SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Vectra, the
leader in automating the hunt for in-progress cyberattacks,
today announced the appointment of Scott
Collins as director of North
America channels. Collins brings nearly two decades of
channel sales and management experience building high-growth,
high-margin and differentiated channel programs for several leading
cybersecurity firms.
"At Vectra, we've made a commitment from the beginning to
embrace the channel community because they are critical to our
success," said Kevin Moore, senior
vice president of worldwide field operations at Vectra.
"Scott Collins has a proven track
record in leading and growing successful channel programs, and I am
thrilled to have him join us to spearhead our North America channel initiatives."
In 3Q2017, Vectra experienced 294% growth in worldwide revenue
compared to the same period last year. This is on the heels of 208%
year-over-year growth in the prior quarter. Channel partners are a
critical component of Vectra's extraordinary growth and will
continue to be a key pillar to the success of the company.
Collins is responsible for developing North American partner
strategy, reseller programs and operational elements to support
specialized security VARs, consultants, MSSPs and other viable
routes to market. In his role, Collins will drive partner
recruitment and enablement while working closely with the sales
teams and sales leadership with the ultimate goal of producing
incremental revenue. Leveraging his years of expertise, Collins
will own full responsibility for defining vision, strategies and
tactics around channel direction.
"Now more than ever, forward-thinking organizations are
realizing the urgent need to detect and respond to active
cyberattacks in real-time," said Collins. "Vectra has achieved
remarkable momentum, particularly within the channel, thanks to its
innovative technology and Cognito™ platform. I look forward to
rapidly accelerating our growth within the channel community and
contributing to the continued overall success of Vectra."
Prior to joining Vectra, Collins was vice president of Americas
channels at Fidelis Cybersecurity and before that he was director
of Americas channel sales at FireEye, where he built and led a team
of over 30 people. Collins was also director of North America channel sales at cloud security
provider Zscaler and led channel sales teams as a senior manager at
IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco. Collins earned his
bachelor of arts degree from Texas Christian
University.
About Vectra
Vectra® is transforming
cybersecurity with AI. Its Cognito platform automates cyberattack
detection and response from data center and cloud workloads to user
and IoT devices. Cognito correlates threats, prioritizes hosts
based on risk and provides rich context to empower response with
existing security systems, reducing security operations workload by
168x. Vectra was named "Most Innovative Emerging Company" in the
Dark Reading Best of Black Hat Awards. InformationWeek also named
Vectra one of the Top 125 companies to watch in 2016. Vectra has
been issued 5 U.S. patents with 14 additional patents pending for
cybersecurity applications of machine learning and artificial
intelligence. Vectra investors include Khosla Ventures, Accel
Partners, IA Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures and DAG Ventures. The
company is headquartered in San Jose,
Calif. and has European regional headquarters in
Zurich, Switzerland. For more
information, visit https://vectra.ai
Vectra, the Vectra Networks logo and 'Security that thinks' are
registered trademarks, and Cognito, the Vectra Threat Labs and the
Threat Certainty Index are trademarks of Vectra Networks. Other
brand, product and service names are trademarks, registered
trademarks or service marks of their respective holders.
Media Contacts:
LEWIS Global Communications, PR for
Vectra
press@vectra.ai
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