Snyk Strengthens Leadership Team With Deep Enterprise Expertise, Reinforcing Developer Security Market Leadership
July 18 2023 - 8:00AM
Snyk, the leader in developer security, today announced the
appointment of four new senior leaders, bringing a wealth of
enterprise experience and distinct expertise to their respective
roles. Collectively, these strategic hires significantly bolster
the company’s leadership bench, helping to further solidify Snyk’s
developer security leadership. Jonaki Egenolf joins as Chief
Marketing Officer (CMO), Myke Lyons as as Chief Information
Security Officer (CISO), David Morris as General Counsel and
Michael Durso as Senior Vice President (SVP), Sales, Americas, to
extend Snyk’s market leadership as it continues to seize the
growing enterprise demand for DevSecOps.
“Jonaki, Myke, David and Michael each bring an incredibly
valuable point of view and the right relevant experience to best
position us for growing success as we continue to lead the
developer security category we invented,” said Peter McKay,
CEO, Snyk. “As DevSecOps becomes increasingly mainstream,
together we look forward to helping more global brands shift away
from a legacy cybersecurity mindset and fully embrace this cultural
revolution.”
These appointments are the latest in a series of strategic
business milestones pointing to Snyk’s unflagging innovation,
enterprise readiness and long-term financial success. Jonaki, Myke,
David and Michael will support the leadership team in serving and
expanding Snyk’s rapidly growing customer base, now close to 2,800
developer security-embracing companies, including leading global
enterprises such as ABInBev, Citrix, Comcast, Salesforce and
ServiceNow.
In addition, Snyk recently closed its seventh successful
acquisition, Enso Security, allowing global enterprises to now more
effectively manage their overall application security posture and
govern a developer security program at scale. Thus far this year,
the company has also achieved significant industry recognition,
including: inclusion on the CNBC 2023 Disruptor 50 List as well as
being named a leader in both the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for
Application Security Testing and The Forrester Wave™: Software
Composition Analysis, Q2 2023 report.
New Seasoned Executives Bring Extensive
Industry Expertise
- As Snyk’s new CMO, Jonaki Egenolf will lead
the marketing organization at Snyk, bringing over 25 years of
experience building and scaling go-to-market functions across
demand, brand and strategy for high growth technology companies.
Most recently, she served as CMO at Riverbed Technology.
Previously, Jonaki spent more than a decade in the cybersecurity
industry where she served as the CMO for Threat Stack, and VP of
Global Marketing at Veracode.
- Myke Lyons joins as Snyk’s CISO, overseeing
all of the company’s coordinated security, governance, risk and
compliance efforts. With over 20 years of information security
experience, Myke previously served as the CISO at Collibra, where
he was responsible for owning, building, and championing the
company’s security governance and advocating for both customers and
Collibra’s data and AI products. Prior to his impactful time with
Collibra, he was the Head of Security Strategy at ServiceNow,
starting the company’s security team.
- David Morris, as Snyk’s new General Counsel,
will lead all legal and government relations matters at Snyk. He is
the former General Counsel of Vivid Seats, a leading online
ticketing platform, where he built the legal function and led the
legal efforts surrounding the company’s 2021 public offering. David
previously served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel
for TripAdvisor.
- Michael Durso joins Snyk as SVP, Sales, in the
Americas. A seasoned technology executive, Michael has over 20
years of sales leadership experience with a consistent track record
of helping companies scale revenue, open up new markets and improve
overall go-to-market strategy. Most recently, he served as SVP of
Sales at CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), where he led a unified sales
organization responsible for driving revenue, strategic growth and
key partner initiatives across the Americas region. Before his
CyberArk tenure, he managed sales organizations for technology
leaders including nference, Veeam, VMWare, Dell and Lexmark.
These Leadership Team additions come on the heels of a range of
new innovations that further strengthen the Snyk Developer Security
Platform announced at SnykLaunch June 2023. To learn more about
what’s next for Snyk, visit:
https://snyk.io/blog/snyklaunch-june-2023-recap/.
About SnykSnyk is the leader in developer
security. We empower the world’s developers to build secure
applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the
digital world. Our developer-first approach ensures organizations
can secure all of the critical components of their applications
from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity,
revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings and an overall
improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform
automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is
purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their
development teams. Snyk is used by close to 2,800 customers
worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion,
Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut and Salesforce.
Contact:Cara Foleycara.foley@snyk.io
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