Netskope appoints new exec VP of worldwide sales

Netskope’s Chris Andrews to retire following 10 years at the company

SASE provider Netskope has announced the promotion of Raphaël Bousquet to executive VP for worldwide sales, leading all aspects of the company's global sales and channel strategy.

Bousquet succeeds Chris Andrews, who will retire from Netskope this year as part of a planned leadership transition.

A networking and security industry veteran, Bousquet has led top-performing technology sales teams at market-leading companies for decades.

As worldwide head of Netskope's global sales organisation, he will continue to drive customer demand for Netskope's SASE and zero-trust solutions to enable secure cloud transformations.

Since joining Netskope in 2021 as SVP of EMEA & LATAM, Bousquet has worked on the expansion of the company's footprint across the regions, recruiting talent, and landing deals with brands in financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, government, and other industries as Netskope customers.

Prior to joining Netskope, Bousquet served as VP of EMEA South, Israel & Alps at Palo Alto Networks, growing territory revenue more than 600 per cent in a five-year period.

Before that, he held various international management roles at Cisco.

"Raphaël's deep industry experience, passion for winning, and the extensive accomplishments he's already achieved at Netskope make him the unanimous choice of the company's executive team and board of directors to take the sales leadership reins and drive this next era of our growth," said Dave Peranich, president of go-to-market at Netskope.

"As we make a graceful sales leadership transition, the entire Netskope team salutes Chris Andrews for everything he has helped us achieve over the past decade - including scaling to the several-hundred-million-dollar market leader we are today."

"Chris' achievements go hand-in-hand with Netskope's biggest milestones, and we thank him for his leadership and determination over a long, impressive run that spans nearly the entire history of Netskope sales to date," said Sanjay Beri, CEO and co-founder, Netskope.

Mike Herman, channel VP at Netskope, recently spoke about the continued investment in the channel and how the company is making in an effort to grow its relationship with partners.

He said the company is investing heavily in the training and enablement of partners, considering this "most important" to them.