Don Trimble

VP, SME Cloud Subscription Business

Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Don Trimble has been named Vice President of the SME Cloud Subscription Business at Meru Networks. The search was led by Mark Lonergan.

About Don

Most recently, Don served as Vice President of Channel Sales at 8x8, where his programs and the teams he built were responsible for growing the company’s revenues more than 125 percent year-over-year from 2013 to 2014. He was previously senior director of North American channel sales at NComputing, where he built a global channel program; director of Americas channel sales at HP, where he designed, developed and executed comprehensive channel strategies and vice president of North America channel sales at Polycom. He also held senior sales and channel positions at Cisco and 3Com.

Don holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Vermont.

About Meru Networks

Meru Networks (NASDAQ: MERU) is a leader in intelligent 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions delivering uninterrupted user experience for education, healthcare, hospitality and enterprise. The Meru open-standards-based architecture is designed to enable unified management of wired and wireless networks. Its end-to-end application QoS enables enforceable service-level agreements. Meru provides top performance and high capacity in high-density environments.

I am extremely pleased to welcome Don to the Meru exectuive team, where he will bring focus and expertise to the fast-growing subscription market. Don shares our vision for driving Meru’s enterprise-grade Wi-Fi into the SME market through the cloud, and serving this attractive market segment through technical innovation and commitment to channel sales.

Bami Bastani, CEO, Meru Networks

BYOD, Internet of Things and cloud services are increasing the demands on wireless networks and these needs can no longer be served by consumer-grade solutions. I look forward to serving these market needs with Meru’s cloud-managed, enterprise-grade solutions and helping drive the company’s growth through channel partners.

Don Trimble, VP SME Cloud Subscription Business, Meru Networks

Don Trimble is one of the technology world’s most admired Networking Channel experts. Don will have great impact at Meru in creating the world’s first wireless cloud services offering.

Mark Lonergan, Founder & Managing Partner, Lonergan Partners