GitHub today announced that Sharryn Napier has joined the company as Vice President (VP) of Sales for APAC, as GitHub continues to grow its business in the region.
In addition to providing the overall strategic direction for GitHub across APAC, Sharryn will be responsible for driving business growth and capturing the region’s enormous opportunity by embracing direct and indirect channels to market.
“I am super excited to announce that today I will be joining GitHub as VP of Sales, Asia Pacific (APAC), after a short break enjoying the beautiful Fijian sun and some island downtime! I am really thrilled to be joining such an inspiring global leadership team and to start working with a very talented and successful APAC team as we prepare to embrace the huge opportunity of expansion and growth ahead of us in APAC.“
The APAC region has one of the fastest growing populations of developers in the world. This incredibly vibrant community of developers is key in driving the exponential digital evolution and transformation across organisations large and small, in both public and private sectors,” she said
Sharryn has over 22 years of experience in the IT industry and has held executive positions at several global software companies, including New Relic, Qlik and Serena Software, where she was responsible for driving go-to-market strategy, including channel, consistently resulting in exponential growth across the region. Sharryn is currently based in Sydney, is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and sits on the National Board of the AIIA.
