Rubrik has announced the appointment of Stefan Compagnoni as Channel Director for Australia and New Zealand.
Compagnoni joins Rubrik following five years at Extreme Networks, where he held a number of channel roles including Head of Channel and Distribution for Australia and New Zealand. His previous experience also includes multiple sales and enablement positions at distributor Arrow ECS ANZ, bringing over a decade of combined experience on both the vendor and distributor sides of the channel.
Rubrik outlined that Compagnoni brings a diverse background, familiarity with the local partner ecosystem, and a focus on developing robust relationships with channel partners across Australia and New Zealand.
Compagnoni stated that several elements influenced his decision to take on the new role at Rubrik, including the company’s cyber recovery solutions and organisational leadership. He detailed his reasons for joining Rubrik, noting the company’s position in key technology sectors and its approach to partner relations.
“What initially appealed to me about Rubrik was its leadership position in increasingly critical technology segments; data security and cyber resilience,” Compagnoni said. “Beyond the capability of its offering, it was clear during my conversations that Rubrik had a great relationship with its channel partners – one built on and defined by mutual trust – and that’s something I’ll be looking to enhance with our partners.”
He went on to stress the importance of trust in fostering successful business partnerships within the channel ecosystem. Drawing on his broad experience, Compagnoni said, “Having worked on the partner-side of the ecosystem, I know first-hand that with trust front-and-centre in the relationship, the world’s your oyster. You can have the best technology or the most demand in the world, but without trust you will not get any traction with partners.”
David Rajkovic, Regional Vice President, Rubrik ANZ, commented on Compagnoni’s appointment, highlighting how his experience aligns with Rubrik’s channel-based strategy.
“As a completely channel-driven organisation, our partners are at the heart of everything we do. Stefan’s appointment reinforces our commitment to strengthening those local relationships and establishing new ones,” Rajkovic said. “We recently launched Agent Rewind to give enterprises the power to reverse mistakes made by agentic AI, offering greater transparency, visibility, and control over changes to applications and data. Agent Rewind is an industry-first and Stefan’s trusted reputation will be instrumental in enabling and guiding our partners, strengthening their capabilities, and driving increased profitability.”
Agent Rewind, which Rubrik noted is due to become generally available in the coming months, is positioned by the company as a solution that helps enterprises address issues arising from agentic AI, providing tools for transparency and better management of data and applications.
The company describes itself as operating at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration, with its Rubrik Security Cloud platform delivering cyber resilience and recovery, including identity resilience, built on secure metadata and a data lake. Additional offerings include Predibase, designed to help secure and deploy generative AI while supporting agentic applications.
Rubrik emphasised that strengthening local partner relationships continues to be a priority and that Compagnoni’s established network and understanding of both the vendor and distributor landscapes will be key to supporting that effort in the Australia and New Zealand region.