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SentinelOne announces executive appointments and promotions amidst rapid growth

SentinelOne, an autonomous cybersecurity platform company, has announced key executive appointments and promotions that will fuel the growth of its best-in-class cybersecurity platform and scale forward its go-to-market operations. Mitra Mahdavian has been appointed to SVP, Business Transformation; Bryan Gale has been appointed to VP, Product Marketing; Rajiv Taori has been appointed to GM, Dataset; Eric Tinker has been appointed to VP, Renewals; and Joni Tsumas has been appointed to VP, Global Accounts & Programs.

In addition, Jared Phipps has been promoted to SVP, Americas Sales and Solution Engineering and Daniel Kollberg has been promoted to SVP, EMEA Sales and Solutions Engineering. The appointments and promotions are a testament to the company’s commitment to deliver best-in-class XDR protection built for the new cyber security paradigm.

“At SentinelOne, we are on a mission to deliver real-time, autonomous cyber security at scale,” said Tomer Weingarten, CEO, SentinelOne. “The recent appointments and promotions will play an important role in enabling us to continue to stand out from the crowd and deliver cutting edge protection and innovation to our global customers as we deliver the most advanced enterprise security platform with trust and integrity. Their talent and relentless drive will enable us to do what no other company has done before in record time – give enterprises the advantage over tomorrow.”

Mrs. Mahdavian is a seasoned business leader with a proven track record of driving strategic growth. Mahdavian joins SentinelOne after over a decade at McKinsey & Co., where she was a partner and a leader in McKinsey’s Technology, Marketing and Sales practices, with clients including $50B+ software and hardware providers, global technology infrastructure organisations and multiple growth stage SaaS companies. As SVP of Business Transformation, Mahdavian will drive strategic initiatives, business intelligence and monetisation strategies.
Mr. Gale has over 20 years of experience driving product innovation across the cyber security industry in both marketing and product leadership roles. Prior to SentinelOne, Gale was the Global VP of Product Marketing at CrowdStrike, where he hired and built a marketing organisation spanning product, technical and competitive marketing as well as analyst relations. Before CrowdStrike, Gale was Chief Product Officer at Automox and Chief Product Officer at CyberGRX. As VP of Product Marketing, Gale will lead the go-to-market strategy for the Singularity platform.

Mr. Taori is a proven business leader with a 20-year track record of building businesses, establishing market leadership positions and creating successful products. Taori joins SentinelOne from Amazon Web Services, where he was Product Leader responsible for OpenSearch analytics, search, observability and security offerings. As GM of DataSet, Taori will be responsible for defining the strategic vision, operations and go-to-market execution for SentinelOne DataSet.

Mr. Tinker has more than 25 years of experience leading renewals and driving customer success across technology organisations. Prior to SentinelOne, Tinker was SVP of Global Renewal Sales and Operations, Acceleration Sales GTM at Riverbed Technology, where he led a global team responsible for over 55% of Riverbed’s total revenue. As VP of Global Renewals, Tinker will scale the global renewals organisation leveraging a standard enablement approach to increase bookings, net revenue retention and maximise gross revenue retention.

Mrs. Tsumas brings over 20 years of experience leading sales and strategic growth across high-tech companies. Tsumas joins SentinelOne from Cohesity, where she was VP of Sales, US Strategic & Enterprise. Prior to Cohesity, Tsumas held positions at VMware, NetApp and Cisco. As VP of Global Accounts & Programs, Tsumas will be responsible for leading and developing strategies that enhance customer experience across SentinelOne’s largest customers and prospects.

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Born Social announce buyout and two new senior hires

Leadership team become majority shareholders

Born Social, the award-winning social media agency, has today announced a management buyout with the six-strong leadership team taking a 75% share of the business.

Founded by Rob O’Donovan and Ben Gateley in 2012 as part of start-up studio, The Eleven, Born Social has grown into one of the UK’s foremost social media agencies managing campaigns for a roster of big-name brands including: Kopparberg; Nando’s; Wagamama; Tinder and Snickers.

