Extreme Networks Taps Former Juniper Exec To Lead EMEA Sales

Gos Hein van de Wouw, a networking veteran with experience at Cisco and Juniper Networks, is joining Extreme Networks to lead the company’s EMEA sales efforts.

Wireless specialist Extreme Networks is bringing on Gos Hein van de Wouw, Juniper Networks’ former vice president focused on the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, as its new EMEA sales leader.

Van de Wouw, a proven revenue driver and go-to-market leader in the networking and tech industry, has joined as Extreme’s senior vice president of EMEA sales, the company announced on Tuesday. He will report to Norman Rice, Extreme’s executive vice president and chief commercial officer.

Van de Wouw is replacing John Morrison, the company’s EMEA sales leader since 2016.

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Van de Wouw has spent the last four years at Juniper Networks as the company’s EMEA vice president. Prior to that, he spent seven years at NetApp, having most recently served as vice president, globals and strategic accounts for EMEA and APAC for the infrastructure provider. Van de Wouw also spent five years at Cisco Systems.

“Organizations are under pressure to do more with networks that were never designed for today’s scale, speed, or complexity. Extreme’s vision resonates with me, and I’m excited to help customers across EMEA turn complexity into a durable growth advantage through AI-driven innovation and expand Extreme’s footprint across EMEA,” van de Wouw said in a statement on his new role.

Van de Wouw is one of a string of executives that have left Juniper Networks following its acquisition by HPE in 2025.

In April, Juniper Networks’ former vice president of Americas channel sales Hope Galley left to join storage provider Pure Storage. In December, Juniper’s former senior vice president of finance Shelly Gupta jumped to NetApp to take the same position for the infrastructure provider. This month, Steven Savas, Juniper’s then HPE’s vice president of government and education, left the company to join Pure Storage as the vice president of U.S. SLED.

Perhaps in one of the biggest executive shakeups for the newly combined HPE/Juniper was earlier this month when Gordon Mackintosh, who served as Juniper Networks’ channel chief and later named channel leader for the combined HPE/Juniper Networking business unit in July, left the company to pursue external opportunities. He was replaced by Ben Fallon as HPE’s leader of worldwide channel and partner ecosystem networking sales.

In October, Nabil Bukhari, Extreme’s CTO of five years, expanded his role to include “president of AI platforms,” which the company said highlighted Extreme’s focus on AI at the heart of its entire portfolio.