CHANNEL CHIEF
For Infoblox Regional Channel Manager FERAS MASOUD , having
a strong team and a proper planning strategy is vital to ensure his
targets are met.
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What is your style as a
team leader?
Describe your current job
role and the parts that are
somewhat challenging?
My current job role is Regional Channel
Manager for Middle East and Africa at
Infoblox. The main challenge in this role is
the size of the region which covers around
10 focused countries and about 10 high
touch countries with over 100 partners.
When you look back at your
career, what has been the most
memorable achievement?
At Polycom, I was the first Channel Manager
across the Middle East region and in one
year, I managed to build a solid channel
foundation for the company along with my
colleagues. The very next year, I achieved
the CEO Circle of Excellence Award and was
selected as the best Channel Manager across
Polycom EMEA team.
What made you think of a career
in technology?
I was very good at maths and physics
at school and always had this dream of
wanting to be a computer engineer in
order to build my own desktop computer.
I completed my computer engineering
degree and got the opportunity to start my
career as a network engineer.
What style of management
philosophy do you employ at your
current position?
I’m a big believer in team work and keeping
the morale of the team very high. I am not
a micro manager. I trust my team to do the
tasks assigned to them. However, they know
that my door is always open in case they
need my help.
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Each great achievement starts with proper
planning, but to make sure the plans
are going well I need to have a proper
mechanism of follow up within my team and
my partners across the region.
Feras Masoud, Regional Channel
Manager, MEA, Infoblox
What do you think will be the hot
technology talking point of 2019?
Most centre around the importance of
analysing and securing the huge amount of
data around us. Some of the hot topics are:
securing customer data wherever it resides;
managing and analysing huge amounts of
data; Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning; Moving from on-premise to the
cloud or hybrid cloud mode; subscription
model and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
What are your personal interests
and where do you like to spend
most of your time after work?
I’m a family person so after work I like to spend
my time with my wife and kids, although I do
find some time for friends as well.
How do you cope with stress and
demands of your career?
By spending quality time with my family and
by playing sport whenever possible.
What gives you great job
satisfaction?
Achieving the assigned business target,
developing the partners across the region
and aligning well with my managers and my
colleagues provides me great job satisfaction.
What are your personal interests?
Playing football and fishing.
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