Mercedes returned to the Product Thinking Podcast to discuss leadership (and much more!) with Melissa Perri.
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Artico’s CEO and Co-founder, Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, is proud to join Ema’s Advisory Board—a set of visionary leaders across tech, AI, and healthcare. The board’s knowledge across industries and sectors will guide Ema's journey as a pioneer in Agentic AI for enterprises.
Meet the incredible people guiding Ema into the future of work:
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake
Anshu Sharma, Co-founder and CEO, Skyflow
Merit Janow, Independent Chairman of the Board, Mastercard
Mohit Aron, Founder, Cohesity & Nutanix
Chris O'Neill, CEO, GrowthLoop
Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, CEO and Co-founder, Artico Search
Denny Weinberg, ex-CEO, Granular Insurance
Andy Conrad, GP, S32
Linda Mantia, Board Member, Dayforce
Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School
David Brain, Co-founder, Symphony Alpha Ventures
Ian Barkin, Founding Partner, 2B Ventures
Read more about their stellar expertise here: www.ema.co/advisors
As part of their ongoing series covering our cyber analytics reports, The Wall Street Journal spoke with Artico Partner Steve Martano regarding our CISO compensation survey., which surveys nearly 850 CISOs.
Click here to read more on the report and how the macro environment impacted CISO compensation and CISO movement this year.
Download the 2024 CISO Compensation Benchmark Summary Report here.
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Steve had the opportunity to talk to The Wall Street Journal about the recently released Artico Search / IANS CISO survey budget data.
Steve discussed security budget trends, macro conditions, and the trajectory of security spending. Fellow IANS faculty member Summer Craze Fowler added great context from a practitioner perspective as well!
Read the article in full here.
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We are so excited to announce Vivian Cheng as Next47’s newest partner! Based in Palo Alto, Vivian joins the team with over a decade of experience in the tech industry as both a global operator and venture investor. Her primary areas of investment focus are SaaS and AI. Vivian is known for her judgment and conviction-based investing, her true intellectual curiosity, and her commitment to partnering with founders. We are so excited to see her continue to shine.
A big thanks to the team at Next47. We are grateful for the opportunity to help build a team that will invest in early and expansion-stage enterprise companies and continue to support and partner with founders!
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Congratulations to Spryker as they welcome Dustin Deno as their new Chief Revenue Officer! Spryker is the leading global composable commerce platform for enterprises with sophisticated business models to enable growth, innovation, and differentiation. Dustin’s strong background in digital commerce sales, his US-based network, and focus on artificial intelligence (AI) will enable Spryker to take value based sales execution to the next level. A huge thank you to Boris Lokschin, Andy Hinton, and Patrick Morrison for the teamwork and the partnership! Artico search team – Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, Sarah Scheer and Todd Daniel.
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View Spryker's Press Release here.
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Patrick Kehoe placed as CMO at Arkose Labs! Read more here.
Read Arkose Labs' Press Release here.
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Congratulations to Envoy as they welcome George Mogannam as their new Chief Revenue Officer! Envoy empowers thousands of workplaces and properties around the globe to redefine how their workplaces run. George brings with him over 25 years of successful scaleup B2B SaaS experience across multiple different industries, driving more than three exits.
A huge thank you to Larry Gadea, Sinohe Terrero, Jessica Bonifacio, Matt Murphy, and Brian Curran for the teamwork and the partnership!
Artico search team – Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, Sarah Scheer and Todd Daniel.
Read more here.
In anticipation of the needs of the wider organization, CISOs must make org and staffing decisions which are dynamic and influenced by market conditions, growth objectives, acquisition strategies and regulatory changes.
The 2023 Security Organization and Compensation Benchmark Study is a deep dive into organizational design and compensation for security leader roles one level down from the CISO.
Our annual benchmark study, jointly fielded with IANS, provides objective and comprehensive data collected from 1,195 CISOs, cybersecurity leaders and staff. Use this analysis of three commonly implemented security org models to build and refine your cybersecurity organization, and better align your security agenda with company growth.
Download a summary version of our Security Org and Comp Benchmark Report to access the following data and insights:
Three distinct security org designs: Detailed models include management layers, functional roles, team sizes, and comp data benchmarks.
Comp averages and key leadership data: Comparisons across orgs for SecOps, GRC, A&E, IAM, AppSec, product security and DCISO roles.
Industry-specific org charts: Analysis of security leadership at various company growth stages, benchmarked for five sectors.
Expert data and perspectives: Guidance from Artico Search to hire and retain key leadership based on comp trends and market insights.
Click here to download the report.
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The Artico team enjoys a delicious lunch after a succesful offsite in NYC - planning exciting things to come in 2024!
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Flock Safety welcomes Dee Anna McPherson as their new CMO! Dee Anna has spent over a decade in scaleup SaaS marketing building category-creating brands and high-growth teams. Flock Safety is the world’s leading public safety operating system, helping communities and law enforcement work together to eliminate crime, protect privacy, and mitigate bias to shape safer communities.
