INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
Nutanix appoints Adam Tarbox as Director of
Global System Integrator Business for EMEA
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud
computing, has announced that it
has appointed Adam Tarbox as Director
of Global System Integrator (GSI) Business
for the Europe, Middle East and Africa
(EMEA) region.
With more than 25 years of experience
in the IT industry, Tarbox moves to Nutanix
from NetApp, where he spent more than
a decade running the Service Provider,
Channel UKI and GSI UK business units,
before moving to head the EMEA GSI
business. As EMEA Director GSI, he built the
EMEA strategy and a high performing sales
team to support business with and through
the GSIs.
In his new role, Tarbox will be responsible
for developing and executing an overarching
regional alliance strategy for Nutanix’s GSI
GSI partners are a key
element of our ability
to deliver exactly what
customers need, both
in EMEA and the rest of
the world.
partners. He will lead a team distributed
across the EMEA region and be focused on
driving go-to-market activities with GSIs
around joint offerings for both horizontal
markets and industry verticals.
Adam Tarbox, newly appointed Director of Global System Integrator (GSI) Business for EMEA at Nutanix
Adam Tarbox, Director of Global System
Integrator (GSI) Business, EMEA, Nutanix,
said: “GSI partners are a key element of our
ability to deliver exactly what customers
need, both in EMEA and the rest of the world.”
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F5 names Tom Fountain as Head of Global
Services and Strategy
F5 has announced the appointment of Tom
Fountain as Executive Vice President of
Global Services and Chief Strategy Officer.
In this role, he will head F5’s global support,
professional consulting, educational
services, customer success, manufacturing
and technology services operations.
In addition to the expanded role leading
services, Fountain will continue to oversee the
company’s long-term strategy and corporate
development programmes. Fountain will
succeed Steve McMillan, who was recently
named President and CEO of Teradata.
“Tom has had a tremendous impact on F5
since joining the company in early 2018. He has
brought new rigour to our strategic planning
process, spearheaded the transformative
acquisitions of NGINX and Shape Security,
fostered the launch of F5 Cloud Services
and Aspen Mesh and developed strong
technology partnerships through our business
development initiatives,” said F5 President
and Chief Executive Officer, François Locoh-
Donou. “Tom will bring this same energy,
thoughtfulness and customer-centric approach
to our world-class Global Services team as F5
continues its evolution to become the leader in
multi-cloud application services.”
As a member of the F5 Executive
Team, Fountain will continue to report
directly to Locoh-Donou from F5’s offices
in San Jose, California.
Tom will bring this same energy,
thoughtfulness and customercentric
approach to our worldclass
Global Services team as
F5 continues its evolution to
become the leader in multi-cloud
application services.
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