Fireside Chat: A Conversation with Russell Rosa, Chief Revenue Officer, N‑able
Meet N-able’s new Chief Revenue Officer, Russell Rosa, for an open conversation about his career, why he joined N-able, what he is seeing across the technology landscape and where he believes the biggest opportunities lie for service providers and internal IT teams.
Russell Rosa joined N-able as Chief Revenue Officer in July 2026, bringing more than 25 years of experience across global sales, technology and channel-led growth.
In this live AMA-style conversation, Russell will share what drew him to N-able, the experiences that have shaped his approach to leadership and his perspective on where technology, customer expectations and the wider market are heading next.
We’ll explore how organizations are changing the way they buy, manage and deliver technology, where Russell sees opportunities for service providers and internal IT teams, and how trends such as AI are changing the way businesses operate.
We’ll also look at how expectations around security and resilience are evolving, what organizations increasingly need from their technology providers and how N-able is thinking about helping organizations navigate greater complexity and deliver better outcomes.
What attendees will hear about
- Why Russell joined N-able and what has stood out to him so far
- Lessons from more than 25 years across technology, sales and the channel
- Russell’s approach to leadership and the direction he sees for N-able
- How the needs of service providers and internal IT teams are changing
- What organizations should expect from technology providers today
- Where AI is creating genuine value and where expectations may be ahead of reality
- Russell’s perspective on security, resilience and the opportunities ahead
Speakers
Russell Rosa
Russell Rosa brings over 25 years of sales and channel leadership to his role, with deep expertise in cybersecurity, AI, and SaaS solutions. Russell joins N-able to accelerate partner-led growth across MSPs, VARs, and distributors worldwide, leveraging the company’s expanding AI platform and global partner community. Previously, Russell served as Chief Revenue Officer at Sumo Logic, where he led the global sales and partner organization across North America, EMEA, and APJ, consistently delivering double-digit growth. Prior to Sumo Logic, Russell held senior sales leadership roles at Cisco, Actifio, and VCE. He holds a BSBA in Marketing and an MBA in Management from Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School.
Chris Massey
Chris is Head of Business Transformation at N-able, where he designs and leads executive programs, peer roundtables, and community experiences built for MSP owners and leaders. He leads N-able’s flagship Business Transformation Accelerate programs, immersive multi-day experiences that bring MSP executives together around the strategic forces reshaping the industry: AI and operations, go-to-market, product and service mix, people and staffing, and risk and compliance. He also runs vendor-neutral executive roundtables for MSP executives and technical leaders.
Before N-able, Chris spent his career inside the MSP industry itself, giving him a practitioner’s view of the pressures — margin, staffing, service delivery, growth — that MSP leaders navigate every day. That background shapes how he builds programs now: less theory, more real operator perspective, with sessions designed to surface what’s actually working across peers rather than abstract best practices.
Chris regularly represents N-able at industry events, including emceeing the Empower conference, and works closely with N-able’s product and executive teams to bring credible, forward-looking content to the MSP community.