In February this year, Veeam revealed it had combined two teams in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, expanding the remit of Jurisic to take charge of its cloud service provider (VCSP) team, in addition to her current duties within the channel portfolio. Prior to that, she spent eight years at Symantec and three at Data#3 during a two-decade IT career. Her appointment followed predecessor Belinda Jurisic’s promotion to the then newly-created role of Asia Pacific and Japan channel director, which she oversees from Singapore.ĭocherty joined the back-up storage vendor from Veritas, where she spent four years in senior channel sales roles. Veeam appointed Docherty as head of channel sales for A/NZ in May 2019. Holtzhausen’s appointment follows Docherty’s departure from the company. Helping partners manage customer risk on their transformation journey is the number one goal,” he added.
“This puts Veeam in a very strong position to focus on supporting our partners’ innovation and cloud value-propositions, as well as providing the tools and skills required to support digital transformation in the most simple, flexible and reliable way. Read more Veeam honours top A/NZ partners "I’m excited to be joining a 100 per cent channel company which ensures its partners are always at the core of every decision Veeam makes. “Veeam has had an incredible track record in the past 18 months with the success of v11, completing support for all three major public cloud providers and consistent double-digit revenue growth,” he said. Holtzhausen said he was pleased to have the opportunity to work with Veeam’s network of partners and help take them on the journey with Veeam to achieve growth and success across AN/Z.
“Veeam prides itself in the way it collaborates with partners and, with Klasie’s unparalleled experience in boosting channel growth, we’re looking forward to having him at the reigns to continue the successful growth of our A/NZ partners in helping our joint customers overcome challenges of the digital transformation era,” he added. “Veeam drives 100 per cent of its sales through the channel and we are fully committed to enabling our partners to increase and diversify their value-propositions for customers by offering modern data protection solutions across cloud, virtual, SaaS, Kubernetes and physical environments, delivered either as-a-service or on-premises. “Klasie’s proven success in building multiple routes to market with partners, as well as delivering outstanding sales practices and results, is exceptional,” Mitchell said.
The new appointee comes to the role after more than one-and-a-half years at cyber security vendor Forcepoint, which he joined in late 2019 from Symantec, the enterprise security business of which was acquired by Broadcom that same year.ĭuring his two-decade career, Holtzhausen has also held senior regional roles at IBM, Dell Software and CA Technologies, another company snapped up by Broadcom.