Gavin Struthers is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channel Operations at McAfee. In this role he is responsible for worldwide channel strategy and operations.
Everyone loves a good game and the thrill of competing to win. Competition helps inspire two teams to push further and the fans to cheer harder. In business, as in the case of McAfee and Symantec, our rivalry means we create better products, push to stay on top, and help our partners do the same. Read more…
Tags: cyberattacks, Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Security, ePolicy Orchestrator, Gavin Struthers, McAfee Channel, McAfee Channel Partner
If you joined our Q2 Global Channels Webcast, you know the McAfee team is energized and ready to take our partnership to the next level. We have momentum. Our strategy is working and only McAfee can deliver the innovation necessary to respond to customer demands and evolving market dynamics. If you couldn’t attend, please be Read more…
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At RSA today we announced our new Comprehensive Malware Protection. This is yet another, in a long list of announcements that demonstrate the security industry is going through a major transformation. The reason; you can’t adequately protect customers from the volume and sophistication of today’s cyber attacks without an integrated security platform that proactively and Read more…
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Together we (McAfee & our channel partners) achieved a number of significant accomplishments in 2012. And, as we look ahead, I see great opportunities for us to continue to build on our momentum in 2013. If you were one of the 500+ partner employees who tuned into the Q1 2013 Global Channels Webcast on January Read more…
Tags: data center security, intel, McAfee One Time Password, McAfee Partner Portal, McAfee Stack Challenge, McAfeeSECURE, Quarterly Global Channels Webcast, Realtime ePO
Last week I tweeted we had a record Q4 in deal registration bookings. Let me also confirm Q4 was a record quarter for deal registration payout to you, our channel partners. Let’s continue this momentum in 2013. To help jump start this effort, we’re launching the McAfee Stack Challenge—an online Tetris-style game that leverages building Read more…
Tags: Channel Partners, Channel Program, McAfee Channel, mcafee channel chief, McAfee Channel Partner, McAfee Rewards, McAfee Stack Challenge
With a New Year comes renewed focus, and for me that comes in the form of my 2013 New Year’s resolutions. One of my New Year’s resolutions for our global channel partner community is to Transform our partner engagements to strengthen relevancy and drive mutual profitability. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it is the Read more…
Tags: 2013, data center, enterprise, global channel partner, IT Security, McAfee Channel, McAfee Channel, New Year’s resolutions, security, SMB, Webcast
As the year reaches its end, a reminder that McAfee closes the quarter early, hence we urge you and your teams to get all orders to McAfee Distributors early to enable them to submit prior to the published cutoff times. Orders should reach McAfee no later than December 21, 2012 to be assured of processing, Read more…
Tags: Channel Partners, McAfee Rewards
I know, it’s a tired advertising tagline, but I couldn’t resist. Especially when I came away from the Partner Summit in Vegas energized from all the inspiring discussions I had with you, our partners, around how motivated you are after hearing about McAfee’s Security Connected platform and our Partner Connected formula for success. Now is Read more…
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The final day of the 2012 Partner Summit was awesome. When we pulled together the agenda for this year’s event we wanted the partners to leave the event feeling inspired, informed and ready to take action. How did we do? Here’s the Partner Summit survey link if you want to let us know bit.ly/mcafee112
Tags: Global SecurityAlliance Partner Summit, McAfee Partner, McAfee Partner Summit
What an amazing day! Yesterday I talked about being inspired by our partners and the opportunity in front us, today was all about informing our partners. Keep checking this blog for Partner Summit 2012 updates:
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