Netsuite Appoints Graeme Burt as Channel Sales Director
Netsuite Appoints Graeme Burt as Channel Sales Director, Asia Pacific And Japan
Former
Salesforce.com, Oracle and SAP Sales Executive to Drive
Channel
Activity across the APJ Region
NetSuite Inc.
(NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based
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financials / ERP
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omnichannel commerce
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software suites, today announced that it has appointed
Graeme Burt as its
Channel Sales Director, Asia Pacific
and Japan (APJ). Based in Sydney, Burt
will be
responsible for establishing best practices and providing
strategic and
operational leadership for NetSuite's
growing channel team across the APJ
region. In this
role, Burt is charged with accelerating channel sales
performance and deepening NetSuite's relationships with
Solution Provider
partners and distributors across the
region. As well, Burt will manage
NetSuite's partner
ecosystem across three sub-regions: Australia/New Zealand,
Asia and Japan.
"The NetSuite Solution Provider
Program is widely recognised as the industry's
leading
cloud channel partner program, so I am extremely proud to be
leading
the channel team across Asia Pacific and Japan,"
Burt said. "Our growing
partner base continues to move
away from outdated on-premise solutions and
embrace
NetSuite's modern cloud-based business management suite. I
am looking
forward to working with our partners across
the region and supporting them in
building success for
our joint customers."
Burt brings more than 25 years of
strategic sales experience across cloud and
other
technology solutions at a number of high-tech companies in
Australia.
Prior to joining NetSuite, Burt was Country
Manager of Enterprise Solutions at
BMC Software. His
previous roles include Commercial Sales Director at
Salesforce.com; Commercial and Channel Director at
Oracle; and Sales Manager,
Small Enterprise at
SAP.
"Graeme has a history of implementing successful
sales strategies throughout
his career," said Lee
Thompson, Senior Vice President and GM, Asia Pacific and
Japan at NetSuite. "We are investing heavily in the
channel in APJ to better
support our partners in the
region. Graeme's exceptional sales leadership
skills
will add significant value to our customers, our partners
and our own
performance as he takes our Solution
Provider Program to the next level."
Launched in 2002, the
NetSuite Solution Provider Program is the industry's
first cloud channel partner program and brings industry
leading margins and
incentives to hundreds of channel
partners. Designed to help solution providers
transform
their business model to fully capitalise on the revenue
growth
opportunity of the NetSuite cloud, the NetSuite
Solution Provider Program
delivers unprecedented
services that begin during recruitment and range from
business planning, sales, marketing and professional
services enablement, to
training and education. For more
information about the program, please visit
http://www.netsuite.com/portal/au/partners/solution-program.shtml.
Today, approximately 24,000 companies and subsidiaries
depend on NetSuite to
run complex, mission-critical
business processes globally in the cloud. Since
its
inception in 1998, NetSuite has established itself as the
leading provider
of enterprise-class cloud
financials/ERP, CRM and omnichannel suites for
mid-sized
organisations, large enterprises and divisions of large
enterprises
seeking to upgrade their antiquated
client/server ERP and other systems.
NetSuite continues
its success in delivering the best cloud ERP/financials
suites to businesses around the world, enabling them to
lower IT costs
significantly while increasing
productivity, as the global adoption of the
cloud is
accelerating.
For more information about NetSuite, please visit www.netsuite.com.au.
ENDS