Ghassan Lababidi is senior vice president of alliances, enablement, and marketing at Koantek, the Databricks-only data and AI firm, where he runs its partner strategy, brand, demand generation, and sales enablement after more than 20 years in partner sales and channel roles at technology companies (Koantek).
From networking hardware to Databricks
Before Koantek he worked in partner sales, channel strategy, and marketing at Databricks, OpenText, Cisco, Trend Micro, 3Com, and Extreme Networks (Koantek). At Koantek he keeps its go-to-market work in step with Databricks, builds alliances with the major cloud providers, and runs the programs that train its own sellers and partners (Koantek). The firm describes him as a leader who mixes strategy with hands-on work (Koantek).