Yehudai joins from Palo Alto Networks where he led EMEA inside channel sales and was credited with driving significant growth for the cybersecurity firm through channel sales and partnerships. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Yehudai held senior channel roles for several high-growth tech companies including NetApp and ClickSoftware.
Based in Equinix’s European headquarters in Amsterdam, Yehudai will lead a team of over 20 dedicated channel people and be responsible for channel operations across the region.
In his new role at Equinix, Oren Yehudai will be responsible for leading a large team and driving the growth of Equinix’s EMEA Channel Partner Program.
The program allows partners to both resell and refer Equinix services, and is intended to help enterprise customers obtain the comprehensive IT services and expertise they need from the channel community they are accustomed to working with.
Since its inception, the global Channel Partner Program has achieved year-on-year growth of 27% and has signed up more than 300 partners in EMEA since 2015.
Equinix’s strategic partnerships with leading cloud service providers, including AWS, Cisco, Google Cloud Platform, IBM SoftLayer, Microsoft Azure and NetApp, enable the Equinix partner community to help enterprises leverage the power of the cloud to support all their mission critical applications.
· Members of the Equinix Channel Partner Program include Carpathia, Datalink, Datapipe, Dimension Data, F5, Oracle and Unitas Global.
