[January 11, 2017] |
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Skyhigh Networks Builds for Next Stage of Cloud Security Growth
Skyhigh
Networks, the world's leading Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB),
today announced the appointments of Mike Muñoz as Senior Vice President
of Global Sales, Don Dixon as Chief Finance Officer (CFO) and Abhay
Solapurkar as Vice President of Global Support and Customer Success.
"From sales to finance to customer experience, we're thrilled to welcome
these exceptionally talented leaders to the executive team, helping us
scale to further cement Skyhigh as the definitive cloud security
company," said Rajiv Gupta, co-founder and CEO, Skyhigh Networks. "Each
appointment supports Skyhigh's relentless focus on building a
world-class company, delivering market-leading technology and partnering
with customers to securely embrace the benefits of cloud computing."
The additions to the executive staff will extend Skyhigh's ability to
support the increasing market demand and channel interest in Skyhigh's
industry-leading CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) offerings.
Together, Muñoz, Dixon and Solapurkar represent more than 75 years
experience in the security and infrastructure technology space. Each has
played key leadership roles in world-class companies that have shaped
the way businesses leverage IT as a strategic enabler for growth:
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Mike Muñoz, SVP of Global Sales
Muñoz is a 25-year Silicon
Valley veteran who has built and led sales teams for some of the most
accomplished technology companies in the world. Most recently, he
served as Chief Revenue Officer for PernixData, leading sales and
go-to-market strategy through to a successful acquisition. Prior to
PernixData, as Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Nimble (News - Alert) Storage he
built the sales team from the ground up, contributing to a successful
IPO in 2013. He previously worked as Regional Vice President of Sales
for Data Domain (News - Alert) where he led the company's top sales division
contributing to an IPO in 2008 and a $2 billion acquisition by EMC in
2009. Muñoz also held sales leadership positions at Z-Force, BlueArc
and NetApp.
"I recognize in Skyhigh the rare combination of
a huge market opportunity and a talented team with the tools to
execute on their vision," said Munoz. "Skyhigh is a clear leader at
the intersection of two rapidly growing trends: cloud and security. We
are uniquely poised to seize the opportunity as the market accelerates
and demand for CASB expands from early adopters to a security
requirement for all companies."
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Don Dixon, CFO
Dixon possesses more than two decades of
experience guiding company growth through acquisitions, IPO and
beyond. A Silicon Valley native, Dixon joins Skyhigh from Apigee
Corporation (NASDAQ: APIC), where he served more than five years as
the CFO and then Senior Vice president of Operations. He led the
company through its successful 2014 Initial Public Offering (IPO).
Prior to Apigee, Dixon held the Vice President of Finance position for
Blue Coat and BEA Systems (News - Alert) before that. He began his career at global
accounting firm KPMG.
"Skyhigh touts a world-class
executive team, an impressive list of Fortune 2000 customers, and
investors with track records of helping build paradigm-shifting
companies," said Dixon. "I'm excited to help lead the compny on the
next stage of growth as it continues to be the clear market leader in
the category it created."
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Abhay Solapurkar, VP of Global Support and Customer Success
Solapurkar
has established a 25-year track record of operationalizing, elevating
and scaling global customer success programs at leading cloud
companies. Solapurkar headed customer excellence and support at
ServiceNow where he reduced incident and account escalation and
spearheaded a strategic account management program, leading to an
overall increase in renewal rates and customer satisfaction. He
previously served as Vice President of Global Support Service for
Zscaler, where he led the expansion of global support centers.
Solapurkar held similar roles with Symantec (News - Alert), SonicWALL and Force10
networks.
"Customer delight is a mandatory prerequisite to
sustain growth and scale; and our continued success as a game-changing
company is directly tied to that of our customers," said Solapurkar.
"Skyhigh's customer-obsessed culture has allowed us to establish the
largest enterprise customer base in the CASB market. I look forward to
helping scale the team as we continue to empower our customers
worldwide to overcome cloud security barriers."
The new leadership appointments highlight a successful 2016 for Skyhigh,
which included receiving the Box
Trust Partner of the Year award; securing enterprise partnership
agreements with Zscaler
and Dropbox;
achieving FedRAMP
Compliance; adding $50M of Series
D funding; and being named
'Leader' in the first-ever Forrester Wave for Cloud Security Gateways.
For more information, visit the Skyhigh
Leadership Team page.
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About Skyhigh
Skyhigh Networks, the world's leading Cloud Access Security Broker
(CASB), enables enterprises to safely adopt cloud services, while
meeting their security, compliance and governance requirements. With
more than 600 enterprise customers globally, Skyhigh provides
organizations the visibility and management for all their cloud
services, including understanding cloud usage and risk, enforcing data
loss prevention policies; detecting and preventing internal and external
threats; encrypting data with customer-controlled keys; and implementing
access-control policies. Headquartered in Campbell, Calif., Skyhigh
Networks is backed by Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital (News - Alert), Thomvest
Ventures, Tenaya Capital and other strategic investors. For more
information, visit http://www.skyhighnetworks.com.
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