Netskope Promotes Network Security Veteran Raphaël Bousquet to Lead Worldwide Sales
Netskope, a leader in secure access service edge (SASE), announced the promotion
of Raphaël Bousquet to Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales, leading all
aspects of the company’s global sales and channel strategy. Bousquet succeeds
Chris Andrews, who will retire from Netskope this year as part of a planned
leadership transition.
A networking and security industry veteran and highly-regarded sales leader,
Bousquet has successfully led top-performing technology sales teams at
market-leading companies for decades. As worldwide head of Netskope’s global
sales organization, he will continue to drive customer demand for Netskope’s
industry-leading SASE and zero trust solutions to enable secure cloud
transformations.
Since joining Netskope in 2021 as Senior Vice President, EMEA &
LATAM, Bousquet has delivered strong leadership and exceptional execution,
which has led to numerous achievements for Netskope and its EMEA and LATAM
territories. This includes expanding the company’s footprint across the
regions, recruiting top talent, and landing world-renowned brands in financial
services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, government, and other industries
as Netskope customers. Prior to joining Netskope, Bousquet successfully served
as Vice President, EMEA South, Israel & Alps at Palo Alto Networks, growing
territory revenue more than 600% in a five-year period. Before that, he held
various international management roles at Cisco.
“Raphaël’s deep industry experience, passion for winning, and the
extensive accomplishments he’s already achieved at Netskope make him the
unanimous choice of the company’s executive team and board of directors to take
the sales leadership reins and drive this next era of our growth,” said Dave
Peranich, President, Go-to-Market, Netskope. “As we make a graceful sales
leadership transition, the entire Netskope team salutes Chris Andrews for
everything he has helped us achieve over the past decade – including scaling to
the several-hundred-million-dollar market leader we are today.”
“Chris’ achievements go hand-in-hand with Netskope’s biggest milestones,
and we thank him for his leadership and determinationover a long, impressive
run that spans nearly the entire history of Netskope sales to date,” said
Sanjay Beri, CEO and Co-Founder, Netskope. “He helped lay the foundation for
our continued success and will always be part of Netskope’s legacy. We wish him
the very best in retirement, and well-earned time to focus on family and
personal pursuits. Here’s to you, Chris!”
Andrews joined Netskope in 2014 after many years in executive sales,
professional services, and support positions at Infoblox, Fortinet, Juniper,
Netscreen, and other organizations. Under his sales leadership at Netskope, the
company:
- Earned the trust of enterprise security and
networking buyers in the most discerning industries across the world,
including over 30 of the Fortune 100 as customers today.
- Helped define, and has continued to dominate,
next-generation market categories such as Cloud Access Security Broker
(CASB), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA),
Security Service Edge (SSE), and SASE.
- Developed numerous successful go-to-market
partnerships, including with major global systems integrators and managed
services providers such as BT, Deloitte, Orange, Telefónica, Telstra,
and Wipro, and
critical alliance partners such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google,
Okta, Mimecast, CrowdStrike, and more.
- Expanded and deepened its public sector business
worldwide, including, most recently, achieving FedRamp High authorization in
the United States.
- Received countless accolades and industry awards,
including a steady climb up the
influential Forbes Cloud 100 list over seven years and
counting.
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