Clavister appoints Stephan Schmidt to EMEA Channel Manager

Clavister has appointed Stephan Schmidt to the role of EMEA Channel Manager.

Schmidt has over 20 years’ experience in senior IT sales and business development roles as well as six years in IT Security, having previously worked for Dell, Nordic Edge, Intel Security and McAfee before joining Clavister in August of last year.

“Stephan’s knowledge of the security sector and channel, together with his sales management skills, will add real strength to our European team” said Jim Carlsson of Clavister. “His background and experience will help ensure that we continue to strengthen new and existing relationships, and maximize business opportunities.”

In recent months Clavister has experienced an increased interest for its solutions in the EMEA region following the release of new next generation security gateways including the entry level W30 and the E80, a security gateway that delivers enterprise-class capacity, featuring a desktop form-factor, bringing unmatched price/performance capability to SME and branch office deployments

“This is an exciting time to be working at Clavister as the company expands and moves into new markets. I am looking forward to the challenge of helping our existing channel partners grow their businesses while also increasing our global network of value added resellers,” commented Schmidt.

Schmidt will be responsible for developing Clavister’s channel strategy which has already seen success this year. The company has recently announced a deployment with CNB (Coöperatieve Nederlandse Bloembollencentrale), the world’s largest authority in plant bulbs, through Dutch distributor BlackIP and an extension of its agreement with Croatian partner itSoft seeing the ISP offer Clavisters SECaaS offering to its entire customer base.