Dave Maik

Director of Engineering

Montreal, Quebec, Canada27 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of IT industry experience.
  • Proven track record of exceeding sales quotas.
  • Expertise in channel management and cybersecurity solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and IT Sales expert with extensive channel management experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Channel ManagementSalesChannel Strategy

Other Skills

ConsultingDistribution Channel ManagementEntrepreneurshipSelf-confidenceChannelChannel PartnersNetworkingAccount ManagementMarketing StrategyNegotiationProduct MarketingSales PresentationsDistributorsMarketingLive Events

About

Extensive experience in sales and management where in every situation quotas were overachieved. Over 20 years in the IT industry managing every aspect of the supply channel. (manufacturing, distributor, channel and enduser) Sales experience with Anti-Virus, firewall, load balancing, cloud, storage, intrusion protection, web security, WAN optimization and managed networks. I'm Dave Maik and I am the Channel Director at Valimail we help organizations stop phishing, prevent spoofing, and protect their brands by validating and authenticating every sender identity. Valimail provides the only complete, cloud-native DMARC platform trusted by thousands of global organizations. What Valimail does: Automates DMARC, DKIM, SPF, and BIMI Prevents domain impersonation and brand abuse FedRAMP-authorized sender identity authentication Authenticates billions of messages monthly for organizations like Uber, Fannie Mae, WeWork, and the U.S. Census Bureau Learn more here: https://www.valimail.com/ Specialties: Sales, Management, Channel, Solution Selling, Negotiations on all/any levels.

Experience

27 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Guardz

Director Channel Sales

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos · Montreal · Remote

  • Guardz is agentic unified cybersecurity platform purpose-built for MSPs. We consolidate essential security controls across identity, endpoints, email, data, and security awareness into a single, operationally efficient platform with a normalized data fabric to drive automated detection and response.
  • Our identity-centric architecture connects signals across attack vectors, eliminating the gaps left by siloed tools and enabling MSPs to see, understand, and act on user risk in real Time. In this technical session you will see how Guardz can provide you the speed and clarity to stay ahead of adversaries.
ConsultingDistribution Channel ManagementEntrepreneurshipSelf-confidenceChannelChannel Partners+9

Valimail

Channel Director

Nov 2025Mar 2026 · 4 mos · San Francisco, CA · Remote

  • Authenticate emails in real-time, get ahead of phishing attacks, and boost your campaign performance — all within a few clicks.
  • Since 2015, Valimail’s patented technology paired with the industry’s largest network of trusted domains has empowered over 30,000 organizations to achieve continuous DMARC enforcement with more speed and success than any other platform.
  • At Valimail, we help organizations stop phishing, prevent spoofing, and protect their brands by validating and authenticating every sender identity. Valimail provides the only complete, cloud-native DMARC platform trusted by thousands of global organizations.
  • What Valimail does:
  • Automates DMARC, DKIM, SPF, and BIMI
  • Prevents domain impersonation and brand abuse
  • FedRAMP-authorized sender identity authentication
  • Authenticates billions of messages monthly for organizations like Uber, Fannie Mae, WeWork, and the U.S. Census Bureau
  • Learn more here: https://www.valimail.com/
MarketingDistribution Channel ManagementSalesChannel StrategyLive Events

Defensx (isoolate)

Channel Director North America

Mar 2022Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos · New York, United States

  • DefensX democratizes cybersecurity by protecting end-users anywhere, on any device, from advanced cyberthreats with simple and efficient deployment and a budget-friendly subscription model.

Softthinks

2 roles

Director of Enterprise Sales - Americas

Promoted

Dec 2019Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Software company providing a solution to automating the refurbishing process of PC/laptops/servers/loose drives/and mobile devices. Overseeing a team and to drive sales year to year by a growth of 30%. Manage the growth of all tier 1 and 2 customers while working closely with the tech team to provide top level service and provide market leading enhancements to the software. Develop new business contact and uncover new strategic ways to promote and market the brand.

North American Channel & Sales Manager

Nov 2015Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Softthinks, we help our customers – OEMS, PC Retailers and enterprises - reduce their IT support costs since 2000 through the use of leading edge technology - imaging, deployment, operating system repair, and backup & recovery – innovative approaches and an agile organization.

Tabernus - now blancco

Sales/Channel Development Partner

Apr 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Canada

  • Tabernus is a leading provider of data erasure software and hardware products used by companies of all sizes to completely remove all data from hard drive storage devices. Tabernus was established in 2002 with a specialty in enterprise hard drive testing. As data security industry grew, including end of life data security, Tabernus leveraged its core competency to expand into the emerging electronic data elimination market. Since relocating its corporate offices to Austin, Texas, Tabernus has set the benchmark for software and hardware development focused on electronic data elimination.

Electronic network

Manager of International Sales & Marketing

Jan 2011Jan 2014 · 3 yrs · Montreal, Canada Area

  • Managing a sales team consisting of 8 International Account Managers, as well as marketing/growth of product portfolio. Specializing in Franchised lines, hard to find, allocated parts consisting of semiconductors, relays, circuits etc to major markets world wide. Territories consist of NA, SA, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Mexico, China and Spain.

Converge net

2 roles

Account Executive/Manager

Jan 2009Apr 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Security and network analysis products and services. Technology solutions provider in management, design, security, and analysis of corporate networks. Providing best of breed technology vendors such as McAfee, PGP, Foundry, Juniper, Cisco, NetScout etc.

BDM

Feb 1999Feb 2004 · 5 yrs

  • Managed Tier 1 accounts in the Montreal region with their requirements for network security, network infrastructure, design, and analyzing network efficiency.

Marltech inc.

Account/Sales Manager

Feb 2004Nov 2009 · 5 yrs 9 mos

  • Managed sales nationally. IT hardware and software products to inhance, monitor, protect corporate networks.

Westcon

Product Manager

Jan 1996Jan 1999 · 3 yrs

  • Managed multiple product lines for Westcon in Canada. Handled Check Point, 3Com and Lucent. I provided training and sales assistance to the sales team to uncover new opporunities as well as help close deals. Grew Check Point to over 1.5 million per quarter and tripled 3Com sales. Organized and participated in launching the Lucent/Westcon relationship in Canada.

Globelle - tech data canada

Product Manager

Jan 1994Jan 1996 · 2 yrs

  • I was the Product Manager for Quantum hard drives. The product produced the largest revenue and substained the second largest gross sales for Globelle at the time. Tasks also included marketing the product to the three offices by creating and lauching quarterly promotions. I had to manage the inventory in order to produce a very high turns ratio.

Education

Carleton University

Bachlor of Public Administration — Business

Humber College

Marketing Major

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