Barracuda Networks nets Dan McLean as A/NZ country lead 

Barracuda Networks has hired former MyPass Global director of sales and industry partnerships Dan McLean as its country manager for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ). 

In the role, McLean will lead the security vendor’s sales strategy, strengthening and expanding partner and customer relationships and grow its market share throughout A/NZ. 

He comes to Barracuda with over 25 years of IT leadership and consultative experience, including his most recent eight-month stint at MyPass Global. He has also held roles at Amazon Web Services, Radware and VMware, as well as a number of consultant and advisory positions at Emertel, Gen-i, ANZ and Compaq. 

Additionally, he also spent six months as part of a passion project to develop a familiy-owned micro-business after acquiring Crooked Creek Biscuiteer, where he transitioned supply, production and distribution into a modern streamlined micro-enterprise. 

“Dan brings an impressive track record of driving partner relationships and market expansion and building high-performing sales teams in the technology sector,” said Barracuda vice president of international sales Giovanni Goduti. 

“Dan will be instrumental in accelerating Barracuda’s growth in A/NZ and in ensuring we support partners such as managed service providers with advanced products and services that reduce complexity, meet evolving business needs and help our partners to build revenues and grow.” 

McLean added that he will work with partners and customers across A/NZ to “ensure we consistently deliver exceptional value for partners while helping their customers to strengthen their security posture with solutions that are easy to buy, deploy and use”. 

In October last year, Barracuda launched new partner program initiatives, which included its then-new Barracuda Partner Sales Engineer Community program and an expansion to its Partner Success Program.