Hardik Parekh, Former Head of Product Security at Splunk, Joins Five9 as Chief Information Security Officer
30 Junho 2021 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Five9, Inc. (NASDAQ: FIVN), a leading provider of the
intelligent cloud contact center, today announced the appointment
of Chief Information Security Officer Hardik Parekh, an industry
recognized executive with a track record of developing and maturing
world-class security programs in enterprise companies including
Intuit, Amazon, and Splunk.
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“Parekh joins Five9 at an exciting time in the company’s journey
as we continue to grow our enterprise business and expand
internationally,” said Panos Kozanian, Five9 EVP of Cloud
Operations. “He brings two decades of global enterprise software
experience, a builder mindset, and a proven track record of
developing exceptional security teams while driving security and
technology transformation at scale, all of which will help fuel our
company trajectory and affirm our leadership in the cloud contact
center space.”
Parekh joins Five9 from Rollbar, where, as Head of Information
Security, he built information security, continuous compliance, and
IT teams, and defined and implemented the business technology
strategy and roadmap. In his previous role, as Head of Product
Security at Splunk, he developed the product and infrastructure
security and privacy strategy, which included on-premise, managed
cloud, cloud-native platform/products, mobile products, premium
applications and the application store. At Splunk, Parekh led
DevSecOps transformation and delivered security at scale and
speed.
Parekh also built a modern, highly automated Security Operations
Center at Amazon’s Physical Retail Business Unit as CISO. He
contributed to industry standards like OWASP Software Assurance
Maturity Model, Building Security In Maturity Model, NIST Secure
Software Development Framework, and SANS Top 25 Programming
Errors.
Parekh will report directly to Kozanian. In his role, he will
enhance and execute the companywide global cybersecurity strategy,
ensuring a security minded, risk aware culture through training,
Secure Development Lifecycle process implementation and
automation.
“The opportunity to build on Five9’s reputation for delivering
the most trusted and reliable cloud contact center is exciting,”
Parekh said. “I am proud to join the company at a time of
tremendous growth and innovation, and I look forward to partnering
across the organization to advance a comprehensive, proactive
security program.”
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About Five9
Five9 is an industry-leading provider of cloud contact center
solutions, bringing the power of cloud innovation to more than
2,000 customers worldwide and facilitating billions of call minutes
annually. The Five9 Intelligent Cloud Contact Center provides
digital engagement, analytics, workflow automation, workforce
optimization, and practical AI to create more human customer
experiences, to engage and empower agents, and deliver tangible
business results. Designed to be reliable, secure, compliant, and
scalable, the Five9 platform helps contact centers increase
productivity, be agile, boost revenue, and create customer trust
and loyalty.
For more information, visit www.five9.com.
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