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A10 Networks Appoints Kirsten Lee as VP of Global Channels
November 2013 by Marc Jacob
A10 Networks™ announced the appointment of Kirsten Lee as Vice President of Global Channels. Reporting directly to A10 Vice President of Worldwide Sales Ray Smets, Kirsten is responsible for developing and leading A10’s global channel organization with a charter to drive the company’s channel program and expand its channel driven business. This executive announcement follows shortly after the appointment of Jason Matlof as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and demonstrates A10’s commitment to address growing market opportunities.
Kirsten is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of success in global channel management. She brings more than 20 years of experience in channel sales, channel marketing and field marketing. Kirsten comes to A10 recently from HP where she was Vice President of Worldwide Channel Marketing for the Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking (ESSN) organization. In this role, she was responsible for driving HP’s worldwide ESSN channel strategy, including partner growth, partner program architecture, partner enablement and partner communications.
Prior to joining HP, Kirsten served as Vice President of Worldwide Channel and Field Marketing at Blue Coat, Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales at Packeteer, and has held various prior positions in Sales and Marketing at Net Manage, Caldera Systems and The Santa Cruz Operation.
A10 delivers a portfolio of scalable Application Service Gateways that deliver application availability, optimization and security. The A10 Thunder™ Series, unveiled in May, are next generation Application Delivery Controllers that consolidate application service modules and deliver high performance in compact form factors to increase data center scalability and efficiency.
