Barracuda Networks Promotes New Chief Product Officer

Barracuda Networks, a provider of cloud-first security solutions, appointed Neal Bradbury as chief product officer. In this new role, Bradbury will lead a unified product, engineering and advanced technology team to steer the vision for Barracuda’s comprehensive cybersecurity platform and drive customer-centric innovation across the entire portfolio.

The platform is designed to protect customers across all attack surfaces including email, networks, data and applications.

“Neal’s business leadership skills and his deep understanding of our products, technology, business processes and market strategy make him uniquely positioned to lead our product organization and guide our platform strategy as chief product officer,” said Barracuda president and CEO, Hatem Naguib. “I’m confident that under Neal’s leadership, we will continue to find new ways to meet customers’ evolving business needs for scalable security and help our partners to safeguard their customers’ SaaS applications, prioritize data protection and improve efficiencies in the face of ever-evolving threats.”

Bradbury has been with Barracuda for nine years, most recently as the SVP of the company’s MSP business. In this role, he led all functions, including product development, sales and marketing.

Prior to joining Barracuda, he worked at Intronis, which he co-founded in 2003. Between 2003 and 2013, Bradbury served as VP of systems engineering before moving on to a succession of roles in operations and technical support. In 2013, he became VP of channel development, where he was part of the team that led the company to a successful acquisition by Barracuda in 2015.

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