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Darktrace PLC
22 November 2023
22 November 2023
Darktrace plc
Darktrace plc further strengthens its Board with appointment of
two Independent Non-Executive Directors with extensive US
high-growth software experience
Jill Popelka, former President of SAP SuccessFactors, and Paula
Hansen, President and Chief Revenue Officer at Alteryx, Inc., to
join Darktrace plc Board on 1 January, 2024
Darktrace plc (DARK.L) (together with its subsidiaries,
"Darktrace" or "the Group"), a global leader in cyber security AI,
is pleased to announce the appointments of Jill Popelka and Paula
Hansen as independent Non-Executive Directors with effect from 1
January, 2024.
Both Jill and Paula bring substantial experience of leading
global, high-growth software organisations across sales, marketing,
and partnerships and scaling complex businesses through rapid
growth, with a particular focus on the US market. Their experience
will significantly strengthen the Board's expertise as it seeks to
support the changes underway in Darktrace's go-to-market
organisation, including the hiring of more experienced personnel to
lead the evolution of these teams, the segmentation of accounts,
including a focus on larger prospects and the partner channel, and
the implementation of industry-leading sales, marketing, and
customer success tools.
Jill was most recently Head of Enterprise Services at Snap Inc.
Prior to this, she spent more than a decade at SAP where she served
as President of SAP SuccessFactors, a cloud-based human capital
management software provider. Under her leadership, SAP
SuccessFactors grew to serve more than 7,000 customers, with 120
million users worldwide and Jill oversaw the launch of a number of
successful new software products, including SAP Work Zone for
HR.
Paula is currently President and Chief Revenue Officer at
Alteryx, Inc., the leading analytics cloud platform, where she is
responsible for the entire customer journey, including sales,
pre-sales, renewals, partners and alliances, marketing and customer
success. Paula has helped scale the business from c.$530 million in
revenue in 2021 to over $900 million in 2023. Prior to this, Paula
was Chief Revenue Officer of SAP Customer Experience where she led
Product Sales, Presales, Channel, Go-to-Market, Operations, and
Customer Success in support of the company's 10,000+ Customer
Experience customers. Paula spent 19 years at Cisco which she left
as Vice President of Global Enterprise West.
Gordon Hurst, Chairman of Darktrace plc, said:
"We are delighted to welcome Jill and Paula to the Board. They
bring outstanding go-to-market experience from a range of leading,
fast-growing, global software businesses, which will be hugely
beneficial to Darktrace as we continue to invest in building a
world-class experience for our customers, prospects and partners.
Attracting such seasoned, high calibre individuals to the Board
reflects the strength of the business and our prospects as we
continue to deliver on our mission to free the world of cyber
disruption."
Jill Popelka added:
"Darktrace's AI approach to cyber security is truly unique,
defending organisations from the inside out, rather than the
outside in. We're at the beginning of the age of AI which will
radically transform the cyber security landscape and presents a
significant opportunity for an AI native company like Darktrace. I
look forward to working with the team to capitalise on the
tremendous opportunities ahead for Darktrace."
Paula Hansen added:
"Darktrace is a business I have been watching closely for many
years and it is a great privilege to be appointed to serve on its
Board. The transformation of the business over the last year or so,
which has significantly advanced its product offering and matured
its go-to-market organisation, has been impressive. I'm excited to
be able to bring my experience to Darktrace as it seeks to increase
its market penetration and continue to deliver strong, profitable
and sustainable growth."
The Group confirms that there are no other disclosures that need
to be made under Listing Rule 9.6.13 relating to the appointment of
Jill Popelka.
The Group confirms that there are no other disclosures that need
to be made under Listing Rule 9.6.13 relating to the appointment of
Paula Hansen
About Darktrace
Darktrace (DARK.L), a global leader in cyber security artificial
intelligence, is on a mission to free the world of cyber
disruption. Breakthrough innovations in our Cyber AI Research
Centre in Cambridge, UK have resulted in over 160 patents filed and
research published to contribute to the cyber security community.
Rather than study attacks, Darktrace's technology continuously
learns and updates its knowledge of your business data and applies
that understanding to optimise your state of optimal cyber
security. Darktrace's cyber AI technology provides a full lifecycle
approach to cyber resilience across the entire organisation that
can autonomously spot and respond to novel in progress threats
within seconds. Darktrace employs over 2,200 people around the
world and protects approximately 8,900 customers globally from
advanced cyber threats. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine's
'Most Influential Companies' in 2021. To learn more, visit
http://www.darktrace.com/ .
Enquiries:
Luk Janssens - Investor Relations
Direct: +44 7811 027918
luk.janssens@darktrace.com
Henry Wallers - Headland
Direct: +44 7876 562436
hwallers@headlandconsultancy.com
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