A seasoned, growth-focused govt in cloud, cybersecurity and DevOps markets, Johri brings over three many years of management at each enterprise and startup firms
ATLANTA, GA AND RAMAT GAN – February 28, 2023 – Checkmarx, the worldwide chief in utility safety options, introduced at this time that know-how govt Sandeep Johri will succeed co-founder Emmanuel Benzaquen as CEO. Benzaquen will proceed to serve on the corporate’s Board of Administrators.
Johri has spent a few years in Silicon Valley as an govt, founder, strategic advisor and investor. He most lately served as CEO of Tricentis, which he led for seven years from an early-stage startup to a worldwide chief of continuous-testing software program options. Beforehand, Johri held senior administration roles at HP, the place he created and carried out the technique to develop the software program division from $600 million in income to class management and $3.5 billion in income. Johri has been the founding father of a number of VC-funded safety startups similar to Oblix (acquired by Oracle), Determina and Bluelane (each acquired by VMware).
With over 1,800 clients worldwide, together with 60% of the Fortune 50, and as a long-time chief in trade analysts’ aggressive market studies, Checkmarx pioneered the applying safety (AppSec) market. The corporate is a market innovator with its Checkmarx One™ Utility Safety Platform. The platform allows growth and safety groups to “shift everywhere” primarily based on its unparalleled accuracy, protection, visibility and steering to cut back threat throughout all parts of the fashionable software program growth cycle. Mission-critical AppSec groups are always required to cut back threat, meet compliance and assist their organizations’ enterprise progress plans. The challenges are more and more vital at a time when menace actors are proliferating at an accelerated price.
“I have long admired the application security brand and platform that Emmanuel, Maty and the Checkmarx team have created and am excited to build on that foundation to further scale the company’s business and to drive leadership in the market,” mentioned Johri. “I am honored and excited to work closely with Emmanuel, the Board and the rest of the leadership team to capitalize on the many opportunities ahead.”
“It has been a tremendous honor to be at the helm of such an organization from its inception to where it stands today. Thanks to long-time partner and founder CTO Maty Siman, together with the leadership team, our employees, shareholders, customers and partners, we’ve had an incredible 17 years. I am enormously proud of what we have accomplished,” Benzaquen mentioned. “I look forward to the next chapter of the Checkmarx story as an active board member, helping drive the business while focusing on our strategic path ahead.”
“On behalf of the Board, I am delighted to welcome Sandeep to the Checkmarx team,” mentioned Tarim Wasim, Associate at Hellman & Friedman. “The depth and breadth of his leadership in security and DevOps uniquely position him to help take Checkmarx into its next stage of growth. We are grateful to Emmanuel for his leadership of Checkmarx. It’s a testament to his vision that the company is considered the leader in the application security market.”
About Checkmarx
Checkmarx is consistently pushing the boundaries of utility safety to assist mission-critical organizations’ utility safety groups “shift everywhere.” Because the trade chief, Checkmarx affords the trade’s most complete AppSec platform, Checkmarx One, that gives CISOs, AppSec and builders with unparalleled accuracy, protection, visibility and steering to cut back threat throughout all parts of recent software program – together with proprietary code, open supply, APIs and infrastructure as code. Over 1,800 clients worldwide, together with 60% of the Fortune 50 and lots of public sector organizations belief Checkmarx know-how, knowledgeable analysis and world companies to securely optimize growth processes at velocity and scale. For extra data, go to the Checkmarx web site, take a look at the weblog or observe the corporate on LinkedIn.
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