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Veteran marketing executive and
MIT Sloan School of Management graduateStacey Wu , former head of global marketing at security software leader Fortinet where she helped grow the company’s market cap from$5B to over$20B , joins Everbridge as Chief Marketing Officer -
Three-time CMO andHarvard Business School graduate,Jessica Deckinger , who previously worked with major brands such as Humana, theNational Football League (NFL) and JP Morgan Chase, joins Everbridge as Chief Communications Officer
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Everbridge Makes Key Appointments to Expand its Global Marketing and Communications Functions (Photo: Business Wire)
Everbridge expands its global marketing and communications reach across more industries and geographies to better serve the integrated risk management challenges of organizations around the world, and to grow awareness for the importance of CEM to the safety of people and operations. As the original creator of the critical event management category, increasingly a CEO- and Board-level imperative, Everbridge and its mission now grow in importance every day as the world navigates a generational ‘black swan’ event resulting from coronavirus. The collective experience of
The company also announced that
“Our mission to keep people safe and organizations running, coupled with our market-leading technology platform in the increasingly relevant critical event management industry, enables us to attract the highest caliber talent,” said
Prior to serving as SVP Global Marketing at Fortinet, a multibillion in revenue market cap software leader securing the largest enterprise, SMB, service provider, and government organizations around the world,
“We are in the early stages of a growing market opportunity for CEM,” said Wu. “I look forward to bringing my international marketing experience to Everbridge, having built and run a global demand generation engine at Fortinet that helped drive the company’s rapid growth. After working in cybersecurity for over 15 years to protect consumers and businesses against digital threats, I am honored to be a part of the Everbridge mission and to further elevate the importance of the category of critical event management.”
“The importance of CEM to the world’s top brands including Goldman Sachs, IBM and Siemens, as well as governments and healthcare agencies around the world, was evidenced by the significant global attendance at Everbridge’s recent COVID-19: Road to Recovery Symposium,” said Deckinger. “I consider it a rare opportunity to join such an incredibly strong team and to be a part of a company delivering on such a powerful mission.”
Last month, Everbridge hosted its “COVID-19 R2R: The Road to Recovery” virtual leadership summit featuring marquee keynote speakers including the 43rd President of the United States
About Everbridge
Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order to Keep People Safe and Businesses Running™. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 5,400 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans. The company’s platform sent over 3.5 billion messages in 2019 and offers the ability to reach over 600 million people in more than 200 countries and territories, including the entire mobile populations on a country-wide scale in
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