Barracuda appoints Dan McLean to drive ANZ channel growth

Barracuda Networks has appointed Dan McLean as Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), assigning him responsibility for the company's sales strategy and market growth in the region.

In his new role, McLean will focus on strengthening and expanding Barracuda's relationships with partners and customers, alongside developing the company's presence within the ANZ market. He will also be tasked with supporting the firm's managed service provider partners to address evolving business needs.

Giovanni Goduti, Vice President of Sales International at Barracuda, said, "Dan brings an impressive track record of driving partner relationships and market expansion and building high-performing sales teams in the technology sector. Dan will be instrumental in accelerating Barracuda's growth in ANZ and in ensuring we support partners such as Managed Service Providers with advanced products and services that reduce complexity, meet evolving business needs and help our partners to build revenues and grow."

According to Barracuda, McLean's appointment demonstrates the company's commitment to its channel partners in the region. The firm's Partner Success Program aims to support partners by giving them access to resources and support to help innovate new solutions, increase their Barracuda offerings, and improve customer security during a period of increasing cyber threat complexity.

McLean brings to the position experience in sales leadership and go-to-market strategies across several sectors including cloud, security, and workforce management. He previously served as Director of Sales at MyPass Global, where he led initiatives intended to improve workforce compliance and safety standards across a number of industries. Before this, McLean was at Emertel, focusing on growing high-tech companies throughout the Asia-Pacific region, and he also held senior leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and VMware.

McLean commented on his appointment, stating, "Cybersecurity continues to be a critical priority for businesses of all sizes, and Barracuda's innovative approach to advanced, integrated security sets it apart from its competition. I'm thrilled to join the team and look forward to working with our partners and customers across ANZ to ensure we consistently deliver exceptional value for partners while helping their customers to strengthen their security posture with solutions that are easy to buy, deploy and use."

The Barracuda Partner Success Program is described by the company as offering unmatched support and resources, enabling partners to expand their Barracuda solutions portfolio and develop approaches to better safeguard enterprise customers facing complex cyber risks.

The company states that hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and managed service providers worldwide rely on Barracuda's platform, which covers email, data, application, and network protection, in addition to offering a Managed XDR service designed to boost cyber resilience.