Absolute's Christy Wyatt Named New CEO of the Year by The Globe and Mail's Report on Business
November 30 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Award recognizes CEO with less than three
years’ tenure in current role who has demonstrated significant
impact on the company and its strategy
Absolute® (TSX: ABST) (Nasdaq: ABST), a leader in Endpoint
Resilience™ solutions, today announced Absolute’s President and
Chief Executive Officer Christy Wyatt has been named ‘New CEO of
the Year’ by The Globe and Mail's Report on Business. This award is
given to a CEO with less than three years of tenure in her or his
current role, who has had a significant impact on the company and
its strategy.
The Report on Business annual CEO of the Year award program
recognizes Canada’s top five business leaders of 2020 for
representing “the best of Canadian corporate leadership,
innovation, vision, and responsibility.” All five winners are
featured in the December issue of Report on Business magazine, now
available in print and online, and will share their expertise and
vision for the year ahead in a webcast on December 9, 2020.
“These five CEOs have offered strong leadership through an
extraordinary year,” said James Cowan, editor of Report on Business
Magazine, in a previous press release. “We’re pleased to celebrate
their accomplishments and to share their stories and insights with
Globe readers.”
“It is an honor to be recognized by the Report on Business team,
and I’d like to congratulate my fellow CEO award winners for
demonstrating strong leadership and driving innovation in a year
unlike any other,” said Christy Wyatt, President and CEO of
Absolute. “A pillar of this award program is the belief that ‘great
leadership exists through collaboration,’ and I could not agree
more. I share this achievement with the entire Absolute team - who
have worked tirelessly to help our customers navigate the seismic
shift this year to remote work and distance learning, and build the
resilience and agility needed to continue operating successfully
and sustainably.”
Christy has served as Chief Executive Officer of Absolute since
November 2018. She was named one of the Top 100 Women in
Cybersecurity for 2020, and one of the Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS
in 2019. Under her leadership, Absolute was recognized as one of
the ‘Top Ten Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in 2020’ by
Forbes.
Report on Business is the magazine for leaders, providing
exclusive, intelligent business and financial journalism in the
public interest on Canadian business, the economy and investments.
For more information on the CEO of the Year program and the webcast
event on December 9, 2020, please visit here.
To learn more about Absolute, visit www.absolute.com.
About Absolute
Absolute is a leader in Endpoint Resilience solutions and the
industry’s only undeletable defense platform embedded in over a
half-billion devices. Enabling a permanent digital tether between
the endpoint and the enterprise who distributed it, Absolute
provides IT and Security organizations with complete connectivity,
visibility, and control, whether a device is on or off the
corporate network, and empowers them with Self-Healing Endpoint™
security to ensure mission-critical apps remain healthy and deliver
intended value. For the latest information, visit www.absolute.com
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