Juniper announces senior appointments

IT and computer networking firm Juniper Networks today announced a series of senior appointments in Asia-Pacific (APAC) to align with strategic growth opportunities.
The new appointments, which span sales, systems engineering, marketing and partners, help position the company to capitalise on the highest growth opportunities in APAC as customers migrate to High-IQ Networks and best-in-class cloud environments, the company said in a release.
The company said Wendy Koh has been promoted as senior Vice-President (SVP) of APAC Sales.
Based in Singapore, Koh will be responsible for Juniper Networks' sales and operations across the region including customer engagement, sales development, training and enablement, strategic planning and revenue growth, it said.

Koh reports to Vince Molinaro, Juniper Networks' chief customer officer.
The company said Mitch Lewis, previously VP of Strategic Alliances, has relocated to Singapore to assume the role of VP of APAC Partners reporting to Wendy Koh; while-Russell Skingsley has been promoted to VP of APAC Systems Engineering and Center of Excellence, focused on product evangelization, field enablement and overall technology stewardship.
Helda Lopes, previously senior director of Worldwide Partner Marketing, has been promoted to VP of APAC Field and Partner Marketing, and Mark Ablett has been appointed vice president of Juniper's newly created South Asia region, which encompasses Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN, it added.

"The deep industry, customer, partner and Juniper knowledge and passion that exists across our newly formed APAC management team will help the company capitalise on this opportunity and address the rapidly evolving networking needs of our APAC customers," Juniper Networks Chief Customer Officer Vince Molinaro said.