United Kingdom
X @CyberChassar A seasoned enterprise technology, cybersecurity, and services executive with over 20 years of international experience leading sales and business operations within the SaaS, software, hardware, and IT sectors. Scale up operational expertise from series B to E. Seed fundraising, PMF to GTM set up experience. As the former CRO at Claroty, Simon was responsible for global cybersecurity sales, technical pre-sales, operations, commercial, field marketing, tech alliances, and channels functions. He plays a crucial role in protecting the industrial economy and healthcare systems from cyber threats. Core competencies include effectively managing and growing teams across different geographical locations, attracting, retaining, and developing high-performing talent, building and maintaining multi-tiered customer relationships, executing corporate strategy and change management, optimizing business performance and profitability, and integrating acquisitions and partnerships. With a proven track record of delivering targets, quota, revenue, and operational goals, Simon excels in driving innovation, penetration, and efficiency in both new and existing markets. He is deeply passionate about cybersecurity and its impact on the world, and he actively engages with the analyst and press community, as well as speaks at industry events and forums. X @CyberChassar Press Bio: Simon Chassar is a highly experienced executive in the enterprise technology, cybersecurity, and services sectors, with over 25 years of international experience. He is recognized for his leadership in sales and business operations across SaaS, software and hardware.. Simon recently joined multiple start-ups and MSP's as advisory or board member. In these roles, he brings his deep expertise in OT IOT security, and strategic market growth to help shape the company's direction. Chassar served as the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of Claroty, an industrial cybersecurity company. During his tenure, he was pivotal in the company's significant growth expanding its global presence, and surpassing $120 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR); over 500% 3 Year growth. Before joining Claroty, he was the CRO of the security division of NTT, where he managed a sales, channel, and marketing organization of over 300 people and more than $1.5 billion in revenue. Other Multinational Operating Career also includes leadership roles at organizations such as Cisco, Avaya, VMware, Actifio. He was also part of the World Economic Forum for Oil & Gas Security - 2021 - 2024.
Advisor for Go-to-Market Business Development Strategy - OT Back Up and Recovery Solution
Advise and assist in assessing the general market environment and market trends relevant for the Project/s; - advise and assist in assessing the competitive landscape relevant for the Project/s; - advise and assist in evaluating potential operational improvement initiatives for the assets and/ or entities that form part of the Project/s.
Annual Member
Business development support
Pre-Seed Investor. Rivelera is Transforming Detection Engineering Centralize and streamline detection creation, testing, and deployment across all security tools. AI-driven analytics continuously assess detection performance, uncovering gaps and tuning opportunities.
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