Stephen Ward

Chief Marketing Officer at Source Defense

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

About

Self-motivated, highly ambitious marketing and business leader with 24 years of success in driving market share, sales and profit goals for global companies and start-ups. Proven capacity for creating marketing and sales initiatives that deliver significant bottom-line results. A strategic thinker with the ability to translate innovative ideas into immediate action. Consistently recognized as a leader with the ability to motivate cross-functional, multi-cultural teams through superior communication skills and an unwavering commitment to business ethics. Skilled in all aspects of marketing and sales with broad domain expertise and a unique history with media and analyst relations. Specialties: Strategic Planning Market Analysis Brand Development International Marketing Media Relations Analyst Relations Revenue Generation Profit Growth New Business Development Domain Expertise Solution and Product Development Alliance Management Crisis Management Boot-strap/Start-up Marketing

Experience

  • Chief Marketing Officer at Source Defense
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

    Working to protect the largest brands in the world - and the billions of people doing business with them - from financially motivated threat actors. Source Defense delivers client-side security for websites, providing real-time threat detection, protection and prevention of vulnerabilities originating in JavaScript.

  • Vice President Marketing at ThreatConnect, Inc.
    Apr 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Vice President Marketing at RiskLens
    Jan 2018 - Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Taking the helm as Vice President of Marketing at RiskLens to drive change in the way the world thinks about, assesses and manages cyber risk and cyber security decisions. Thrilled to be embarking on this journey as I firmly believe that by changing the dialogue, we can finally make the major strides needed to gain a position of dominance over our adversaries. RiskLens is the leading provider of cyber risk quantification software. RiskLens empowers large enterprises and government organizations to manage cyber risk from the business perspective by quantifying it in dollars and cents. Our customers leverage RiskLens to: - understand their cyber risk exposure in financial terms - prioritize their risk mitigations - measure the ROI of their security investments - optimize their cyber insurance coverage RiskLens is the only cyber risk quantification software purpose-built on FAIR, the standard quantitative model for information security and operational risk.

  • Senior Director - Global Marketing at Claroty
    Nov 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Director, Communications - Global Government and Government Affairs at FireEye, Inc.
    Feb 2016 - Oct 2016 · 9 mos