Besides retaining his new role as ANZ Regional Director, Scott Robertson is tasked with negotiating new channel and vendor alliances across the Asia-Pacific region with the goals of enhancing WatchGuard's regional presence and building new sales pipeline, channel partnerships and other marketing opportunities.
Robertson originally joined WatchGuard Technologies in 2007 and has 16 years' experience in IT and business consulting. Over the past three-and-a-half years, he has been responsible for ANZ business including customer acquisition, channels, marketing and pre-sales of WatchGuard's range of network security appliances and management software.
"Scott has consistently displayed excellence in running ANZ and is a strategic member of the WatchGuard APAC team," says Terry Haas, Vice-President - International Sales, WatchGuard Technologies. "Having put together an exceptional and robust channel in ANZ that is focussed on exceeding the market expectations around product innovation and customer satisfaction, we look forward to the positive impact that Scott will have in our overall Asia-Pacific business operations."
Prior to joining WatchGuard Technologies Robertson was General Manager Asia Pacific for CRYPTOCard, a leader in the network authentication Industry, where he held overall responsibility for the organization's establishment and business growth in the region, including customer acquisition, marketing and partner development. Previously, Robertson worked in various sales and marketing management capacities with leading vendors such as Red Hat Asia Pacific, Microsoft and Visio.
