Introducing Steve Bray, Verkada’s New Regional Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, and Blake Day, Verkada’s New Head of ASEAN

Organizations across Japan and Asia-Pacific (JAPAC) are continuing to realize the benefits of Verkada's easy-to-use, cloud-based platform to keep their people and places safe. To support our growing footprint of customers, we’re bringing in even more proven leaders to continue accelerating our next phase of growth.

I’m excited to welcome Steve Bray, Regional Vice President for Australia and New Zealand, and Blake Day, Head of ASEAN, to our leadership team here in JAPAC.

Steve brings more than two decades of enterprise technology and SaaS expertise across Australia and New Zealand. With leadership experience from Cloudflare, Zendesk, Salesforce, and Oracle, Bray’s deep relationships across the Australia and New Zealand IT channel and strong track record of scaling go-to-market operations will play a key role in continuing to accelerate Verkada’s growth in the region. Steve will lead go-to-market strategy and operations across Australia and New Zealand from Verkada’s Sydney office.

“Verkada sets a new standard for simplicity and scalability in physical security. As organizations across Australia and New Zealand look for modern, future-proofed solutions to help them keep their people and places safe, Verkada is perfectly positioned to support them and continue growing our presence in the region.”  — Steve Bray, Regional Vice President, Australia and New Zealand at Verkada

Blake joins us from Workday, where he spent more than eight years leading high-performing teams and consistently surpassing sales targets across roles in both the U.S. and Singapore. Over the past three years, he led Workday’s Singapore business, helping to expand the company’s presence and deepen its customer base across the ASEAN region. Blake will lead Verkada’s regional growth efforts from our ASEAN headquarters in Singapore.

“Verkada delivers a category-defining solution that doesn’t just help our customers keep people safe – it also empowers them with real-time insight and visibility into everything from operational efficiencies to compliance. I’m eager to bring this powerful technology to even more organizations across ASEAN.” — Blake Day, Head of ASEAN at Verkada

Blake and Steve join our deep bench of leaders in the Japan and Asia Pacific region at an exciting time for the company. Verkada’s customer base in the region has grown by 60% over the past year and we’ve recently expanded our offices in Sydney and Singapore to support our growing team. We’ve also announced new partnerships with leading integrators and channel partners across the region, including Bluechip Infotech, Focus Digital Security Solutions, Field Solutions Holdings, LG CNS, and Takachiho Koheki. 

I’m excited about what’s ahead for Verkada in JAPAC—and we’re just getting started. Interested in joining us? Check out our open roles in the region.