Thrive, a provider of NextGen Managed Services, announced channel industry veteran Rick Ribas has been appointed as its Channel Chief.
Ribas is a long-time leader with more than 30 years of entrepreneurial and global channel experience. Before coming to Thrive, Ribas served in senior executive channel roles at Fusion Connect and LogMeIn. Prior to that, he was instrumental in the channel success at Intelisys, rising up through the ranks in multiple roles, receiving several promotions, culminating as the SVP of National Partner Sales and helping to drive a successful exit to ScanSource during his tenure.
Ribas also founded Online Telecommunications, one of the first telecom consulting companies in the country and ran that business as their CEO for nearly a decade. While there, Ribas helped develop the Agent and Commissioning CRM platform, capable of paying more than 1,500 agents per month, before the company was sold to a carrier in 1999 to jump-start its agency program.
As Thive’s Channel Chief, Ribas will amplify the company’s brand and accelerate the growing, feature rich cybersecurity practice by strengthening Thrive’s competitive differentiators and leveraging potential forthcoming disruptive technology.
For more information, thrivenextgen.com.
