EnterpriseDB (EDB), the global provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and database compatibility solutions, has appointed veteran IT executive, Hesham El Komy to expand the company’s activities in the Middle East and Africa.
El Komy will be the Sales Director, Middle East and Africa at EnterpriseDB and work directly with the Vice President of international sales. Bringing nearly 15 years of enterprise software industry experience, El Komy’s appointment is part of the company’s expansion across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region to raise its profile with enterprises and increase market share.
EDB is also seeking to expand its partner network in core markets across the region. As in other regions where EDB has an active partner network, partners in the Middle East and Africa will provide the company’s services and local support but also develop and deliver integrated solutions. EDB already has distributor relationships in place with Redington Gulf in the UAE and Linux Warehouse in South Africa.
“As more and more companies embrace open source and Postgres for their data center, EDB is expanding to support them. I have worked with EnterpriseDB in the past and no one is better positioned to deliver an open source based solution to enterprise data centers,” said El Komy. “The largest enterprises can spend 35 percent of their IT budgets for databases. Providing the same level of mission-critical performance and stability as traditional solutions, EDB’s Postgres Plus can cut database costs by 80 percent or more.”
“The Middle East and Africa regions are growing in importance for EDB as adoption of Postgres continues to expand worldwide,” said Sandor Klein, Vide President of International Sales at EnterpriseDB. “El Komy has the skills and contacts in the regions that help us raise our brand recognition but also identify the right partners to most benefit end users and support the open source based model.”
El Komy is returning to EDB after a one-year stint at Brocade, where he was regional marketing manager. Before joining EDB, El Komy was a senior marketer and channel partner and alliances manager at Red Hat for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey. He joined Red Hat from Progress Software and had also done a stint at Infor, joining the company through the acquisition of Systems Union Group.
