Kaspersky Lab North America Promotes Mike Canavan to Vice President, Sales Engineering
Woburn, MA – April 24, 2015 –Kaspersky Lab North America announced today the promotion of Mike Canavan to the position of Vice President, Sales Engineering. In this role, Mike will oversee all pre-sales systems engineering activities in the region, including North America B2B sales product training which includes a standardized onboarding initiative for the sales team as a whole, guiding senior sales management regarding technology and solutions, and acting as a solution evangelist for North America B2B sales both internally and externally. Mike will report to Mike Parise, Senior Vice President, Corporate Sales.
Prior to the promotion, Mike served as Senior Director, Systems Engineering. Since joining Kaspersky Lab in May 2010, Mike has grown the Systems Engineering (SE) team over 300 percent in size. He first introduced role specialization in the SE team structure and built the first iterations of technical feedback into R&D from North America.
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Mike Parise, SVP, Corporate Sales
Kaspersky Lab North America
“Throughout his tenure, Mike has proven time and again that he is a valuable member of the team, helping to drive sales with his technological expertise. Mike has consistently been the go-to person in the North American Sales organization for any liaison with technical organizations at Kaspersky Lab. He continues to spearhead efforts to assess North America’s opportunity to exploit Kaspersky’s technical superiority in a variety of markets and channels. It’s with great pleasure that I congratulate Mike on his promotion.”
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