Nutanix appoints former IBM exec Gill as new regional channel director

Ex-Big Blue channel lead, Andrew Gill, appointed as channel director for western Europe & sub-Saharan Africa

Nutanix has announced the appointment of former Big Blue UK&I partner boss, Andrew Gill, as its new channel director for western Europe & sub-Saharan Africa.

The hyper-converged infrastructure vendor said the "industry heavyweight" will be responsible for leading all channel and OEM activities in WEURSSA with resellers, distributors, and regional SIs.

Commenting on his appointment, Gill said that building channel awareness around initiatives such as Nutanix Cloud Bundles (NCBs) will be one of his top priorities.

NCB is a unified offering to access Nutanix enterprise cloud software and solutions in the US vendor's enterprise portfolio.

"The powerful combination of Nutanix's unsurpassed multi-cloud approach and its clear commitment to driving true business value for customers and partners alike make it a highly desirable organisation to join," he said.

"It was clear to me that as well as Nutanix's market leading technology and outstanding high value Partner program, the company genuinely cares about the success of its customers and partners hence its enviable NPS score of over 90 over the last seven years - that's a company I want to be part of."

Nutanix WEURSSA VP sales, Dom Poloniecki, welcomed Gill to Nutanix saying the company wants to leverage his experience in running channel sales teams in the region.

"He is a welcome addition to the team and both his experience and passion as well as his extensive executive relationships in the partner community will help us to enable our industry-leading partner ecosystem to gain maximum benefit from the innovative product portfolio that we offer."