AlgoSec names Rafi Kretchmer as Chief Marketing Officer, and Mike Danforth as new Regional Vice President of Sales

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ, May 30, 2024 – AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced the appointment of two senior executives: Rafi Kretchmer will serve as Chief Marketing Officer, and Mike Danforth will assume the role of Regional Vice President of Sales for the America’s. Together these new leaders will further support AlgoSec in enabling the world’s most complex organizations to secure their business-critical applications across the public clouds, private clouds, containers, and on-premises networks; ensuring application uptime, risk management and continuous compliance.

“The addition of Rafi Kretchmer and Mike Danforth to our executive team marks a significant milestone in establishing AlgoSec as a leading global cybersecurity company,” said Yuval Baron, Chairman and CEO of AlgoSec. “With their deep expertise and tenure in the cybersecurity industry, Kretchmer and Danforth will be instrumental in leveraging their expertise to provide customers with the solutions they need to deliver business applications faster while achieving a heightened security posture.”

Combined, Kretchmer and Danforth have over 40 years of cybersecurity experience, including senior leadership roles at globally-recognized cybersecurity organizations.

● Rafi Kretchmer, Chief Marketing Officer – Rafi Kretchmer has more than two decades of extensive experience heading marketing and strategy for leading global B2B enterprises, with a proven track record of driving strategic business growth across global markets. Prior to joining AlgoSec, Rafi Kretchmer served as Vice President of Marketing at Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. Prior to that, he held multiple senior marketing leadership roles in the SaaS market, including Chief Marketing Officer at Panaya, and Head of Marketing at Nice Systems and Amdocs.

● Mike Danforth, Regional Vice President of Sales, America’s – Mike Danforth brings 20 years of sales experience across the cybersecurity landscape. He has comprehensive experience with direct sales, channel sales and strategic partnerships. Throughout his tenure, Danforth has held several key leadership positions at start-ups and large public companies. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Sales for Palo Alto Networks, helping to build the Cortex product line to a billion-dollar business unit across every major sales vertical in the U.S., Canada, and LATAM. Before his career in cybersecurity, Mike also served 10 years in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division and later as a Leader in the prestigious 75th Ranger Regiment.

Today’s security leaders must maintain a strong security posture against the increase in and constantly evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, while also maintaining business continuity. The appointments of Kretchmer and Danforth will advance AlgoSec’s commitment to ensuring customers have the tools they need to securely accelerate business application deployment and accelerate digital transformation projects.

For more information about AlgoSec and its leadership team, please visit algosec.com/company/management/ and follow the company on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

About AlgoSec

AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to secure application connectivity and cloud-native applications throughout their multi-cloud and hybrid network.

Trusted by more than 1,800 of the world’s leading organizations, AlgoSec’s application-centric approach enables to securely accelerate business application deployment by centrally managing application connectivity and security policies across the public clouds, private clouds, containers, and on-premises networks.

Using its unique vendor-agnostic deep algorithm for intelligent change management automation, AlgoSec enables acceleration of digital transformation projects, helps prevent business application downtime and substantially reduces manual work and exposure to security risks.

AlgoSec’s policy management and CNAPP platforms provide a single source for visibility into security and compliance issues within cloud-native applications as well as across the hybrid network environment, to ensure ongoing adherence to internet security standards, industry, and internal regulations.

Learn how AlgoSec enables application owners, information security experts, DevSecOps and cloud security teams to deploy business applications up to 10 times faster while maintaining security at https://www.algosec.com.