Andrew Perry SVP Sales, Maxta

Maxta, Inc. has named Andrew Perry its new SVP sales, responsible for driving sales and revenue during the company’s current growth phase.  

He reports to Maxta CEO Yoram Novick.

Perry has more than 20 years leadership experience at large-scale global companies, as well as developing sales organizations for start-ups. He will be in charge of executing go-to-market strategy and further the company’s global sales growth. His expertise will be leveraged to plan and implement sales activities with partners to extend the reach of the company’s MaxDeploy appliances and MxSP software solutions.

“I am fortunate to have the opportunity to continue the excellent work already begun at Maxta and to help further deliver the promise of hyper-convergence to both existing and new markets around the world,” said Perry. “Maxta’s VM-centric solutions are ideally suited for a variety of today’s most business- and mission-critical environments and provide the flexibility, savings and increased levels of efficiency that enterprises are looking for. Joining the company as it begins its hyper-growth stage will be rewarding both professionally and personally.”

Andrew Perry comes to Maxta from Springpath, where he grew revenue and helped scale the company as its VP sales. Prior to Springpath, he was responsible for worldwide channel sales at Violin Memory. Previous executive sales and management experience includes roles at technology companies GridIron, PanoLogic Inc., Timestock, Peribit Networks (now part of Juniper Networks), and INS VitalSoft (now a division of Lucent Technologies). He earned a B.A. in Economics from Syracuse University.

“We are excited to bring a person of Andrew’s capabilities and success into Maxta to help amplify the sales success we have been recently experiencing with enterprise customers and service providers worldwide,” said Novick. “His understanding of not only the market but in the best way to penetrate and expand it is pivotal as we enter into our hyper-growth phase and accelerate the reach of hyper-converged solutions to companies looking to close the gap between compute and storage in terms of simplicity, availability, agility and cost.”

The company is looking to hire additional sales executives and sales engineers throughout the U.S. and EMEA markets.