Darktrace shakes up management with new senior appointments

Cybersecurity group Darktrace has introduced two adjustments to its senior management workforce with the appointment of a brand new chief monetary officer and chief income officer.

Suman Raju will be part of the Cambridge-headquartered agency as its finance chief, having beforehand CFO positions at spend administration software program firm Ivalua, product discovery software program group Crownpeak and digital economic system enterprise SAP Ariba.

Raju has succeeded Cathy Graham, who joined as Darktrace’s finance chief in 2020, having left the function in September.

“Darktrace is on the forefront of AI innovation in cybersecurity, and I’m excited to hitch the workforce at a time of actual momentum and transformation,” Raju mentioned.

“We have now large alternative forward, and I sit up for serving to us construct the robust foundations that may assist our subsequent stage of sustainable development within the US and throughout our world markets.”

Hein Hellemons may even be part of Darktrace as its chief income officer, taking up from Denise Walter, who stepped down as CRO following the sale of the corporate to US non-public fairness agency Thoma Bravo.

Hellemons most lately served as CRO for KnowBe4, a cybersecurity agency from Florida the place he spent over two years. He held the identical title at SecurityScorecard beforehand, of which he was additionally president and as held senior roles at each Amazon Net Providers and Microsoft.

“What drew me to Darktrace is its best-in-class expertise – AI that may detect never-before-seen threats in actual time and defend organisations throughout their total digital ecosystem,” Hellemons mentioned.

“As cyber threats develop, this functionality has by no means been extra important for organisations as they search to guard themselves and safely drive expertise adoption throughout their enterprise. I’m excited to work with our groups to deepen our partnership with our present clients and companions, and to broaden our attain to extra potential clients as Darktrace continues on its scaling journey.”