Our Team
Leadership Team
Global Teams
USA & NORTH AMERICA
Dave Burns
VP Strategic Alliance
Dave has worked creating and developing ecosystem partner solution integrations and go-to-market strategies with large Global System Integrators, Reseller Channels and worldwide Technology Partners over the past 28 years. Dave has developed multiple best breed practices on how ecosystem partnerships leverage joint integrated solutions with innovative Marketing and Solution selling techniques.
Derek Burke
Support and Solutions Engineer
Derek holds multiple certifications in Networking, Security, and Linux. He is constantly pursuing new skills and knowledge and enjoys communicating and sharing ideas. Derek can clearly articulate and communicate complex ideas and vision for a product. A primary goal of his is to help make technical concepts accessible to a wider audience.
Omar Abdulrahman
VP Sales Engineering
Omar comes with expert level experience in opening up new sales markets, introducing new products and delivering compelling, highly technical customer engagements in the field. In his role as VP Sales Engineering, Omar will lead the Americas sales covering Tier 1 -2 mobile carriers and MSOs. He focuses on building relationships.
EMEA
Hakan Holmgren
Executive VP Global Sales
Håkan Holmgren, based in Sweden, has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT industries. Hakan has held positions and gained experience at Ixia Technologies (nowadays Keysight) and Polystar as well as other privately owned companies. Hakan is responsible for managing the business relationship with a few selected key accounts.
Björn De Jong
Channel Manager EMEA
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Björn has over 20 years of experience in the industry, mostly in sales. As Cubro’s Channel Manager EMEA, Björn is responsible for sales and project management for channel partners in EMEA. He has successfully created and sustained new sales and established excellent rapport with channel partners.
Manfred Lang
VP Sales EMEA
Manfred Lang brings 30 years of sales and sales leadership experience within networking, which spans software, hardware and cloud solutions. He has a proven track record of building and scaling sales organizations at industry leaders. Manfred has extensive experience leading teams that serve customers across enterprise, government and telco/service provider segments.
UK & IRELAND
Paul Brett
Director UK & Ireland
Paul is an industry veteran with 30 years of experience in the IT networking and security industry. In the past, he has held leadership roles to successfully grow businesses in the UK and internationally for both major corporations and start-up businesses, including HP and Newbridge Networks. Paul has extensive experience working with both Service Providers and Enterprises.
APAC
Joe Lim
VP Sales APAC
Joe has over 20 years of OSS/BSS Sales and Solutions experience in the industry. He is responsible for driving Cubro Network Packet Broker solutions in Enterprise Strategy, OEM/Joint Technology Alliances partnership/offering and Channel Sales in APAC. He brings extensive expertise in the telecom market environment - fixed and mobile.
Markku Takala
Architect
Markku Takala is a high calibre Architect with a strong experience in programming, consultation and solution selling for over 30 years. He has excellent knowledge of the technologies such as AI / ML, storage and virtualisation. Before joining Cubro, Markku worked at Nokia for 25 years in several countries and positions. He has a thorough understanding of Telecom Infrastructure especially in the OSS domain.
JAPAN
Koichi Masuda
Japan Country Manager
Koichi has over 20-years of experience in the network and security monitoring and testing market as sales engineer and marketing specialist. He has a long track record of the network monitoring and testing industry in Japan. As Japan’s country manager, Koichi is responsible for expanding the Cubro market in Japan.
Tomo Suenaga
Japan Solutions Engineer
Tomo has over 10-years of experience in fault-tolerant server solution as a development engineer using C language and UNIX environment. Tomo also has several years of experience in many types of network device deployment with high redundancy. As Cubro Japan solution engineer, Tomo is responsible for solving customer issues and supporting customer success with specialized product knowledge.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Franz Bauer
Project Management - Monitoring & Probing
“With my extensive experience in telecom and probing, I look forward to involving with the nitty-gritties of the telecom sector and solving technical challenges that arise within the field.”
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
Tamanna Bhatia
Marketing & Communications Manager
“Telling stories and communicating our brand values is my passion.”
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