NEW YORK, April 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Claroty, the global
leader in industrial cybersecurity, today announced the appointment
of Udi Bar Sela as Chief Financial
Officer (CFO) and Grant Geyer as
Chief Product Officer (CPO). The additions strengthen the company's
executive ranks during a period of rapid growth as it continues to
uniquely bridge the cybersecurity gap between information
technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments.
"Udi and Grant bring exceptional leadership capabilities that
will be pivotal in the next stage of Claroty's rapid growth, as we
continue to innovate on our platform and expand our global customer
base," said Thorsten Freitag, CEO of
Claroty. "This is the best time to join Claroty as, now more than
ever, enterprises and critical infrastructure operators are
converging their IT and OT processes and technologies to improve
availability, safety, and reliability. It's great to strengthen our
team during this exciting time for the company."
Bar Sela is responsible for all aspects of Claroty's corporate
finance, financial planning, strategic growth planning, and
accounting. He has 20 years of financial leadership experience in
both public and private technology companies in Israel and the
United States. Most recently, Udi served as Chief Accounting
Officer at Ormat (NYSE: ORA) and prior to that, he was CFO at
Advanced Vision Technology (AVT). During his years in Silicon
Valley, he held several executive and senior finance level
positions, including CFO at Tigo Energy, Vice President Finance at
Soraa, and Division Head of Finance at Zoran Corporation. Bar Sela
holds a B.A. in Economics and Accounting from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an M.B.A. from
Tel Aviv University.
"I believe that Claroty is playing a market-changing role in how
organizations are evolving to better secure their critical
infrastructure and production environments," Bar Sela said. "I am
thrilled to have joined the team at this breakaway moment in
Claroty's trajectory and am excited to lead the company as it grows
financially and strategically."
In his capacity of Chief Product Officer, Geyer is responsible
for developing and executing Claroty's product strategy. He has had
a successful career as an operator in the cybersecurity industry
for over 20 years. Most recently, he worked as an
Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners, where he assisted
the firm in analyzing cybersecurity markets and ventures. Prior to
his work with Scale, Geyer held the role of Senior Vice President
of Products for RSA, responsible for both traditional and SaaS
product offerings. Prior to RSA, Geyer served as Vice President at
Symantec, which he joined through its acquisition of Riptech.
Earlier in his career, Geyer served as a Military Intelligence
officer for the U.S. Army. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from
the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
and an M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
"In my tenure in the cybersecurity industry, I haven't seen a
market segment where the threat environment represents such an
existential risk to how we live our lives as it does in industrial
cybersecurity and critical infrastructure," Geyer said. "No company
is better positioned to converge IT and OT security solutions than
Claroty. I am honored to lead such an experienced and passionate
team as we build to address our customers' current critical needs,
as well as innovate for the future of industrial
cybersecurity."
Claroty improves the availability, safety, and reliability of OT
assets and networks within industrial enterprises and critical
infrastructure. The Claroty Platform provides comprehensive OT
asset and network visibility, segmentation, vulnerability
management, threat detection, risk assessment, and Secure Remote
Access (SRA) capabilities — all within a single, agentless
solution. Unique to Claroty, SRA provides a single, secure, and
clientless interface through which all external users connect prior
to performing software upgrades, periodic maintenance, and other
support activities on assets within OT networks. This is all
enriched by the company's award-winning OT security research
department.
For more information about Claroty, please request a demo.
About Claroty
Claroty bridges the industrial
cybersecurity gap between information technology (IT) and
operational technology (OT) environments. Organizations with highly
automated production sites and factories that face significant
security and financial risk especially need to bridge this gap.
Armed with Claroty's converged IT/OT solutions, these enterprises
and critical infrastructure operators can leverage their existing
IT security processes and technologies to improve the availability,
safety, and reliability of their OT assets and networks seamlessly
and without requiring downtime or dedicated teams. The result is
more uptime and greater efficiency across business and production
operations.
Backed and adopted by leading industrial automation vendors,
Claroty is deployed on all seven continents globally. The company
is headquartered in New York City
and has received $100 million in
funding since being launched by the famed Team8 foundry in 2015.
For more information, visit www.claroty.com.
Contact:
Dave
Heffernan
Shift PR for Claroty
claroty@shiftcomm.com
617.779.1839
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