Code42 Hires Bill Shaheen as Worldwide Sales Senior Vice President

MINNEAPOLIS—Code42, the leader in endpoint data protection and security for the enterprise, today announced that Bill Shaheen, former executive vice president of worldwide sales at SumTotal, has joined the company as its new worldwide sales senior vice president.

In this role, Shaheen will be responsible for driving worldwide growth of Code42’s endpoint backup solutions by expanding the company’s global sales team, refining its sales processes and strengthening its sales training.

“Enterprises around the world are clamoring for the data protection and security capabilities delivered by Code42,” said Joe Payne, president and CEO at Code42. “Bill will help us meet this demand by scaling our global sales team, improving our ability to supply customers with the tools they need to quickly and easily protect, secure and recover end-user data.”

“The opportunity to head global sales at the industry’s leading provider of SaaS endpoint data protection and security was one I simply could not pass up,” said Shaheen. “I look forward to building Code42’s sales talent and optimizing our sales processes, so that our sales team has all the resources it needs to further accelerate Code42’s rapid worldwide growth.”

Shaheen brings to Code42 two decades of software and SaaS sales experience. Prior to joining Code42 Shaheen was executive vice president, worldwide sales at SumTotal, where he was responsible for pre-sales, sales, channel and customer success functions. Shaheen also previously held senior sales leadership positions at Taleo, Oracle and Unicru.