Zscaler Appoints Karl Soderlund as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Partners, and Alliances

Cloud security provider Zscaler has appointed Karl Soderlund as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Partners, and Alliances. His role at Zscaler will involve heading a top-notch channel team and building and implementing a competitive go-to-market strategy in order to advance and modernize the company’s partner program.

Dali Rajic, Chief Operational Officer of Zscaler, stated that his company is attracting great personnel since it is the industry leader in cloud security. “Karl is the appropriate industry veteran to take our channel partner program to the next level, as evidenced by his deep partner expertise and track record of successfully implementing highly strategic partner programs at leading networking and cybersecurity organizations I am happy to welcome Karl to the firm and am certain that his efforts will yield results and help company growth as we continue to make significant investments in our partner model.”

Leading system integrators, managed service providers, solution providers, and distributors make up the Zscaler partner program, which is constantly adding new partner classes that are uniquely qualified to assist businesses in utilizing the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform. 95 percent of the business for the company is brought in by the partner program. The Zscaler partner program offers broad-based enablement across the lifetime of Zscaler’s clients in addition to access.

Soderlund formerly worked as a senior vice president at Palo Alto Networks before joining Zscaler. During the course of his career, Soderlund has received eight channel chief awards, and for the past three years, he has been named one of the top 50 most significant figures in the sector. He also held key positions at Aruba Networks, Avaya, HP, Cisco Systems, and Fortinet before joining Palo Alto Networks.