Saviynt Appoints Kamel Heus As VP Of Sales MEA

Saviynt has appointed cybersecurity executive Kamel Heus as Vice President of Sales for the Middle East and Africa (MEA), including Turkey, as the identity security company expands its regional operations.

Based in Dubai, Heus will oversee Saviynt’s sales activities across the region, covering new business, customer renewals and expansion. He will also be responsible for the company’s channel strategy, partner ecosystem and development of its local go-to-market team.

His appointment comes as organisations across the Middle East and Africa increase their adoption of cloud services and artificial intelligence, creating new challenges around identity and access management. One of Heus’ immediate priorities will be expanding Saviynt’s presence in Saudi Arabia and developing local hosting capabilities to address data residency and in-region delivery requirements.

Heus brings 20 years of enterprise cybersecurity sales experience, with a career spanning the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Before joining Saviynt, he served as Vice President, EMEA at Thales, where he led the company’s Identity and Access Management business across the region.

He has also held senior positions at Centrify, now part of Delinea, and Sophos. He has been based in Dubai for more than a decade and has spent much of his career building cybersecurity businesses and partnerships across the region.

“MEA represents a significant opportunity for Saviynt as organizations across the region accelerate their digital transformation and increasingly look to AI to transform how they operate and grow,” said Pete Angstadt, Chief Commercial Officer at Saviynt.

“Our role is to help customers move faster on that journey while ensuring security and governance keep pace. Kamel’s deep experience in the region and understanding of its customers, markets and partner ecosystem will be invaluable as we continue to expand our presence.”

Heus said his focus would be on strengthening Saviynt’s local presence and developing its network of regional partners.

“The Middle East and Africa have become one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity markets in the world, and Identity sits right at the center of it, especially as AI agents enter the enterprise,” said Heus.

“I’ve spent over a decade building businesses from the ground up in this region, and I’m excited to do it again at Saviynt. My focus is to build out our local presence, grow a strong partner ecosystem, and enable organizations across MEA to grow their business through secure, confident access both for their people and their AI.”

Heus holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computing from Université Grenoble Alpes in France.

The appointment also places Heus at the centre of Saviynt’s strategy around the growing use of AI agents in enterprise environments. As organisations deploy AI systems that can access applications and business data, identity security is increasingly extending beyond employees and other human users to include machine and AI-driven identities.

Saviynt’s platform includes capabilities for managing these identities and controlling their access to enterprise resources, an area expected to become increasingly important as organisations across MEA expand their use of AI.