WatchGuard promotes ANZ Regional Director to Asia Pacific VP

Based in Sydney, Robertson will retain
his role as ANZ Regional Director but is now also tasked with
negotiating new channel and vendor alliances across the Asia-Pacific
region with the goals of enhancing WatchGuard's regional presence
and building new sales pipeline, channel partnerships, and other
marketing opportunities. Robertson originally joined WatchGuard
Technologies in 2007 and has 16 years' experience in IT and
business consulting. Over the past three-and-a-half years, he has
been responsible for ANZ business including customer acquisition,
channels, marketing and pre-sales of WatchGuard's range of network
security appliances and management software.“Scott has consistently
displayed
excellence in running ANZ and is a strategic member of the WatchGuard
APAC team,” said Terry Haas, VP-International Sales, WatchGuard
Technologies. “Having put together an exceptional and robust
channel in ANZ that is focused on exceeding the market expectations
around product innovation and customer satisfaction, we look forward
to the positive impact that Scott will have in our overall
Asia-Pacific business operations,” he said.

Prior to joining WatchGuard
Technologies Robertson was GM Asia-Pacific for CRYPTOCard, a leader
in the network authentication Industry, where he held overall
responsibility for the organization's establishment and business
growth in the region, including customer acquisition, marketing and
partner development. Previously, Robertson worked in various sales
and marketing management capacities with leading vendors such as Red
Hat Asia Pacific, Microsoft and Visio.

“Over the past few years, WatchGuard
has reached many successful milestones and has emerged as a category
leader through its next-generation technology and services. I'm
looking forward to working with channel and strategic alliance
partners throughout the region to ensure that we give customers a new
and better option to protect their networks and critical assets from
the risks of cyber attacks,” said Robertson.