Stéphane will steer the Group’s fast growing partnerships business with an increasing number of global systems integrators and key vendor partners. Stéphane brings considerable experience in the cybersecurity and datacentre distribution industries, and will play a pivotal role in maximising Exclusive’s expanded international footprint, rich services offering and ‘pace setting’ vendor portfolio.
“Stéphane joins the team at an exciting time,” said Barrie Desmond, COO of Exclusive Group. “We’re on the radar of an increasing number of global SIs and service providers, and maximising this is a major priority for us. In parallel, our vendors continue to ‘market-outperform’, and our global footprint expands almost weekly. This perfect storm of opportunity needs harnessing and we could think of no one better than Stéphane to help achieve this. We’re very pleased and excited that he’s decided to take up the challenge.”
“I’m looking forward to helping our leading partners achieve even more value and market success through the many bilateral opportunities created by this fast-changing ‘Exclusive’ landscape,” said Stéphane Duplaix, newly appointed Director of Strategic Alliances at Exclusive Group. “I’ve seen Exclusive Group shake up the market for value-added distribution, challenge the old business models and offer a new service-centric vision. Achieving this on a global scale will be unique, and I’m thrilled I can play a key part in this next and most exciting part of the journey.”
At Arrow, Stéphane Duplaix managed a significant channel sales organisation across 30+ countries. Prior to this he accumulated considerable success at businesses including McAfee, F-Secure, Azlan and EdenWall Technologies. His wealth of experience within security, networking and datacentre channel ecosystems is directly relevant to both VAD divisions (Exclusive Networks and BigTec) of Exclusive Group.