Cohesity Appoints Matthew Johnston Senior Director of Partner Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan

Cohesity appointed Matthew Johnston senior director of partner sales for Asia Pacific and Japan, where he will lead partner and channel strategy across the region. The appointment was announced by EIN Presswire on October 19, 2026. Johnston reports to Peter Hanna, vice president of sales and general manager for Asia Pacific and Japan.

Johnston's Remit Across Nine APJ Markets

Johnston will oversee partner activity across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the wider ASEAN region, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. His remit includes channel development and new go-to-market partner programmes tied to customer demand for cyber resilience and data security. The appointment comes as Cohesity steps up its focus on its regional partner network through the Cohesity Aspire Partner Programme.

Johnston joins with more than two decades of experience across Asia Pacific. He was most recently chief revenue officer at Odaseva, where he oversaw global sales, marketing, business development, solutions engineering and alliances. Earlier roles included area vice president for ASEAN and Korea at Commvault and general manager of systems management for APJ at Dell Software, along with senior positions at VMware and Quest Software.

"Matthew's appointment reflects our continued commitment to deepening Cohesity's partner ecosystem across one of our fastest-growing global regions," Hanna said. "He brings a rare combination of regional expertise, executive sales leadership and deep channel relationships with our most significant multi-national partners."

Johnston said the role comes at a time of rising concern about data risk and pointed to the impact of newer artificial intelligence workloads. "Data has never been more critical to how organisations operate, and never more exposed to risk," he said.

Cohesity's Partner Programme and Platform Scale

Cohesity is a private, AI-powered data security and management company, according to akta.pro company records. The company reports 12,000+ global customers and nearly 70% of the Global 500, with 200+ exabytes of data protected across the Cohesity Data Cloud platform. Cohesity has 12 funding rounds on record, including a Series H round led by Haveli Investments in December 2024 and a Series G round led by The Carlyle Group the same month.

Earlier Partner Moves in 2026

Cohesity revised its Aspire Global Partner Program in October 2026, expanding rebates and introducing a new Specialization qualification for partners, effective August 1, 2026, Prtimes reported. NEC XON was appointed an accredited Cohesity Technical Support Partner Program Partner in October 2026, authorizing it to resell, deploy, configure and maintain Cohesity NetBackup solutions, according to ITWeb. In September 2026, stc Bahrain and Cohesity partnered at LEAP 2026 to offer national data backup and disaster recovery solutions for Bahrain's public and private sectors, TechAfrica News reported.