Ryan Gillis, a cybersecurity executive, has joined cloud security company Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) as senior vice president and global head of government partnerships. In this role, he will build and oversee a team focused on advancing Zscaler’s policy, operational and technical relationships with governments worldwide, including improving collaborati...
Bill Cull, a 25-year public sector sales leader, has been named vice president of federal at Austin, Texas-based cybercrime analytics company SpyCloud. In this capacity, he will oversee SpyCloud’s growth strategy, build up the company’s government client base and channel program with system integrators, value-added resellers and distributors and...
By Eric Trexler, Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Palo Alto Networks Today’s zero trust conversation has matured since it was originally popularized in 2010 by John Kindervag, one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts and a Palo Alto Networks alum. Although the urgency and capabilities for zero trust have exploded in t...
Derrick Pledger, a senior vice president and chief information officer at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said government agencies seeking to drive digital modernization efforts to improve operations and address mission challenges should look for a vendor that is focused on building deep technical partnerships to develop new platforms and capabilities for agen...
The government contracting industry witnessed a number of strategic executive movements in 2022, including appointments and promotions to C-level roles as well as leadership changes meant to spur growth in public sector-focused practices. As the year draws to a close, Executive Mosaic‘s editorial team is sharing people moves that dominated the...
Eric Trexler, formerly a vice president at Forcepoint, has assumed the role of senior VP for the U.S. public sector unit at Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday. Trexler led domestic and international sales functions within Forcepoint’s global governments and critical infrastructure business for more than four ye...
Dana Barnes, president of the government business at Dataminr, was presented with his 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office in Arlington, VA. Executive Mosaic is proud to recognize GovCon Expert Dana Barnes as a two...
Derrick Pledger, vice president and director of the Digital Modernization Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said establishing deep strategic partnerships with other companies could help facilitate the development of new capabilities and platforms that could help address mission challenges facing federal agencies. Pledger wrote that there are three...
Nicholas Warner, chief operating officer of SentinelOne (NYSE: S) since 2019, has been named president of the company’s security division. Warner will focus on leading the development, expansion and delivery of autonomous cybersecurity offerings in his new position, SentinelOne said Thursday. He joined the Mountain View, California-based software ...
Dana Barnes, senior vice president of Public Sector business for Palo Alto Networks, has been named a 2022 Wash100 Award winner for his visionary leadership and drive for zero trust implementation in the federal sector as well as cybersecurity advancement and the internet of things security capabilities for our future. Executive Mosaic is pleased to...
