INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
Charles Sansbury joins Cloudera as new Chief Executive Officer to drive hybrid cloud and AI
Cloudera , the data company for trusted enterprise AI , announced the appointment of Charles Sansbury as Chief Executive Officer . Sansbury brings to Cloudera extensive leadership experience across the software industry . Most recently , he was CEO of ASG Technologies from 2015 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software . Prior to that , he was COO of The Attachmate Group from 2011 until its 2014 sale to MicroFocus . He was CFO of The Attachmate Group from 2006 until 2011 and CFO of Vignette from 2001 until 2006 .
“ I am pleased to announce that Charles Sansbury has been appointed as Cloudera CEO ,” said Jeff Hawn , Chairperson of the Board of Directors . “ In his twenty-plus years in corporate leadership roles , Charles
Charles Sansbury
has architected and led successful business strategies and operational initiatives that have delivered accelerated business growth . His leadership will drive Cloudera ’ s exciting hybrid data strategy in the era of AI that enables companies to benefit from all their data .”
“ I am grateful to the board for entrusting me with the leadership of Cloudera , and I am excited about the opportunity to take the company into its next phase of growth as the trusted enterprise AI company ,” said Sansbury .
“ I was drawn to Cloudera for the quality of its team , its world-class customers and its position as a technology delivering critical enterprise AI capabilities . With over 25 million terabytes of data under management , Cloudera guides many Fortune 1000 enterprises who are focused on implementing open data lakehouses as a major step toward their expanded use of artificial intelligence and machine learning . I am confident the company will continue to execute on its product leadership position and growth initiatives .”
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Lou DiFruscio joins executive leadership team of Invicti Security as Chief Revenue Officer
Invicti Security , which acquired and combined AppSec market leaders Netsparker and Acunetix , announced that Lou DiFruscio has joined its executive leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer . DiFruscio brings over 25 years of leadership and experience to the dynamically growing AppSec solutions provider and will be accelerating the ongoing expansion and high growth success of the global company in the enterprise , small to medium enterprise , and channel segments .
Previously , Lou served as Chief Revenue Officer for SmartBear . Over his eight-year tenure there , he helped drive and lead 400 % sales growth .
Invicti Security , which acquired and combined AppSec leaders Acunetix and Netsparker is on a mission : application security with zero noise . An AppSec for more than 15 years , Invicti delivers continuous application security , designed to be dependable for
security , practical for development and serve critical compliance requirements .
After the significant investment in Invicti by Summit Partners in Q4 of 2021 , the company has achieved consistent growth and continues to lead AppSec innovation in the enterprise and SME market segments globally . The company recently introduced its new corporate brand to the
Lou DiFruscio market at RSAC , along with releasing its annual AppSec Indicator report providing tremendous insights into the latest AppSec and vulnerability trends .
“ Operating in the growing AppSec and API security market gives us an opportunity to expand like few other industries have in the current economic environment ,” said DiFruscio .
“ We will continue to build an outstanding sales organisation and culture of performance by investing in our people , prioritising our customers , and bringing to market our DAST , IAST , SCA , and API security solutions .”
“ Lou brings decades of experience and sales excellence to our organisation ,” said Michael George , CEO of Invicti . “ His depth of knowledge and record of building customerfocused , performance-oriented teams will support our success as we continue to uplevel our business and support our growing customer base .” •
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