{"id":29525,"date":"2017-09-06T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T06:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=29525"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T06:13:28","slug":"sophos-appoints-adel-eid-as-channel-sales-director-for-apac-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2017\/09\/06\/sophos-appoints-adel-eid-as-channel-sales-director-for-apac-and-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos appoints Adel Eid as channel sales director for APAC and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sophos announced the appointment\u00a0of Adel Eid as Channel Sales Director for Asia Pacific and\u00a0Japan. Eid brings more than 20 years of experience in\u00a0channel management, having worked with global organizations,\u00a0ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Adel-Eid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Adel-Eid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Adel-Eid.jpg 642w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Adel-Eid-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Adel-Eid-102x75.jpg 102w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Adel-Eid-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Adel-Eid-210x158.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Adel-Eid-390x293.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eid joins Sophos from\u00a0CyberArk where\u00a0he\u00a0managed a channel sales team and developed a comprehensive\u00a0strategic alliance, enhancing its partners\u2019 security\u00a0expertise and ability to drive new business opportunities.\u00a0Prior to CyberArk, he spent nine\u00a0years with Cisco where he held various roles including\u00a0sales responsibilities for distribution in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>At Sophos, Adel will lead the channel program for Asia Pacific and Japan, focusing on\u00a0partner growth. He will also collaborate with\u00a0distributors,\u00a0global systems integrators, value-added-resellers, managed\u00a0services and learning partners to launch and drive\u00a0Sophos\u2019s synchronized security program that addresses\u00a0advanced cyber threats\u00a0including ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>Eid\u00a0holds\u00a0an MBA in International Management from the United Business\u00a0Institute.<\/p>\n<p>He will be based in the Sophos Singapore office reporting\u00a0directly to\u00a0Joergen Jakobsen,\u00a0Regional Vice President &amp; Managing Director, Asia\u00a0Pacific &amp; Japan, Sophos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos announced the appointment\u00a0of Adel Eid as Channel Sales Director for Asia Pacific and\u00a0Japan. Eid brings more than 20 years of experience in\u00a0channel management, having worked with global organizations,\u00a0ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5481,100,206,96],"class_list":["post-29525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-adel-eid","tag-appointment","tag-sophos","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}