Cycloid appoints Isabelle Perie to lead Europe partner push

Cycloid has appointed Isabelle Perie as Channel and Partnerships Director, expanding its partner strategy in Europe.

Perie joins the Paris-based platform engineering company after partnerships roles at HP, ServiceNow and Okta. She will lead efforts to organise and grow Cycloid's partner network across system integrators, global systems integrators, managed service providers, technical partners and cloud partners.

The company is placing particular emphasis on sovereign cloud providers as European customers give greater weight to data sovereignty and compliance. That focus sits alongside a broader push to reach more organisations through partners involved in cloud transformation and platform engineering projects.

Cycloid already works with seven of the top 10 GSIs and MSPs, including Capgemini, Accenture and NTT, as well as regional partners in the UK and Ireland, Southern Europe and North America. Perie is expected to deepen those relationships and add new strategic partners.

Her appointment comes as platform engineering takes a larger share of enterprise technology spending. Companies delivering those programmes are increasingly looking for internal developer portal products that can be deployed repeatedly for clients rather than built from scratch for each engagement.

Perie trained as an engineer and has also worked in pre-sales and project management. Cycloid cited that mix of technical and commercial experience as a factor in the hire as it formalises a channel-led route to market.

In a statement, Perie outlined how she sees the opportunity for the business and its partners.

"What attracted me to Cycloid is the clear opportunity in front of the company," said Isabelle Perie, Channel and Partnerships Director at Cycloid. "Platform engineering is moving from a technical conversation to a strategic one, and the SIs, MSPs and sovereign cloud providers helping organisations create the next generation of enterprise platforms are going to need a foundation they can build on. My role is to make sure that Cycloid is that foundation, and to develop the ecosystem that lets us scale with them."

The hire reflects Cycloid's effort to build a more structured partner model around its internal developer portal and platform product. It argues that service providers want a standardised base they can use across customer projects, especially where clients are trying to modernise application delivery, infrastructure management and cloud operations.

Partner push

Channel partnerships have become more important for software vendors seeking access to large transformation programmes, many of which are led by major consultancies and managed service firms. In Europe, that work increasingly includes requirements around hosting location, regulatory compliance and the use of sovereign cloud infrastructure.

Cycloid is positioning itself in that part of the market by working with providers that support internal developer platforms for large organisations. Its technology is used to centralise tools, automation and cloud frameworks across private, public and sovereign environments.

Founder Benjamin Brial said the appointment is intended to support Cycloid's next stage of expansion through alliances.

"Isabelle brings exactly the experience we need at this stage of Cycloid's growth," said Brial. "She has built and scaled partner ecosystems at companies that defined their categories, and understands that great partnerships are commercial relationships first and technical ones second. With Isabelle leading our channel strategy, Cycloid is well placed to grow alongside the partners shaping enterprise platform engineering across Europe."

Cycloid develops an internal developer portal and platform designed to support self-service infrastructure and platform engineering practices. It says the product also includes FinOps and Green IT features for teams managing cloud costs and sustainability targets.

Perie's arrival gives Cycloid a senior executive focused on turning existing alliances into a broader channel operation at a time when service providers are looking for repeatable software layers for cloud and platform projects across Europe.