New EMEA Headquarters

Channel Futures: Arctic Wolf recently announced its new EMEA headquarters in Newcastle. Will that benefit Arctic Wolf’s partners globally? If so, how?

Arctic Wolf’s Bob Skelley: We’ve got a growing presence in Europe … and we opened a security operations center in Frankfurt, Germany, last November. We launched our team in EMEA almost a year ago, and we’ve built up several sales teams, channel support resources, and we’re building security triage expertise and our security operations center (SOC). We’ve brought a lot of resources into the region and so it’s time to put a headquarters there, too.

And for us, this is more about putting some roots down in the market. We wanted to select an area of the region that really gave us access to some great talent. And Newcastle, in particular in the northeast of the U.K., has been really developing the tech talent pool over the last several years. It’s just a great place, especially now with more decentralized workforces than ever before. Newcastle just looks like it’s going to be a great home for us. It’s going to create hundreds of jobs over the next three years in the region, and like I said, it establishes some roots and and gets us in the market. And in terms of the partners, now our partners in the region have a headquarters and a real grounded organization within the market that they that they can engage with.