Appoints Regional Sales Leaders in EMEA and Asia

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WANdisco Plc

05 June 2014

 



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5 June 2014

WANdisco plc

("WANdisco" or the "Company")

WANdisco Appoints Regional Sales Leaders in EMEA and Asia

Experienced sales executives Marcus Chambers and Keith Graham hired to advance growth in the Big Data market

London, UK- WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the leading provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, has appointed two key executives to further scale up its sales activities in response to increasing demand from enterprise-scale customers for Big Data solutions. The new regional sales leaders for EMEA and Asia Pacific, each with over 25 years of international experience in enterprise software, will report directly to CEO David Richards.

Marcus Chambers joins as VP Sales for the EMEA Region. His most recent position was at Good Technology, a mobile data management business, as VP & GM EMEA. Before that he was at Tintri Inc., a virtual storage business, as VP & GM EMEA/Asia. Marcus has deep experience in the wide area network distributed computing marketplace in which WANdisco operates, having previously established Riverbed, a WAN optimisation business, in EMEA as VP & GM, achieving substantial growth over a five-year period, and before that been operations director for Cisco Systems EMEA's Storage, Optical and Wide Area File Services Group.  Prior to joining Cisco, Marcus was European Northern regional director for Brocade, a network provider for data centres.  He also developed 3COM's network infrastructure business in Switzerland as general manager.  He began his career with Digital Equipment Corporation.

Keith Graham joins as VP Sales for the Asia Pacific region.  Keith has been with TIBCO Software in Asia Pacific since 2005, for the past five years as Regional Vice President & Managing Director for Australia & New Zealand. Here he was responsible for all aspects of the business including sales, pre-sales, and services. Before joining TIBCO, Keith was Vice President EMEA at Librados, a distributed storage and computing business, from start-up until its acquisition by NetManage. Prior to that, Keith was a Regional Director at Reuters Plc where he was responsible for its $100m+ software solutions business covering over 20 countries.

Welcoming the appointments, David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, commented:

"I am delighted that we have attracted these senior sales leaders to WANdisco. They evidently bring extensive execution experience, domain knowledge and track records of success in delivering growth. As our business scales up to match the pipeline of demand from large corporations adopting Big Data solutions, I look forward to working with Marcus and Keith to realise these opportunities and seek out new ones as the Big Data market goes mainstream."

For further information please contact:

WANdisco plc	via FTI Consulting LLP
David Richards, Chief Executive Officer Paul Harrison, Chief Financial Officer Phil Branston, VP Corporate Development and Investor Relations
FTI Consulting  LLP	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Sophie McMillan / Jon Snowball / Roger Newby

About WANdisco

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active-active data replication technology, serving crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), including Apache Subversion and Git. Fortune Global 1000 companies, including Juniper Networks, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

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