Gerald Alston
About Gerald Alston
Gerald Alston is the Inside Sales Enablement Manager at Varonis in Morrisville, North Carolina, with a background in sales training and business development.
Current Role at Varonis
Gerald Alston currently holds the position of Inside Sales Enablement Manager at Varonis, where he began in 2023. Based in Morrisville, North Carolina, Gerald focuses on equipping the sales team with the tools and strategies needed to improve their performance. His role involves capturing extensive metadata about enterprise data and file systems to enhance security measures and contribute to preventing cyberattacks and insider threats.
Previous Roles at Varonis
Prior to his current role, Gerald Alston has served in a series of progressively responsible positions at Varonis. He was the Platform Enablement Manager from 2021 to 2023 and an Inside Sales Trainer from 2020 to 2021. In 2019, Gerald worked as a Territory Development Representative covering regions such as Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, and Wyoming. Each of these roles was based in Morrisville, North Carolina.
Earlier Career
Before his tenure at Varonis, Gerald Alston was a Business Development Specialist at The Renaissance Education Group, Inc. from 2017 to 2019, based in Durham, North Carolina. His earlier roles include serving as a Data and Information Specialist for Career Services at Texas A&M International University in 2014 and as a Student Life Instructor at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics from 2013 to 2014.
Educational Background
Gerald Alston holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Business Administration with a focus on International Management from the University of Amsterdam Business School, where he studied from 2016 to 2017. He also earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Economics and Finance from Winston-Salem State University, which he attended from 2005 to 2009.
Community Engagement and Online Presence
Gerald engages with the IT community using the handle @DopestGuyInIT. He has a strategic, composed, and confident approach in his professional endeavors. His focus is on challenging sales professionals to improve their performance through simplifying permissions, groups, and active directory to enhance data protection. Gerald's work also involves automating authorizations and entitlement reviews to sustain robust data security.