The leadership team (from left to right) is made up of Dan Jarrett, Executive Finance Director and Partner; Abbey Mills, Executive Client Services Director and Partner; Ben Tyson, CEO and Partner; Charlotte Hamill, COO and Partner; Callum McCahon, Executive Strategy Director and Partner and Paddy Smith, ECD and Partner. The founders, Rob and Ben, will retain a 25% stake but will no longer sit on the board.

Commenting on the decision to move to a management-owned business, Ben Tyson says: “We’ve always prided ourselves on driving industry change with the belief that social will become the lead channel for the next generation of brilliant brands. And with an ambitious vision for continued growth, we knew we needed to have the right leadership and business structure in place and to invest in the very best senior talent.”

‘Heads-of’ announced

Alongside the shift in ownership, Born Social can also announce two new senior hires: Harry Fishwick as Head of Creative and Hannah Wolff as Head of Social Media Management.

Harry joins from TUI, the world’s number-one tourism business, where he held the role of Video Marketing Manager and Hannah joins from Three UK where she was lead creative in the social and PR team. They join a team that includes Essi Nurminen and Kate Higham who have been promoted to Head of Strategy and Head of Operations respectively and Ed Knights who is Head of New Business and Marketing.

“Since day one we’ve been a people-focused business and the creation of our Heads of team and internal leadership development programme allows us to continue along that path in a time where wellbeing and work satisfaction are being challenged by the ongoing pandemic” says Ben Tyson, CEO and Partner, Born Social “And this investment in building the next generation of leaders at Born Social is testament to the strength of our clients and teams. We now have an exceptional team in place to help drive the next phase of the business.”

Whilst 2020 was a challenge for every business, Born Social has continued to grow with employee numbers swelling to 56, year-on-year growth of 40%, a turnover of £4.5m and continued growth predicted for 2021.

The management buyout was completed for an undisclosed sum.

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Born Social announce buyout – leadership team become majority shareholders

Born Social, the London-based social media agency, has today announced a management buyout with the six-strong leadership team taking a 75% share of the business.

Founded by Rob O’Donovan and Ben Gateley in 2012 as part of start-up studio, The Eleven, Born Social has grown into one of the UK’s foremost social media agencies managing campaigns for a roster of big-name brands including: Kopparberg; Nando’s; Wagamama; Tinder and Snickers.

The leadership team (from left to right) is made up of Dan Jarrett, Executive Finance Director and Partner; Abbey Mills, Executive Client Services Director and Partner; Ben Tyson, CEO and Partner; Charlotte Hamill, COO and Partner; Callum McCahon, Executive Strategy Director and Partner and Paddy Smith, ECD and Partner. The founders, Rob and Ben, will retain a 25% stake but will no longer sit on the board.

Commenting on the decision to move to a management-owned business, Ben Tyson says: “We’ve always prided ourselves on driving industry change with the belief that social will become the lead channel for the next generation of brilliant brands. And with an ambitious vision for continued growth, we knew we needed to have the right leadership and business structure in place and to invest in the very best senior talent.”

‘Heads-of’ announced

Alongside the shift in ownership, Born Social can also announce two new senior hires: Harry Fishwick as Head of Creative and Hannah Wolff as Head of Social Media Management.

Harry joins from TUI, the world’s number-one tourism business, where he held the role of Video Marketing Manager and Hannah joins from Three UK where she was lead creative in the social and PR team. They join a team that includes Essi Nurminen and Kate Higham who have been promoted to Head of Strategy and Head of Operations respectively and Ed Knights who is Head of New Business and Marketing.

“Since day one we’ve been a people-focused business and the creation of our Heads of team and internal leadership development programme allows us to continue along that path in a time where wellbeing and work satisfaction are being challenged by the ongoing pandemic” says Ben Tyson, CEO and Partner, Born Social “And this investment in building the next generation of leaders at Born Social is testament to the strength of our clients and teams. We now have an exceptional team in place to help drive the next phase of the business.”

Whilst 2020 was a challenge for every business, Born Social has continued to grow with employee numbers swelling to 56, year-on-year growth of 40%, a turnover of £4.5m and continued growth predicted for 2021.

The management buyout was completed for an undisclosed sum.