Posted by Tracy Staniland
Eran Farajun, Executive Vice President for Asigra has been named a 2016 Channel Chief by CRN Magazine for the fifth consecutive year. The executives selected to be included in this prestigious list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue for their organizations through channel partners. CRN Channel Chiefs were selected by the CRN editorial team based on channel experience, program innovations, channel-driven revenue, and public support for the importance of IT channel sales.
Farajun oversees the strategic relationships with Asigra’s channel partners who have helped power over 1,000,000 sites worldwide with Asigra Cloud Backup. He has demonstrated leadership and support for cloud service providers through the Asigra Hybrid Partner Program in addition to supporting the launch of an innovative Brand Advocacy Program rewarding partners through gamification for their participation in evangelizing the business benefits of cloud backup within the marketplace as well as contributing to the amplification of the Asigra brand and the partners’ own social status. He has also been instrumental in taking feedback provided by partners about issues in their businesses and taking action to help them resolve those issues through creative approaches that enable the partner to capture more market share, lower overall costs, increase margins, etc.
With duties that include overseeing channel operations, marketing and business development, Farajun has been instrumental in establishing Asigra as a leader in public, private and hybrid cloud-based data protection. His contributions and strategic activities for orchestrating programs designed to grow Asigra’s worldwide partner presence have helped facilitate Asigra’s global expansion.