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Former Check Point Sales Leader to Further Enhance Sales and Operational Efforts in the Region
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 23, 2007
- Fortinet® - a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced Pedro Paixao as the company's new regional director of Latin America. With more than 10 years of experience, Paixao will be responsible for further establishing a strong regional presence for Fortinet, broadening the company's network of channel partners for increased sales, and enhancing operational activities in the region.
Paixao joins Fortinet directly from Check Point Software Technologies, where he served as part of the senior leadership for the company's Latin America sales team. In this position, he was a key driver in leading significant growth in Latin America revenues and establishing a successful team of security experts throughout the region. Paixao will leverage his previous success to grow Fortinet's sales in this region - focusing on large enterprise customers and MSSPs, as well as recruiting and training new channels that will allow Fortinet to further penetrate emerging markets.
"Having Pedro join our team is a huge win for Fortinet," said Karl Soderlund, vice president of Americas sales and global alliances for Fortinet. "His strong sales management skill set will allow him a hands-on understanding of the critical security needs of our end users, as well as the support needs of our channel partners."
"Fortinet's innovation in multi-threat security appliances is unmatched, and I am very excited to leverage this innovation to increase the company's successes in Latin America," Paixao said. "I am confident that teaming together with our talented sales team and channel partners will allow us to further enhance successes for the region overall."
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified eight times over by ICSA Labs (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IPS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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