director for Australia and New Zealand.

Yates, hired out of Citrix in April , replaced former SUSE sales director for ANZ Harry Kingma, who joined Micro Focus as ANZ alliances manager in February.

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Snowflake appoints Alana Sahakian as ANZ channel chief

21 August

Data warehousing vendor Snowflake appointed Alana Sahakian as its first channel and alliances manager for Australia and New Zealand.

Sahakian was hired out of Tableau Software after the company added 15 new ANZ channel partners over the past 12 months.

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Hitachi Vantara names Adrian Johnson new ANZ boss

22 August

Hitachi Vantara, the digital data systems subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, appointed Adrian Johnson as its new managing director for Australia and New Zealand.

Johnson joins from software vendor Liferay, and replaces Nathan McGregor, who left for an APAC role with Hitachi Vantara in April, i.e. vice president for data analytics and IoT.

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Acquia names new Australian channel chief

22 August

Acquia appointed Jae Kong to the new role of regional channel chief for Australia and New Zealand.

Based in Sydney, Kong is responsible for working with channel partners and systems integrators to “build, manage and activate ambitious digital experiences at scale.”

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HPE hires South Pacific sales lead out of Lenovo

26 August

HPE hired Simone Filetti out of Lenovo as its new territory sales manager for the South Pacific region.

Filetti replaces HPE veteran Patrick Devlin, who joined wireless networking subsidiary Aruba as ANZ boss. She is based out of Sydney, reporting to HPE South Pacific vice president and managing director Stephen Bovis.

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PS&C chief executive Glenn Fielding steps down

2 September

IT services provider PS&C's chief executive Glenn Fielding resigned from his role.

Executive director and managing director of PS&C subsidiary Seisma, Robert Hogeland, was named as acting CEO as the company looks for Fielding’s replacement.

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Craig McGregor named Mimecast channel chief

3 September

Mimecast unveiled Craig McGregor as its new ANZ channel director, replacing Rema Lolas after she left the company in June 2019.

Most recently director of channel sales at SailPoint, McGregor also served in channel roles at Microsoft, Adobe and Check Point.

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Spirit Telecom managing director Geoff Neate departs, Sol Lukatsky named as replacement

3 September

Spirit Telecom announced that co-founder Geoff Neate resigned as managing director after 15 years at the helm.

Chief sales and marketing officer Sol Lukatsky was named as Neate’s replacement, whilst retaining his executive director role on the company’s board.

Neate stayed on as a consultant for mergers and acquisitions, working closely with chairman James Joughin.

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HP Inc channel chief Chris Hewlett leaves top role

11 September

HP Inc’s Australian channel chief Chris Hewlett left his role to return to head up the end-user sales team.

Hewlett is a 19-year HP veteran, having joined the company in 2000 as an enterprise account manager, working up to enterprise sales manager and eventually national channel & distribution sales manager in February 2012.

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Matt Bolton named ServiceNow’s new channel lead

12 September

ServiceNow named Matt Bolton as its new ANZ Channel Chief.

Bolton took to LinkedIn to announce he’s been named senior director for the vendor’s alliance and channels ecosystem across Australia and New Zealand.

“After 6 years alongside … a wonderful group of team mates, customers and partners at Qlik, I have decided to embark on a new adventure at ServiceNow,” Bolton wrote.

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Rackspace ANZ boss Darryn McCoskery departs, ex-HPE exec named replacement

16 September

Rackspace ANZ general manager Darryn McCoskery stepped down from his role.

Former HPE exec Sean Girvin has been named as his replacement in a new role as ANZ managing director.

The cloud provider did not provide more details on McCoskery’s future, but confirmed he has left Rackspace. CRN understands he has not taken on a new role.

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Data Republic hires Paul Arthur as first ANZ general manager

18 September

Secure data exchange vendor Data Republic hired former Cherwell Software country manager Paul Arthur its first general manager for Australia and New Zealand.

Arthur previously worked with direct and indirect go-to-market models in his 20-year executive career, working for the likes of BMC Software, Autodesk and A2K Technologies.

Prior to joining Data Republic, Arthur was country manager of IT service management software vendor Cherwell Software from June 2015 until August 2019. Prior to that, he worked for A2K Technologies from 2012 to 2015, most recently as general manager for sales and marketing.

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TPG channel chief Kyle Bunting jumps to Lenovo DCG

30 September

TPG Telecom channel chief Kyle Bunting left to join Lenovo Data Centre Group after a four-year stint with the telco.

Bunting has assumed the role of head of enterprise sales for Australia and New Zealand, replacing Shayne Harris, who moved to Lenovo’s device-as-a-service division.

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Security firm Vectra AI hires channel chief out of Telstra

1 October

Network security vendor Vectra AI tapped former Telstra channel exec Dee Clinton as its Asia-Pacifc channel chief.

The announcement comes after naming its first Australian channel partner, Adelaide-based SecureWare, as well as its first APAC distie and New Zealand partner.

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LogMeIn channel chief Robert Findlay departs

22 October

Video conferencing vendor LogMeIn revealed that APJ head of channel and alliances Robert Findlay has left the company.

A company spokesperson told CRN that Findlay cited personal reasons for his decision, and added that Findlay’s remaining team continues to operate as usual across all three business units.

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HPE channel chief Marina Fronek to depart

5 November

HPE’s Australian Channel Chief Maria Fronek decided to leave the company.

The company’s South Pacific vice president Stephen Bovis issued a statement saying Fronek intends to “pursue the next career chapter in the new year.”

CRN understands the decision to leave is amicable and not related to Bovis’ recent decision to refresh his senior leaders for storage and servers.

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HP Inc. names Chelsea Rossney new Aussie channel chief

6 November

HP appointed Chelsea Rossney as Australian director for the commercial channel.

Rossney replaced former Australian channel chief Chris Hewlett, who announced in September he was returning to the vendor’s end-user sales team after more than two years leading the channel.

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Tenable ANZ boss Bede Hackney jumps to Databricks

12 November

Tenable’s ANZ country manager Bede Hackney left the vendor in favour of a role at unified analytics platform provider Databricks.

Hackney joined Tenable in September 2017, replacing the cyber security vendor’s first ANZ country manager Gordon Gakovic.

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Citadel CEO Darren Stanley departs

13 November

Canberra managed services provider Citadel Group's chief executive Darren Stanley resigned after three years in the role.

He was replaced by co-founder and current non-executive director Mark McConnell as CEO and managing director.

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Optus CEO Allen Lew to step down, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin named as replacement

5 December

Optus CEO Allen Lew revealed he would step back from the role next year to make way for incoming chief Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.

The company announced that Bayer Rosmarin, currently deputy CEO, would assume the top job on 1 April 2020. 

Rosmarin is a relatively recent hire for Optus, having joined Australia’s second largest telco on 1 March 2019 in the newly created role as deputy CEO for the consumer division. Lew said at the time that the role was specifically created to help Optus speed up improvements to customer experience.

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Araza hires Avaya's Doug Richards to lead new Canberra office

10 December

Systems integrator Araza hired Doug Richards from Avaya to lead its new Canberra office.

Richards headed both the management and business development team for Araza in the Capital, bringing his 20 years of IT experience and 12 years of Canberra experience.

Araza said the new office comes after its recent successes in landing some federal government contracts.

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