Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We speak with Craig Patterson, Senior Vice President of Global Channels at Aryaka Networks, where he leads the company's channel strategy worldwide, enabling alignment across partner sales and marketing teams and programs in North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC).
Patterson joined Aryaka Networks as Channel Chief and Vice President of Sales - Americas in September 2021 where he led go-to-market strategies within the agent, reseller and distribution channels in North America, including the launch of the Aryaka Accelerate Global Partner Program. Prior to Aryaka, Patterson was the West Division Vice President for Lumen's indirect channel. In this role, he led all sales and revenue strategy for a $1 billion organization within the Lumen Channel Partner Program and managed more than 100 sales professionals. Before joining Lumen, Patterson was a founding member of the Level 3 Channel Partner Program, where he grew revenue from $0 to $500 million over 15 years
Aryaka has an increasing focus on channels in the APAC region with a commitment and investment in the region in terms of expanding the Aryaka team and partner recruitment. Aryaka have recently hired two senior additions to the team in Hong Kong and Singapore, to gain increased traction in the regional with partners and customers. Aryaka as an organization are doubling down on the SASE market with their partners in APAC
Recorded by MySecurity Media as media partners to the Canalys APAC Forum, Bali, 2-4 December 2024. #pax8 #mysecuritytv #canalys
We speak with Craig Patterson, Senior Vice President of Global Channels at Aryaka Networks, where he leads the company's channel strategy worldwide, enabling alignment across partner sales and marketing teams and programs in North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC).
Patterson joined Aryaka Networks as Channel Chief and Vice President of Sales - Americas in September 2021 where he led go-to-market strategies within the agent, reseller and distribution channels in North America, including the launch of the Aryaka Accelerate Global Partner Program. Prior to Aryaka, Patterson was the West Division Vice President for Lumen's indirect channel. In this role, he led all sales and revenue strategy for a $1 billion organization within the Lumen Channel Partner Program and managed more than 100 sales professionals. Before joining Lumen, Patterson was a founding member of the Level 3 Channel Partner Program, where he grew revenue from $0 to $500 million over 15 years
Aryaka has an increasing focus on channels in the APAC region with a commitment and investment in the region in terms of expanding the Aryaka team and partner recruitment. Aryaka have recently hired two senior additions to the team in Hong Kong and Singapore, to gain increased traction in the regional with partners and customers. Aryaka as an organization are doubling down on the SASE market with their partners in APAC
Recorded by MySecurity Media as media partners to the Canalys APAC Forum, Bali, 2-4 December 2024. #pax8 #mysecuritytv #canalys
