Cloud block storage vendor Lightbits has appointed Charla Bunton-Johnson as its new vice president of global alliances and channel.
The role will be to "drive growth velocity" through the channel, forming and strengthening alliances that "better enable partner success", and managing the firm’s global GoPurple programme, said the vendor.
Bunton-Johnson (pictured) was previously channel chief at WekaIO and built the WIN global partner programme there. She has more than two decades of experience with channels, alliances and OEMs, and has worked across the AI/ML, enterprise storage, security, networking, graphics and software segments. She has held executive roles at Telos, NVIDIA, Symantec and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
In addition, Bunton-Johnson is a member of Chief, a private network specifically designed for senior women leaders, to cross-pollinate ideas across industries and affect change from the top-down.
"Charla has a wealth of experience in the channel and building programmes for partners to deliver value through technology-driven leadership," said Kam Eshghi, chief strategy officer at Lightbits. "We have exciting opportunities ahead of us, and we are looking forward to Charla’s influence in increasing the footprint of Lightbits as the partner of choice for a high-performance cloud data platform.”
Lightbits says it provides a unified, consistent and high-performance data platform for any cloud, that delivers "efficiency, simplicity and agility" for container-based applications in a Kubernetes environment, as well as virtualised applications in a VMware environment.
The company's Cloud Data Platform is architected to leverage the performance and latency benefits of NVMe/TCP and intelligent flash management.
“Lightbits is a technology leader and channel-focused company that affords enormous opportunity for partners to upgrade their customers' existing primary storage environment to disaggregated and NVMe/TCP storage,” said Bunton-Johnson. “I am looking forward to building a world-class programme to help partners maximise value for their clients, and to further strengthen and extend our important and strategic alliance relationships.”
