Cohesity announces slew of senior appointments in Asia Pacific and Japan

Source: Cohesity. Loh.

Cohesity has expanded significantly within the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region with a focus on India, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The company has hired industry veterans to lead those markets and invested in sales, marketing, and engineering resources.

Cohesity simplifies the way companies back up, manage, and extract value from their data. The new leaders are expected to play a key role in empowering customers and partners to embrace a software-defined, modern approach to data management.

Marcus Loh is now CTO and Les Mansour has been named head of channels for APJ. Loh, based in Singapore, joins Cohesity from Veritas Technologies and brings over 27 years of expertise in enterprise technology. As CTO for the company’s Asia Pacific operations, Loh will drive Cohesity's technology strategy in the region.

Mansour joins as Senior Director of Channels, Asia Pacific and Japan. He will lead all channel operations for Cohesity across APJ. His 25-year career with some of the industry’s biggest tech vendors, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, and Quantum, has focused mainly on channels, data storage, and business transformation.

Mansour will be joined by Danny Wan, who will lead Channels for the ASEAN region. Wan previously led channel teams at Symantec, Pure Storage, and Check Point Software and has been instrumental in helping organisations expand in the ASEAN region.

The announcements follows the recent appointments of Sheena Chin as head of Cohesity’s ASEAN business and Steve Coad, who has oversight for Cohesity’s expanding business in Australia and New Zealand.


The company has also appointed Sunil Brid to helm India as well as Linda Hui to lead Cohesity’s business in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Hui is MD of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. She brings more than 25 years of experience in enterprise technology and has been instrumental in helping businesses rapidly grow in this region. Previously, she held senior leadership positions at Ruckus and F5 networks.


Brid will lead operations for Cohesity’s business in India. He brings over 29 years of sales and management experience, having held senior sales leadership positions with EMC and HPE.

This expansion is taking place as demand for Cohesity’s data management solutions continues to rise globally and across Asia Pacific. In the Asia Pacific region, Cohesity’s software bookings have increased by more than 100% when comparing the company’s most recent quarter (FY Q220) with the same time period last year (FY Q219). The number of customers that have deployed Cohesity in the region rose by nearly 250% in the same time period, while the number of active booking partners in the region grew by 190%.

“We are excited to bring on a team of seasoned executives that can help organisations and partners across Asia Pacific embrace a modern approach to data management,” said William Ho, VP of Sales, Asia Pacific, Cohesity.

“Organisations are looking for alternatives to legacy products and want to embrace software that makes it a snap to back up, manage, and extract value from data. That’s what Cohesity provides and these leaders will empower more businesses and partners to embrace our unique platform to accelerate digital transformations.”

Cohesity recently expanded its operations in Pune, India, with plans to hire 100 people within the next 18 months. Since Cohesity's entry into the Asia Pacific region in 2018, the company has established operations in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.