Cohesity has announced Gregg Petersen as regional director for its operations in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.
Petersen 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 the firm’s next-gen data management solutions.
Petersen, said, “I’m thrilled to join the Cohesity team. I think that we have an exciting opportunity ahead of us, not just to grow Cohesity in MEA, but to grow our partners’ and customers’ business and to contribute to the overall digital transformation of our countries and our region.
He brings 14 years of relevant experience to Cohesity, including his most recent role at Rackspace. He will work closely with channel and ecosystem partners as customers in the MEA region embrace modern, cloud-native data management solutions.
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.
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).
“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,” he added. “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.”
