Ian Whiting President of Global Field Operations, Silver Peak

Silver Peak Systems, Inc. appointed Ian Whiting to president, global field operations.

He will lead direct and indirect sales, sales operations and all aspects of the company’s go-to-market strategy for channel and service provider partners.

He reports to founder and CEO David Hughes.

With a track record of scaling business operations in existing and emerging markets for technology companies, Whiting will draw on his experience to formulate and advance the company’s go-to-market strategy to accelerate partner engagement and increase the velocity of new customer acquisition. Silver Peak was recently recognized for the second consecutive year as a Leader in the Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure.

“I am thrilled to join a company at the forefront of innovation in a rapidly growing and evolving market like SD-WAN,” he said. “Having an industry leading product that meets and, in many cases, exceeds market expectations provides us with a strong foundation to accelerate and scale out our go-to-market activities with a balance of direct end customer engagements and an unwavering commitment to our global channel and service provider partners. Strategic partnerships are critical to our success and only by partnering with the best of the best will we fully capitalize on the enormous opportunity in front of us and assure our customer’s WAN transformation initiatives are successful.“

Prior to Silver Peak, he served as president of Ruckus Networks where he led WW sales, marketing, services and support during a time when the business doubled in size. Prior to that, he served in senior executive roles at Egnyte, Fusion-io, Riverbed, Brocade Communications and Compaq Computer.

He holds a degree in French and German from the University of Wales and a master’s degree in European business management from Cranfield University.

“While no one can match our top-down outcome-oriented approach to automation with Unity EdgeConnect, we must simultaneously focus our efforts toward scaling our ability to engage, enable and empower our sales teams and channels to bring the transformational value of our SD-WAN edge platform to the masses,” said Hughes. “Ian brings a unique combination of proven go-to-market expertise and success and a no-nonsense leadership style that we need to scale our go-to-market motions with partners and end customers to fully capitalize on the opportunity in front of us to lead the SD-WAN market.“

Thousands of globally distributed enterprises have deployed Silver Peak WAN solutions across 100 countries.

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