Former Trend boss lands at Akimbi

Storage virtualisation software company Akimbi Systems opened a regional base in Sydney and appointed former Trend Micro MD Chris Poulos as its Asia-Pacific boss.

Poulos reports to Reza Malekzadeh, the company's Paris based vice president of international operations.

Aside from Trend Micro, Poulos also held various management positions for a number of major organisations, including IBM (seven years) and Lotus (five years).

Poulos said his decision to leave Trend came about because of structural changes within the organisation

"I was made redundent because Trend wanted to focus on its vertical line of business. It didn't want any more regional mangers, but I did consider another role at Trend," he said.

"I turned that down because it required me to be overseas three out of four weeks. It was fantastic riding the software wave for six years."

According to Poulos, Malekzadeh offered him the position of MD of Akimbi straight after his departure from Trend.

He also said Akimbi is a channel focused company. It has recently signed Australian based Capitalhead and Technical Architecture Solutions to sell its software product Virtual Lab Automation Software across the region.

"I will be looking to recruit more channel staff to entice resellers to sell Akimbi products," he said.