VergeIO Expands to Europe, Names Rémi Bargoing Vice President, EMEA Sales

VergeIO, maker of the VergeOS private cloud operating system, has named Rémi Bargoing, VP, EMEA Sales. Bargoing will lead the build-out of a local sales and partner team to support the growing number of customers and partners across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa that are choosing VergeOS.

The investment is a direct response to demand. VergeIO is growing rapidly, and a rising share of that growth comes from outside North America. Organizations across the region are building next-gen data centers, and they want a platform they control, on hardware they choose, from a vendor with people in their own market and time zone. The EMEA build-out follows the appointment of Parag Patel as president and CEO earlier this month and marks the next stage of VergeIO’s growth.

Bargoing brings more than 20 years of infrastructure sales and leadership experience in Europe. He spent the last 13 years at DataCore Software, where he ran the company’s Italian subsidiary as Country Manager and most recently served as Vice president of Sales. Earlier in his career, he built the Paris subsidiary of Flow Line Technologies (Groupe SCC) from the ground up.

“Our growth in EMEA is accelerating dramatically; we needed to build teams to drive further growth,” said Chris Lehman, SVP, sales, VergeIO. “Customers and partners in the region want to work with teams that know their market and processes. Rémi has built sales organizations and partner ecosystems in Europe more than once, including a subsidiary he started from scratch, and he is the right leader to build ours.”

“VergeIO has the momentum and the platform that European customers are asking for,” said Bargoing. “IT leaders across the region are rethinking their infrastructure, from who controls their data to how long their hardware lasts. Their main decision criteria are independence, performance, and security. They are looking for a leading US partner with a strong local presence in Europe. My priority is recruiting the best experts in every country we serve, and building an elite partner network to meet that demand.”