Guy Koster EMEA Sales and Business Development Director, SIOS

SIOS Technology Corp. has appointed Guy Koster as EMEA sales and business development director. 

“The trend for enterprises to transfer critical applications to the cloud is an ongoing, significant opportunity for SIOS, because doing so requires our deep, expert understanding of the complexities around HA and DR in cloud environments. For example, both AWS and Azure have solutions which don’t bridge the hybrid/multi-cloud environment, while our DR and HA solutions provide protection both on premises and across any cloud platforms. I’m looking forward to working with the channel to deliver our solutions to enterprises across EMEA,” he said.

A strong advocate for indirect sales strategies, his most recent role was as a senior director Westcon-Comstor, a global channel distributor of information and communications technology solutions and services, where he led corporate relationships with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. Prior to that, he led the cloud and unified communications sales divisions for EMEA. Under his tenure, Westcon-Comstor won over 25 channel and vendor awards.

He has enjoyed more than 30 years of success in building and leading cross-functional teams in the ICT industry, in both start-up and mature organisations. He has spent more than 20 years in international roles, including senior sales leadership, strategic alliances, go-to-market and strategy development, channel management, program management and product marketing/management roles.

Guy Koster is the latest industry veteran to join SIOS’s senior management team, following the additions of executives Jim Caro (SVP sales), Frank Jablonski (VP marketing), Michael Bilancieri (VP product), Kevin Williams (SVP engineering) and Cassius Rhue (VP customer experience).

SIOS solutions meet growing demand for HA clustering software for critical applications like SQL Server, Oracle and SAP, operating in physical, virtual and cloud environments. SIOS’ new customer business for cloud deployments is growing in excess of 100% Y/Y.