The Melbourne-based Goreux is responsible for driving Australian and New Zealand business development and growth for Talend, including the company’s cloud offering into strategic and enterprise markets.

Talend says Goreux has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, both in Europe and Australia, where he developed deep expertise in SaaS, Data, and Artificial Intelligence

Before joining Talend, Goreux served as APAC Account Director at Sisense, where he grew the company’s analytic apps solutions into strategic industries across the region.

Previously, Goreux held senior sales leadership roles at Microsoft over a period of 12 years, and has held roles at Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Ariba.

"Ben has broad experience in data and cloud technology solutions involving large and demanding digital transformation projects," said Mark Fazackerley, Regional Vice President ANZ at Talend.

"The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the need for organisations to be able to rely on trusted data to maintain their business-as-usual operations and execute on their digital transformation projects. Ben's focus, together with his experience and expertise, will be to accelerate the overall growth of our regional revenue based on engagement with enterprise and strategic clients, maintaining and enhancing customer and partner satisfaction, and attracting and keeping the best talent."

“Joining Talend at this time is full of opportunities, both in the development of new data-driven strategies for organisations and in strengthening leading collaboration with our strategic partners,” said Goreux.

“I'm excited to be joining Talend as the company’s highly strategic team in place in Australia has already proven its value and our growth potential is driving expansion plans."