Pega Hires New Leader to Drive Partner Program Transformation

Industry veteran Daniel Kasun joins as head of global partner ecosystem to accelerate AI-driven legacy transformation through strategic partnerships

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company™, today announced the appointment of Daniel Kasun as head of global partner ecosystem. Reporting to John Higgins, chief of client and partner success, Kasun will lead the strategic evolution of Pega’s partner ecosystem to help clients accelerate their legacy transformation journeys, including strengthening alliances with global systems integrators and hyperscalers, accelerating adoption of Pega GenAI™ and Pega Blueprint™ through partners, and expanding partner-influenced revenue across global markets.

This appointment supports Pega’s focus on leveraging strategic partnerships and simplified commercial models to broaden market reach and drive application modernization. Under Kasun’s leadership, Pega will expand its ecosystem to help partners deliver cloud-native, modern applications faster than ever.

Kasun joins from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he built and led partner organizations that delivered high growth co-sales in the public sector and financial services industries for over a decade, with a particular focus on helping Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) work effectively with the AWS sales organizations. Prior to AWS, he spent 18 years at Microsoft, driving innovation and revenue across regulated industries including government, education, and healthcare. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from Lehigh University.

Building an Ecosystem for AI Transformation

Pega’s strengthened partner strategy reflects its commitment to helping enterprises reimagine legacy systems and transform how they engage, operate, and serve customers. This approach centers on building an ecosystem that broadens market reach, improves service delivery, and supports transformation initiatives like cloud migration and application modernization.

Key pillars of this strategy include developing strong hyperscaler partnerships to help clients address a broader set of critical enterprise workloads, as well as cloud marketplace availability to make Pega solutions more accessible and easier to procure. These initiatives will complement the robust ecosystem of Pega partners to accelerate transformation of legacy customer solutions.

Additionally, Powered by Pega Blueprint, introduced at PegaWorld 2025, will continue to serve as the anchor for partner engagement and operational alignment. Partners can embed proprietary IP into their own branded versions of Pega Blueprint—the industry’s first workflow and decisioning design agent—to create powerful, customized solutions to help clients bring their legacy transformation visions to life and deliver greater impact across their client base.

With simplified commercial models and cloud marketplace access, partners can deliver AI-powered solutions to organizations of all sizes. The combination of hyperscaler alliances and Blueprint-enabled collaboration positions Pega to drive largescale legacy transformation at unprecedented scale.

Quotes and commentary
"With so many enterprises looking to modernize their legacy applications, Daniel brings the experience and transformational leadership we need as we evolve our partner strategy to meet these increasing demands," said John Higgins, chief of client and partner success, Pega. "His experience in building high-performing partner ecosystems, combined with his deep understanding of enterprise transformation challenges, will be instrumental in helping our partners drive meaningful change for their clients."

"The momentum of generative and agentic AI has created tremendous opportunity, particularly for modernization of legacy systems,” said Daniel Kasun. "Pega is extremely well positioned to help enterprise customers leverage those AI advancements to meet their transformation goals, and a robust, effective partner ecosystem is critical to ensuring that customer success. I’m honored to join such a great company and strong community of partners, and I look forward to revolutionizing the industry together."

Additional resources

• More information: Powered by Pega Blueprint partner showcase
• Product info: Pega Blueprint
• Program info: Pega Partners

About Pegasystems

Pega is The Enterprise Transformation Company that helps organizations Build for Change® with enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation. Many of the world’s most influential businesses rely on our platform to solve their most pressing challenges, from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we’ve built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today’s customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. For more information on Pega (NASDAQ: PEGA), visit www.pega.com.

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