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Nozomi expanded its regional team with appointment of three senior executives. Based in Saudi Arabia, Usamah Ridwan joins Nozomi Networks as Regional Sales Director, Jayson Pieterse takes up the role of Regional Sales Director – South Africa and Africa based in Johannesburg, while Wagdy Mostafa has been appointed as Regional Sales Director for Egypt, based in Cairo. As part of its expansion drive, Nozomi Networks also hired Osamah Al-Fardan as Senior Cybersecurity Architect.

With over 18 years of experience, Usamah Ridwan has supported customers with best-practice implementations across a variety of industries. At Nozomi Networks, he will be responsible for helping large industrial organisations and national critical infrastructures secure and monitor their OT and IoT networks, enabling and assisting prospective, as well as existing, customers. He will also provide customers with best-practice security strategies to mitigate evolving threats and will drive Nozomi Network’s expansion in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq’s Energy and Industrial sectors.

Prior to joining Nozomi Networks, Usamah worked in key roles at Lenovo Saudi, HP Saudi, Detecon Al Saudia, and Cisco. He holds a BSc degree in Computer Engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and has significant knowledge and experience in the Oil and Gas sector.

Most recently at FireEye and Advanced Security, Camguard Group, Jayson Pieterse brings a decade of experience to Nozomi Networks. His qualifications include CompTIA Security+ and CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional. As part of his role, he will support customers across South Africa and Africa with risk and vulnerability assessments from a physical and cyber perspective, whilst offering up potent mitigation solutions and strategies that are ideal for their bespoke requirements.

Kelvin, the collaborative control software company delivering industrial intelligence, has bolstered its executive leadership team with strategic hires and internal promotion. The company announced that Suhail Jiwani has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer; Sheena Chandra has been appointed Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer; and Citalouise Geiggar has been appointed Vice President of Marketing. The strategic appointments represent a key element of Kevin’s strategy to capitalise on the momentum to serve and broaden its customer base.

In his new role, Suhail serves as the executive technology leader for Kelvin’s engineering and product division. With deep industry and technology expertise, and over 16 years of experience, Suhail is driving the acceleration of technological innovation in Kelvin’s next growth stage to best serve our customer’s needs. He oversees all product and solutions development requirements phases, including system design, implementation, and continuing engineering. Suhail’s vision is to deliver innovative, first-class technology that helps industrial organisations reach their net zero goals.

Before joining Kelvin, he was Chief Product Officer at Honeywell, managing their software portfolio for Connected Industrials. With a BTech in Electronics Engineering and specialisation in Machine Learning from Stanford University, Suhail is a subject matter expert and a leader in their digital transformation journey.

Sheena joins Kelvin from AWS to take the executive role of Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer. She has over 20 years of experience developing strategic partnerships, business development, and go-to-market

Veeam Software, announced appointment of Larissa Crandall as Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances. Most recently, the Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances at Gigamon, Crandall is an industry leader that will guide Veeam’s investments in a global partner and alliance ecosystem that ensures customers’ data is protected across multiple environments, whether cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS or Kubernetes.

Crandall has spent her entire career in the channel working for security, networking and cloud vendors. The foundation of her career was spent working for Connection, a large solution provider leading enterprise, commercial and public sector teams. She joins Veeam after four years at Gigamon where she led the global channel and alliances organisation to record channel contribution growth, developed the partner program and was an integral part of the partner-first strategy.

Crandall also helped launch the creation of the Gigamon Playbook, built and executed creative demand generation, training and enablement programs, as well as the development of GTM solutions to accelerate revenue.

CleverTap, the World’s #1 Retention Cloud announced appointment of Samer Saad as the Regional Sales Director for its META Region and will be based out of Dubai. Samer has over a decade of experience in building and scaling sales teams across the MEA region. He joins from Appsflyer, where he was the Regional Manager for the MEA region and has led partnership sales and agency roles across Criteo and Yahoo!. As CleverTap increases its focus into META Region, it has ensured the local presence of all sub functions that are needed locally to scale the business, and Samer will lead the mandate to scale the growth charter.

Barracuda announced Joe Billante as its new Chief Financial Officer. Billante brings more than 20 years of executive leadership and finance experience to Barracuda, and has successfully led companies through business transformations, international expansion, and accelerated growth. Billante joins Barracuda most recently from eBay where he spent the last 13 years in several business, finance, and analytics executive leadership roles. Before eBay, he spent 11 years at General Electric in a number of finance roles including CFO for a $1B international division of GE Healthcare.