CEO Today Magazine March 2020 Edition

APPOINTMENTS 85 www.ceotodaymagazine.com R9B Appoints Former Verizon Exec John G. Stratton to the Board of Directors R9B, a leading provider of advanced cybersecurity products, services, and training, has announced that telecommunications industry veteran John Stratton has joined its Board of Directors. Stratton has held multiple executive and leadership roles at Verizon for 25 years, most recently as President of Global Operations where he had overall P&L responsibility for Verizon’s $120B network businesses, with 140K employees serving in 36 countries worldwide. In 2012, former US President Barack Obama appointed Stratton to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Stratton is a proven innovator who helped drive growth across enterprise, wireless, consumer wireline, network and cyber services. “As evidenced by his leadership roles at Verizon and White House telecom board appointment, John has developed a unique track record that cuts across operations, marketing, product and sales that will prove invaluable joining our Board of Directors”, said Eric Hipkins, R9B’s Founder and CEO. “He brings a wealth of knowledge about network security and the challenges that enterprises, governments, and mobile customers have when protecting their networks.” Prior to his role as head of global operations, Stratton served as President of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, the group that oversees all of Verizon’s solutions for its business and government customers. Verizon Enterprise Solution’s portfolio includes the telecom vendor’s enterprise mobility, cloud and IT, strategic networking and advanced communications offerings. Earlier, he served as EVP and Chief Operating Officer of Verizon Wireless, and also as Verizon’s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer. Stratton joined Verizon’s predecessor company, Bell Atlantic Mobile, in 1993 as Director of retail sales and operations. “R9B is a proven innovator when it comes to developing advancedcybersecuritysolutionstomeettoday’ssophisticated threat climate – which is why it’s threat HUNTing approach is resonating in the market”, adds Stratton. “I am thrilled to join the Board of Directors and look forward to lending expertise from my roles across industry and government.” Diane Greene Joins the Wix Board of Directors Wix.com Ltd has announced the appointment of Diane Greene to its board of directors. “We could not be more excited to welcome Diane to our board of directors”, said Avishai Abrahami, Co-founder and CEO of Wix. “As the Co-founder of multiple disruptive companies, overseeing their tremendous growth, along with serving on the boards of highly successful technology leaders, Diane brings an unparalleled amount of technology experience and leadership to our board. As we embark on our next significant phase of growth, we are fortunate to add someone of Diane’s wisdom to Wix.” Ms Greene is among the most prominent entrepreneurs in the development of cloud computing and an experienced leader in the enterprise software industry. In 1998 Greene co-founded VMware, a pioneer in computing virtualisation solutions, serving as its CEO until 2008. She also co-founded and was the CEO of VXtreme, bought by Microsoft in 1997, and Bebop, bought by Google in 2015. She previously served as the CEO of Google’s Cloud Division from 2015 through 2018 as well as on the board of directors for Intuit from 2006 to 2018 and for Alphabet from 2012 to 2019. Ms Greene currently serves on the board of directors of SAP SE and Stripe. She is also a lifetime member of The MIT Corporation, the governing body of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont, an MS in Naval Architecture from MIT and an MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Ms Green will replace Giora “Gig” Kaplan. Gig co-founded Wix in 2006 and along with co-founders Avishai Abrahami and Nadav Abrahami served as a key visionary in bringing website creation to hundreds of millions of users globally through the Wix platform. He will also be stepping down as the company’s CTO but will stay on in an advisory capacity.