Ben Heisler SVP Sales Americas, Ipanema

Ipanema Technologies, in network solutions enabling enterprises to guarantee their application performance, appointed Ben Heisler as SVP for sales in the Americas.

Based in New York, he will lead growth initiatives and be responsible for overseeing sales and partnerships in the region. He will report to CEO, Jim Darragh.

Heisler joins Ipanema after two years as area VP at Zeus Technology, which was acquired by Riverbed. He also held a senior position at Coraid, which provides storage solutions for cloud service providers and enterprises. Prior to this, his experience includes roles at Opalis Software, Veritas, Oracle and ADP.

His appointment follows recent successes for Ipanema in the U.S., including partnerships with service providers such as AT&T and Link America. These service providers use Ipanema to offer their enterprise customers value-added managed services that guarantees their application SLs (cloud or on-premise) across global WANs.

“Real market leadership is measured by proven value delivered to customers and an agile business strategy and execution,” said Darragh. “Ipanema is taking advantage of the current market volatility by further investing in the Americas market. Ben Heisler has an extraordinary wealth of knowledge in cutting edge networking technology, combined with a passion for excellence in global business leadership. I believe that he will take Ipanema to the next level and bring opportunities and growth in North America.”

“I’m very proud to be part of this adventure and build on the already solid foundations here in the N. America, Ipanema is the only company I looked at that could provide an integrated suite for actionable intelligence of your applications on the network. The platform is best of breed in that it is open, fully featured, integrated and purpose built to solve this problem head on. This unique approach from an application down vs. merely a stale packet inspection approach will make us quickly successful in North America,” states Heisler.