Systems protection company Claroty has appointed CJ Radford as global vice president of channels and alliances.
He brings over 15 years of experience leading channel sales, alliances and business development for cyber security solution providers, including Thales and Symantec.
In this role, he will oversee Claroty’s ecosystem of channel and technology alliance partners, who are focused on safeguarding and improving customers’ security operations across industrial, healthcare and commercial environments.
“Claroty is committed to building a partner ecosystem that delivers the solutions, services and security expertise required to combat today’s advanced cyber security threats, and with CJ at the helm we are strengthening this commitment even further,” said Simon Chassar, chief revenue officer at Claroty. “With his deep domain expertise and impressive track record, CJ is the perfect person to lead this next stage of our maturity.”
Radford joins Claroty from Sotero, a seed-stage data security company where he served as interim CEO. Previously, he was global vice president of channel sales and alliances for Thales’ Cloud Protection & Licensing business unit, where he led a team focused on indirect routes to market and strategic and technology alliances.
Radford joined Thales through its acquisition of Vormetric, where, as global vice president of cloud, he led the launch and development of its cloud and service provider partner programme, enabling service providers of all sizes to deliver data encryption and key management offerings.
Radford previously served as director of business development and alliances at Symantec, where he built its end-to-end public cloud and IT services partnership programme from the ground up, establishing global distribution channels, OEM partnerships and executing on inbound/outbound licensing agreements.
Earlier in his career, Radford held roles at private equity, investment banking and management consulting firms.
“I will lead Claroty’s rapidly growing partner programme and work with our strategic and technology alliance partners to further develop and support a powerful security ecosystem,” said Radford. “Claroty offers the most technically advanced platform for partners to help organisations get the visibility they need across cyber-physical systems to identify threats and improve cyber resilience.”
Claroty’s FOCUS Partner Program is designed to develop the skills, tools and processes necessary for partners to execute across the entire enterprise security services lifecycle.
