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Christopher Green, Regional Director, Middle East, Africa and Turkey, Malwarebytes
What would you describe as your most memorable achievement? Well, I did score my first official hat-trick two seasons back, but all joking aside, there’ s been a few sales achievement awards and record quarters over the years, but one thing that I am very proud of is the employee engagement score’ s during my time managing Westcon Group Security Practice, which were always above industry average. We had a fantastic team.
What first made you think of a career in technology? It was never on the horizon after studying Accounting at university, but after returning to the UK from a year out travelling around Australia, finance wasn’ t that appealing. A close family friend suggested I go for a Sales Executive role at Avnet Technology Solutions and my destiny moved away from finance and into IT where I have never looked back.
What style of management philosophy do you employ with your current position? As Channel Director for Malwarebytes, my focus is on building the team across the META region and the philosophy I use is one of flexibility, drive and doing the right things quickly. We will be successful as long as we put the effort in and we will have fun along the way.
What do you think will be the hot technology talking point of 2017? Ransomware continues to evolve and become a serious threat to organisations today. As widespread as the attacks were in 2016, they were largely opportunistic. 2017 will see these attacks increase even further with more deliberate and targeted attacks. Enterprises will need to adopt layered security approach across all endpoints and mobile devices with a comprehensive defence.
How do you deal with stress and unwind outside of the office? A lot of time with the family; our two young sons keep us very busy. I manage a local Amateur Vets football team in Dubai and still get an odd game here and there.
If you could go back and change one career decision, what would it be? I don’ t regret any of the career decisions I have made; both Avnet and Westcon were great companies to work for. Malwarebytes has been superb so far and the future is very bright. There’ s a few situations I think I could of handled better in my early management days, but as long as you learn from them you will always end up in better position.
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