Mimecast Appoints Brandon Bekker to Lead EMEA region
May 14 2019 - 3:30AM
Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email and data security
company, today announced the appointment of Brandon Bekker to
Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to
help manage the rapid growth within region. In this newly created
position, Brandon will be responsible for supporting the continued
growth for Mimecast in EMEA and ensuring collaboration and
consolidation across all markets in this important region. Paul
Stafford, who previously was the company’s General Manager for the
South African coastal region, has been appointed to Vice President
for Mimecast Africa. Both positions became effective at the start
of Mimecast’s new fiscal year, April 1, 2019.
Brandon has a proven track record of leadership as he helped
establish Mimecast as a market leader across various industries,
including healthcare, financial services, retail and public sector
in South Africa. As the new SVP of EMEA, Brandon will lead the
entire EMEA region and will be based out of the London, United
Kingdom office. Previously, Brandon successfully managed Middle
East and Africa since 2013 and helped to grow the regional business
by more than 75% since the company listed. Bekker has held various
leadership roles since joining Mimecast in 2007. During his tenure,
Brandon also expanded the business to serve customers in the Middle
East with the opening of a Dubai office in 2016.
Prior to Paul Stafford’s appointments, he helped develop the
company’s regional business in South Africa. He brings with him a
wealth of knowledge about the security landscape in Africa, the
channel ecosystem and years of experience helping organizations
manage evolving cyber threats.
“Brandon Bekker has been instrumental in helping MEA customers
understand the cyber threat landscape and the importance of how
layering a third-party solution can improve cyber resilience when
adopting cloud services like Microsoft Office 365. It gives me
great pleasure to see him take on this new challenge to further
support customers,” said Peter Bauer, chief executive officer at
Mimecast. “I am confident that he will bring the skills that helped
drive customer success and growth in MEA to the rest of the region,
particularly in our growing markets like Central Europe, and he
will continue to motivate employees to do their best work, best
teamwork and greatest learning.”
“For more than 10 years, Paul Stafford has proven his commitment
to helping customers manage their cyber resilience strategy, while
also ensuring resellers and other partners are able to effectively
service their clients. He has shown his dedication to customer
success and his passion for leading enthusiastic and engaged
Mimecast teams. I have no doubt that with Paul at the helm,
Mimecast Africa will continue to focus on customer success, helping
to guide customers as they work to strengthen their cyber
resilience strategies to protect their organizations against the
ever-evolving threat landscape,” says Brandon Bekker, senior vice
president, EMEA.
About Mimecast Mimecast is a
cybersecurity provider that helps thousands of organizations
worldwide make email safer, restore trust and bolster cyber
resilience. Mimecast’s expanded cloud suite enables organizations
to implement a comprehensive cyber resilience strategy. From email
and web security, archive and data protection, to awareness
training, uptime assurance and more, Mimecast helps
organizations stand strong in the face of cyberattacks, human error
and technical failure. www.mimecast.com
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