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Actifio Strengthening EMEA Team

With Chris Hammanssales, Mark Crawford, Steve Jackson, Thorsten Eckertsales, Simon Chassar

Actifio, Inc. has added five senior hires to join the team: Chris Hammans (sales director, Europe), Mark Crawford (services director, EMEA), Steve Jackson (channel director, EMEA), Thorsten Eckertsales (sales director DACH) and Simon Chassar (commercial director, Europe).

The additions to the team collectively bring senior management experience from roles held within VMware and ServiceNow and are tasked with building on the success Actifio has experienced in EMEA, setting the business up for the next wave of hyper growth and enabling enterprises to virtualize their data based on Actifio’s technology.

A number of developments spur the requirements for data virtualization solutions in EMEA. The increasing demand for cloud services is one vital factor, but also the broad presence of server and network virtualization ease the acceptance of data virtualization as the consequent next step“, explains Greg Scorziello, GM EMEA, Actifio. “We have selected five senior level business executives from the realm of virtualization to combine their experience with our technology. Actifio customers will benefit from this expertise to deliver material value and operational efficiency to their companies though data management virtualisation. With the new extended team we will be supplying high quality solutions for enterprise customers and continue our growth in EMEA.

When Actifio started their operations in EMEA four years ago, their copy data virtualization solution was predominantly aimed at reducing storage footprint as well as improving data protection and availability. Both use cases continue to remain popular, additional use cases have emerged since. The biggest growth is coming from application development use cases in DevOps scenarios where Actifio is deployed with its data virtualization competence.

Chris HammansChris Hammans is responsible for the development of Actifio’s European operations. Prior to Actifio, he was instrumental in the success of a number of hyper-growth early stage companies including Citrix, before joining VMware‘s as its fifth employee in 2003. In just six and half years He built the UK, Ireland & South Africa region employing more than 120 staff, contributing to VMware’s leadership in virtualization. Most recently, he ran Microsoft‘s cloud and datacenter business in the UK, growing the Hyper-V market share to 30.6%.

Mark CrawfordMark Crawford brings 22 years of IT management to his role as services director for Actifio in EMEA with deep expertise in application development, integration and cloud. He joins Actifio from ServiceNow where he led the services teams, delivering solutions for a range of Global 500 names across the region. Mark is responsible for the implementation of Actifio’s Copy Data Virtualization solutions in EMEA.

 

Steve JacksonChannel director Steve Jackson brings over 20 years of experience in the IT industry gained at companies including Compaq and Dell. He joined VMware in 2004 and became part of a management team driving growth and establishing the business across EMEA. He is responsible for developing Actifio’s channel in EMEA.

 

 

Thorsten EckertThorsten Eckert, Actifio’s latest addition to the team is chartered to drive further growth as the sales director for the DACH market. He also brings a wealth of experience from virtualization expert, VMware.

 

 

Simon Chassar joined VMware in May 2007 at a crucial pre-IPO stage to set up commercial operations and enterprise license business. He built the commercial operations strategy to a team delivering over 400 ELA’s. After various progressive roles, he operated in sales leadership roles as the commercial executive in his final year with VMware, closing the company’s largest project in history.

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