Data management and security company Cohesity has announced the appointment of Peter Hanna as Head of Channels for Cohesity Asia-Pacific & Japan. 

In his new role, Hanna will be responsible for leading Cohesity’s channel sales and partner engagement throughout the Asia-Pacific & Japan region.

Based in Brisbane (Australia), Hanna has joined Cohesity with over two decades of local and regional strategic sales experience working for leading information and communications technology companies in the Asia-Pacific, Japan, and China regions. 

He comes with experience that spans ICT sales, technology-led business transformation, and strategic go-to-market (GTM) initiatives.

In his most recent role, Hanna held the role of head of global customers - Asia Pacific, Japan & Greater China, where he was responsible for working with VMware’s globally strategic customers to drive technology-led business transformation and reduce their cyber risk, and Regional Director - North & West Australia (QLD, WA, NT) and Papua New Guinea at VMware, where he was responsible for VMWare’s sales efforts in these territories.

Before his time at VMware, Hanna spent over fourteen years at Dell EMC, where he held a range of data storage sales leadership and technology strategy roles. Hanna has strong expertise in developing and optimising go-to-market strategies throughout the Asia Pacific, Japan, India, and Greater China region. He is passionate about customer centricity and is a vocal advocate for diversity & inclusion.

“Cohesity’s leading AI-powered data security and management technology helps organisations better secure, manage, and recover their data. These are exactly the capabilities organisations are looking for to combat ever-increasing cyber threats and that partners are looking to provide within their bespoke offerings,” said Peter Hanna.

“Every organisation in the Asia-Pacific & Japan region faces the challenge of securing their data in a worsening cyber threat landscape and being able to recover rapidly if they fall victim to a cyberattack. Cyber resilience is vital to answering this challenge and is only made possible by modern data security, management, and recovery capabilities,” said Sanjay Rohatgi, Group Vice President, Cohesity Asia-Pacific & Japan who was appointed to the point last year.