Tableau appoints Nigel Mendonca as Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand

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Feb 11, 2015, 05:30 ET

SYDNEY, Feb. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau (NYSE: DATA), a global leader in rapid-fire business analytics software, today announced the appointment of Nigel Mendonca as its first Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).

Mendonca is tasked with ensuring customer success and driving the growth of Tableau in ANZ. Mendonca has more than 22 years of technology expertise, having previously held senior roles at Salmat, Symantec, and Xpedite Systems/PGi. Mendonca's appointment comes at a time of rapid growth for Tableau in the ANZ region. The company's Australia-based team has nearly doubled in the past year, including the creation of a multi-lingual Asia-Pacific technical support team based out of Sydney.

Tableau customers in the ANZ region include Mater Health Services, Ray White, University of Western Sydney, Silver Fern Farms, Sportsbet, Anomaly, Inivio, as well as many of Australia and New Zealand's largest enterprise and government organizations.

"Tableau is a game-changing company in business analytics and technology and I'm excited to join the team," said Mendonca. "I look forward to working with organizations across the ANZ region to help them see and understand their data and empower people to make better decisions."

"Australia and New Zealand's organizations are pursuing analytics initiatives to leverage data driven decisions in a fast and easy way. We are excited to expand the power of data analytics and Tableau to this region." said JY Pook, Vice President for the Asia Pacific region at Tableau Software. "Nigel Mendonca will lead our efforts to grow the Tableau footprint in this important market with focus on customer success."

Mendonca will present a keynote speech at the Tableau Conference on Tour in Melbourne, Australia, taking place March 2-4. The Conference will feature keynote addresses, live demonstrations and workshops, and presentations from Tableau customers. For further details, please visit ontour15.tableau.com/Melbourne.

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