Secure cloud comms firm Aryaka has expanded its global go-to-market, and has named a new global channels chief, among a set of other channel heads.
The company has named Nick Alagna as vice president of global channels, as well as adding vice president and general manager of the Asia Pacific region, Nitin Ahuja.
"Our investment is just the beginning in new partnerships and routes to market,” said Chris Ranalli, chief revenue officer at Aryaka. “With the hiring of Nick, Nitin and others, we are building a world class team, accelerating our success through both experience and relationships.”
Alagna joins with over 20 years of experience driving significant growth for leading technology companies and startups. As global channels chief he will lead the charge in building and scaling Aryaka’s global channel ecosystem, and empowering partners to deliver customer value with Aryaka’s Unified SASE solutions, said the vendor.
Previously, he led channel sales and strategic partners at Akamai Technologies. Earlier in his career, Alagna co-founded WholeSecurity, a venture-backed cybersecurity startup acquired by Symantec.
Alagna said: “It is rare to find an organisation that has demonstrated both channel commitment and product leadership in a growing and robust market. The opportunity for our partners worldwide is extraordinary, and I am thrilled to enable and support our partners to scale their businesses by helping more and more customers succeed on their secure networking journeys.”
Nitin Ahuja also brings over two decades of business and technology experience to Aryaka. Ahuja will lead all GTM functions in the Asia Pacific region. He previously served as a sales and GTM executive across APAC markets at Imperva, a player in data and application security. Before that, he worked in regional leadership positions at VMWare, HPE and Microsoft.
In addition, Aryaka has added several other key go-to-market executives worldwide. These include:
Mike Ellis, channel sales director, EMEA
Elad Tzur, channel sales director EMEA
Meng Foo, channel sales director, ASEAN
Abhijit Neelgar, channel sales director, India
CRO Ranalli said: “We have the right product, the commitment to the channel, amazing partners and now the team in place to scale our go-to-market efforts, not only in Asia Pacific, but in our existing markets worldwide."
Last month, we covered how Aryaka had added AI functionality to its offerings, and had fully adopted as-a-service delivery and pricing to its services for partners.
