CA names new channel chief

Bill Lipsin takes over the channel reins reporting to chief operating officer Michael Christenson. His role will be to drive channel growth and maintain relations with CA's global partner network.

CA has named Bill Lipsin as senior vice president of worldwide channels following the departure of Gary Quinn earlier this year.

Lipsin joined CA in 2005 as senior vice president and general manager for its western region sales organisation. Before joining CA he was president and chief executive of SEEC, an enterprise software and services vendor and has worked at Ironside Technologies and Bay Networks Canada before that.

In his new role Lipsin will report to chief operating officer Michael Christenson.

"Growth in the channel business is a top priority for CA," Christenson said. "We will continue to develop our relationships with channel partners worldwide by empowring them with best-in-class management technologies needed to solve customers' most pressing IT challenges.

"With his experience and proven success on both sides of the channel-vendor relationship, Bill Lipsin will drive the development of these relationships to the next level."

Lipsin said: “I’m very excited about leveraging CA’s technology leadership to extend its channel leadership. As enterprise IT environments become increasingly complex—and as nonstop performance becomes increasingly critical to revenue—the value proposition of CA’s management software becomes increasingly compelling to both channel partners and their customers.”