Former SAP, Cisco executive to accelerate brand awareness
FireEye®, Inc., the leader in stopping today’s new breed of cyber attacks, today announced the appointment of Kara Wilson as chief marketing officer (CMO), effective August 19. As CMO, Wilson will oversee global marketing and communications at FireEye.
“FireEye is at an important juncture, and we believe Kara’s background will help accelerate brand awareness for the FireEye threat-protection platform,” said David DeWalt, chairman and CEO of FireEye. “With Kara’s track record developing world-class enterprise marketing organizations, she is a very welcome addition to the FireEye team.”
The FireEye advanced threat-protection platform identifies and blocks the new generation of cyber attacks, including sophisticated malware and zero-day attacks with a signature-less, dynamic, real-time Multi-Vector Virtual Execution™ (MVX) engine. Built on patented virtualization technology, the MVX engine helps ensure scalable, accurate, and timely protection across the primary threat vectors, including Web, email, and files.
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“The FireEye vision and technology are transforming the security industry,” said Wilson. “Advanced cyber attacks from criminals and nation-states continually sap enterprises of valuable intellectual property and data—and FireEye provides an effective defense. I’m very happy to join the FireEye team, and I’m looking forward to helping drive broader awareness of the FireEye threat-protection platform.”
Wilson comes to FireEye from Okta, where she also held the position of CMO. Prior to Okta, Kara was CMO of SAP Cloud. Wilson also held executive positions at a number of market-leading enterprise technology companies, including CMO of SuccessFactors, VP of Collaboration Solutions Marketing at Cisco Systems, and CMO of Network General (acquired by NetScout). Before joining Network General, Kara led marketing communications at threat-protection platformbefore its acquisition by Oracle.