Down takes helm as Director of Sales for IT Channel, MSPs, VARs

March 2, 2021 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta, the end-to-end ecommerce platform for companies serving digital solutions to local businesses, today announced the appointment of Andrew Down as Director of Sales for IT Channel, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), and Value-added Resellers (VARs).

MSPs and VARs play a key role in supporting business adoption of ecommerce and digital. In his role, Down will spearhead efforts to extend the Vendasta SaaS platform through the execution of a go-to-market strategy for the MSP/VAR space. Businesses are accelerating a move to ecommerce as consumers spent a record $861.12 billion online with U.S. merchants in 2020, up 44 percent year-over-year, according to Digital Commerce 360. Many need the help of information technology and cloud experts, such as MSPs and VARs.

“Vendasta has been growing in the channel since April of 2018,” said Vendasta Chief Customer Officer George Leith. “MarTech agencies, MSPs, and VARs are solving ecommerce end-user challenges and entering cloud marketplaces. Andrew’s experience in building an MSP sales organization over the past few years and his desire to drive this industry to success makes him a perfect leader to grow this important segment for Vendasta.”

“I am extremely excited to be joining the fast-growing team at Vendasta,” Down said. “There is a massive opportunity to help IT companies around the world leverage the Vendasta platform to increase recurring revenue and client satisfaction. After spending more than 10 years in the MSP/VAR space, it is great to be joining an organization on the SaaS and channel side.”

Down is a 13-year veteran in the technology sector. Most recently he worked as partner and vice-president of sales for award-winning Anchor Managed Solutions Ltd., where he oversaw business growth and expansion. His local community work includes volunteering for the Fund Committee for READ Saskatoon and other non-profits in Saskatchewan.

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About Vendasta

Vendasta provides an end-to-end ecommerce platform to 40,000+ partners who sell digital products and services to more than four million small and medium businesses (SMBs) worldwide. These partners include marketing agencies, independent software vendors (ISVs), and media companies.

The Vendasta Platform allows these groups to easily adopt new solutions from a marketplace of cloud-based technologies that they can sell under their own brand to their SMB customers. The platform provides AI-driven marketing automation, sales tools, and an integrated CRM to facilitate go-to-market. It also includes project, orders, and billing management systems to help scale through robotic process automation.

SMBs are provided one login for all solutions purchased under a Vendasta customer’s brand. They enjoy a single integrated dashboard with prescription, context, and tracking. Using the Business App dashboard, SMBs are able to manage the information and solutions that make their businesses successful online.

Vendasta is a SaaS company with a growing team of more than 500 people based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was named one of Canada and North America’s fastest-growing companies for five years in a row.