Cyan Limited announced the expansion of its Latin American sales presence with the addition of Christian Alvarez as vice president of sales for Latin America. Alvarez will be in charge of the company's growing sales efforts in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Alvarez joins the company from Avaya where he was managing director for the Americas division.

Prior to Avaya, where he was responsible for professional services throughout Latin America and Canada, Alvarez was vice president and chief security officer at eLandia Group. Before that, Alvarez was executive vice president at Connexion Technologies. Earlier, Alvarez was president and COO of BroadStar Holdings.

Alvarez also held executive positions with Terremark World Wide, a tier one network access point datacenter, as well as Esavio and NetSol.