SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 25, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that Tasso Mangas, an industry veteran with a reputation for building successful sales operations in information security, has joined the management team as VP for North America. In his new position, Mr. Mangas is responsible for generating increased revenue in the U.S. and Canada, and will oversee all sales initiatives in these critical markets. He will also be involved in developing expansion strategies that help the company go up against established providers in this dynamic space.
“In order to expand our market footprint, it’s very important for us to bring aboard seasoned executives who understand the evolving nature of the security discipline and customers’ needs accordingly, and Tasso is clearly a leader in that area,” said Allan Thompson, COO of NSFOCUS IB. “He has accumulated extensive experience in a range of technologies encompassing security, networking, application and storage, and he has worked with both startups and established companies to build sales teams that have led the way at gauging market needs and positioning their products and services accordingly. We look forward to having Tasso play a major role in our aggressive expansion strategies.”
Based in New York, Mr. Mangas has worked closely with Silicon Valley innovators since 1999. He was most recently with anti-phishing specialist Agari, where he served as VP, West, for Sales. Before that he spent more than a year at cloud and virtualization security pioneer HyTrust, where he ran all sales operations on the East Coast. Previously, he was on the management team at Altor Networks, which offered the first inline firewall; when the firm was acquired by network management conglomerate Juniper Networks, he was named Managing Director for US Enterprise Security. In that capacity, he managed large US enterprise proposals, and helped register the highest enterprise sales year in the company’s history. He is a graduate of the Economics and Business School at Athens University.
“When looking for my next challenge, I always seek companies with great senior management, good market timing and great product lines, and NSFOCUS IB is exactly the right option on all those counts,” Mr. Mangas noted. “I’m excited to join the team and take these innovative solutions to new target markets.”
