VIDEO I Tales In Sales featuring Michael Bosnar from Tufin
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In this episode of Tales In Sales, Kaliba's Director Greg Brown speaks with Michael Bosnar, Vice President Asia Pacific and Japan at Tufin, the security policy company.
At Tufin, Michael is responsible for setting and driving the strategy, planning and budgeting, to achieve revenue growth across the whole of the APAC region.
As a highly experienced Vice President of sales with strong success of driving business growth in the Cyber Security market across Asia Pacific and Japan, Michael's focus has been on Enterprise Sales, and a Go-to-market Strategy across APJ supported by Channel engagement.
About Tufin
Tufin is a business that simplifies and automates the security policy management of some of the largest, most complex networks in the world, centralising control across thousands of firewall and network devices and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
About Kaliba
Kaliba is Asia Pacific’s trusted recruitment agency partner for specialist technology, sales and leadership talent. We’ve helped leading tech vendors build out their tech and sales teams across Cyber Security & Networking, CX & Marketing Technology, Fintech & Payments, Data & Analytics, and Application Software, throughout APAC.
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