FireMon appoints Ottavio Camponeschi as Vice President EMEA

FireMon  has appointed seasoned security heavyweight Ottavio Camponeschi as Vice President EMEA. In his role, Ottavio will be responsible for driving FireMon’s growing European, Middle Eastern and African business volumes and forming strategic channel partnerships throughout the region.

With more than 25 years of experience in the IT Industry, Ottavio joins the FireMon team from Damballa where he held the position of Vice President EMEA. Prior to this, he spent a decade at McAfee, as vice president of its Southern European operations, and held senior management roles at both Ariba and BMC Software.

Ottavio will be based in FireMon’s Munich office where he will build on last year’s 55% growth and secure a leading market position for the company in EMEA. FireMon’s sights are firmly set on international expansion with key target markets for 2015 including the UK, Germany, France and the Middle East. An important part of this growth strategy will be educating the market on the importance of moving beyond device security monitoring into providing proactive management and analysis of security through the use of FireMon’s core product suite and Immediate Insight, a technology that was acquired in April 2015.

Ottavio Camponeschi commented on his appointment: “In the past, securing an organisation’s network may have led IT managers and CISOs to spend vast amounts of money on new devices and technologies to prevent a data breach. The reality is that organisations already have the tools at their disposal, but they have not been configured or managed to effectively meet the changing demands of the business.”

He continued: “By working with our channel partners, I am confident that we can deliver not only the right products to market but also services that truly provide actionable insight to make businesses more secure, whilst enabling them to realise greater operational efficiencies and a lower total cost of ownership.”

“Ottavio’s knowledge and extensive experience within the EMEA market is second to none, and we are excited about the skills and market insight that he brings to FireMon,” said Jody Brazil, CEO of FireMon. “Ottavio has a proven track record of delivering strong channel partnerships and executing on sales targets to deliver improved services for our existing customer base as well as enabling new growth opportunities. He is an integral component of FireMon’s continued global growth strategy, and his input will be invaluable to the team.”