GEC NEWS WIREAlex Wallner, Area Vice President for Central Europe takes on additional responsibility for enhancing the customer experience in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa
With the beginning of NetApp’s new fiscal year in May 2015, Alex Wallner, Area Vice President for Central Europe and Russia, has taken on additional responsibility for NetApp’s business operations in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. The region was previously managed by Thomas Ehrlich, Vice President for NetApp’s partner ecosystem in EMEA.
“We are making these shifts for two reasons,” explains Manfred Reitner, Senior Vice President and General Manager for EMEA. “As Vice President Global Accounts and Partner Ecosystem EMEA, Thomas Ehrlich will take on the additional role managing our global customer accounts based in EMEA, and for capacity reasons transition his regional responsibility to Alex Wallner, who has successfully managed Central Europe, Russia and CIS”.
One of the first steps of Wallner is to enhance customer and partner experience in the region in order to be closer to local market requirements. The following sales leaders will be responsible for the three regions: Joël Ryser for East & West Africa , Fadi Kanafani will continue to be responsible for MENA and the sales leader for South Africa, SADC and Angola will soon be appointed. All three report into Senior Director Konstantin Ebert, who continues to manage the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa, but has also taken on additional responsibility for Russia and CIS in Wallner’s team.
“Africa and the Middle East continue to be focus areas for NetApp and we are confident that our solutions offer great value to both our customers and partners. We will remain 100 percent indirect and rely on our channel network to drive distribution and integration as well as high value opportunities such as consulting and professional services,” says Konstantin Ebert.
