Andy Helder (Andy Elder)

Andy Helder (Andy Elder)

Biography

At early stages of the career Helder worked in 3Com at several positions.

He spent 13 years to Cisco where he held different positions, including was the vice president for global sales of division for sport and entertainments.

Later Helder worked three years in Intellectual Ventures as the executive vice president for global licensing of intellectual property and the rights to inventions.

After that Andy worked in Intel Security where he was a president over the countries of Europe, the Middle East and Africa and was responsible for the strategy of delivery of products and services in 100 countries. In two years of its stay in this position Intel Security became solution provider on security No. 1 in EMEA region.

On March 6, 2017 Riverbed Technology appointed Andy Helder the senior vice president for sales in the countries of Europe, the Middle East and EMEA. He is under direct supervision of Paul Montforda, senior vice president and sales director of Riverbed. Strategy implementation of the company on development and promotion of products and services in EMEA countries belongs to Helder's duties. The command under its management is engaged in development of presence of the company in the region.

Helder released Kristian Thyregod holding a position since January, 2015 from this duty.

"EMEA is the region of huge opportunities. Andy came to our company in very important time when the organizations realize strategy for prioritization of a cloud and digital transformation worldwide and ask in Riverbed for the help in creation of software-defined networks of new generation, – Paul Montford, the senior vice president and the sales director of Riverbed explained. – Andy proved as the good leader with experience of sales and business developments in the different countries of the world. These qualities make him the ideal head aiming at broader adoption of our solutions which provide customers and partners with excellent flexibility of network, end-to-end visibility and excellent performance of a cloud".

"Riverbed is the leader of deliveries of the innovative technologies of new generation, such as SD-WAN (software-defined networks) for a cloud and comprehensive solutions just for show of network functioning, applications and end users, – Andy Helder, the senior vice president of Riverbed for sales in EMEA region noted. For me a great honor to join the talented Riverbed command. Together we will develop business and to achieve results in work with our partners in the countries of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, to deliver industry-leading solutions for a cloud which will accelerate implementation of initiatives of digital transformation for our customers".