Zixi appoints new head of sales

In this role, Mellish will lead Zixi’s global revenue growth strategy, with responsibility for new business development, renewals, and expansion across all regions and customer segments. She will focus on building, coaching, and scaling a high-performing global sales organisation, while implementing strong, repeatable sales processes and forecasting metrics.

Marc Alrich, CEO of Zixi, said: “Heather joins Zixi at a pivotal moment in our growth. She brings a rare combination of deep domain expertise in cloud, edge, and media infrastructure, along with a proven ability to scale global sales and partner ecosystems. Her leadership will be instrumental as we continue to strengthen Zixi’s position in the market. I’m thrilled to welcome her to the team.”

Mellish brings more than two decades of experience leading sales, partner ecosystems, and go-to-market strategy in the cloud and data-infrastructure space. Most recently, she served as VP of partner sales at Hydrolix, a data observability startup. Prior to Hydrolix, Mellish spent over six years at Amazon Web Services.