Centrify Chooses Tenable Vet to Lead Global Channel

By | Managed Services News

Feb 14

Centrify’s new channel chief brings more than 30 years of enterprise channel, sales and marketing experience.

Centrify, a provider of privileged access management (PAM), has hired Chris Peterson, previously with Tenable, as its vice president of worldwide channels and alliances.

In this role, Peterson will be responsible for leading all aspects the company’s global channels and alliances, with an emphasis on partner alignment, demand creation and gaining customers.

Centrify's Chris Peterson

Centrify’s Chris Peterson

“Our partners are essential to helping customers understand best practices for least privilege solutions, and how to best secure and manage their infrastructure as they go through cloud transformations,” Peterson said. “I’m excited to join the Centrify team and optimize our partner ecosystem so we can more effectively communicate the value of an identity-centric approach to PAM. That starts with providing a choice of solutions and deployment options to our customers, as well as a best-in-class selection of channel partners, technology partners and global systems integrators to reach and positively impact the enterprise and key vertical markets.”

Peterson brings more than 30 years of enterprise channel, sales and marketing experience to Centrify. He most recently was vice president of global channels at Tenable, where he designed, built and executed a channel and MSSP program. Before that, he was vice president of worldwide sales at Niara, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). He also held senior channel and sales leadership positions at Sourcefire, ArcSight and McAfee.

“Chris is the perfect channel executive to help Centrify transform into a channel-first market leader where he can repeat his success driving companies like ours to their next stage of scale,” said Howard Greenfield, Centrify’s chief revenue officer. “The combination of demand for privilege management in the market, our innovative technology and our partners will provide extreme value for our customers.”

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