Giovanni brings over 25 years’ senior management experience and leadership in the global channel sales arena. He joins Riverbed from SAP, where he was Vice President, Global Strategic System Integrator (GSSI) responsible for the vision, mission, strategy and execution of the overall indirect reselling business as well as the business expansion of SAP’s largest global GSSI partners.
Kristian Thyregod, Senior Vice President, EMEA, at Riverbed said, “As our channel business model depends on the tremendous value brought by our partners, Giovanni is the right leader. He will play a key role at Riverbed to help us deliver innovative solutions as businesses go through a digital transformation and turn to next-generation, software-defined networks for fast and agile application delivery. Giovanni’s deep technology expertise and business acumen, combined with his understanding of international channel sales and building collaboration with a cross-functional workforce, makes him a great addition to our EMEA leadership team.”
Giovanni further adds, “I’m really excited to be joining Riverbed at this pivotal period in the company’s growth. Riverbed is exceptionally well placed to deliver industry-leading application performance and software-defined solutions to the market. Our challenge is to ensure that our partners across EMEA are equipped to realise and capture the opportunity that the new software-defined age presents and enable them to solve customer challenges with the Riverbed portfolio of architectural solutions. I look forward to working closely with all our EMEA partners as we embark on this journey.”
