Industry veteran to accelerate cross-region business expansion, covering Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand
Silver Peak®, the global SD-WAN leader, delivering the transformational promise of the cloud with a self-driving wide area network™, today announced the appointment of Australian Dean Vaughan as vice president of sales for Asia Pacific and Japan. Based in Singapore, Dean is responsible for accelerating business expansion and customer acquisition through the company’s enterprise and service provider channels across the region, spanning Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
"Our primary goal across Australia and New Zealand is to liberate organisations from the compromises of router-centric and basic SD-WAN approaches to transform their networks into a business accelerant,” said Graham Schultz, regional director for ANZ at Silver Peak. “Dean’s cross-regional executive leadership will be invaluable as we continue to expand and drive our local partner ecosystem and deliver value to our growing base of customers.”
Today’s executive appointment dovetails a series of executive leadership and channel partner program announcements that underscore the company’s strategy to recruit the industry’s best talent as it pursues market leadership in the hyper-competitive market for SD-WAN edge infrastructure.
“It’s an exciting time to join Silver Peak as geographically distributed enterprises across the Asia Pacific and Japan region turn to SD-WAN as a means to drive cloud and digital transformation initiatives,” said Dean Vaughan, vice president of sales for Asia Pacific and Japan at Silver Peak. “My immediate task is to put in place the best go-to-market strategy and team to lead Silver Peak forward, empowering customers across the region with our business-driven Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform.”
Dean Vaughan is a 22-year industry veteran with a proven track record in building winning sales teams. Prior to joining Silver Peak, Vaughan served in various enterprise technology sales leadership positions at Oracle since 2009, most recently as senior director of Cloud Platform Solutions for ASEAN. In a short period of time, he significantly expanded the company’s public cloud IaaS and PaaS businesses.
During his time at Oracle, Vaughan also established and scaled the Oracle Virtualisation and Linux business units in Australia and New Zealand. In addition, he oversaw the Cloud Infrastructure business unit for Asia Pacific and Japan, delivering consistent double-digit annual growth by expanding the business to India, Korea and Japan and restructuring the business in China, ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to Oracle, Vaughan built NCR Corporation’s Cisco Systems Network Integration business across Asia Pacific.
“Dean is a strong and seasoned leader who will enable us to capitalise on the unprecedented wave of SD-WAN demand across Asia Pacific and Japan,” said Ken Laversin, chief revenue officer at Silver Peak. “Dean’s demonstrated expertise in growing multiple businesses across the region, and his in-depth knowledge of the enterprise and channel market, will enable Silver Peak to accelerate business expansion and customer acquisition. This will further entrench the business as the global SD-WAN leader delivering the transformational promise of the cloud with the industry’s first self-driving wide area network.”
About Silver Peak
Silver Peak, the global SD-WAN leader, delivers the transformational promise of the cloud with a business-first networking model. The Unity EdgeConnect™ self-driving wide area network platform liberates enterprises from conventional WAN approaches to transform the network from a constraint to a business accelerant. Thousands of globally distributed enterprises have deployed Silver Peak WAN solutions across 100 countries. Learn more at silver-peak.com.
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