Nutanix channel director Darrin Edkins has left the hyper-converged vendor after 18 months.
Asia-Pacific director of channel sales Andrew Cheong will lead the Australian channel in the interim while Nutanix finds a replacement.
CRN understands Edkins has secured a new role, which is yet to be disclosed.
Nutanix appointed Edkins in September 2014 to implement the local channel strategy. While Edkins was in the role, Avnet signed up to distribute Nutanix in Australia, joining Exclusive Networks to beef up the vendor's Australian channel.
Prior to joining Nutanix, Edkins was enterprise and storage channel development manager for Dell from 2010 to 2014. He worked in various roles for Hewlett-Packard from 2000 to 2008, ending up as enterprise storage and server partner programs manager.
He was also a x86 systems specialist for Sun Microsystems ANZ from 2008 to 2009.
Edkins is just the latest channel manager to swap jobs in 2016. EMC’s former general manager of channel sales Chris Trevitt joined Hewlett Packard Enterprises as its new channel manager last month, replacing the outgoing Kaaren Lewis.
Lenovo’s channel sales director Fred Viet resigned in February to take the new Surface channel manager role at Microsoft. He was replaced by former HP director Margrith Appleby.
Nutanix is preparing to float on the US stock exchange with US$241 million global revenue for the 2015 financial year.
Correction: the story has been edited to reflect that Nutanix is yet to float on the US stock exchange.
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