A privacy specialist has added three new executives this month to its completely revamped leadership roster.
RadarFirst named Lauren Wallace chief privacy officer and general counsel, Leila Kirske as its CFO and Wendy Demers as vice president of software engineering.
The three join CEO Don India, who took over in August 2021 as well as Alan Knepfer and Greg Sikes, the chief sales officer and VP of product. Knepfer and Sikes both joined the company after April 2021.
Clients use RadarFirst’s software to manage data breach incident response and ensure compliance with data breach regulations, which can vary by jurisdiction. Its customers include bankers, insurers and health care providers.
India hopes to move the software further into the retail, hospitality, regulated utilities, travel and transportation sectors.
“All of those industries require some form of privacy incident response solution. Why shouldn’t it be Radar?” he said. “The market for privacy incident response is every industry on the planet.”
RadarFirst spun out of identity software company ID Experts in 2016. In 2018, it sold a controlling stake to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.
Wallace is the co-chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Portland Chapter. She most recently ran her own practice, Wallace Tech Law, with worked with investors and entrepreneurs, among others. Her career has also included stints at Zoom+, Tonkon Torp, Avatron Software, Microsoft and Apple.
Kirske was most recently CFO at Marchex, a publicly traded company that makes analytics software that gleans information from conversations between businesses and their customers. Prior to that, she was CFO at health care company 98point6 and at marketing software maker Tune.
Demers was most recently director of software engineering at New Relic. She has held technical leadership positions at XPO Logistics, and Bank of America.
As the company looks to take its product to new industry verticals, it must add the appropriate regulations and other guidelines that those industries must follow. For example, if the company moves into retail, it must evaluate which Federal Trade Commission rules must be added to the response engine.
RadarFirst has about 55 employees and is hiring across sales, IT and product. India expects the company to employ between 65 to 80 workers by 2023.
India came to RadarFirst from risk and compliance company Regulatory DataCorp where he was chief revenue officer. RDC is a former portfolio company of Vista. RadarFirst founder Mahmood Sher-Jan is still an adviser to the company.
