ConnectWise has announced the appointments of Prakash Talreja as executive vice president of engineering and Russell Humphries of executive vice president of product management. The addition of Talreja and Humphries is a significant step forward in strengthening the ConnectWise leadership team, aligning product and engineering under proven, visionary leaders to accelerate innovation, drive operational excellence and deliver even greater value to our partners and community.

Prakash Talreja joins ConnectWise as executive vice president of engineering. With more than 20 years of experience and a proven track record of leading large, distributed engineering teams, Talreja brings a rare combination of hands-on technical depth and a platform-first mindset. As former vice president of engineering at Mimecast, his background includes building mission-critical, transactional systems on modern cloud architectures — skills that are essential as ConnectWise continues to scale and optimize the Asio platform. Before that, he was a distinguished engineer at Sophos.

In this role, Talreja will play a pivotal part in driving product execution and platform strategy to ensure ConnectWise is delivering with quality, efficiency and innovation. He will lead the continued buildout of the Asio platform, guide technology strategy and help evolve engineering processes and standards enterprise-wide, including Data Protection.

Russell Humphries will join ConnectWise as executive vice president of product management, overseeing ConnectWise's Security and Data Protection portfolios. A former vice president of product at Sophos, Humphries is a seasoned product leader with a strong track record of delivering category-defining solutions. He brings deep domain expertise, a sharp understanding of market dynamics and a passion for building products that truly resonate with partners and customers.

In this new role at ConnectWise, Humphries will be responsible for shaping and driving ConnectWise's end-to-end product strategy across Security and Data Protection. He will partner closely with engineering leadership and product management teams to ensure alignment on execution, delivery and the overall partner and customer experience. Humphries' leadership will be instrumental in helping ConnectWise scale with intention, deepen market impact and deliver exceptional value across our platform.

"I am excited to welcome Prakash and Russell to the ConnectWise team," said Manny Rivelo, CEO, ConnectWise. "With their extensive expertise and leadership experience, they bring valuable skills to the team. I look forward to working with them both as we continue to deliver industry-leading products and expand the Asio platform for our partners and the MSP community."