Silver Peak Appoints Dean Vaughan Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan to Accelerate Business Expansion Across the Region

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SINGAPORE and TOKYO, Jan. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Silver Peak (R) ( https://www.silver-peak.com/), the global SD-WAN leader,

delivering the transformational promise of the cloud with a self-driving wide

area network(TM), today announced the appointment of Dean Vaughan as vice

president of sales for Asia Pacific and Japan to accelerate business expansion

and customer acquisition through the company's enterprise and service provider

channels across the region. Recently recognized as a Leader in the Gartner 2018

Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure

(https://www.silver-peak.com/press-release/sd-wan-edge-gartner-magic-quadrant-2018),

Silver Peak currently has more than 1,000 global production

customer deployments of its business-driven Unity

EdgeConnect(TM)(https://www.silver-peak.com/products/unity-edge-connect)

SD-WAN edge platform.

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Today's executive appointment dovetails a series of executive

(https://www.silver-peak.com/new-worldwide-channel-and-enterprise-sales-leadership )

leadership and channel partner program

(https://www.silver-peak.com/silver-peak-launches-a-new-global-partner-edge-program )

announcements that underscore the company's strategy to recruit the

industry's best talent as it pursues market leadership in the hyper-competitive

market for SD-WAN edge infrastructure. Silver Peak is now expanding into Japan,

hiring seasoned sales teams to work hand in hand with partners to address the

unique wide area networking requirements of Japanese enterprise customers.

A 22-year industry veteran with a proven track record in building winning sales

teams, Dean Vaughan is responsible for Asia Pacific and Japan enterprise sales,

including go-to-market and channel strategies to drive partner engagement and

customer acquisition.

"It's an exciting time to join Silver Peak as geographically distributed

enterprises across the Asia Pacific and Japan region turn to SD-WAN as a means

to drive cloud and digital transformation initiatives," said Dean Vaughan, vice

president of sales for Asia Pacific and Japan at Silver Peak. "My immediate

task is to put in place the best go-to-market strategy and team to lead Silver

Peak forward, empowering customers across the region with our business-driven

Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform and liberating them from the compromises

of router-centric and basic SD-WAN approaches to transform their networks into

a business accelerant."

Prior to Silver Peak, Vaughan served in various enterprise technology sales

leadership positions at Oracle, most recently as senior director of Cloud

Platform Solutions for ASEAN where, in a short period of time, he significantly

expanded the public cloud IaaS and PaaS businesses. Vaughan began his career at

Oracle in 2009 where he established and scaled the Oracle Virtualization and

Linux business units in Australia and New Zealand. By 2012, Vaughan was

promoted to oversee the Cloud Infrastructure business unit for Asia Pacific and

Japan. During this time, Vaughan delivered consistent double-digit annual

growth by expanding the business to India, Korea and Japan and restructuring

the business in China, ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand. Previously, Vaughan

built NCR Corporation's Cisco Systems Network Integration business across Asia

Pacific.  

"Dean is a strong and seasoned leader who will enable us to capitalize on the

unprecedented wave of SD-WAN demand across the Asia Pacific and Japan region,"

said Ken Laversin, chief revenue officer at Silver Peak. "Dean's demonstrated

expertise in growing multiple businesses across Asia Pacific and Japan, and his

depth of knowledge of the enterprise and channel market will enable Silver Peak

to accelerate business expansion and customer acquisition, further entrenching

us as the global SD-WAN leader delivering the transformational promise of the

cloud with the industry's first self-driving wide area network."  

About Silver Peak

Silver Peak, the global SD-WAN leader, delivers the transformational promise of

the cloud with a business-first networking model. The Unity EdgeConnect(TM)

(https://www.silver-peak.com/products/unity-edge-connect) self-driving wide

area network platform liberates enterprises from conventional WAN approaches to

transform the network from a constraint to a business accelerant. Thousands of

globally distributed enterprises have deployed Silver Peak WAN solutions across

100 countries. Learn more at silver-peak.com.

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