Intelligent Tech Channels Issue 32 | Page 54

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.” ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 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. 54