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Ex-Symantec veteran Avinash Shrawan appointed as WatchGuard Country Manager for India & SAARC
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NEW DELHI / MUMBAI, India - June 6, 2014
WatchGuard® Technologies,
a leader in integrated security platforms, today announced that Mr
Avinash Shrawan has been appointed Country Manager, India and SAARC.
Avinash will be responsible for the company's India relations, strategy
and growth for channels, mid-market and enterprise businesses.
Avinash
has over 16 years of IT industry experience across Sales and Marketing
functions. Prior to joining WatchGuard, Avinash was Director - Sales at
Dassault Systemes, where during his three and half year stint he was
instrumental in executing critical business transformation initiatives
across 5 newest industry vertical business. He has had leadership roles
before Dassault with Intuit and Symantec. At Symantec, Avinash drove a
high level growth strategy from Tier 1, Tier 2 partners in the region as
well as significant gains in market share for Storage and Security
solutions.
"India
has been a major market for WatchGuard, and with Avinash at the helm,
WatchGuard hopes to scale its India business to greater heights", said Scott Robertson, Vice President in Asia Pacific and Japan at WatchGuard Technologies.
The
key drivers of growth of the UTM market in India would be adoption of
UTMs in SMBs and the move towards convergence. The SMBs are likely to be
attracted by a versatile and multi-functional all-in-one-box
appliances, which are easy to use and manage. UTMs which are flexible to
fast-adopt new techniques and functionalities to fight against evolving
and blended threats will have an edge over the others. WatchGuard
continues to add innovative features and upgrade the firmware. The
recently released Fireware OS offers host of new features like support
for Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) blocker, WatchGuard's newest
security service, improved application-traffic management and enhanced
IPv6 support including link aggregation. The service is fully integrated
into WatchGuard Dimension, the award-winning security intelligence and
visibility solution that is included at no charge with all WatchGuard
UTM solutions.
"As
a veteran in the security industry, Avinash knows all the fine details
of the Indian enterprise security market and is the best person to
expand our operations in India. We are looking forward to his leadership
as we map our expansions in the country," Scott added.
Commenting on his new role, Avinash Shrawan, mint-fresh Country Manager - India & SAARC at WatchGuard Technologies said, "I
am excited to join WatchGuard which has a long history of technology
innovations and years of industry leadership in providing security
solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers. I look forward to
drive and support its growth in India through channels by empowering
them with out-of-box business models."
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About WatchGuard
WatchGuard® Technologies,
Inc. is a global leader of integrated, multi-function business security
solutions that intelligently combine industry standard hardware,
Best-of-Breed security features, and policy-based management tools.
WatchGuard provides easy-to-use, but enterprise-powerful protection to
hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. WatchGuard products are
backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support
program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle, Wash. with offices
throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. To
learn more, visit www.watchguard.com
WatchGuard is a registered trademark of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. All other marks are property of their respective owners.
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