Blumira, a cybersecurity provider of automated threat detection and response technology, announced the appointment of Brian Penney as Vice President of Sales.
In his role, Brian will focus on enhancing Blumira’s go-to-market strategy and accelerating revenue growth in existing and new markets. Led by an integrity-first approach that prioritizes customer needs, builds trust, and delivers value, Penny looks forward to contributing to Blumira’s core mission to bring effective and affordable security solutions to small and mid-size businesses.
Prior to joining Blumira, Penny led a commercial go-to-market strategy for Songclip, a social music API with a patented technology solution for integrating popular licensed music as a feature in social apps. During his time with the company, he helped drive more than 670 percent sales growth in 2021.
Penney has spent more than a decade leading sales representatives, account managers and business development teams to optimize processes, streamline sales cycles and challenge clients to achieve and exceed their business goals.
His sales experience includes director-level roles at Cloudtamer.io, Synergis Software and Reputation.com. Penney has a track record of outperforming quotas, growing new business, generating pipeline growth and leveraging strong relationships to meet and exceed customer needs.
The appointment comes on the heels of Blumira’s recent launch of its free cloud security information and event management (SIEM) with detection and response for Microsoft 365. The platform enables organizations to get visibility into Microsoft 365 environments in minutes, without the high costs and adoption challenges associated with traditional SIEMs.
For more information about Blumira, visit https://www.blumira.com.