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ADDING MULTIMEDIA Industrial Defender Taps Former Symantec and Core Security Technologies Marketing Executive
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. --(Business Wire)--
Industrial
Defender, the number
one ranked leader in security for industrial control systems and the
Smart Grid, today announced that Kimberly Legelis has joined the company
as vice president of marketing. Legelis, who most recently served as
vice president of marketing at Core Security Technologies, brings more
than twenty years of enterprise technology marketing, management and
international business experience to Industrial Defender.
Kim Legelis, Vice President of Marketing for Industrial Defender (Photo: Business Wire)
"As Industrial Defender looks to accelerate our growth and expand the
Company's leadership position, we wanted a strong marketing leader with
a proven record," said Brian Ahern, president and CEO of Industrial
Defender. "Kim's extensive track record of building successful marketing
programs around emerging technologies within rapidly changing markets
adds a key element to our management team. Her passion for the customer
and established reputation for fueling revenue growth will further
enable Industrial Defender to meet the needs of this evolving market."
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"I've joined Industrial Defender for one simple reason," said Kimberly
Legelis, vice president of marketing, Industrial Defender. "I believe
the critical infrastructure of our country and others is at substantial
risk and Industrial Defender has the expertise to mitigate that risk.
Industrial Defender has spent the last decade specializing in the
security and management challenges of SCADA and other industrial control
systems that operate critical infrastructure like power generation
facilities, oil refineries, chemical plants, and the like. The Company
has the technology, domain expertise, and market leadership to make a
real difference in securing the infrastructure we rely upon in every
aspect of our lives. I want to be part of that."
Before joining Industrial Defender, as the leader of Core Security
Technologies marketing team, Kimberly established the Company as a
leader in security testing and measurement, while nearly tripling the
Company's 3-year revenues. She built a high-performance marketing team
that launched half a dozen new products and elevated the position of the
company into the enterprise security market.
Prior to Core Security Technologies, Legelis was director of North
American field and alliance marketing at Symantec (News - Alert) and director of
financial services solutions at Symantec. She has also held various
strategic, product, and international marketing positions with
CyberTrust, and GTE (now part of Verizon (News - Alert)).
Kimberly Legelis holds an MBA and Doctorandus from the Netherlands
School of Business and a B.S. in Industrial Management and Economics
from Carnegie Mellon University.
About Industrial Defender
Industrial
Defender is the global leader in automation systems management. For
more than a decade, the company has successfully developed and delivered
solutions for operators of industrial control systems. With deep domain
expertise built in, Industrial Defender products enable customers to
ensure the availability and reliability of their key industrial
processes. Leveraging the industry's first unified platform for
security, compliance and change management, Industrial Defender
solutions enable customers to reduce costs and risks, and enhance
operational excellence. Over 350 companies in 21 countries rely on
Industrial Defender technology to monitor, manage and protect their
operations and processes.
For more information, visit Industrial Defender's website,
connect on LinkedIn
and follow Industrial Defender on Twitter.
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