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Tech Edge hosted a fireside chat on at Pax8 Beyond 2026 in Salt Lake City with Oguo Atuanya, Corporate Vice President of Vendor Experience at Pax8, and Daniel Danielli, Vice President of Global Scale Partnerships at CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD). The in-person interview was joined by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone and they discussed why AI is accelerating both SMBs growth and cyber threats, making AI-powered security, managed service providers, and platforms like CrowdStrike essential for businesses to safely adopt agentic AI while staying ahead of increasingly sophisticated attacks.
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About Oguo Atuanya
Oguo is Corporate Vice President of Vendor Experience at Pax8, leading global vendor relationships and driving success for partners through strategic leadership and innovation. A seasoned industry leader, he focuses on solving customer needs through new go-to-market strategies, business transformation, and high-performing teams. He brings extensive IT channel experience from Microsoft, where he held multiple GM roles, most recently leading Americas Corporate and Partner Solution Sales. Oguo holds a Bachelor of Science from Weber State University and leverages his diverse global background to shape inclusive, effective strategies. He is also passionate about community service, with years spent volunteering as a youth counselor and coach.
About Daniel Danielli
Daniel Danielli is Vice President of Global Scale Partnerships at CrowdStrike, where he leads the strategic expansion of the company’s international channel ecosystems across AMER, EMEA, and APAC.
An expert in hyper-scale go-to-market strategies, Danielli specializes in transforming traditional distribution into proactive growth engines. He oversees major global initiatives, including the commercial rollout of Project QuiltWorks’ AI-driven vulnerability patching and high-impact SMB sector alliances.
Danielli previously held executive leadership roles at EVOTEK and Arrow Electronics. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the Queensland University of Technology.
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About CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD)
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.
CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.
Learn more: https://www.crowdstrike.com/
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About Pax8
Pax8 is the global AI and cloud Marketplace for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Pax8 connects service providers and technology companies on a unified platform to discover, buy, sell, deploy and manage technology solutions for SMBs. More than 47,000 IT partners and 800,000 SMBs rely on Pax8 for expertise, automation and real-time insights to stay productive, protected and prepared for the AI economy.
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