Our leadership team

Agile, centre-weighted leadership team and inherent structure.

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Jesper Trolle

CEO, Exclusive Networks

Jesper is a vastly accomplished entrepreneurial channel business leader who joined Exclusive Networks as CEO in September 2020. His in-depth knowledge of cyber ecosystems and business acumen were instrumental in the company’s successful IPO, valued at nearly €1.8 billion, in September 2021. In almost 4 years under his leadership, the company’s sales have almost doubled, topping the symbolic 5-billion-euro mark in 2024.

Since starting out in his native Denmark building successful reseller and distribution businesses, Jesper has amassed almost three decades of executive experience and worked around the world at the head of multi-billion-dollar VAD organizations. Prior to joining Exclusive Networks, Jesper was President of the Americas for ECS Arrow.

He holds an MBA from the Henley Business School.

Nathalie Bühnemann

CFO & Operations

Nathalie Bühnemann holds an Audit and Finance degree from ESCP European School of Management (France) and is certified as a public accountant in France (DEC). Since 2018, she has served as Group Chief Financial Officer of Akka Technologies. Since 2020, she has been supervising the overhead structure of the AKKA group and has also been a member of the board of directors of Akka Technologies. She has also served as Akka Technologies’ (i) Group Finance Director from 2016 to 2019, (ii) Head of Corporate Finance from 2015 to 2016, (iii) Head of Group Reporting, Consolidation and Integration from 2014 to 2016 and (iv) Finance Controller from 2013 to 2014. Prior to joining Akka Technologies, she was a Financial Consultant at PwC from 2001 to 2013.

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Laurence Galland

Chief People Officer

Laurence Galland is a HR veteran with over 15 years’ experience, during which she has generated an impressive track record in talent development and business evolution across large international teams. At Exclusive Networks, Laurence is responsible for people development and enabling the human potential of our brightest talent. She creates business value from HR through the application of data-driven strategies and supporting Exclusive’s agile, inclusive and unique business culture: L’Esprit Exclusive.

Paul Eccleston

SVP EMEA

Paul joined Exclusive Networks in 2022 with a proven track record in building and scaling successful channel organisations, driving innovation and accelerating growth, especially around cybersecurity, enterprise software, SaaS and cloud technologies. Through his career Paul has amassed a wealth of channel knowledge and experience having held executive leadership roles at Computacenter, SCC and TechData. He founded Nuvias in 2015, scaling it to a multi hundred-million-dollar business across EMEA in just 5 years.

Jason Beal

SVP Americas

Jason Beal is a global technology channel and go-to-market operations executive with a passion for partnerships and immense pride in working with teams to accomplish the most difficult of goals and customer challenges.

Jason serves as President of Exclusive Networks, Americas. He brings over 20 years of IT channel leadership experience to this role and is focused on continued growth presence in North America to both vendors and channels.

He has held various roles at companies of all sizes in channel leadership, international sales, and operations and services management. Beal has lived and worked in the United States and in Europe for companies including Barracuda, Palo Alto Networks, Ingram Micro, and AvePoint. He is also an adjunct professor for Chapman University’s Executive MBA program.

Andrew Assad

SVP APAC

Andrew Assad joined Exclusive Networks in 2023, bringing tremendous experience in driving innovation and adding value across channels. Over the past 18 years, Andrew has successfully held a number of increasingly senior positions at Arrows ECS, culminating in his role as Managing Director for ANZ. Through his carrier Andrew has demonstrated inspirational leadership in managing high-performance teams and a strong track record in delivering outstanding commercial results.

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