Dean Cunningham is the Senior Director of Partner Sales at Juniper Networks, where he heads up the company’s Partner Channel organization across APAC.

With over 25 years of experience across the networking industry in ANZ and APAC, Dean has held various roles across a broad range of companies within the industry’s ecosystem.

In his role spearheading Juniper’s channel organization across APAC, he is focused on driving the company’s strategic direction of transformation, velocity and growth for the channel, while incorporating a uniquely local and regionally centric lens.

This includes placing a strong emphasis on the enablement of Juniper’s channel ecosystem both internally and externally from a health perspective. This stems from a belief that when your stakeholders are healthy, engaged and switched on – positive business objectives and results will subsequently naturally flow.

Prior to Juniper, Dean last headed up Alliances & Channel Strategy for Veeam Software, as well as having spent time at several service providers, resellers, and vendors. This includes a variety of roles in Sales, Operations, Channel and Alliances at major industry players including Telstra, Polycom and Brocade.

Originally from Sydney, Dean made the move to Singapore over eleven years ago. Married with two teenage children, outside of work Dean tries to combine his love of travel, the outdoors and sport to find uncrowded surfing spots as his getaway.