Joe Gillett is director of sales for Oceania at KnowBe4 where he is responsible for building and managing sales teams within the region. He has 20 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications sectors managing teams in all sectors from SMB/mid-market/corporate/enterprise and government, across all verticals. Joe previously held sales leadership roles at 5G Networks, Optus and Telstra and was a board member of the Telstra Retail Diversity and inclusion council.

“The people and culture are what attracted me to this sales leadership position at KnowBe4,” said Gillett. “I am also intrinsically driven to support organisations that have a positive social impact, such as the positive security culture transformation that is possible for those to achieve by utilising KnowBe4’s security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. I look forward to building upon the incredible foundation of our partner network and to create more opportunities for others to thrive in the Australia/New Zealand areas.”  

Philip Tnee is senior director of Sales for KnowBe4 North and South Asia where he is responsible for the direct and channel teams, and driving revenue opportunities within the region. He was formerly the Global Business Service Country Head for Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines at TikTok, a leading destination for short-form mobile video. Prior to joining TikTok, Tnee led the Small Medium Businesses team for Asia Pacific at Zendesk, an American customer service software company. He has served as the Head of Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan for Criteo, and led teams at Lazada, Purpleclick. Tnee is also the Co-Founder of three startup companies. 

“KnowBe4 envisions massive potential in the APAC region based on the incredible growth we have already experienced,” said Tnee. “We are pledging steadfast efforts to support that growth, which includes strong leadership to build out our teams to serve our customers and partners with the world-class level of support and service that KnowBe4 is recognised for.”

“Both Philip and Joe make excellent additions to our sales leadership team,” said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4. “They have an array of experience in sales and reputations for success at large companies. I look forward to their contributions to our rapid growth in the APAC region.”  

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