Mimecast appoints Brandon Bekker to
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imecast Limited, a leading email and
data security company, has announced
the appointment of Brandon Bekker to
Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East
and Africa (EMEA) to help manage the rapid
growth within the region.
In this newly created position, Brandon
will be responsible for supporting the
continued growth for Mimecast in EMEA and
ensuring collaboration and consolidation
across all markets in this important region.
Brandon has a proven track record of
leadership as he helped establish Mimecast
as a market leader across various industries,
including healthcare, financial services, retail
and public sector in South Africa.
As the new SVP of EMEA, Brandon will
lead the entire EMEA region and will be based
out of the London office. Previously, Brandon
successfully managed Middle East and Africa
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and helped to grow the regional business
by more than 75% since the company listed.
Bekker has held various leadership roles
since joining Mimecast in 2007. During his
tenure, he also expanded the business to
serve customers in the Middle East with the
opening of a Dubai office in 2016.
“Brandon Bekker has been instrumental
in helping MEA customers understand the
cyberthreat landscape and the importance
of how layering a third-party solution can
improve cyber-resilience when adopting
cloud services like Microsoft Office 365. It
gives me great pleasure to see him take
on this new challenge to further support
customers,” said Peter Bauer, Chief Executive
Officer at Mimecast.
“I am confident that he will bring the
skills that helped drive customer success
and growth in MEA to the rest of the region,
particularly in our growing markets like
Central Europe, and he will continue to
motivate employees to do their best work,
best teamwork and greatest learning.”
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Nexign appoints Regional Director
for MEA
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excited about the prospect of enabling
operators to overcome the challenges they
face and capitalise on new opportunities
presented by Digital Transformation, as well
as growing Nexign’s market presence and
leadership in the Middle East and Africa.”
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has the right combination of technical
knowledge, regional industry relationships
and management skills to lead our MEA
expansion efforts.’’
Discussing his new position Sayed said: “If
regional operators are to make the transition
from CSPs to digital service providers
(DSPs), it is imperative that they align with
a BSS vendor that addresses key themes
such as cloud, partnerships, customer
experience, digital channels, self-care and
new monetisation streams for 5G, Blockchain
and IoT. At the same time, the BSS vendor
needs to be agile, adopt best practices for
product development and delivery and
offer a transparent, partnership-based
engagement model.
“I firmly believe that this is Nexign’s
competitive advantage, allowing us to
offer a unique value proposition to telecom
operators in the region. I am extremely
exign, a leading business support
system (BSS) provider for
communications service providers (CSPs),
has announced Ahmad Sayed as the new
Regional Director for Middle East and Africa.
Sayed is a telecom industry veteran with
over 30 years of management experience
with the largest operators and solution
providers across EMEA, including a 15-
year stint with British Telecom UK where
he spearheaded the development and
implementation of a line of BSS products for
BT and its subsidiaries across Europe.
“Ahmad brings extensive industry
experience and expertise to the Nexign team
at such an exciting time of the company’s
growth,” said Loukas Tzitzis, Chief Products
and Marketing Officer at Nexign,
“Middle East and Africa is extremely
strategic to our organisation’s continued
success and I’m confident that Ahmad
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