Fortinet Appoints New Key Leaders for Asia Region

Fortinet has announced the appointment of Vivek Srivastava as Country Manager for Fortinet in India and the SAARC region, while Rajesh Maurya has been promoted to Vice President for GSI Alliances, India, Southeast Asia, and ANZ.

Vivek Srivastava has over two decades of experience in sales, business management, strategy and planning, growth ecosystem development, portfolio management, and team development. He has led start-ups and small cyber security firms to multimillion-dollar valuations. His guidance and direction as a cyber security practitioner have been implemented at policy levels. He has the experience to lead multi-million dollar cyber security projects for enterprises, service providers, and the government.

Vivek has held senior positions at CrowdStrike, Cisco, IBM, and Ingram Micro, and will be based in New Delhi in his new role at Fortinet.

In addition, Rajesh Maurya, Vice President, GSI Alliances, India, Southeast Asia, and ANZ, based in Sydney, Australia, will collaborate closely with Indian Global System Integrators to assist them in implementing large projects across his region.

Rajesh Maurya said in a statement that working with a vendor like Fortinet in large global projects will allow integrators to streamline their offerings for efficiency and offer a leading technology set capable of providing comprehensive and cost-effective protection against an ever-evolving threat landscape, with a clear vision for protection long into the future. The right security vendor’s product offerings and functionality must be deep and broad enough to address a wide range of customer use cases. GSIs seek solutions that integrate those solutions into a single, tiered access management solution right out of the box.