Dragos announced that it has named Christophe Culine as the company’s first Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).
Culine is a proven strategic and operational leader known for building high-performance sales, marketing, professional services, and technical support teams driving accelerated and consistent growth across geographies. He brings more than two decades of experience leading early in mid-stage companies from ARR and revenues of $ 10 to $ 20 million to over $ 300 million. As CRO, Culine will be responsible for developing and managing strategies that will accelerate Dragos ’market leadership position and grow and augment global revenue.
“Christophe brings an incredible amount of expertise to Dragos as a successful sales leader and CRO for many high-growth organizations, from startups to public companies,” said Robert M. Lee, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Dragos, Inc. “His experience in building world-class sales and support teams and his relentless focus on customers will help us accelerate our efforts in North America while increasing our focus on international expansion and expansion. of our partnership channels. Christophe is a proven executive leader and a data-driven CRO who will help us deliver on our promises to our customers and community. “
Prior to joining Dragos, Culine served as President and CRO of RiskIQ, where he led the sales, support and professional services teams and guided the company in signing a specific agreement to merge with Microsoft. He also served as head of sales and CRO roles at Qualys, Fortinet, and Venafi, a company that Thomas Bravo acquired for $ 1.15 billion.
“Dragos is the definitive leader in the exploding industrial cybersecurity market and I look forward to the opportunity to continue to build and grow a company with a global presence, and be part of the mission to preserve infrastructure and civilization around the world,” he said. Culine. “Dragos’ incredibly impressive leadership team, its mission-driven culture, and enthusiastic customer and community base are the hallmarks of companies building lasting markets that make global impacts.”
This executive hire follows an impressive year for Dragos, which came from a record-breaking $ 200 million Series D round of funding worth $ 1.7 billion that established Dragos as the highest valued industrial cybersecurity company in the world and strengthened its position as the industry leader in the fast -growing cybersecurity category of ICS/OT.
Dragos has expanded its global business operations within the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and within the Gulf Cooperation Council including The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates with plans to open an office in Dubai in March of 2022. This expansion has brought industrial cybersecurity technology and services to customers in these growth markets, as well as ICS/OT training and skills development in these regions.
Dragos also entered into a number of key technology alliances and partnerships throughout the year aimed at providing customers with best -in -class integrated IT/OT solutions:
- Dragos announced the NSA and CISA have joined Neighborhood Keeper as Trusted Advisors to bring ICS/OT collective defense and visibility to critical U.S. infrastructure. Neighborhood Keeper’s previously announced collaborations include a joint initiative with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), the Oil and Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ONG-ISAC). ), and the Downstream Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (DNG-ISAC).
- Dragos announced a technology partnership and integration with ServiceNow, which enables joint customers to expand the visibility of ICS/OT assets in support of manufacturing companies undertaking digital transformation initiatives.
- Dragos and IronNet have launched a joint initiative designed to help ensure the security of the nation’s critical infrastructure through a “collective defense” approach to industrial cybersecurity by integrating IronNet’s IronDome with Dragos ’Neighborhood Keeper .
- Dragos joined the IBM Security App Exchange community in launching the Dragos QRadar Device Support Module, a new technology integration that gives organizations a unified view of threats and events in integrated IT and OT applications. environment.
Additional achievements and recognition of the company in 2021 include:
- Founding sponsor of The Smart Factory Wichita, Deloitte’s new Industry 4.0 immersive experience center.
- Ranked 45th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life science, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America.
- Launched Dragos Academy, a new comprehensive education and training program available to Dragos customers and partners that aims to strengthen practitioners ’overall ICS/OT cybersecurity skills and help them fully operate and expedite time- to-value of the Dragos Platform.