Congratulations to the entire dream team at Flock Safety: Garrett Langley, Paige Todd, board member Julie Herendeen and A16Z partner Brian Curran. Artico team: Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, Sarah Scheer & Todd Daniel.
Read more here and see the press release here.
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Lakeside Software welcomes Kimberly Kaminski as Chief Marketing Officer! Lakeside Software helps organizations with large, complex IT environments get visibility across their entire digital estate and see how to do more with less. With 30+ years of global technology marketing leadership experience, Kimberly brings in-depth expertise that spans the full lifecycle of marketing. She comes most recently from NS1 with experience at Amplitude, ServiceNow, and CA Technologies. With her passion for aligning marketing, sales, product, and partners to accelerate business growth, we’re excited to see Kimberly thrive as part of Lakeside’s executive team. Thanks to David Keil (CEO, Lakeside Software), Tyler Winkler (Chief Commercial Officer, Lakeside Software), Barrie Markowitz (EVP, Insight Partners), Ally Baker (Executive Talent, Insight Partners), and the rest of the fabulous Insight talent team for the partnership. Artico Search Team: Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, Erin Harris, and Todd Daniel.
Read more here.
We are so excited to announce that Jess Leão has joined Decibel as their newest partner! Jess is a successful early stage VC who grew up in a part of Brazil where very few people could afford a computer. Her passion for learning new languages and computer science ultimately brought her to Silicon Valley, where she became an early investor in startups leveraging modern AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). In her new role at Decibel, she will be investing in the next wave of AI engineering tools and autonomous software platforms. A big thanks to Jon Sakoda for the continued partnership and opportunity to support Decibel in building the next great startups and it’s unwavering commitment to put founders first.
Read more here [LINK to our tombstone] and also on Decibel’s website.
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Congratulations to Xactly Corporation who recently brought on Matthew Sharp as Chief Information Security Officer! Xactly Corporation is known as the market-leading provider of cloud-based, ICM, and SPM software solutions. Matthew brings over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud, and business alignment to accelerate growth and resilience. He is also the author of The CISO Evolution: Business Knowledge for Cybersecurity Executives. We enjoyed working with Xactly and look forward to more exciting partnerships in the future!
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Artico Partner Steve Martano talks to The Wall Street Journal regarding Artico's 2023 Security Budget Report and the latest trends in cybersecurity budgeting.
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In 2023, despite the global macroeconomic uncertainty and recessionary fears, security budgets generally continued to rise but at a lower rate than prior years and an insufficient rate relative to the increases in scope facing security teams. New external pressures, including Generative AI and the new SEC Cyber rules, brought additional pressures as CISOs worked to find ways to justify necessary cyber investments to their boards and the C-suite.
Our fourth annual budget benchmark study, jointly fielded with IANS, offers objective insights and cross-industry security budget survey results from over 550 CISOs across the U.S. and Canada.
Download a summary version of the benchmark report to access key security budget information for CISOs, including:
Key 2023 budget metrics: An overview of security budgets as a percentage of IT budgets
Security budget breakdowns: See how peer security teams allocate budgets
Main budget growth drivers: Comparisons of security budget increases across key industries
Trending budget factors: Insights into new factors that influence security budgets
Click here to download the report.
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Another successful partnership with IANS Research, who welcomes Mark Clauss as Chief Product Officer! IANS Research provides experience-based security insights for Chief Information Security Officers and their teams. Mark is a skilled leader who excels at driving profitable growth by building and scaling recurring revenue service and tech-enabled products. We look forward to working with IANS and Mark again soon!
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Congratulations to Mitek Systems as they welcome Jason Kontos as their new VP of Sales! Mitek products power and protect millions of identity evaluations as well as mobile deposits every day, around the world.
A huge thanks to Barney Gregory (VP of Global Sales) and Judy Ohrn Hicks (SVP, Global People Operations) for the teamwork and partnership!
Artico search team – Sarah Scheer, Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor and Todd Daniel.
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Congratulations to our client, LeadsOnline, and to Brandon Tompkins who is joining the team as Chief Product Officer! Brandon brings a proven track record of scaling PE-backed SaaS companies, with over 10 years of experience as a disciplined Product expert. LeadsOnline, a TA Associates portfolio company, is dedicated to a powerful mission of building innovative solutions for law enforcement to make our communities safer. Brandon will play a crucial role in expanding their suite of impactful data products, helping to drive this next phase of growth. A big thank you to the team - Alex Finley, Dave Finley, and William Nelson, SHRM-CP - for the wonderful partnership! The search was led by Product & Engineering Practice Lead, Alex Klein.
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Hootsuite welcomes Elina Vilk as Chief Marketing Officer (Artico Search Team: Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, Sarah Scheer, and Kristen Perri). Hootsuite, the global leader in social media management, helps customers harness the power of social to ignite their brand and business. Elina is a strategic and innovative CMO with two decades of marketing experience in both B2B and B2C organizations. Her ability to lead high-performing teams and drive digital growth, along with her customer-first mentality, makes her a great match for Hootsuite. A special thanks to Irina Novoselsky, CEO, and Tara Ataya, Chief People & Diversity Officer, for the amazing partnership!
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