Sean Foster, former chief revenue officer at Forcepoint, has been appointed to the same position at IronNet Cybersecurity.
IronNet said Wednesday Foster aims to drive IronNet’s sales, marketing, business development, customer management efforts intended to help customers adopt network threat detection platforms.
He will report to co-CEOs William Welch and Keith Alexander.
Foster previously spent three years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s (NYSE: HPE) security business as vice president of global sales and worked at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) for 15 years.
“In my 20-year career working with customers, it is clear that the speed of detection is critical to helping customers stop cyber breaches,” he said.