Fastly has announced the appointment of Bruce Bennie as Area Vice President, Sales for Australia and New Zealand.
Based in Sydney, Bennie will be responsible for overseeing Fastly’s business across the region with a focus on driving growth, deepening customer and partner relationships, fostering innovation and advancing Fastly’s ongoing expansion.
Bennie joins Fastly with more than 30 years of proven leadership and experience in IT sales and business management across the ANZ IT+T market. During this time, he has developed deep expertise in the telecommunications, financial services and public sectors, and advised private venture capital firms and publicly listed companies. Bennie previously served in several leadership positions at Juniper Networks, including Regional Vice President and General Manager for ANZ. He also built successful teams and established new business units for global IT vendors at Infoblox and Blue Coat Systems.
“I’ve been genuinely impressed with Fastly’s innovations and the future roadmap around edge cloud innovation, AI-ready infrastructure, application security and a focus on delivering low-latency experiences closer to end users,” said Bruce Bennie. “The ANZ business has an incredible growth opportunity, and I am committed to helping our customers and partners, both new and existing, achieve transformational results while creating outstanding experiences for their own customers and employees.”
Nicola Gerber, Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at Fastly, added: “Bruce’s exceptional breadth of experience across enterprise technology and team leadership is a strong addition to Fastly’s business in Australia and New Zealand. His expertise in scaling businesses, creating and executing on global strategies in the region, as well as advising IT decision-makers, will play a pivotal role as we expand our business, deepen our partnerships and continue to deliver transformative outcomes for organisations. I’m delighted to welcome him to the team.”
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