Penkovsky Mikhail

Penkovsky Mikhail

Biography

He began his managerial career in 2001. at Agnitum (known for the Outpost Firewall product), where he was responsible for marketing and sales, he created a commercial function from scratch and made Outpost a well-known niche brand in the category of personal firewalls with an international partner network and a number of technological alliances (later the company was acquired by Yandex).

From 2009 to 2023 - Vice President for Sales of the EMEA Region Veeam Software in - software developer in the field backup of and recovery. During data this time, the company went from a startup turnover of 8 million to dollars a global leader with more than 1.2 billion dollars turnover. At Veeam, Mikhail Penkovsky led a 500-person sales team spread across and, To Europe as well as at Middle East key hubs in and. St. Petersburg Bucharest

2023: Vice President, Sales & Marketing, UserGate

UserGate on October 17, 2023 announced the appointment of Mikhail Penkovsky as vice president of sales and marketing. He is responsible for scaling the company's business, introducing the best world practices in the field of marketing and sales management.

I am glad to become part of the UserGate team - a team of professionals who are passionate about their business. My task, using all my experience, is to lay a strategic business foundation and help sales and marketing departments to unleash all their huge potential as a single body, to bring UserGate to the leaders of the information security market. My experience echoes perfectly both the topic of cybersecurity, thanks to nearly eight years behind the wheel of Agnitum's business with Outpost Firewall, and ambitions to scale and lead over fourteen years at Veeam Software. A successful business is impossible without talented enthusiasts, it is these people who are selected in UserGate and we will continue to invite them to our team, "commented Mikhail Penkovsky.

We, UserGate, do our best to be the best in every area where we work. Mikhail is a great professional, he made a very significant contribution to the growth of Veeam Software. I am sure that this experience will be extremely useful for our development, - said Dmitry Kurashev, Director-Co-Founder of UserGate.

2024: TAdviser interview

Why INFORMATION SECURITY there will soon be 3-5 players on the market, how to develop products for not yet existing cyber threats ones, and why circuit boards and fans of network devices UserGate have a certain color, said Mikhail Penkovsky, vice president of sales to marketing and UserGate. Read more. here