New Chief Marketing Officer, New Board
Member and New Director Security Intelligence join the Digital Risk Management
business
Dubai, UAE, May 8, 2017 – Digital Shadows, the industry leader in digital risk management,
continues to strengthen its management team by today announcing the appointment
of Dan Lowden as Chief Marketing Officer, Schwark Satyavolu joining the company’s board and Paul
Kenealy joining as Director
of Intelligence.
Digital Shadows finished 2016
with its third consecutive year of triple-digit revenue growth, and experienced significant customer
expansion in both the United States and Europe, across verticals such as
financial services, pharmaceuticals, retail, and technology. The company
expanded rapidly and opened a new office in Dallas to add to the sites in San
Francisco and London.
Dan Lowden has more than 20 years of executive-level
experience in technology marketing. He has driven brand leadership and marketing
excellance that substantially grew startups and large enterprises in security,
mobile computing, wireless services, enterprise software and cloud. As CMO at
Digital Shadows he will lead all aspects of the company’s strategic marketing
efforts to expand its global market precense, develop new partnerships and
relationships, and continue to focus on customer needs.
Previously Dan was
Chief Marketing Officer at Invincea, a machine learning next-gen antivirus company that was recently acquired by Sophos.
Prior to that, he was VP of Marketing at vArmour, a leading data center and
cloud security company. Previous roles also include VP of Marketing at Digby
(acquired by Phunware), and VP of Marketing and Business Development at Wayport
(acquired by AT&T). In addition, he has held marketing leadership positions
at IBM, NEC, and Sharp Electronics. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance
from Rider University and an MBA in International Business from Rutgers Graduate
School of Management.
Industry veteran Schwark Satyavolu has joined the company’s Board and will bring considerable expertise
and advice to the business.
Schwark is a General Partner
at Trinity Ventures focusing on Fintech, Security and Artificial Intelligence
investments. For almost 20 years, he has built and complied with security
standards for some of the largest financial institutions in the country.
Schwark co-founded two Fintech companies – Yodlee (YDLE, acquired by Envestnet
in 2015) and Truaxis (a Trinity portfolio company acquired by MasterCard in
2012). Before joining Trinity, Schwark served as EVP at LifeLock and head of
Mastercard’s global rewards and offers initiatives.
‘We are excited
to be able to attract executives of the caliber of Dan, Paul and Schwark to join the Digital Shadows
team,’ said Alastair Paterson, Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Shadows.
‘Customer demand for Digital Risk Management has never been higher and we are
looking forward to the next phase of our growth as we deliver our industry
leading SearchLight™ service to help organization’s recognize and reduce
their digital risks, including cyber threats, data leakage, and reputational
risks.”