EMC channel manager Chris Trevitt resigns

EMC general manager of channel sales Chris Trevitt has resigned after 11 years with the company.

The news comes off the back of EMC managing director Alister Dias announcing his departure yesterday to take the top job at VMware.

Trevitt told CRN he wasn't ready to comment on his next position, but was considering a number of options.

An EMC spokesperson told CRN that Trevitt will be replaced by general manager of telecommunications and service providers Mark Fioretto and director of federal public sector Brett Harris. Fioretto will manage the channel business for service providers, systems integrators and alliances, and Harris will manage the mid-market, inside sales and distribution.

The latest development leaves EMC's executive team in a similar position as subsidiary VMware, who was left without a managing director or channel manager after Duncan Bennet and John Donovan left within two months of each other.

EMC president of Asia Pacific and Japan David Webster will take over the local operations until a replacement is found for Dias.

Trevitt joined EMC in 2005 as a commercial account manager. During his career with EMC, he was also an enterprise account director and general manager of South Australia and Western Australia before moving to the top channel position in 2014.

One of Trevitt’s biggest changes was bringing in Avnet to join Ingram Micro as a local distributor, knocking out Westcon in the process. He also oversaw the distribution strategy of EMC’s channel-only hyper-converged appliance, VSPEX Blue, giving distributor rights first to Avnet then Arrow Electronics.

Prior to EMC, Trevitt was an account manager for seven years at IBM.

Update: EMC's response on who will take over Trevitt's duties has been added.