Randy Schirman
VP Worldwide Sales
Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Randy Schirman has been named Vice President Worldwide Sales at Talari Networks. The search was led by Mark Lonergan.
About Randy
Randy brings more than 25 years of sales and leadership experience, as well as outstanding channel sales strategies to Talari. Prior to joining Talari Randy held a number of positions with Riverbed, including Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels, and was a valued member of the Riverbed leadership team since 2008 where he developed strong alliances with industry giants. Prior to Riverbed, Randy was with Citadel Security Software where he served as Vice President of Sales and played a key role in Citadel’s acquisition by McAffee. Earlier in his career, he spent a number of years with NetScreen Technologies as Vice President of Service Provider Sales, where he built the organization from inception through acquisition by Juniper Networks.
Randy holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University.
About Talari Networks
Talari Networks is improving WAN reliability, capacity and affordability to enable a network that supports the growing demands of mission-critical applications. By aggregating multiple diverse networks into a virtual WAN and continuously adapting traffic based on the availability and real-time quality of the network paths, Talari ensures applications that rely on a WAN are not affected by underlying network issues. Talari’s patented technology delivers significant cost savings over single-provider networks while also increasing reliability and quality. Talari has received numerous industry awards, including Best of Interop–Performance Optimization, Techworld Awards–Networking Application Product of the Year; and named Gartner Cool Vendor, CRN 2013 Emerging Vendors and CRN Data Center 100 List.
Randy’s decision to join Talari is validation of our proven and award-winning patented adaptive private networking technology, and the projected growth and investment in wide area networking, as organizations seek to achieve superior quality with business-critical applications, such as voice, video, cloud, VDI, ERP, mobile, etc. that traverse the corporate WAN. Randy will be vital in helping to expand and enable our reseller base and lead our sales team to new heights, and we’re pleased to welcome Randy to our executive team.
Emerick Woods, CEO, Talari Networks
The traditional WAN is evolving rapidly as critical applications drive demand for increased bandwidth and improved reliability at an affordable cost. Talari’s leading-edge solution allows businesses the ability to integrate low-cost broadband internet links such as DSL and cable modem, which complement or even replace high-cost proprietary MPLS networks to create an intelligent WAN, providing best in class performance with unparalleled ROI. It’s an honor to be part of the team that’s setting the standard by which all future intelligent solutions will be measured.
Randy Schirman, VP Worldwide Sales, Talari Networks