Cloud security and compliance software maker Anitian has a new chief financial officer as it continues to build its management team for a new era of growth.
The company named Julie Crawford to the role and she will oversee the growing finance and accounting team, business and sales operations as well as other finance-related operations and legal relationships.
Prior to this role, she was CFO at Circle Media. She has also had CFO roles at several other high-profile Portland tech companies including Mirador Financial, which was acquired in 2018, and Zapproved. She spent more than seven years in finance at software maker Puppet and was interim CFO for a stint.
“Julie will be integral to our continued success and growth, building on her strong financial acumen, deep technology leadership experience, and her belief in our vision to unite security and DevOps,” said President and CEO Rakesh Narasimhan in a written statement. “I'm thrilled to welcome Julie to our leadership team."
Narasimhan joined Anitian last summer, taking over from founder Andrew Plato, who is now on the board of directors. The company raised $11 million from investors in 2019 as it moved from purely security research and consulting and into a product company.
Anitian built a software platform that helps customers quickly create secure and compliant cloud environments within which they can build their own applications. The process of building those development environments can be laborious, complex and expensive. Anitian’s product automates this and meets several high demand security standards for industries such as government and financial services.
“Anitian's disruptive technology, combined with a massive market opportunity and mission to dramatically accelerate time to production, compliance, and market for enterprise DevOps, security, and business teams is incredibly compelling," said Crawford in a written statement. "As Anitian continues its impressive growth and scale, I look forward to working with the team to deliver on the company's strategic priorities, as well as all elements of financial operations to drive even more value for our customers and stakeholders."
