Michael Lombardo VP of Channel Sales for Americas and Federal, Tintri

Tintri, Inc. appointed Michael Lombardo as VP of channel sales for Americas and Federal.

He brings more than 20 years of channel leadership and will be responsible for overseeing all national account teams and channel sales.

He will work to expand channel awareness products and to engage partners through programs, training and cloud certifications.

With background in sales management and channels, he has led teams selling data center solutions for EMC, Cisco, NetApp and most recently SimpliVity. In his role at NetApp, he recruited and grew several of their largest global resellers and teamed with Cisco to bring FlexPOD to market. While a SimpliVity, he helped build a 100% channel model, drove field sales interlock on a ‘meet in the channel’ solution with Cisco, Lenovo and Dell, and created a National Partner Program. He has a track record of pioneering new programs and pathways to market through partnerships.

Tom Ellery, SVP of Americas and Federal, Tintri, commented: “Michael has a strong track record of pioneering new programs and pathways to market through healthy partnerships. Tintri is continuing to expand on its channel commitment-through training and certifications we’ve helped our partners build their cloud businesses. Now Michael, especially through his experience with national partners, will play a critical role in refining our channel strategy and driving channel sales forward.”

“As more customers look to enable enterprise cloud benefits, they need solutions like Tintri that can simplify automation and self-service,” said Lombardo. “Tintri’s technology is highly differentiated, and it allows partners to offer their customers uniquely high impact solutions. I am excited to join a company that is a leader in storage with a clear vision for enterprise cloud.”