A few days after opening its fourth Asia Pacific branch in Seoul, MapR has announced the appointment of Justin Bock as country manager for Australia and New Zealand. The executive will be responsible for driving sales and fostering strategic partnerships in the region, which ranks as one of the fastest growing parts of the global economy.

“Justin is well positioned to help drive the growth of MapR in Australia and New Zealand and we are delighted to have him join our Asia Pacific team. He comes to MapR with many years of experience in the industry, a sound understanding of Big Data and an appreciation of Hadoop and the MapR point of difference,” stated Martin Darling, MapR’s vice president of Asia Pacific & Japan.

Bock joins the Hadoop distributor after a ten year stint at IT solutions and managed services provider Logicalis, where he served as national sales director and later as general manager. Before that, he worked for WorldCom, which became MCI in 2006 and got acquired by Verizon for $6.8 million two years later.

“I am thrilled to be joining MapR and am excited by the incredible opportunities I see to enable the transfer of big data into business outcomes in the region. There is definitely enormous room for the growth of big data in Australia and New Zealand in every key industry,” Bock said.

The hire marks the latest milestone in MapR’s aggressive expansion strategy, which underlines CEO John Schroeder’s plan to go public in the near future. He confirmed that his company is weighing an IPO after tapping Dan Alter as chief financial officer, saying that it’s “something we would entertain over the next couple of years.”

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