Fortinet announced that Vivek Srivastava has been appointed as Country Manager for Fortinet in India & SAARC region, while Rajesh Maurya assumes a new role of Vice President for GSI Alliances, India, Southeast Asia and ANZ.
Vivek Srivastava brings over two decades of extensive experience in sales, business management, strategy & planning, building growth ecosystems, portfolio management and nurturing high-performing teams. He has led start-ups and small cyber security companies, growing them into multi-million-dollar businesses. As a cyber security practitioner, his guidance and direction have been implemented at policy levels. He possesses experience in leading path-breaking multi-million-dollar cyber security projects for Enterprises, Service Providers and Governments.
“Vivek will focus his leadership skills to help design and implement business practices that support our strong sales and pre-sales teams. Additionally. He will help enable our customers to adopt the best security strategies for their business transformation,” said Vishak Raman, Vice President of Sales, India, SAARC and Southeast Asia at Fortinet, “Fortinet’s market share gains are being driven by the convergence of networking and security and an accelerating focus on vendor consolidation through our Security Fabric MESH platform designed to secure our customers’ entire infrastructure from the data centre to the cloud.”
Additionally, Rajesh Maurya, Vice President, GSI Alliances, India, Southeast Asia and ANZ based out of Sydney, Australia, will be working closely with Indian Global System Integrators to help them implement large projects across his region.
“Rajesh Maurya will provide sustained sales and executive support enabling long-term sustainable growth through productive, predictable, and profitable relationships with our Global Service Providers who work on customer deployment across countries and region” adds Joe Sarno, Sr. Vice President International Sales, Emerging & APJ at Fortinet.