The leading cyber threat detection and remediation company has tapped an industry veteran to grow and diversify its revenue
Vectra AI, a leading provider of cyber threat detection and remediation, announced the appointment of Willem Hendrickx as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). As CRO, Willem will play a key role in leading Vectra's global expansion initiatives, as well as overseeing the entire pipeline of business with customers and partners. This appointment follows a year of exceptional growth for the company as a result of accelerating demand for Vectra's portfolio of threat detection and response solutions.
"In recent months we have witnessed some of the most damaging cyberattacks in our history. Enterprises around the world are rapidly adopting and deploying detection and response solutions to provide coverage across cloud, data center and SaaS environments," he highlighted. Hitesh Sheth, President and CEO of Vectra AI. "This has led to rapid growth for Vectra over the past year. I am thrilled to announce Willem's appointment as CRO. He will be instrumental in continuing to lead and scale our business globally, fostering a culture of innovative and disruptive thinking."
Prior to taking on the role of CRO, Hendrickx was SVP International at Vectra. In this role, he helped fundamentally transform and expand business operations in EMEA and the APJ (Asia, Pacific, Japan) region. With more than 25 years of experience in global software sales, Hendrickx has previously held various leadership positions at EMC/Dell, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent and Riverbed Technology.
“The enterprise security market continues to move away from legacy preventative security solutions and toward the advanced detection and response capabilities needed to stop attackers in their tracks,” he said Willem Hendrickx. “Vectra continua ad affermarsi come fornitore leader per la protezione contro la prossima ondata di minacce. Non vedo l’ora di continuare a far crescere le nostre attività commerciali nelle regioni esistenti e in altre nuove”.
Dopo aver guidato Vectra AI attraverso un periodo di forte crescita negli ultimi 20 mesi, il predecessore di Hendrickx, Marc Gemassmer, ha assunto il nuovo ruolo di General Manager of Vectra’s identity and software as a service (SaaS) posture management business. Gemassmer guiderà la spinta di Vectra in questo nuovo mercato in collaborazione con Aaron Turner, il fondatore e CEO di Gemassmer will lead Vectra's push into this new market in partnership with Aaron Turner. Vectra Gemassmer will lead Vectra's push into this new market in partnership with Aaron Turner Siriux in January 2022, positioning the company as the only vendor that enables customers to securely configure and detect active threats in cloud identities and SaaS applications.
“The SaaS attack surface is growing at an exponential rate and the acquisition of Siriux provides Vectra AI with a building block to address this critical security gap for customers,” he said “Vectra continues to establish itself as the leading provider of protection against the next wave of threats. “I look forward to working with Aaron to establish Vectra as the only vendor that secures SaaS configurations and combines this with the detection and remediation of active threats in SaaS applications.”
