Digital Shadows, which provides external digital risk management, has appointed Alex Seton as vice president of business and corporate development.
He will be tasked with accelerating industry adoption of Digital Shadows solutions through its partner ecosystem, investment and go-to-market approach
Seton brings more than 24 years of experience to the role. As founding vice president of Business Development, Channels, and Strategic Alliances at network security analytics company Solera Networks, he developed an advanced threat protection ecosystem. He also served as vice president of corporate development at Blue Coat Systems, and held executive roles Cisco LANDesk and Novell.
“We are delighted to welcome Alex to join the Digital Shadows family and help us build a world-class global business development strategy to further protect customers around the globe with our unique offering and further accelerate our market penetration,” said Alastair Paterson, CEO and co-founder of Digital Shadows. “I am confident he will help us to drive the build out of a robust global partner eco-system by developing industry differentiating technology partnerships and global strategic commercial partnerships.”
Doug Cahill, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, added, “Today’s digital economy indexed on the use of digital technologies requires that organizations gain situational awareness into their digital footprint to understand their external risk exposure and enable threat mitigation actions. Such a holistic approach requires collaboration and integrations. Through Alex’s industry knowledge, experience and past success in developing strategic partner ecosystems, we expect Digital Shadows customers to benefit in even greater terms through streamlined workflows and increased product availability.”
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