Cenzic Appoints Warren Bell As Vice President Of Sales And Field Operations To Manage The Accelerated GrowthCenzic Appoints Warren Bell As Vice President Of Sales And Field Operations To Manage The Accelerated Growth
Sales Executive Brings More than 24 Years Experience to Leading Web Application Security Company
Santa Clara, CA — June 9, 2008 — Cenzic, the leading provider of application security vulnerability assessment and risk management solutions, today named Warren Bell its vice president of Sales and Field Operations. With more than 24 years experience in software sales, Bell will be responsible for the direction and management of the sales group. The search was conducted by Taylor Winfield, Inc.
“With a long history of increasing sales, Warren is a valuable addition to the Cenzic executive team,” said John Weinschenk, CEO and president of Cenzic. “Warren’s experience coupled with his aggressive strategy and leadership will significantly contribute to Cenzic’s sales and growth plans.”
Bell joins Cenzic from Visionael, where as vice president of Sales he helped grow revenues over 300% in less than two years. Previously, Bell served as vice president of Sales for private enterprise software companies Collation, (acquired by IBM), CenterRun (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and BackWeb Technologies, which completed a successful IPO. Bell earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science from York University in Toronto. “Cenzic has established itself as a leader in the Web application security market, and it’s a great opportunity for me to bring my experience to such a terrific organization,” Bell said. “I look forward to working with the sales team and the executive team to build on Cenzic’s exceptional momentum as the company helps customers address some of their security and risk assessment needs.”
About Cenzic
Cenzic is the next-generation Web application security assessment and risk management solutions leader. The Cenzic suite of application security solutions fits the need of any company from remote, Software as Service (ClickToSecure®), for testing one or more applications, to a full enterprise-wide solution (Cenzic Hailstorm® Enterprise ARC) for effectively managing application security risks across an enterprise. Always an innovator, Cenzic has integrated Hailstorm with VMware to enable testing of production Web applications through virtualization - making Cenzic the only company in the industry with a complete solution for assessing Web applications in all stages from development to production. In addition, Cenzic solutions, targeted at financial services, e-retail, high-tech, energy, healthcare and government sectors, are the most accurate, comprehensive and extensible in the industry empowering organizations to stay on top of unrelenting application security threats.
About Taylor Winfield, Inc.
Established in 1987, Taylor Winfield has been instrumental in building billions $$ in market value within the high technology industry, via retained executive search and strategic business development. Through key relationships with premier private equity and venture capital firms, maturing client companies, and their executive network of visionary industry leaders, Taylor Winfield has conducted searches to create hundreds of high tech core management teams in Consumer Internet, Wireless, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Networking, Hardware, Services, and Semiconductors – and now Medical, Clean Tech, Renewable Energy and Retail.