HPE Aruba Networking Names VP Worldwide Channel Sales

In a Monday blog post, HPE Aruba Networking Head of Worldwide Sales Alain Carpentier announced that Lene Skov (pictured) has been named as the new Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales. Skov will report to Carpentier.

Skov will be responsible for building on HPE Aruba’s commitment to its partners by evolving and growing the company’s channel programs with a focus on supplying comprehensive tools and support partners and the channel community need to succeed.

Carpentier called Skov a proven leader with a strong reputation for driving business results.

“During her four-year tenure with Aruba, she has successfully achieved 20 percent growth every year in the European North Region and has doubled the SaaS and NaaS orders in the region year-on-year,” Carpentier wrote in her blog.

Skov has held various positions in the former HP Software business unit and served as Vice President of Cloud and Software Services at Atea before re-joining HPE in 2019.

Her proficiency in change management and transformation – and a rare combination of knowing the business from the end user through the partner perspectives – will enable her to support HPE Aruba’s partners as they strive to help their customers embrace digital transformation, meet changing end-user expectations, find ways to be more efficient, understand emerging AI-based technologies and explore cloud and as a Service business models.