Essam Ahmed brings more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience and has supported customers across more than 30 countries.
Securonix has announced the appointment of Essam Ahmed as Senior Sales Director for the Middle East and Africa (MEA). In this role, Ahmed will lead regional sales strategy, partner development and customer growth, across the region.
Ahmed will work with CIOs, CISOs and channel partners to help organizations improve detection, investigation and response while maintaining governance and human oversight.
Essam Ahmed Background
Ahmed brings more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience and has supported customers across more than 30 countries. His career includes leadership roles at McAfee, FireEye, and spiderSilk. At FireEye, he led systems engineering across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
He later drove regional revenue growth at LogRhythm and Exabeam. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Global Sales at spiderSilk.
“Customers across MEA are asking for security programs that can keep pace with rapid technology adoption and produce measurable outcomes,” said Cyrille Badeau, Vice President – EMEA at Securonix. “Essam understands the region and has spent his career connecting complex security technology with successful execution. His experience building teams, enabling partners and supporting enterprise and government customers will help Securonix deepen relationships and expand responsibly across the region.”
“Security leaders in the Middle East and Africa are investing in AI and cloud while remaining accountable for resilience, efficiency and control,” said Essam Ahmed, Senior Sales Director, Middle East and Africa, Securonix. “My focus will be on helping customers turn that investment into stronger detection, faster investigation and governed response. Securonix has a strong regional partner community, and I will work closely with that community to translate our platform capabilities into security outcomes customers can measure.”
