Arshad SHEIKH

CEO

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia26 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in driving multi-million dollar business growth.
  • Expertise in managing startups and enterprise sales in the IT sector.
  • Strong relationships and market penetration in the Middle East.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in IT sales and cybersecurity, specializing in B2B enterprise solutions.

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Account ManagementBuilding RelationshipsBusiness AlliancesBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceChannelChannel PartnersChannel Relationship ManagementCloud ComputingCompetitive AnalysisData CenterDirect SalesEnterprise SoftwareExecutive ManagementForecasting

About

Accomplished, focused, result-driven, tenacious and highly dynamic leader with extensive sales experience in IT, working at all levels (top-down) across all kinds of organizations and industry verticals in the Middle East. All this is perfectly complimented by my commercial acumen in handling major sales challenges and to channel available resources to generate optimum output. Specialties: Successfully Managing Startups, Building near Zero to Multi-Million Dollar Businesses, Strategic Planning & Execution, Enterprise Sales / Business Development, Channel Management / Development, Major Accounts, Run-rate, Mid Market, Strong Middle East IT Market Penetration Capability, Building Relationships, Forecasting, Pipeline Generation/Management, Marketing Activities

Experience

Amiviz

General Manager

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · On-site

  • AmiViz is the first B2B enterprise marketplace focussed on Cybersecurity business in the Middle East and Africa, designed specially to serve the interests of enterprise resellers and vendors. Driven by innovation and AI powered technology, AmiViz provides a unique collaborative self-service tool – in the form of a mobile app on iOS and Android, as well as a web-based Portal - to enterprise resellers, consultants, system integrators, channel partners and vendors.

Randori, an ibm company

Regional Manager, Middle East & Africa (MEA)

Nov 2022May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Randori is a hacker led company, with software to help security teams discover gaps, assess risks, and improve their security posture over time by delivering an authentic attack experience at scale.
  • Recognized as a leader in offensive security, Randori combines attack surface management (ASM) and continuous automated red teaming (CART) in a single unified platform to provide a continuous, proactive, and authentic offensive security experience.

Jumio corporation

Regional Manager | MiddleEast, Turkey & North Africa (METNA)

Jan 2022Nov 2022 · 10 mos · United Arab Emirates

  • ID, Identity verification, eKYC, KYB, AML and Transaction Monitoring powered by AI.
  • Discover the Next-Gen KYX Platform
  • https://www.jumio.com/about/

Carbon black, inc.

Sales Manager - Saudi Arabia & Bahrain

Apr 2017Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Saudi Arabia

  • Carbon Black's (Cb) Endpoint Security Platform helps organizations of all sizes replace ineffective antivirus, lock down endpoints and critical systems, and arm incident response teams with the most advanced tools to hunt down threats.
  • https://www.carbonblack.com/company/
  • Role:
  • Understand, Strategize, Execute, Penetrate and Successfully Drive Carbon Black's Growth
  • To help End User, Channel & Distribution understand the value that Cb can bring in running their businesses successfully. To bring synergy and success to all organizations involved.

Vmware

VMware Carbon Black

Apr 2017Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Saudi Arabia

  • VMware Carbon Black : Security Business Unit (SBU)

Barracuda (nyse: cuda)

Sales Manager - Saudi Arabia & Bahrain

Jun 2016May 2017 · 11 mos · Saudi Arabia & Bahrain

  • Barracuda Networks, Inc. offers industry-leading solutions designed to solve mainstream IT problems – efficiently and cost effectively – while maintaining a level of customer support and satisfaction second to none. Our products span three distinct markets, including: 1) content security, 2) networking and application delivery and 3) data storage, protection and disaster recovery.
  • Role:
  • Understand, Strategize, Execute, Penetrate and Successfully Drive Barracuda's Growth
  • Develop Distribution, Channel and End User Market

Informatica

Country Manager - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain & Egypt

Mar 2012Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Informatica Corporation is the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software. Thousands of enterprises worldwide depend on Informatica data integration, data quality, and big data solutions to access, integrate, and trust their information assets residing on premise and in the Cloud.

Trend micro

2 roles

Country Manager (KSA & EGYPT)

Jun 2007Mar 2012 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Successfully led a team of Sales (MAM & CAM), Pre-Sales and Post-Sales
  • Planning, Strategizing and being part of executing strategies to achieve targets
  • Key Major Account Management / Penetration
  • Distribution Management / Development
  • Channel Management / Development
  • Planning and executing Marketing activities
  • Achievements
  • Grew company revenues by 300% over 3 years.
  • Best Sales from MMEA for Year 2010 (Qualified for Presidents Club)
  • Grew from a single person to 8 member team in 2 years.
  • Consistently overachieved targets.
  • Promoted to the position of Country Manager
  • Geographical expansion

Channel Management / Distribution Management / Account Management

Jun 2007Jun 2009 · 2 yrs · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Channel / Distribution / Major Account Management
  • Understanding the market dynamics to get a strong foothold for Trend Micro
  • Developed and executed a successful and strong channel strategy
  • Successfully penetrated several Major Accounts
  • Delivered regular sales trainings to Account Managers
  • Achievements
  • Awarded runners-up position on EMEA level for sales achievement in year 2008.

Mindware

Business Development Manager

Jun 2004Jun 2006 · 2 yrs

  • Mindware a leading distributor of Middle East with a broad product portfolio. I was responsible of handing Juniper Networks, Foundry Networks, NetApps and Veritas Enterprise business for KSA.

National technology company (ntc)

Business Development Manager

Jun 2000May 2004 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • NTC a leading System Integrator in KSA had partnerships with companies like HP, Oracle, Juniper (Netscreen), Symantec & other leading vendors. NTC provided complete solutions including Products & Professional Services.
  • I was awarded as Best Employee of the company for 2 consecutive years.
  • Grew the company from a start-up to a 25 Million Saudi Riyals revenue in 2 years.

Siemens nixdorf (nasco)

Business Unit Leader

Feb 1997Jun 2000 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Joined the company as a Account Executive and reached the position of handling the Business Unit successfully .

Education

St. John's (SSC), St. Mary's (Pre-University), Anwarul-Uloom

Commerce & Business Administration

Jan 1978Jan 1993

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