Aqua Security, the leading pure-play cloud native security provider, announced the appointment of sales veteran Robert D’Amico as Area Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), to lead aggressive expansion across the region. He will be based in Sydney and report into Chief Revenue Officer Christopher Smith.
Most recently he led vArmour as General Manager APAC, and earlier held positions with F5 Networks, Gigamon and Cisco Systems.
Aqua is investing significantly in building a presence in the APJ region, and D’Amico plans to expand the team to support customers, partners and technology alliances. Aqua currently secures over 25 percent of the Fortune 100 and is trusted by highly regulated industries such as BFSI, government and service providers.
“Globally, and particularly across Asia Pacific, most organisations are in some stage of transitioning to cloud native deployments,” said Dror Davidoff, co-founder and CEO, Aqua Security. “There is an emerging opportunity in the region to support the surge in cloud transformations and ensure organisations can move to the cloud safely and securely.
“Rob is a customer-centric industry veteran who can help support the growing number of enterprises migrating to the cloud. His expertise combined with Aqua’s best-in-class cloud native security, will be a game changer for our customers.”
According to D’Amico, “Cloud native applications power today’s business. By 2025, more than 90 percent of all digital initiatives will be supported by cloud native. Delivering a scalable and secure experience is the cornerstone to this transformation.
“The market no longer wants a pieced together, point-solution. I joined Aqua Security because they are the only company that offers a security platform proven to scale. They meet customers where they are today and guide them through the critical path towards cloud native application security.
“The APAC market has been a significant growth engine for Aqua. I was impressed to learn of their plans for APAC and jumped at the opportunity to join.”