Russell Mitchell is currently EVP, Global Research & Co-Founder of Marker Advisors. Mr. Mitchell has more than 25 years of experience in the enterprise software and financial markets. Prior to Marker Advisors, he was Managing Director of Channel Research at M.S. Howells & Co., an Institutional Brokerage firm. Before that, Mr. Mitchell spent 12 years with executive-level positions building and managing SI, VAR & OEM channels for several ISVs. He has worked in, and has relationships with, numerous global vendor channel ecosystems, including, but not limited to:
A10 Networks
ArcSight
Ariba
Arista Networks
Autonomy
AVG
Barracuda
Blue Coat
Carbon Black
Check Point
Cisco
Citrix
CrowdStrike
CyberArk
Cylance
EMC
F5 Networks
FireEye
Fortinet
Gigamon
Good Technology
HPE
IBM
Imperva
Infoblox
Interwoven
Juniper
Kaspersky
Malwarebytes
McAfee
Microsoft
Mimecast
MobileIron
Novell
Nutanix
Open Text
Oracle
Palo Alto Networks
Proofpoint
Quest Software
Rapid7
Red Hat
Riverbed
SAP
Sailpoint
SentinelOne
SonicWALL
Sophos
Sourcefire
Splunk
Symantec
Tanium
Trend Micro
Vignette
VMware
Websense
Mr. Mitchell sits on numerous ISV Advisory Councils and has developed hundreds of contacts he now leverages to identify emerging trends and sector disruptions. He has advised or participated directly in multiple company acquisitions with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $4 billion.
