Infoblox announced that Bill McCarthy has joined as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. McCarthy will be reporting to Infoblox President and Chief Executive Officer Jesper Andersen. In his new role, McCarthy will drive the company’s worldwide sales, support and professional services functions to accelerate growth and extend Infoblox industry leadership beyond DNS, DHCP, and IP address management into security, cloud and analytics.
McCarthy joins Infoblox from Cisco, where he was Area Vice President for the Americas in Cisco’s Service Provider business. McCarthy was responsible for growing revenue and market share in the fields of mobility, web services, social media, gaming as well as media and broadcasting.
Prior to that McCarthy served as Director of Sales operations in the US Service Provider organisation, resulting in growth fueled by strategic partnerships and strong executive customer relationships. McCarthy also held other sales roles including Vice President of North American Sales for Inktomi, Vice President of Global Sales Operations at Cosine Communications, and Vice President of Sales at Anixter.
McCarthy also serves as an independent board member for Zift Solutions, a provider of channel management and marketing solutions and as an Advisory Board Member for Bull City Ventures based in Durham, North Carolina.