SonicWALL Australia and New Zealand Appoints New Country Manager
As Country Manager, Redman will be responsible for developing and managing all sales, marketing and pre-sales strategies to drive the business towards profitable growth in the enterprise, government and SMB market segments in Australia and New Zealand.
Redman has been with SonicWALL since 2008 and in his most recent role as Channel Manager he developed and managed SonicWALL’s partner programs and partner-solution education.
Commenting on the appointment, Richard Ting, SonicWALL's Vice President for Asia Pacific, said, "I am very pleased that this position has been filled by someone with such a strong understanding of SonicWALL’s operations in this region."
"Dean's promotion further underlines SonicWALL's strong focus on enterprise in 2009 with just having announced three additional appointments a couple of weeks ago. His extensive experience in enterprise IT and his strong leadership skills will be a major asset as we continue to grow our market share in Australia and New Zealand", said Ting.
Prior to joining SonicWALL, Redman held several senior management roles in the IT industry over the past 14 years. He gained extensive knowledge of security and enterprise solutions through working with different industry leaders and resellers providing him the opportunity to attain in-depth Checkpoint, Symantec and Citrix product understanding.
Based at SonicWALL's Australia headquarters in North Sydney, Redman will report to Richard Ting.
About SonicWALL, Inc.
SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. Over one million SonicWALL appliances have been shipped through its global network of ten thousand channel partners to keep tens of millions of worldwide business computer users safe and in control of their data. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology. For more information, visit the company web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/au .
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