2020 Cybersecurity Marketer of the Year Nominees and Judges Announced
Community to Recognize and Celebrate its Best and Brightest Prior to RSA Conference, 37 Nominees Announced Across Five Categories
Menlo Park, Calif. – Jan. 30, 2020 – The Cybersecurity Go To Market Dojo, the industry’s premier community for Cybersecurity marketing professionals, today announced the 38 nominees for its 2020 Marketer of the Year awards. The awards, to be presented on February 23rd in San Francisco by premier sponsor Cyentia Institute, will recognize the leading Cybersecurity marketers in five categories including Marketer of the Year in a Public Company, Marketer of the Year in a Private Company, Rising Star Marketer of the Year, Breakout Company of the Year and Best Marketing Campaign of the Year, Thought Leadership or Demand Generation.
Over 250 Cybersecurity marketing professionals will gather at the third annual RSA Conference Marketer’s Pre-fresher event on Sunday evening, February 23rd at the Thirsty Bear Brewery in San Francisco to announce the winners. The event, also sponsored by premier sponsor Security Marcom, as well as supporting sponsors Code Red Security PR Network, DWCC, Eskenzi PR, LeanData, and 10Fold Communications, is expected to sell out.
“The community and our sponsors are excited to honor the best that the industry has at our 2020 event,” said Dojo founder Ken Rutsky. “This year, we’ve added two new awards and two new judges, and we are amazed by the talent and accomplishments of the nearly 40 nominees, who represent the best and the brightest that the industry has to offer.”
Returning as judges from last year are the Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst at IT-Harvest, renowned cybersecurity author of many books including the soon to be released Security Yearbook 2020, and Dr. Chenxi Wang, founder of Rain Capital, formerly the chief strategy officer at Twistlock and vice president of security research at Forrester. Joining the judging panel this year are last year’s winner Varun Kholi, former VP of Strategic Marketing at Symantec and now co-founder of a stealth AI startup, and Alan Shimel, founder and CEO of event media partner MediaOps and Editor in Chief of Security Boulevard.
“Richard’s and Chenxi’s reputations precede them, and we are thrilled to have them back, as they are two of the leading influencers in the industry today. As a returning winner, Varun knows excellence when he sees it, and Alan is one of the most read experts and writers in the space. Combined this panel brings deep insight into the security market, buyers, products, and marketing. It’s quite humbling to have them all on the judging panel,” Rutsky added.
Required pre-registration for the event is free and open to all cybersecurity vendor marketing, sales and executive teams at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rsa2020-marketers-prefresher-happy-hour-marketer-of-the-year-awards-tickets-77899027087
Nominees for the awards are listed below. Winners and runner-ups will be announced at the February 23rd event.
About The Cybersecurity Go To Market Dojo
The Cybersecurity Go To Market Dojo is the industry’s premier community for Cybersecurity marketing and communications professionals. The Dojo is the leading place for Cybersecurity marketing professionals to share their ideas and stories about go to market strategies and tactics in order to grow their knowledge, skills and influence, accelerate their careers and increase their contributions to not just their organization, but to the industry and society. More information and online membership can be found at gotomarketdojo.com.
2020 Cybersecurity Marketer of the Year Nominees
Private Company Marketer of the Year
Armen Najarian, CMO, Agari
Yoni Heilbronn, CMO, Argus Cyber Security
Cameron Ragano, Director of Marketing, Cybrary
Thomas Key, Director of Marketing Operations, eLearnSecurity
Jane Grafton, VP of Marketing, Gurucul
Kim Legelis, CMO, Nozomi networks
Natalia Wodecki, Director of Global Communications & PR, OneLogin
Youtse Sung, VP of Marketing, Outpost24
Kim DeCarlis, CMO, PerimeterX
Dana Tamir, VP of Market Strategy, Silverfort
Kris Crawford, VP of Marketing, The Media Trust
Marc Solomon, CMO, ThreatQuotient
Steve Kahan, CMO, Thycotic
Public Company Marketer of the Year
Jake Anderson, Head of Marketing, Cloudflare
Johanna Flower, CMO , Crowdstrike
Ryan Carlson, CMO, Okta
Leah MacMillan, CMO, Trend Micro Inc.
Micheline Nijmeh, CMO, Z-Scaler
Rising Star Marketer of the Year
Meg Berry, Sr. Director of Demand Generation, Axonius
Noam Harel, VP of Marketing, enSilo
Corinna Krueger, VP of Marketing, SafeBreach
Katy Yuan, Marketing Campaigns Specialist, Symantec
Ryan Murphy, Head of Global Communications, VMWare Carbon Black
Liarna LaPorta, Senior Manager Marketing, Wandera
Breakout Company of the Year
Arctic Wolf – Rebecca Selby, VP of Marketing
Armis Security – Michael Parker CMO
Axonius -Nathan Burke, CMO
Blue Hexagon – Danelle Au, CMO
IronNet Cybersecurity – Russ Cobb, CMO
Security Compass – Barb Betts, Director of Marketing
Snyk – Leigh Moore, VP of Marketing
Best Marketing Campaign of the Year, Thought Leadership or Demand Generation
Deceptively Simple Threat Detection, Attivo Networks – Carolyn Crandall, CMO
Targeting Previous Users, Digital Shadows – Dustin Smith, Field Marketing Manager, Americas
Zero2Hero, SentinelOne – Migo Kedem, Senior Director, Products & Marketing
Prioritization to Prediction Reports, Kenna Security – Caroline Japic, CMO
VPN Vulnerabilities, Turning a Crisis into Thought Leadership, PulseSecure -Scott Gordon, CMO
The Art of Cybersecurity, Trend Micro Inc.- Leah MacMillan, CMO
