Jan Hof has 20 years of experience in the networking and communications industry. He has been with Extreme Networks for more than seven years. In his first two years he has helped the company to structure the field product-marketing role in EMEA-SAM.  Resulting in a series of successful product launches that lead to a fast revenue ramp-up of these new products in EMEA-SAM region. 
In his current role as Director Field Marketing EMEA-SAM, he is transferring marketing into a concrete and quantifiable activity closely aligning it with sales activities.

Prior to his current position, Jan was responsible for the Dutch product marketing organization in Alcatel Nederland. In this position he stood on the basis of winning a huge multi-million SDH contract with four main Service Providers [ILEC’s] in Europe. During the implementation of this contract, Jan build and lead the field product marketing organization in Alcatel Nederland. Prior to this position, Jan started his career as a global product manager for AT&T-NSI.

Jan’s experience is centered on the use of LAN and WAN technology in a customer environment. In the past, he has been involved with the design, development and deployment of networks for a variety of applications for especially Wide Area infrastructures including the management aspects. Jan holds a Master degree in Electrical Engineering.