{"id":14225,"date":"2017-01-02T10:54:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T10:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=14225"},"modified":"2017-01-02T10:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T10:54:45","slug":"infoblox-appoints-cherif-sleiman-as-vice-president-emea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2017\/01\/02\/infoblox-appoints-cherif-sleiman-as-vice-president-emea\/","title":{"rendered":"Infoblox appoints Cherif Sleiman as Vice President EMEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Infoblox has\u00a0announced that Cherif Sleiman has been appointed as Vice President of the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operation, responsible for charting the company\u2019s business strategy across EMEA. Sleiman previously oversaw Infoblox\u2019s Middle East and Africa (MEA) business and under his leadership the MEA region grew rapidly, specifically in the areas of DNS security and network control for hybrid clouds. Sleiman will be reporting to Bill McCarthy, EVP of Worldwide Field Operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe EMEA region is of strategic importance to Infoblox, so finding the right leadership is critical to our ongoing success,\u201d said McCarthy. \u201cCherif has done a terrific job in leading the Middle East and Africa team over the past two years. During his tenure, he helped significantly grow the regional business while developing a strong partnership model. Under his leadership and given his expertise in security and cloud solutions, I am confident that Infoblox will flourish in the EMEA region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWith the rising number of DDoS attacks and data breaches, DNS Security has become mandatory to ensure safe computing in service provider and enterprise networks,\u201d said Sleiman. \u201cOrganizations must realize that ignoring DNS as a threat vector can result in damaging consequences. The recent European Union General\u00a0Data Protection Regulation\u00a0(GDPR) aims to strengthen data protection\u00a0and will hold institutions responsible for any data privacy breaches.\u00a0 Infoblox is uniquely positioned to help organizations comply with GDPR and other data privacy regulations by delivering DNS based security measures.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sleiman has more than 22 years of sales, technical and business experience with some of the world\u2019s leading networking and telecommunications technology companies including Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks. He is a subject matter expert and well versed in the areas of security, compliance, cloud, and technology trends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infoblox has\u00a0announced that Cherif Sleiman has been appointed as Vice President of the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operation, responsible for charting the company\u2019s business strategy across EMEA. Sleiman previously oversaw Infoblox\u2019s Middle East and Africa (MEA) business and under his leadership the MEA region grew rapidly, specifically in the areas of DNS security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":14226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[809,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","category-networking"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}