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10 Cybersecurity Companies Making Moves: January 2023
Kyle Alspach
We’re taking a look at the cybersecurity companies that launched products and partner program updates, made key executive changes, raised funding or announced acquisitions in January.
CrowdStrike Poaches Two Execs From Rival SentinelOne
Prominent cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike lured two executives from one of its leading challengers, hiring the chief marketing officer and chief product officer from SentinelOne. CrowdStrike announced that Daniel Bernard (pictured left), who had been CMO at SentinelOne, and Raj Rajamani (pictured right), who had been its CPO, have both joined CrowdStrike’s executive team. Bernard has been named CrowdStrike’s chief business officer, and his duties will include overseeing CrowdStrike’s work with channel partners. Rajamani joins CrowdStrike as its CPO for data, identity, cloud and endpoint. Both of the executives had spent the past five years at SentinelOne.
Bernard is reporting to CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, who co-founded the company in 2011. Notably, Bernard’s areas of oversight include the CrowdStrike channel and alliances program with the company’s channel chief, Michael Rogers, now reporting to Bernard. In a post on LinkedIn, Bernard mentioned that he’s focused on pursuing growth with partners, and he also mentioned a goal of of focusing more on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). “CrowdStrike is positioned to continue leading the cybersecurity market from the front. We’re going to do it with our partners,” Bernard wrote in the post. “We’re going to double down on every segment, especially the long tail of underserved SMBs.”
