With more than 20 years of industry experience and an impressive track record building high-performing SMB sales and marketing teams, Fred will be a valuable asset to our AVG Business team as we accelerate our business to effectively support our channel partners and their SMB customers, in 2016 and beyond.

Through Fred’s vision and direction, we will offer more flexibility, more value and more ways for our partners and their clients to succeed. A core part of this will be building strong relationships with our channel partners and providing a full suite of managed services and security solutions, with simplicity in mind, and with the business, marketing and technical training to deliver excellent service for their SMB customers.

In this role, Fred will be drawing on his extensive channel, solutions selling, cloud computing and managed service experience, while working closely with our partners to respond to their challenges and equip them for success.

Before joining AVG, Fred spent eight years at Cisco Systems, where he held roles as Director of Partner Organization & Commercial Business in the Netherlands and Northern Europe. He has also had leadership positions at Copaco, one of the largest ICT distributors in the Netherlands, and Compaq Computers.

We wish Fred a warm welcome as we continue to stay strong behind our vision and strategy of being the Online Security Company offering integrated and easy-to-use security services for our channel partners and their SMB customers, with the reassurance that their applications and data are protected on any devices anytime, anywhere.

We look forward to sharing updates as we head into this exciting next phase together.