Bolsters Executive Team to Meet Surging Demand for Content Security Offerings and Record Growth in First Half of Fiscal Year
Mountain View, CA, July 14, 2021 — Egnyte, the leader in cloud content security and governance, today announced the appointment of Stan Hansen as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Hansen will be responsible for all sales functions globally.
In the first half of 2021, Egnyte has added 128 net new hires, bringing its total employee count to 789; opened its first office in Asia; and, received numerous industry and customer accolades including being named a Leader by G2 in three distinct categories: Data Governance, Data Security and Content Collaboration.
“After just closing our largest quarter in history, growing 40% year over year, we are excited to welcome a leader of Stan’s caliber to help us capture the demand we are seeing in the market,” said Vineet Jain, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Egnyte. “As we look ahead to the future, Stan’s experience in leadership roles at publicly traded companies will be a great addition to the executive suite during this exciting next phase of growth for Egnyte, and beyond.”
Prior to joining Egnyte, Hansen spent five years at Pluralsight, where he was most recently President, North America Sales. In that time, Hansen built a multi-regional, large-scale sales, business development and solutions consulting organization that was process driven and consistently generated high-growth revenue results. Hansen and his organization were instrumental in taking Pluralsight through their successful initial public offering in 2018. Prior to Pluralsight, he held various leadership positions in sales, technology and operations for companies including Domo, Adobe and Wells Fargo.
“I’m thrilled to be joining Egnyte at such a historic time of substantial growth,” said Stan Hansen, Chief Revenue Officer, Egnyte. “I look forward to working with an exceptional leadership team to capture the growth opportunity and unprecedented market demand Egnyte is experiencing as more companies continue to embrace digital transformation at an accelerated rate.”
About Egnyte
Egnyte provides a unified cloud content governance solution for collaboration, data security, compliance, and threat detection for multicloud businesses. More than 16,000 organizations trust Egnyte to reduce risks and IT complexity, prevent ransomware and IP theft, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere. Investors include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com.
