By Doug Allen

Internet content security company Trend Micro has appointed Stephen Mungall as vice president of U.S. channel sales. Mungall has been tasked with maintaining and improving the companys all-channel marketing strategy for the enterprise and SMB, and will first focus on maximizing existing successful partnerships while hitting aggressive growth goals.

Steves rich experience and proven track record at leading channel organizations makes him a valuable addition to our team, said Tom Miller, executive vice president of U.S. sales and marketing. We look forward to extending our trend 2.0 channel vision of helping protect customers and their data by leveraging virtualization security and cloud computing. Trend Micro is and will continue to be a 100 percent channel-committed company.

Mungall boasts more than 20 years of experience as a channel team leader and salesman. Previously, he held the post of vice president of channel sales at Lenovo, where he oversaw a number of strategic initiatives that helped make the company a global IT player. He also worked at IBM as the vice president of channel sales, leading an initiative to combine the companys internal and external channel groups into a cooperative teaming model that yielded significantly higher revenue growth.

Im delighted to join such a strong channel focused company, said Stephen Mungall. Trend Micro is a credible and consistent friend of the channel. I look forward to continuing Trend Micros strong commitment to the channel and building both stronger relationships with current partners and outreaching to new channel partners.