Forcepoint™ Announces Executive Leadership Appointment

Timothy A. McDonough joins as Chief Marketing Officer

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Nov 07, 2016, 08:00 ET

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint™ today announced Timothy A. McDonough joins the company as its chief marketing officer (CMO). McDonough will report to Forcepoint Chief Executive Officer Matthew Moynahan, serve as a member of the executive leadership team, and lead the global marketing organization including corporate, strategic, product and revenue marketing.

Timothy A. McDonough, Chief Marketing Officer, Forcepoint

"Forcepoint is a newly-formed company and brand in the cybersecurity market, with a unique portfolio that ranges from insider threat and data loss prevention, to next generation firewalls and government cross domain solutions," said Moynahan. "Our portfolio represents a unique advantage to our customers and it is now time to tell our story and leverage our new brand identity as a strategic advantage. Tim's diverse background, along with his proven marketing and leadership experience, is just what we need as we embark on the next stage of our journey."

"Forcepoint has a great opportunity to leverage marketing. While the company name was launched less than a year ago, it has a broad portfolio of leading products and is already one of the largest, pure-play cybersecurity companies in the world," said McDonough. "Looking ahead, we have the opportunity to build on this success to make Forcepoint the brand companies and governments look to when facing some of their toughest cybersecurity challenges."

McDonough brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in technology marketing to Forcepoint. Most recently, he was senior vice president of marketing at Qualcomm and acted as CMO of the company's chipset division. Before joining Qualcomm, McDonough was a general manager at Microsoft, where he spent 12 years in various leadership roles across the company's enterprise and consumer products. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Sprint Telecommunications, J. Walter Thompson and Saatchi & Saatchi, where he launched new consumer products and led channel marketing and advertising. McDonough earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and psychology from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont.

About Forcepoint

Forcepoint's portfolio of products safeguards users, data and networks against the most determined adversaries, from accidental or malicious insider threats to outside attacks, across the entire threat lifecycle. Forcepoint protects data everywhere – in the cloud, on the road, in the office – simplifying compliance and enabling better decision-making and more efficient security. Forcepoint empowers organizations to concentrate on what's most important to them while automating routine security tasks. More than 20,000 organizations around the world rely on Forcepoint. Based in Austin, Texas, with worldwide sales, service, security laboratories and product development, Forcepoint is a joint venture of Raytheon Company and Vista Equity Partners. For more about Forcepoint, visit www.Forcepoint.com and follow us on Twitter at @ForcepointSec.

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