Wasabi Technologies recently expanded its executive team in the Asia Pacific region with the appointment of Aki Wakimoto and Andrew Sandes as country managers for Japan and Australia.
Under their new roles, Wakimoto and Sandes will be tasked with growing Wasabi’s customer and partner networks to help fulfill accelerating demand for affordable cloud storage in the region, according to an Aug. 2 Business Wire release.
“APAC is quickly becoming one of Wasabi’s most important markets, and we are strategically building our operations to support the incredible opportunities in both Japan and Australia,” Michael King, vice president, general manager of APAC, said in the release. “I have witnessed firsthand how successful Aki and Andrew have been in their markets, building optimized channels of distribution and driving customer success. They will take us to the next level.”
Specializing in data storage under varying challenging customer backups, disaster and ransomware recovery, archiving, video surveillance, sports data, media and entertainment files, the company has now expanded its services in more than 100 countries, according to Business Wire.