Cloud content security and governance solutions provider Egnyte, has announced the appointment of Stan Hansen as chief revenue officer (CRO). Hansen will be responsible for all sales functions globally.
In the first half of 2021, Egnyte has added 128 net new hires, bringing its total employee count to 789 and opened its first office in Asia.
“After just closing our largest quarter in history, growing 40% year over year, we are excited to welcome a leader of Stan’s calibre to help us capture the demand we are seeing in the market,” said Vineet Jain, Co-Founder and CEO, Egnyte. “As we look ahead to the future, Stan’s experience in leadership roles at publicly traded companies will be a great addition to the executive suite during this exciting next phase of growth for Egnyte, and beyond.”
Prior to joining Egnyte, Hansen spent five years at Pluralsight, where he was most recently President, North America Sales. In that time, Hansen built a multi-regional, large-scale sales, business development and solutions consulting organisation that was process driven and consistently generated high-growth revenue results. Hansen and his organisation were instrumental in taking Pluralsight through their successful initial public offering in 2018. Prior to Pluralsight, he held various leadership positions in sales, technology and operations for companies including Domo, Adobe and Wells Fargo.
“I’m thrilled to be joining Egnyte at such a historic time of substantial growth,” said Hansen. “I look forward to working with an exceptional leadership team to capture the growth opportunity and unprecedented market demand Egnyte is experiencing as more companies continue to embrace Digital Transformation at an accelerated rate.”
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