Varonis says Lockley will be responsible for building and managing relationships with partners in the region who can assist its customers in securing their most valuable data, specifically in the government, healthcare and financial services sectors.

Based in Sydney, Lockley joins Varonis from Proofpoint, where he was most recently the Senior Manager, Cloud & MSP for the Asia Pacific region.

Varonis says that in his role with Proofpoint Lockley successfully grew the business, consistently achieving strong year-on-year growth up to 132%.

Prior to Proofpoint, Lockley was a channel account manager at Webroot and a business development representative for Verizon before that.