Cisco appoints channel manager in Australia and New Zealand

Stan Beer
Thursday, 04 December 2008 10:26

IT People - People

Cisco has appointed Michael Lehmann as its new partner operations director for Australia and New Zealand. Mr Lehmann, who has worked in reseller, wholesaler and end-user organisations, will be responsible for leading a team to help increase partner profitability and growth in Australia and New Zealand through the promotion of the network as the platform for customer productivity.

Mr Lehmann, based in Sydney, will focus on improving collaboration with partners to create revenue generation in enterprise, service provider, and small to medium-sized business sectors, and on developing solutions for partners in unified communications, video, data centre and virtualisation, and mobility and security technologies. He will also lead a team that will focus on providing greater clarity and consistency in all of Cisco’s Australian and New Zealand partner relationships.

Mr Lehmann will report directly to the vice president for Cisco Australia and New Zealand, Les Williamson.

Mr Williamson said: “Michael has extensive experience specifically with both the channel and with Cisco, so we will certainly benefit from his experience, skills and enthusiasm. Michael’s most recent leadership role with Intuition Consulting saw him drive local and global Cisco partner profitability and business model success. Michael’s empathy with and knowledge of the channel are significant assets.”