Votiro, a global leader in malware and ransomware prevention technology, announced today the appointment of Ravi Srinivasan as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Votiro is a subsidiary of Senetas, a cybersecurity solutions leader trusted to protect commercial, government, defence and critical infrastructure data in over 40 countries.
Votiro appoints Ravi Srinivasan as CEO
Srinivasan, a veteran product executive with senior leadership experience at Forcepoint and IBM Security, will spearhead Votiro’s growth and capital requirements to enhance the company’s brand awareness and accelerate its global market expansion.
“I am thrilled to join Votiro and look forward to enhancing global operations and position within the malware prevention market,” said Ravi Srinivasan, newly appointed CEO of Votiro.
“Votiro is paving the way in the Content Disarm and Reconstruction as a service category.”
“I am eager to work to drive innovation, enabling enterprises to adopt a zero-trust approach to file security, and continue advancing Votiro’s pioneer patented solutions.”
Srinivasan joins Votiro with vast experience in product management and marketing in cyber security and a proven record of transforming security products to SaaS business models.
Srinivasan has worked with teams across the globe to scale businesses and grow new ventures.
At Forcepoint, he served as the Vice President of Solutions and Platform Marketing, where he led the company’s global go-to-market product strategy, solution marketing, analyst relations, and go-to-market enablement for an $800 million-plus cybersecurity portfolio.
He was VP and GM of IBM Security Information Risk and Protection, tasked with transitioning the portfolio to cloud-based offerings and executing a digital channels-based growth.
Founder and CTO Aviv Grafi said, “I look forward to working with Ravi Srinivasan to strengthen our SaaS offerings of cyber threat prevention and on the expansion of our tech resources”.
Votiro also announced that Chris Fedde will be Chairman of Votiro’s Board of Directors. He has been a board member since 2019 and has been operationally active with the company.
He has also held numerous CEO positions within the information security community.
Comments on Votiro appointing Ravi Srinivasan
“Ravi Srinivasan joins Votiro with the skills and experience needed to accelerate our successes with enterprises that need to prevent weaponized file attacks like ransomware.”
“His knowledge of cloud and SaaS security products makes Ravi ideally positioned to help Votiro expand its U.S. and global presence,” Chris Fedde said.
Due to rapid market growth in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region, Daniel Sekers will move to the role of Regional APEC Chairman and Non-Executive Director.
“With Votiro’s focus on the US market Chris and Ravi want to position the company for our next phase of growth. I’m pleased to focus on the increasing APEC region opportunities.”
With cyberattacks surging and cybercriminals exploiting URLs and common file formats to spread malware, Ravi Srinivasan’s appointment as CEO will enhance Votiro’s market reach and customers’ increasing needs for an advanced anti-malware solution.
Votiro’s secure file gateway solution addresses the most threatened file gateways, email, web applications, and web browsers, whilst enabling enterprise employees to safely download files on whatever gateways they use without friction delays to their productivity.
