EXCLUSIVE NETWORKS
The Exclusive way Exclusive Networks has grown quickly in the past decade, but, as Rob Tomlin, managing director for UK and Ireland, explains, the company has plans to grow even faster as it capitalises on the opportunities in the marketplace.
It has been a busy 12 months for Rob Tomlin since he stepped into the position of managing director, UK & Ireland at Exclusive Networks. But while it has been hectic, it is a journey that he has enjoyed as he has taken up his role at a time of fast growth in the market and the company. “Frankly, it’s been awesome,” Rob says. “Before I joined Exclusive, I knew it was a great company and had built up a good reputation in the cybersecurity market. But now I’m involved with the company, I know just how good it is.”
be trustworthy and trusted because we’re nearly 300 teammates in the UK. We need that collaboration, we want to be innovative and disrupt the market, disrupt the norm with what we are doing. When someone says we can’t do that, I say, ‘absolutely we can’, because there should never be a no. “We’re also team cultured. They’ve been so welcoming to me. I’m the boss, so you’d hope they would welcome me, but everything we do is about the team. All of that has been a breath of fresh air. It’s exactly what I needed. It’s massively energised me. “The company is also on a growth trajectory and with the potential of the cybersecurity market and where it’s going there is very little that stops us doubling the size of the business again in the next three to five years. It’s very exciting.” NetApp agreement Part of Exclusive Networks’ growth strategy has recently included signing a distributor agreement with NetApp to provide highly secure, data-centric solutions to channel partners in the UK and Ireland. Together, Exclusive Networks and NetApp will enable partners to better protect their customers’ businesses, enhance cybersecurity and deliver secure and resilient digital infrastructure. NetApp’s data infrastructure solutions are a complementary addition to Exclusive Networks’ cybersecurity portfolio. NetApp is now its primary data infrastructure vendor for the UK and Ireland to provide the most secure data infrastructure on the planet.
Rob Tomlin managing director, UK and Ireland
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energising as he has been welcomed into the company and seen its potential for future growth. “For the last decade, Exclusive has quietly gone about its business of building what is now a leader in cyber security and data security for the UK and EMEA markets,” he explains. “Then I reflect on why I’ve enjoyed this past year so much and why the company has been so successful, we have this saying internally, which is we give customers the Exclusive experience and I have had that in my first year. What is that? We put the customer first at all times. And the customer is not just the partner, it’s the vendor, it’s your colleague. We want to be trusted throughout the organisation. “In the world of security, if you’re not trusted, then you’ve got a problem. But we want to be a trusted adviser to our vendors and our partners. And internally, we want all our colleagues to
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We put the customer first at all times. And the customer is not just the partner, it's the vendor, it's your colleague.
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