Juniper Networks has strengthened its management team in Asia-Pacific. Douglas Murray, previously senior vice president and general manager of Juniper Networks’ security business unit, has been appointed senior vice president for Asia-Pacific and will be based in Hong Kong.
His management team includes new hires Geoff Thomas, vice president of enterprise sales, Kevin Ackhurst, vice president of partner sales, and Alita Wong, vice president of marketing. Matt Kolon, who was acting theater head, will return to the position of vice president for the service provider business in Asia-Pacific.
?Asia-Pacific is where our biggest geographical market opportunities lie and we wanted to ensure there is a strong management bench to drive our continued success in the region,? said Gerri Elliott, executive vice president and chief sales officer of Juniper Networks.
In his new role, Murray is responsible for all aspects of Juniper’s business activities across the Asia-Pacific region, including customer engagement, sales development, training and enablement, strategic planning and revenue growth.
Thomas and Ackhurst join Juniper from Microsoft where the former spent 19 years, most recently as general manager for the Asia communications sector business, and the latter worked for 14 years including his last stint as Asia-Pacific vice president for sales and marketing. Before joining Juniper, Wong was Oracle’s director of market development in Asia-Pacific and Japan and also worked at Lucent and Gartner.
