Naguib joins Barracuda from VMware, where he helped NSX become one of the industry’s fastest growing infrastructure software products growing to $300 million over three years. Hookano, who was vice president of worldwide channels for Fusion-io, returns to Barracuda where he served as the original vice president of sales, growing the company from inception to $100 million. The new leaders will help guide Barracuda’s overall strategy to support customers looking to simplify their IT security and data protection infrastructure on-premises, in the cloud, and in hybrid deployments.
Hatem Naguib, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Security Business
As SVP & GM, Security Business, Naguib has global responsibility for leading Barracuda’s security product strategy to simplify security management for IT professionals. He brings more than 25 years of experience with high-tech companies building innovative products in enterprise software, cloud services, data centre virtualisation, software defined networking, and cybersecurity. Most recently, he was vice president of networking and security at VMware, where he was responsible for the product, technical marketing and business development teams of VMware NSX, a leading software defined networking and security solution. Naguib joined VMware in 2006, and held several leadership positions there, including managing the global partnerships with Cisco, EMC and HP. He also served as the VMware executive leader for VCE, the converged infrastructure startup founded by VMware, Cisco and EMC. Prior to VMware, he held engineering and sales leadership positions at several startups and global corporations including CenterRun (acquired by Sun Microsystems), GE, The Walt Disney Company and Accenture.
Ezra Hookano, Vice President, Channels
As VP of Channels, Hookano is responsible for leading Barracuda’s worldwide channel strategy. He brings more than 20 years of sales experience in the high tech industry. Prior to joining Barracuda, he was vice president of channels for Exablox and vice president of worldwide channels for Fusion-io. Previously, Hookano launched the business division of Drobo, and he spent nearly six years at Barracuda as vice president of sales, North America, growing the company from inception to over $100 million in revenue. Earlier in his career he held executive sales positions in fast-growing, successful startups that were acquired by Symantec (Clyde Digital/Raxco), Intel (Dayna Communications) and SonicWALL (Phobos Corporation).
