Maya Zakhour is Channel Sales Director – MEA, Italy and Spain. She joined NetApp as Head of Channel, Distribution and Alliances – Middle East and Africa (MEA) in August 2017. Maya is an accomplished, result-driven sales professional with more than 20 years of channel and sales experience at leading international companies, including B2B high tech enterprises.

In her current role, Maya manages NetApp’s regional Channel, Distribution and Alliances landscape and focuses on growing channel coverage across MEA, Italy and Spain. She not only works on building a strong partner ecosystem in the region but also leads the teams’ efforts in applying partner and pathways strategies. Additionally, Maya focuses on developing the company’s services business through partners as well as overseeing the commercial and velocity business.

Maya has served in several senior positions and supervised major organizational operations with some of the region’s top companies. Prior to joining NetApp, she was Channel Director for the Middle East at Fortinet, Strategic Alliance Manager at Dimension Data as well as Channel Development Manager and Partner Account Manager for UAE at Microsoft.

Maya holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Notre Dame University – Louaize (NDU) in Lebanon.