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2019 Top Channel Chiefs: Harish Chib

Vice president MEA, Sophos

2019 Top Channel Chiefs: Harish Chib
2019 Top Channel Chiefs: Harish Chib

With more than 15 years of global and regional channel, Harish Chib leads the channel business of more than 3000 transacting partners and a customer base in more than 50 countries with the help of a team of more than 50 people across MEA.

Years with company: 15              Years in channel:15

He has worked to bring simplicity in channel operations and a dedicated regional partner program to ensure a successful channel-only sales strategy.

Year so far

In the MEA region, we continued our investments in sales and marketing operations, emphasising continued partner support, customer service and productivity. The company managed to enhance its visibility and market reach in the region through a channel-led strategy focused on customer satisfaction. We prioritised investments in innovation, which has produced important advances in the last 12 months, and believe our differentiated strategy around synchronised security spanning endpoint, network and public cloud will further drive demand.

Future Plans

Innovation will remain a key growth driver for Sophos. We will have more products which are deep learning enabled and will share information under our synchronised security technology. We will continue our regional expansion in terms of channel, investments and people.