Exclusive Networks appoints Paul Eccleston as senior vice president EMEA

The distributor is hoping to drive market momentum and fuel future growth

Cybersecurity vendor, Exclusive Networks, has appointed Paul Eccleston as senior vice president EMEA as it aims to drive its growth strategy and momentum across the region.

Eccleston is also appointed to Exclusive's executive committee as part of its global leadership team, responsible for driving strategic growth across the whole group.

Having joined Exclusive last September as managing director of its flagship UK&I business, Eccleston assumed interim responsibility for EMEA at the beginning of the year.

During the first half of 2023, he oversaw strong performance and sustained growth across the region with year-on-year sales up 19 per cent and profitability up by 27 per cent.

At the end of June, EMEA accounted for 78 per cent of Exclusive's global sales.

Eccleston will continue to head up the UK&I business as part of his new SVP EMEA role.

Throughout his career, Eccleston has had executive leadership roles at Computacenter, SCC and TechData.

He founded Nuvias in 2015, scaling it to a multi-hundred-million dollar business across EMEA in just five years.

He also served as VP international channels & alliances at cloud security company Zscaler.

In his new role, Eccleston will be responsible for delivering on Exclusive's strategic vision, driving services and delivering sustainable growth.

"Eccleston has made a significant contribution to the business since he joined last year and I am delighted he has now taken up the role of SVP EMEA," commented Jesper Trolle, CEO of Exclusive Networks.

"He's a highly accomplished and entrepreneurial business leader with a proven track record in growing and scaling channel organisations, especially in the areas of cybersecurity, enterprise software, SaaS and cloud technologies."

Eccleston added: "I'm excited by the opportunities that lie ahead as we continue our growth journey.

"Cybersecurity continues to be both highly resilient as a sector and hugely relevant to the market as organisations face rising cyber threats, tougher legislation and increased technical complexity.

"Our mission is to be the best partner we can be, whether upstream to vendors or downstream to channels, we are committed to delivering service excellence, creating value and achieving sustained growth."

Exclusive Networks recently acquired €38m-revenue Spanish VAD Ingecom to expand its Ignition Technology arm in EMEA.

The company also reported growth in H1 despite slowing cybersecurity market, with sales hitting a record high at €2.3bn, up 20 per cent year-on-year.