Commvault names new worldwide partnership leader to drive growth
Commvault has announced the appointment of Owen Taraniuk to head of worldwide partnerships and market development.
Read our interview with Owen about his new role and becoming a 'Made in China' company.
In this new position, Taraniuk will be responsible for leading the creation and execution of the global go-to-market (GTM) strategy and indirect partnerships for the provider of enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud.
Taraniuk, who joined Commvault in October 2015 as vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan, has 25 years of experience in the technology solutions industry, including senior leadership roles for multinational organisations across EMEA and APJ.
Prior to joining Commvault, Taraniuk was the vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan for EMC2 enterprise content division.
"Owen's appointment signals a strategic shift toward being partner-led with a focus on increasing our investment in alliance and partner relationships whose role in growing and scaling Commvault's global business is critical in our future plan," says Commvault senior VP of worldwide sales Ron Miiller.
"His impeccable track record of success in aligning internal and external teams and his go-to-market thought leadership naturally positions him to drive and elevate our worldwide partner and alliance program to new heights.
Commvault's appointment of Taraniuk underscores the company's strategic business initiative to scale the global partner program, drive growth through a focused route-to-market approach, and bring to market new joint solution offerings that increase value to partners and customers.
Taraniuk and the worldwide partnerships and market development team will work closely with Commvault's solutions groups and marketing to jointly align and drive existing and new solutions to market.
"I am excited to be leading this initiative to greatly extend Commvault's global footprint together with partners and customers by aligning our tremendous innovation and leadership in data protection with world-class offerings from leading organisations," said Taraniuk.
"I am grateful for the strong vote of confidence from Ron and Commvault's executive team and look forward to driving new opportunities for growth and revenue with our current and potential partners, through ease of experience and winning solutions.
"As we continue to deliver customers the industry's best data protection offerings for on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, we are also deepening and expanding our partner relationships, accelerating Commvault's growth and helping our partners expand their opportunities for revenue as well.
