Mimecast Appoints Channel Director for Middle East and Africa

Dubai, UAE - December 13, 2016 - Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading e-mail and information safety and security company, today revealed an executive appointment to reinforce its leadership group. Jason Roos joins Mimecast from Dimension Information, as the new Channel Director and will lead the channel teams in Middle East and Africa.

" Our channel companions play an important duty in just how we sustain our customers and broaden our business right into brand-new verticals and markets," commented Brandon Bekker, Managing Director of Mimecast Middle East and Africa. "Having Jason on-board will strengthen our existing network relationships and develop new collaborations across the Middle East and Africa. Particularly as organizations remain to migrate their on-premise e-mail environments to shadow services like Office 365 .".

Jason brings 12 years of experience in the ICT industry, leading high-impact sales teams throughout the country, across all verticals. He will certainly handle all partner and partnership based engagements, and is entrusted with establishing a renewed, energised channel program. In his previous role as Executive of Sales at Internet Solutions, he took care of 13 sales teams across SME, Network, Mid-Market and Enterprise accounts and held several sales leadership roles. Jason also invested 3 years in New york city working in the Cisco channel with a Cisco Gold partner excitement

On joining Mimecast, Jason states: "The destination and excitementfor me remains in the proficiency, range and reach that Mimecast offers customers. Our credibility, solid advertising and marketing presence and legendary customer-centric solution distribution, will makes it possible for an already robust partner program. Inevitably we will capitalise on the solid opportunity that exists in the MEA region, for both Mimecast and our Partner community, around e-mail protection, archiving and continuity.".