Alex Au Yeung
and Sergey Starzhinskiy Bring a Combined Four Decades of Product
and Customer Experience to Spearhead the Company's New
Identity-First Product Direction
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., April 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Axiad, an identity-first enabler
of the zero trust enterprise, today announced the appointment of
Alex Au Yeung as its chief product
officer (CPO) and Sergey Starzhinskiy as its vice president (VP) of
systems engineering. In these newly appointed positions, Au Yeung
will be responsible for the strategic product vision, including
product strategy, development and management, while Starzhinskiy
will be responsible for managing the technical pre-sales
process.
"Alex is a driven and humble leader that I know will effectively
spearhead our new product direction to create impactful value,
while Sergey is a passionate technologist who I'm confident will
help us to drive out-of-the box thinking and innovation," said
David Canellos, CEO of Axiad. "The
addition of Alex and Sergey in these new roles reflects Axiad's
commitment to a leadership team that will deliver exceptional
technology and service to our growing customer base."
Au Yeung has more than two decades of experience in product
management and software engineering spanning consumer to large
enterprise markets. Most recently, he served as the CPO of
Symantec, where he was responsible for delivering cutting-edge
solutions that protect data, devices and networks from cyber
threats. Prior to Symantec, he held various product leadership
positions at Qualys and Dell.
"When you boil down security to what's most important, two main
areas emerge: protecting your data and your people," said Au Yeung.
"The industry has a solid handle on guarding data. But, when we
look at the identity side, no single solution exists today that can
help organizations with identity risk. This is a huge opportunity
that I can help Axiad capitalize on to accelerate its next stage of
product growth."
As the new VP of Systems Engineering, Starzhinskiy brings more
than 15 years of experience across both cybersecurity and
telecommunications industries in various customer-facing
capacities. He was most recently a senior sales engineer at
Ericsson-Cradlepoint, where he was responsible for technical
pre-sales activities of Ericom solutions across North America as well as interacting with
customers and providing input to product and marketing teams about
new product features and functionality. Before that, he spent 12
years at F5, Inc. in support, consulting and technical pre-sales
roles, and as a global solutions architect, where he was
responsible for integrating the company's various security
products.
"Axiad is well known in the authentication space and has
developed a remarkable product that is used by many large Fortune
500 companies," said Starzhinskiy. "Looking ahead, Axiad is poised
to deliver innovative solutions that will disrupt the
authentication market, and I look forward to being part of this
talented team and further contributing to the company's
success."
About Axiad
Axiad delivers identity-first
authentication technologies that help organizations protect users,
machines, assets and interactions. Axiad customers optimize their
cybersecurity posture while navigating underlying IT complexities,
like cloud, on-prem and hybrid infrastructures, and while
maintaining regulatory requirements like FedRAMP, CMMC and AAL3.
Axiad's unique password-less orchestration features, MyCircle and
Airlock, remove friction and overhead from enterprise-wide
authentication management. The company's flagship offering, Axiad
Cloud, is a comprehensive, secure, and integrated authentication
platform that supports the widest range of credentials in the
industry, including FIDO, mobile MFA, Windows Hello for Business,
YubiKeys, smart cards, TPM and biometrics.
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