General Manager- Head Of Middle East And Africa
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Led sales & operations across 70+ countries with a team of 200 + employees. Developed and implemented new strategy, Restructured teams, drove change and led programs to focus on new markets, countries and verticals.• Redefined routes-to-market; established excellent relationships with distributors and channel partners.• Sold cloud solutions, data centres, security, network automation, telecom and content provider routers, campus switching, managed services, hardware and software. • Achieved major contracts wins with large customers including, STC, Etisalat, Dubai Financial Market and other financial institutions, Aramco, Egypt Petroleum, Alfa Telecom, DUTEC Dubai, multiple MEA governments, Egypt Telecom, Liquid Telecom, Etisalat, Alfa, Airtel, MTN, Telecom Egypt, Liquid Telecom, Neotel, Telecom Egypt, OmanTel, Zain & Ooredoo.• Won a multi-million managed services contract with a major service provider in MEA, and telecoms cloud projects with several telecom operators.• Successfully repositioned Juniper as one of the leading brands in the MEA region; received two major awards – for Security in MEA, and Networking Vendor of the Year.• Drove double digits overall growth in products and services