NUREMBERG, Germany, Feb. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SUSE® today announced the appointment of three senior executives as the company continues to evolve and expand its leadership structure to support rapid growth and momentum in both its core Linux operating system business and more recent cloud infrastructure and storage solutions. Ronald de Jong, previously vice president of EMEA sales for SUSE, has been named president of sales. Michael Miller, previously SUSE vice president of global alliances and marketing, is now president of strategy, alliances and marketing. And Ralf Flaxa is now president of global engineering for SUSE, promoted from vice president of engineering. The appointments were effective Feb. 1.
"These senior executive roles are critical to the global expansion of our business," said Nils Brauckmann, CEO of SUSE. "As we continue to grow both our organization and our solution portfolio to meet the increasing demand from customers around the world, we also need to increase the depth and breadth of our executive leadership team."
Responsibilities of these new SUSE executive roles include:
Al Gillen, group vice president for Enterprise Infrastructure at IDC, said, "The Linux market continues to grow as the foundation for a much larger open source deployment ecosystem within enterprise data centers and at service providers offering public cloud services. Customers need to have strong infrastructure software providers, and SUSE's continued investment in staff and executive resources is a positive indicator of the company's dedication to supporting its clients and growing the open source software market."
The three executives report to Brauckmann, who was promoted to CEO of SUSE in December 2015 and joined the board of directors of Micro Focus International plc on Feb. 1, 2016.
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