Chris van Staden is joining Balbix as chief revenue officer as the managed security services provider expands its EMEA partner channel.
As CRO, Van Staden (pictured) will be responsible for driving revenue growth, expanding the global sales team and helping leading organisations reduce their cyber risk.
Earlier this month, US-headquartered Balbix appointed a representative in Europe, hiring Christophe Németh as its head of sales and business operations for Europe. Németh has a primary focus on growing the sales team, partnerships and customer base in Europe.
“We welcome Chris to the Balbix team to further supercharge our rapid revenue growth and lead our sales team expansion around the world,” said Gaurav Banga, founder and CEO of Balbix. “Chris has an impressive, diverse background in SaaS and cyber security, and brings tremendous sales and partner experience to Balbix as we continue on our mission to enable organisations to automate their security posture and reduce their cyber risk.”
Van Staden joins Balbix from Invicti Security, where he helped the world's biggest banks, tech companies and government contractors secure their web applications. Before Invicti, Van Staden worked at NCR and Symantec, and with fast-growing early-stage SaaS companies to accelerate their growth and scale globally.
“The Balbix solution and team are able to meet critical enterprise needs, with the ability to continuously discover security issues, quantify cyber risk in monetary terms and mitigate risk issues in a prioritised, maximally automated manner,” said Van Staden. “I look forward to working with the Balbix leadership team on global expansion.”
