Thyregod will be responsible for sales operations, including the company’s go-to-market and channel strategies, to accelerate customer acquisition and partner engagement across the region.
Silver Peak currently has more than 600 global production customer deployments of its Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution.
Thyregod joins Silver Peak from Riverbed Technology where he most recently ran the EMEA business.
Kris Thyregod commented, “Silver Peak is a company that I have respected for many years as a formidable competitor with integrity and technology leadership. The growth prospects for SD-WAN across EMEA present a tremendously unique opportunity to fundamentally change the way enterprises architect their WANs and connect users to applications. With the most robust and mature SD-WAN solution on the market, I look forward to expanding the Silver Peak team across the region and delivering real business value to customers.”
Paton said “After competing with Silver Peak in the emerging SD-WAN market over the past few years, it’s clear to me that enterprises are seeking to retire their router-centric WAN architectures in favor of an application-driven WAN edge. With Unity EdgeConnect, customers get the best of both worlds, an SD-WAN that’s centrally orchestrated and managed and a solution that integrates core network functions to simplify and consolidate the branch. It’s a win-win.”