Brocade has appointed Bill Lipsin as the vice-president of worldwide channel and global systems integrator sales for the company.

At Brocade, Lipsin will be responsible for the developing the organisations? go-to-market strategies and, work with the company?s global sales and marketing organisations define and accelerate channel recruitment and sales programs. He will report directly to Jeff Lindholm, senior vice-president of worldwide sales.

Lispin has more than 30 years of industry experience in the information technology industry. He has worked with organisations such as Arbor Networks, CA Technologies, Bay Networks and IBM.