Cloud-based physical security company Verkada has appointed Steve Bray as regional vice president for Australia and New Zealand and Blake Day joins as head of ASEAN.
Bray will lead go-to-market strategy and operations from Verkada’s Sydney office, while Day will oversee regional growth and execution from Verkada’s ASEAN headquarters in Singapore.
Bray brings over two decades of enterprise technology and SaaS expertise across Australia and New Zealand, having worked at Cloudflare, Zendesk, Salesforce, and Oracle. His deep relationships across the Australian and New Zealand IT channels and strong track record of scaling go-to-market operations will play a key role in continuing to accelerate Verkada’s growth in the region.
Day joins Verkada from Workday, where he spent more than eight years leading high-performing teams and consistently surpassing sales targets across roles in the US and Singapore. Over the past three years, he led Workday’s Singapore business, helping to expand the company’s presence and deepen its customer base across the ASEAN region.
“The addition of proven leaders like Steve and Blake to our team underscores our deep commitment to these fast-growing markets and the opportunity ahead of our team as we make even more communities across the world safer,” said Verkada Chief Revenue Officer Eric Salava.
Bray and Day join Verkada’s deep bench of leaders in the Japan and Asia Pacific region at an exciting time for the company. Verkada’s customer base in the region has grown by 60% over the past year, and the company recently expanded its offices in Sydney and Singapore to support its growing team. Verkada also announced new partnerships with leading integrators and channel partners across the region, including Bluechip Infotech, Focus Digital Security Solutions, Field Solutions Holdings, LG CNS, and Takachiho Koheki.
