Jacco van Achterberg EMEA Sales Director, Cloudian

Cloudian, Inc. expands its sales team and channels for the European market.

The company has appointed Jacco van Achterberg sales director and Neil Stobart as Technical Director.
 
van Achterberg will lead Cloudian’s sales effort for HyperStore hybrid cloud storage software and appliance in EMEA and will be based in Amsterdam. Before joining Cloudian, he served as EMEA sales director at Nexenta, where he built and managed the company’s European sales organisation. Prior to that he held sales and operations management positions building multi-national go-to-market channels for technology companies, including Tiscali and Brain Force.
 
Stobart will align business and technology requirements across Cloudian’s European customer and channel base. Based in the UK, he has 20 years of experience in developing enterprise storage solutions. Before joining Cloudian, he was EMEA sales engineering director at Nexenta where he was responsible for managing a team of storage technologists across the region. He also served as sales engineering director at both Dell and Compellent.
 
“With Cloudian business scaling in EMEA at a phenomenal pace, Jacco and Neil have joined Cloudian at a very exciting time,” said Jon Ash, VP of WW sales, Cloudian. “They both bring extensive expertise in bringing innovative storage solutions to market. The team’s deep experience in developing both the reseller channel and enterprise customers will be fundamental to our growth across Europe.”