Cyber compliance company A-LIGN has filled two leadership positions, including naming the co-founder of a Tampa tech institution to a C-level position.
A-LIGN hired Mike Herdegen as its new chief technology officer and Brian Gladstein as its new senior vice president of marketing.
"[Herdegen and Gladstein] both have extensive backgrounds as industry leaders with proven track records in high-growth B2B organizations and are prepared to take us to our next phase of evolution and growth," A-LIGN founder and CEO Scott Price said in a statement.
Herdegen co-founded Tribridge with Tony DiBenedetto and Brian Deming; it was one of the largest privately-owned companies in the region before being acquired in 2017 by Virginia-based DXC Technology Co. (NYSE: DXC). In Herdegen's new role at A-LIGN, he will lead product development for A-SCEND 2.0, the company's compliance management platform. Herdegen most recently served as VP of information technology at Tribridge.
"I have known Scott for a long time and have watched as he built a marvelous company based on principles that match my own," Herdegen said in a statement. "The A-SCEND product and team are critical to the overall strategy of the firm."
Gladstein also has a long history with cybersecurity and technology. He served most recently as vice president of marketing at Canadian-based Cmd, which was funded by GV, the investment arm of Alphabet. He also served as the senior director of strategic marketing at Carbon Black, which he helped eventually go public in 2018 and then become acquired by Palo Alto-based VMware.
“A-LIGN’s clients rely on us to lead them through a set of challenges that are only becoming more complex," Gladstein said in a statement. "Protecting customer and partner data — and proving that you are compliant — is a critical part of almost every business these days."
The hires follow the company appointing former IBM executive Michael Branca to its CFO position in June and an overall hiring boost as cybersecurity has taken precedence during the Covid-19 pandemic.
"There has been displacement at other organizations, and when you look at security and compliance, those are what companies are investing in during work from home," Price said in a previous interview with the Tampa Bay Business Journal. "We've seen this business be very resilient during one of the greatest economic downturns."
