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20 Aug 2009
McAfee has tasked its new global channel chief with improving its ease of doing business with partners.
Alex Thurber has joined the anti-virus giant from Cisco in the post of senior vice president of worldwide channel operations.
McAfee indicated that Thurber’s immediate areas of focus would be to improve ease of doing business by implementing infrastructure improvements. He has also been tasked with driving pay-for-performance programmes.
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Before his 10-year stint at Cisco – where he most recently oversaw channel strategy for wireless and emerging technologies – Thurber founded and ran US IT services and consulting firm Thurber Works.
Thurber will report into McAfee’s worldwide sales chief Michael DeCesare, who said: “I am looking to leveraging his 17 years of network and security experience that has given him a deep understanding of what is required to build and grow a value-based channel.”
Thurber said: “McAfee’s commitment to being a world-class channel company and its singular focus on security has proven successful in helping to empower the channel.”
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