Emilio oman Promoted to a Pan-egional ole to Further Drive High-Value Business with Fortinet Partners
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 8, 2009 - Fortinet® - a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions today announced the appointment of Emilio oman as its new EMEA director of channel, marketing and renewals. After five years of sales management in the Iberia region, oman brings a strong field experience to the role, which will help him drive a high-value marketing and business strategy with Fortinet partners across the EMEA region.
ÏIm very excited about the new challenge Fortinet has given me, and Im looking forward to implementing new actions that will help strengthen our partner program and brand awareness, equip our channel with the right marketing tools and improve our service contract renewals processes, said Emilio oman.
oman has more than 15 years of sales and management experience gained at various companies including Fortinet, Attachmate and Samsung Electronics. In 2004, he joined Fortinet as country manager for Iberia and started business in that region. Within five years, he brought Fortinet to a leadership position in Portugal and Spain, where, according to IDC, Fortinet is number one in UTM and number two in the network security appliances market in factory revenue*. In that role, oman also built Fortinets a successful channel in the region, which now counts more than 150 partners.
ÏEmilio oman has the skills, energy and dedication required to grow the success of our channel in EMEA, said Patrice Perche, vice president of EMEA & SEA for Fortinet. ÏWe shaped our partner base with the objective to deliver high-value business. Emilios new role will be key in tightly integrating channel, renewals and marketing strategies for greater efficiency to keep gaining market share in the region.
* IDC Worldwide Security Appliance Tracker, Q1 2009.
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Fortinet is a leading provider of network security appliances and the market leader in Unified Threat Management or UTM. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection -- including firewall, VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web content filtering, spyware prevention and antispam -- 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 in five programs by ICSA Labs: Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec VPN, Network IPS and Antispam. Fortinet is based in Sunnyvale, California.
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