Owen Taraniuk Head of WW Partnerships and Market Development, Commvault

Commvault Systems, Inc. appointed Owen Taraniuk to head of WW partnerships and market development, effective immediately.

In this new position, he will be responsible for leading the creation and execution of global go-to-market (GTM) strategy and indirect partnerships.

His 25 years of experience in the technology solutions industry positions him for this new role. His experience includes senior leadership roles for multi-national organizations across EMEA and APJ, including Kofax Inc., Open Text Corporation, Groupe Inova, ABS Group and Dun & Bradstreet Software. Prior to joining Commvault, Taraniuk was the VP of AsiaPac and Japan for EMC2 Corporation, enterprise content division.

“Owen’s appointment signals a strategic shift toward being partner-led with a focus on increasing our investment in alliance and partner relationships whose role in growing and scaling Commvault’s global business is critical in our future plan,” said Ron Miiller, SVP of WW sales. “His impeccable track record of success in aligning internal and external teams and his go-to-market thought leadership naturally positions him to drive and elevate our worldwide partner and alliance program to new heights.”

The appointment of Taraniuk underscores the company’s strategic business initiative to scale the global partner program, drive growth through a focused route-to-market approach, and bring to market joint solution offerings that increase value to partners and customers. The recent launch of ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS, a scale-out data protection solution that combines Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) with Commvault HyperScale Software, is the latest example of company’s commitment to this initiative.

Taraniuk and the WW partnerships and market development team will work closely with solutions groups and marketing to jointly align and drive existing and new solutions to market.

“I am excited to be leading this initiative to greatly extend Commvault’s global footprint together with partners and customers by aligning our tremendous innovation and leadership in data protection with world-class offerings from leading organizations,” he said. “I am grateful for the strong vote of confidence from Ron and Commvault’s executive team and look forward to driving new opportunities for growth and revenue with our current and potential partners, through ease of experience and winning solutions. As we continue to deliver customers the industry’s best data protection offerings for on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, we are also deepening and expanding our partner relationships, accelerating Commvault’s growth and helping our partners expand their opportunities for revenue as well.”

Taraniuk joined Commvault in October 2015 as VP of AsiaPac and Japan. During the last two years, his strategic vision and development of a team led to cross-functional engagement, an expanded set of partnerships and customer growth in the region.

Ralph Nimergood will now serve as Taraniuk’s chief of staff as well as lead the development of a new global shared services group within the WW partnerships and market development group.

Nimergood, who has been named a CRN Channel Chief for three years in a row, will continue to be instrumental in implementing company’s indirect strategy and strengthening the partner-centric approach.

Recent strides in global partner program position the firm for growth
Commvault has made progress in building strategy and engagement in the partner community having grown its base of worldwide alliances, as evidenced by the company recently joining Cisco’s Solutions Plus program. As a result of this partnership and being on Cisco’s Global Price List, it is now easy for Cisco and its network of resellers to sell and deliver Commvault’s data management solutions. Additionally, with the launch of Commvault ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS and recently extended strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Oracle, Google, AWS, HPE, Infinidat and others, Commvault continues to deepen its industry relationships and integration.

In addition to these accomplishments in 2017, Commvault has also received a 5-star rating in CRN’s 2017 Partner Program Guide, and Commvault’s Cathleen Nelson and Regina Wood were recognized as 2017 Women of the Channel by CRN.