NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep 13, 2022–
Obsidian Security, the leader in SaaS security Posture Management (SSPM), has announced the appointment of Reena Choudhry as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Choudhry brings over 20+ years of experience leading enterprise sales and partner-driven go-to-market strategies.
He most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Very Good Security and prior to that, served as Vice President of North American Sales for Shape Security (acquired by F5), where he worked with Obsidian Security CEO Hasan Imam. During his tenure at Shape, the North American business grew 2x year-over-year ultimately leading to the acquisition of the company by F5. Prior to his journey through numerous Silicon Valley startups, Choudhry spent several years at Cisco in various senior roles spanning multiple disciplines in Product Management, Business Development and Sales for both products and service including enabling both direct and indirect channels worldwide for a new product line. Reena was instrumental in helping build the Data Center (DC) Services business and, in her last role at Cisco, she led data center services sales across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region if where the region grew from $39M to over $80M run rate in 2 years.
“I’m excited to join Obsidian at an exciting time and take the sales team to the next level—something I’ve done for other fast-growing security companies throughout my career,” said by Choudhry. “The company has amazing leaders, culture, values, a partner-first mentality and a focus on innovation that helps customers dramatically reduce risk as businesses accelerate the adoption of SaaS in their organization . I can’t wait to roll up my sleeves at the service of Obsidian’s incredible team and work with my counterparts across the company to build on Obsidian’s success and take it to its next phase of growth.”
“Reena is a world-class sales leader with a proven track record of accelerating sales and scaling the growth of fast-growing organizations. Having worked with her at Shape Security, I am delighted to be working with her again to build a best-in-class sales organization,” said Imam. “With Reena’s exceptional people-centric sales leadership and revenue growth experience across multiple verticals , he brings a wealth of knowledge that will enable us to continue to drive value for our customers.”
With Choudhry leading the charge and being part of a small percentage (24%) of women in the cybersecurity space, she hopes to be a role model for those aspiring to sales leadership roles. Reena is also a certified sommelier and plans to trek to Everest Base Camp this fall. She is also passionate about building a vibrant community of women in cybersecurity and plans to continue to engage with industry leaders, and help drive growth and opportunities for Obsidian and its partners. If you’re interested in joining the Obsidian team visit us here, or connect with Reena on Linkedin here.
About Obsidian Security
Obsidian Security protects the applications most businesses rely on. We are the first and only comprehensive security solution built for SaaS. Our platform helps reduce enterprise risk by proactively identifying SaaS misconfigurations, identifying real-time threats and enabling visibility into risky SaaS integrations. Prominent Fortune 500 companies trust Obsidian Security to secure SaaS apps, such as Salesforce, GitHub, ServiceNow, Workday and Atlassian . Headquartered in Southern California, Obsidian Security is a privately held company and is backed by Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, IVP, GV and Wing. For more information, visit www.obsidiansecurity.com.
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