HYCU, Inc., a leader for modern data protection for
on-prem, cloud services, and SaaS, and one of the fastest growing companies in
the industry, announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Chris Nelson, Vice President, Global Sales and Business
Development, to the prestigious 2025 CRN Channel Chiefs list, which
recognizes the IT vendor and distribution executives who are driving strategy
and setting the channel agenda for their companies.
Chris Nelson
has been instrumental in driving sales and establishing a foundation for future
success with strategic technology, alliance, and channel partners. Nelson has
extensive experience in the data protection, disaster recovery, and multi-cloud
industries capitalizing on high-velocity, transactional sales to align with
HYCU's ambitious growth targets.
"This is a
tremendous recognition for Chris and his leadership skills. In a short-time
since joining HYCU, he has made a significant impact in laying the groundwork
for future growth," said Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO, HYCU. "Chris provides a
balanced approach to leading sales and aligning our strategic channel partners
with the services and support they need to be successful in delivering for
their customers. At a moment in time when IT continues to be faced with
outages, disruptions, the threat of ransomware, and malicious actors, it is
critical that our partners have the right solutions in place to protect and
recover data no matter what happens and no matter what IT environment they are
using, from on-prem to cloud to SaaS. Today, there are still too many
unprotected SaaS applications in use across IT, and we all need to work
together to make sure that whenever a customer or a partner's customer faces a
disruption, they can be back up and running in minutes, not hours, or days.
Congratulations Chris, this is so well deserved. All of us at HYCU are
thrilled."
The Channel
Chiefs list, released annually by CRN, showcases the top leaders throughout the
IT channel ecosystem who work tirelessly to ensure mutual success with their
partners and customers.
"This year's
honorees exemplify dedication, innovation, and leadership that supports
solution provider success and fosters growth across the channel," said Jennifer
Follett, VP, U.S. Content, and Executive Editor, CRN, at The Channel Company.
"Each of these exceptional leaders has made a lasting channel impact by
championing partnerships and designing creative strategies that get results.
They've set a high bar in the channel, and we're thrilled to recognize their
standout achievements."
Chris Nelson
added, "It's always great to see the external recognition of HYCU's growth and
our dedication to the channel community around the world. Our Channel partners
reinforce the need to solve customer challenges they face with legacy data
protection solutions. The lack of true functionality to manage on-prem
solutions, virtual and physical, but that also extend to native public cloud
and most importantly the massive growth SaaS data protection needs is critical.
We are committed to our global channel, and we are focused on enabling our
strategic alliances and partners throughout the coming year."