Silver Peak has hired Graham Schultz as its new sales director for Australia and New Zealand, with the target of accelerating growth and customer adoption in the region.
Prior to joining the software-defined WAN vendor, Schultz was sales director and country manager of Tintri Storage. The storage vendor closed down its only Australian office in July, announcing it would run its local business out of Singapore.
Along with Tintri, Schultz has held sales roles at various vendors over the past 20 years, including Legato, Brocade and VMware.
Schultz said: "This is an exciting time to be joining Silver Peak, as they are the only vendor capable of offering a complete SD-WAN solution that simply and intelligently combines any combination of connectivity types into high-performance virtual WANs that deliver an unmatched user experience edge-to-edge."
Silver Peak senior vice president of worldwide sales Chris Helfer said he was pleased to add a seasoned professional to the ANZ team.
"We are quickly establishing market leadership in the hyper growth emerging market for SD-WAN technologies that IDC predicts will grow to an estimated US$6 billion by 2020, and are confident that our Australian/New Zealand team will make an immediate impact on regional sales," said Helfer.
Silver Peak was founded in the US in 2004 and has WAN partnerships with Dell, VMware, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems.
Pictured: Graham Schultz, Silver Peak
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