Matt Maw has been appointed to head up the channel in Australia and New Zealand to replace David Gage, who left Nutanix earlier this month after close to two years in the role.

Prior to the channel role, Maw held the head of technology position for ANZ at Nutanix in Brisbane.

Maw will report to Nutanix Asia-Pacific and Japan president of partner sales, Mike Magura, and oversee partner promotion of the company's products.

He has been with Nutanix since August 2020 and joined the company from VMware, where he was the solution engineering senior manager.

Maw's career spans more than 20 years, spanning several areas of IT infrastructure provision and management.