Sumo Logic Appoints John Visneski as Chief Information Security Officer and Lyndsey Filantres as Senior Vice President of Growth
June 25 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
These additions round out a seasoned executive
team to help the company fuel DevSecOps through the power of log
analytics
Sumo Logic, the leading SaaS Log Analytics Platform, today
announced the appointment of John Visneski as Chief Information
Security Officer (CISO) and Lyndsey Filantres as Senior Vice
President (SVP) of Growth. These leaders bring decades of
experience in security and B2B technology. They join an
accomplished executive team committed to enabling Dev, Sec and Ops
teams to collaborate and solve the hardest questions facing digital
companies, all powered by data-driven, actionable insights.
“As we continue our focus on efficient growth and deepening our
competitive capabilities, it's crucial to have strong leaders who
can inspire and guide us toward our goals. I’m very excited to
welcome John and Lyndsey to the Sumo Logic team as they are the
perfect additions to round out our executive leadership team,” said
Joe Kim, President and CEO of Sumo Logic. “Their combined expertise
in building programs for growing organizations will be instrumental
as Sumo Logic advances its mission to make digital experiences
faster, reliable and more secure. As we look ahead, we are focused
on helping our customers realize the power of logs as a single
source of truth to fuel DevSecOps and deliver the next generation
of AI-powered security and observability solutions.”
John Visneski: CISO
John Visneski joins Sumo Logic as its new CISO and brings more
than 15 years of information security experience spanning multiple
industries, including the federal government, entertainment and
healthcare.
Visneski will lead security operations, engineering, governance
risk management, compliance and data protection across the
business. Most recently, he led Amazon's subsidiary security and
integration efforts following its acquisition of MGM Studios, where
he served as CISO. With extensive experience in healthcare as CISO
at Accolade and in building security and privacy programs at The
Pokémon Company International, he has developed robust data privacy
strategies and protected corporate IT systems, customer platforms,
applications and products.
Lyndsey Filantres: SVP of Growth
Lyndsey Filantres brings more than two decades of marketing,
brand management and product-led business development to her new
role as the SVP of Growth at Sumo Logic. Filantres will lead the
velocity growth strategy, and her team will focus on enhancing the
ability of sales and marketing organizations to accelerate customer
acquisition and expansion through effective go-to-market
strategies. Filantres previously served as SVP of Marketing at
Accolade, leading the demand, marketing operations, communications
and brand functions. Her career spans key positions at GitHub, New
Relic, Avalara and SAP Concur, showcasing her expertise in digital,
growth, brand management and demand.
These new leadership appointments follow other recent key
executive additions, including Liz Shulof as Chief Marketing
Officer, Russell Rosa as Chief Revenue Officer, Paris Georgallis as
Chief Customer Officer and Todd Hanna as Chief Legal Officer.
- Liz Shulof, Chief Marketing Officer: Shulof brings more
than two decades of developing and managing strategic and marketing
initiatives for B2B technology companies. She previously served as
Chief Marketing Officer at BeyondTrust, Vice President at Greenough
Communications, and a consultant with Accenture.
- Russell Rosa, Chief Revenue Officer: Rosa has more than
25 years of leadership in sales and cybersecurity, building
collaborative, high-performing teams that drive customer success
and achieve business goals. He previously served as Sumo Logic’s
SVP of America Sales and, prior to Sumo Logic, held enterprise
sales leadership roles at Cisco, Actifio, and VCE, a joint venture
between VMware, Cisco and EMC.
- Paris Georgallis, Chief Customer Officer: Paris is a
veteran technology executive with nearly 30 years of experience
driving business through customer outcomes, experiences and growth.
He most recently came from Sysdig and held leadership roles at
AppDynamics, Citibank, Merck, Pepsi, Lumen, EMC and Moody’s
RMS.
- Todd Hanna, Chief Legal Officer: Hanna has over two
decades of experience leading, maturing and scaling legal
organizations in B2B technology companies. He has held legal
leadership roles at Akibia, VCE and Sovos Compliance and most
recently served as Senior Operating Advisor and Legal Counsel at
Francisco Partners Consulting.
About Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic, Inc. unifies and analyzes enterprise data,
translating it into actionable insights through one AI-powered
cloud-native log analytics platform. This single source of truth
enables Dev, Sec and Ops teams to simplify complexity, collaborate
efficiently and accelerate data-driven decisions that drive
business value. Customers around the world rely on the Sumo Logic
SaaS Log Analytics Platform for trusted insights to ensure
application reliability, secure and protect against modern security
threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. For
more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
Any information regarding offerings, updates, functionality, or
other modifications, including release dates, is subject to change
without notice. The development, release, and timing of any
offering, update, functionality, or modification described herein
remains at the sole discretion of Sumo Logic and should not be
relied upon in making a purchase decision, nor as a representation,
warranty, or commitment to deliver specific offerings, updates,
functionalities, or modifications in the future.
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Melissa Beck, Sumo Logic mbeck@sumologic.com