Management Team
Amir Kanaan
Amir Kanaan
Amir is the Managing Director for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Kaspersky. In his new role, Amir is responsible for strengthening Kaspersky’s leadership in the region by strategically promoting the company’s vision of spreading cybersecurity awareness on a national level. While also promoting Kaspersky’s award winning business and consumer products as well as the company’s Threat Intelligence services.
Amir previously held the General Manager position for the Middle East at Kaspersky from 2016 to 2018; in which he played a vital role in positioning Kaspersky as a market leader in its industry and have contributed greatly to the company’s growth in the region.
Amir has more than 17 years of managerial and sales experience in the field of IT Security. He subsequently headed sales departments in large IT companies such as Emirates Computers, Trend Micro and Bluecoat. Amir holds a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
Samer Malak
Samer Malak
Samer Malak heads the channel business for Kaspersky in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region. He is responsible for strengthening Kaspersky’s channel operations across the region , working with channel partners to help support their end users to manage their Cybersecurity strategies with next generation solutions.
Samer has more than 18-years of IT experience and has worked across different market ecosystems in multiple capacities covering cybersecurity, end-users computing, as well as cloud computing. Samer has previous experience working for Citrix, Symantec, McAfee and Cisco.