Top Go-To-Market Leaders Join Sumo Logic
June 01 2022 - 9:00AM
Sumo Logic (NASDAQ: SUMO), the SaaS analytics platform to enable
reliable and secure cloud-native applications, today announced the
appointment of four new senior leaders. This team is poised to help
drive focus and ensure efficient global growth as Sumo Logic helps
companies of all sizes with digital transformation, cloud
migration, and security modernization initiatives.
Sumo Logic welcomes:
- Zakir Ahmed, Managing Director of APAC and International Market
Strategy
- Steve Doyle, SVP of Global Sales Strategy and Operations
- Timm Hoyt, SVP of Global Channels and Alliances
- Russell Rosa, SVP of America Sales
Lynne Doherty, President of Worldwide Field Operations,
Sumo Logic: “I’m thrilled to welcome these four extremely
talented leaders to the Sumo Logic team. They each bring proven
track records and functional success in growing large,
high-velocity organizations that will help accelerate our next
phase of growth. Sumo Logic is a critical component of customers'
software stacks, and our job is to build on our early platform
success to be the clear leader in serving both the security and
observability needs of organizations. This new leadership team,
along with the deep talent and passion of all of Sumo Logic, gives
me great confidence that we can help our customers win.”
Meet the TeamBased in Singapore, Zakir
Ahmed joins Sumo Logic as Managing Director of APAC and
International Market Strategy. Ahmed will lead the APAC region and
provide advisory support for other international geographies.
Ahmed is not a stranger to building business in a hyper-growth
SaaS marketplace. He brings significant experience most recently at
Kofax, where he was SVP and General Manager for APAC. While there,
Ahmed was responsible for driving a new strategic direction and
spearheading its transformation while leading the region through
rapid growth and expansion into new markets. He brings extensive
experience in management, customer acquisition, retention, and
sales leadership from a variety of companies, including the
NetSuite Business Unit at Oracle, Salesforce.com, TechnologyOne
Corp, and Microcell.
Steve Doyle has been named SVP of Global Sales
Strategy and Operations and leads a global team spanning from North
America to United Kingdom, Australia, and India. Doyle’s team works
to implement the structure, standards, consistency, and processes
to help accelerate growth as the business scales.
Prior to joining Sumo Logic, Doyle led global strategic
initiatives at Cisco. He spent 16 years in a variety of roles,
including leading Global Renewals Operations, where he built a
global team of more than 50 professionals to support an expanding
business. Doyle also led strategy and planning for Cisco Americas,
where he led all sales operations functions including compensation,
planning, and forecasting.
Timm Hoyt takes the reins in his new role as
SVP of Global Channels and Alliances. A technology industry veteran
with a track record of delivering robust, product integration and
go-to-market partner strategy, Hoyt will focus on driving market
leadership by advancing global partnerships for Sumo Logic. Hoyt
brings deep international operations and leadership to the team,
with more than 20 years of experience from posts at PagerDuty,
Druva, Atlantis Computing, Skyera, and Brocade.
At PagerDuty, Hoyt represented the Global Partner and Alliances
organization, establishing five key areas of the practice: Cloud
Providers, Channels, Ecosystem Alliances, Managed Service
Providers, and System Integrators. Similarly at Druva, Hoyt ran the
Global Partner and Alliances organization, while under his
stewardship, annual recurring revenue accelerated by transforming
the route-to-market into a partner-first sales motion that drove
growth, predictability, and durability.
Russell Rosa is the SVP of Americas Sales. Rosa
will ensure scale throughout North America and drive strategy in
emerging markets like Canada and Latin America. Rosa joins Sumo
Logic from Cisco, where he held a number of senior sales leadership
roles and successfully built, developed and managed high-performing
teams. Rosa spent the last five years running U.S. Commercial East,
a business unit comprised of small, midsize and Fortune 500
customers.
Rosa also spent time leading the channel organizations at
Actifio and VCE where he helped to build channel strategies and the
go-to-market model for the respective teams. This included
functions such as distribution, developing partner sales teams, and
introducing new solutions into the portfolio.
Additional Resources:
- Join Sumo Logic at the RSA Conference 2022
- Sumo Logic named ISV Partner of the Year by AWS
- Learn more about Sumo Logic’s Continuous Intelligence
Platform™
- Sign up for a free trial of Sumo Logic
About Sumo LogicSumo Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMO)
empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Through its
SaaS analytics platform, Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver
reliable and secure cloud-native applications. The Sumo Logic
Continuous Intelligence Platform™ helps practitioners and
developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect
against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud
infrastructures. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic to
get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability
and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. For
more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
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Media ContactCarmen HarrisSumo
Logiccharris@sumologic.com(650) 414-1584
Jenna ShikoffRH StrategicSumoLogicPR@RHStrategic.com
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