Cohesity has appointed Gregg Petersen as regional director for its operations in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.
Petersen will work closely with channel and ecosystem partners as customers in the MEA region embrace modern, cloud-native data management solutions.
As the MEA lead for Cohesity, he will focus on empowering regional businesses in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt and South Africa to easily and effectively back up, manage, protect and derive value from their data through Cohesity’s data management solutions.
“Cohesity enables businesses to unlock the full potential of their most valuable asset, their data – that’s something that MEA businesses can use to their advantage to be more competitive while offering exceptional customer experiences,” said Petersen.
Rawad Zaki will support these efforts, serving as a senior account manager for Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Levant. Most recently Zaki held a similar position for Veeam.
Cohesity’s data management technology helps customers combat the on-going threat of ransomware attacks with exceptional data protection and recovery capabilities; accelerate the move to the cloud; make it easy to manage workloads and data sources across hybrid and multicloud environments; and supports businesses’ efforts to comply with data compliance regulations.
“I believe Cohesity next-gen data management capabilities will be attractive to the MEA region’s governments, oil & gas, banking, education, and manufacturing sectors among others wherein file sharing, backup and protection, and the management of unstructured data are all key IT objectives that drive business outcomes,” he added
Petersen will also work closely with global technology alliance partners including Cisco, HPE, and Pure Storage and hyperscale cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, along with an expanded set of local distribution and reseller partners, service providers and global systems integrators (GSIs).
