- SecurityScorecard recently announced that it appointed Michael Sweeney as the head of the Global Security Ratings Channel Program
SecurityScorecard — a leader in security ratings — recently announced it appointed Michael Sweeney to lead the company’s Global Security Ratings Channel Program as VP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels. Within this role, Sweeney will lead the company’s accelerated global expansion through net-new channel partner and alliance relationships to extend the company’s award-winning security rating platform.
Sweeney has an established track record working across IT vertical industries to create market saturation and global presence leading to exponential growth. Before joining SecurityScorecard, Sweeney was the Vice President Cloud & Global Account Sales at Palo Alto Networks where he significantly grew the business with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform along with creating the go-to-market strategy for Global Accounts. Along with Palo Alto Networks, Sweeney has held executive positions at NetApp, EMC, and Citigroup among other vendors.
“SecurityScorecard is prime to continue leading the security rating market with the most innovative platform and extensive data set in the industry. I was drawn to the company due to the agile nature of the engineering team and stickiness of the technology once a partner gets engaged,” said Sweeney in a statement. “My focus is to extend the SecurityScorecard brand throughout EMEA and APAC and to build on the existing foundation the team has already set in place.”
SecurityScorecard also doubled down and invested in talent to bring on Jeffrey Webb as Vice President of Sales West, Shaun Mahoney as Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, and Nicole Stavroff as Senior Director of Worldwide Channels. Webb is known for lading strong sales teams to success at companies like CliQr Technologies (acquired by Cisco), VCE (acquired by EMC), Nimbula, and CA Technologies. Mahoney is bringing a long history of customer experience along with valuable tenure at NetApp and most recently as CTO of RTP. And Stavroff brings years of sales and channel leadership experience from EMC, NetApp, and Cloudgenix.
“With a world-class security ratings platform we needed to reinforce our team with the industry’s best executives to lead and support our channel and alliances programs. The extension into EMEA and APAC is further solidifying our hold on the market, as the SecurityScorecard platform currently has over 1 million scorecards used for self-assessment, third party risk, M&A and cybersecurity insurance,” explained SecurityScorecard CRO Bill Hogan. “I am thrilled to welcome this stellar group to the SecurityScorecard family.”
SecurityScorecard has a vision to create a new language for measuring and communicating security risk. Founded by CEO Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and COO Sam Kassoumeh in 2013, SecurityScorecard has grown dramatically since then and now has hundreds of leading brands as customers.
