MCLEAN, Va., May 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CYREN (NASDAQ: CYRN)
today announced the expansion of its sales and support footprint
with additions to its executive management team and a new
enterprise sales office.
Mickey DiPietro joins CYREN as
vice president of sales for North
America. He most recently established a mid-market
enterprise sales team at Zscaler, selling cloud security solutions
to enterprise and SMB customers using a high velocity sales model.
DiPietro previously built and managed similar capabilities for
Postini and Google.
To meet the growing demand for CYREN WebSecurity and cyber
intelligence solutions, CYREN also opened a new office in
Austin, Texas – a growing
technology hub and a key area to attract top talent. DiPietro
and his CYREN enterprise sales team are based in Austin.
"I view CYREN's cloud security platform and intelligence data as
key differentiators in the industry, and we have a great
opportunity to bring CYREN WebSecurity to businesses of all sizes,"
DiPietro said. "Austin is an
excellent location to hire additional sales and support
professionals, and I look forward to helping CYREN expand its
presence."
Additional Key Executive Appointments
CYREN also
announced other new members of its executive management team in
order to support the expansion. These new additions are in
preparation for future growth, as demand for CYREN solutions
continues to increase:
- Tomer Egozi, vice president of
sales, is an experienced executive with the ability to understand
complex business and technology relationships. Egozi has been
promoted from running EMEA sales to managing a global team of
account managers focused on growing the company's embedded security
services business. Prior to joining CYREN in 2010, he served in
various pre-sales and engineering roles at NICE Systems, Allot
Communications and PwC. Egozi is based in CYREN's Israel office.
- Michael Tamir, vice president of
global support services, leads CYREN's fast-growing global support
organization. With deep technical expertise in cloud security,
Tamir's team is responsible for global support, deployment and
customer success. Prior to taking this role, he previously served
as CYREN's director of security solutions, director of technical
services, and director of professional services over the past 13
years. Tamir is based in Toronto.
- Eric Spindel, general counsel,
leads all legal, regulatory, compliance and corporate governance
functions for CYREN. Before joining the company, he served as a
partner at Yigal Arnon & Co., one of Israel's leading law firms. Prior to that, he
practiced corporate and securities law at Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP,
and served as internal counsel for a private equity firm. He
received a joint JD/MBA degree from Osgoode Hall Law
School/Schulich School of Business in Toronto. Spindel is based in CYREN's
Israel office.
"Through these new executive appointments, we further strengthen
our cloud-focused sales leadership and our commitment to customer
success," said Lior Samuelson, CEO
and Chairman of the Board at CYREN. "I am pleased to welcome
Mickey, Tomer, Michael and Eric to the CYREN executive management
team, as they help us grow the business and deliver the next
generation of cloud-based Internet security."
About CYREN
CYREN (NASDAQ and TASE: CYRN) protects
more than 600 million users against cyber attacks and data breaches
through its cloud-based web, email, mobile and endpoint security
solutions. Relied upon by many of the world's largest technology
companies such as Dell, Google, McAfee and Microsoft, CYREN offers
enterprise-focused security as a service (SecaaS) solutions as well
as embedded solutions for software and security providers. CYREN's
global cloud security platform processes more than 17 billion daily
transactions and uses innovative zero-day protection technology to
proactively block over 130 million threats each day. Learn more at
www.cyren.com.
Blog: blog.cyren.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CyrenWeb
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/cyren
Twitter: twitter.com/CyrenInc
U.S. Investor Contact:
Garth Russell
KCSA
212.896.1250
grussell@kcsa.com
Israel Investor Contact:
Iris Lubitch
SmarTeam
+972.54.2528007
iris@smartteam.co.il
CYREN Media Contact:
Matthew Zintel
Zintel Public Relations
281.444.1590
matthew.zintel@zintelpr.com
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