BlackLine has appointed Claudia Pirko as regional vice president for Australia and New Zealand, based in Sydney.
Pirko joins the company from Qlik, where she served as NSW territory sales manager and commercial and OEM sales director, heavily involved in driving and growing the channel in Australia and New Zealand and establishing the OEM go to market as a strategic pillar of the overall business. Previously she has also worked with SAP, as sales manager in the business intelligence area, and Hyperion Solutions.
Pirko will be responsible for forging the company’s ongoing regional growth strategy and working with partners to accelerate customer acquisitions as well as achieve industry best practice deployment outcomes.
Terry Smagh, senior vice president, BlackLine, said, “Claudia’s extensive sales and partner industry experience combined with her track record of success in working with organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand is highly prized as we continue to support customers in their transition to a Continuous Accounting model.”
BlackLine has more than 150 customers based in the Asia-Pacific region, including ANZ Banking Group, DuluxGroup, Qantas Airways and Tabcorp Holdings in Australia.
“I am very excited to join BlackLine at this time in the company’s growth across the region. I look forward to working with our customers and partners to enable them to fully leverage and optimise the feature functionality of the BlackLine platform to automate, centralise and streamline financial close operations, intercompany accounting processes and other key F&A processes,” Pirko said.
