Marcus Jewell SVP and GM for EMEA, Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks, Inc. appointed Marcus Jewell as SVP and GM for its EMEA business.

In this role, he will be responsible for sales operations across the region, including its go-to-market and channel strategies.

He joins Juniper from Brocade Communications, where he most recently ran the EMEA business and was also the global head of the company’s software sales. He has worked in the technology industry for more than 20 years, and has held several senior sales leadership positions in networking organizations.

“Juniper is a company I have admired for its integrity and quality of technology for many years. I believe the current opportunity for growth in EMEA is very strong for the company, given the fundamental importance of innovative, high-performance and secure networking that underpins the drive for digital transformation among enterprises, cloud and service providers alike. I am very excited to be leading the team forward and expect us to achieve great things together,” he said.

He will be based at Juniper’s EMEA HQs in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which hosts the company’s regional executive briefing center, proof-of-concept laboratory, technical support operations and an OpenLab testing, collaboration and innovation facility for customers and partners (one of seven globally). He will also spend a lot of time with customers and partners across the region on a regular basis.