Executive Hire to Scale U.K. Business and Accelerate Growth for Channel Partners and MSPs in Region

OXFORD, U.K. — November 12, 2024 —

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced the appointment of Andy Travers as regional vice president for EMEA North to further accelerate the growth of Sophos’ portfolio of cybersecurity services and products in the region.

Travers will drive growth through strengtheningexisting relationships and creating new opportunities with Sophos’ already strong customer base of more than 600,000 organizations worldwide. Travers will work closely with Sophos’ Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to ensure that customers are equipped with the right security solutions to combat cyber threats, such as ransomware, data breaches and other persistent cyberattacks.

Prior to joining Sophos, Travers was chief revenue officer (CRO) at OSF Digital, where he worked to grow revenue streams and maximise profitability. Prior to that, he led sales organizations at Exclusive Networks, Juniper Networks, F5, and Fortinet. Travers has extensive experience developing sales strategies and operations for customers ranging from small and medium-sized businesses to some of the largest telecommunication firms in multiple geographic regions.

Leaning on his 25 years’ experience, Andy will be focused on driving revenue growth for partners and MSPs, prioritising Sophos’ complete portfolio of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services and endpoint, network, email, and cloud security. Sophos solutions work within the Sophos Central management platform, which also enables partners and MSPs to streamline operations for customers and easily handle upgrades, renewals and much more.

"I’m thrilled to join Sophos at such an exciting stage of its growth," said Andy Travers, regional vice president EMEA North. "With its outstanding reputation for innovation in cybersecurity technology and managed security services, Sophos is at the forefront of helping businesses protect themselves from ransomware, data breaches, and other high-risk cyber threats that could have devastating impacts. I will be collaborating closely with our channel partners, MSPs and global teams to accelerate revenue growth in the region."

Gerard Allison, senior vice president EMEA, Sophos, added: “Andy’s appointment is another demonstration of our commitment to a channel first approach. The best way to strengthen our MSP and channel partner relationships at the mid-market level is to ensure that partner organizations have the best resources at hand when it comes to defeating cyberattacks, which is what Andy will lead on. I’m really excited to have Andy on board to maximize his experience and expertise to further Sophos’ growth in EMEA North.”

About Sophos

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.