LogRhythm Taps New CMO and VP of Product; Expands Vision into SIEM and Security Analytics Products

LogRhythm, the company powering the world’s most modern enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), announced the hiring of two key executives, Cindy Zhou as the company’s chief marketing officer and Michael Jones as vice president of product.

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“The addition of Cindy and Michael to the team showcases our commitment to collaborate with our customers to ensure their enterprise security environments are world-class,” said Mark Logan, CEO of LogRhythm. “Both have successful track records leading customer-centric marketing and product strategies, and I am excited for them to join the LogRhythm team.”

Cindy Zhou is an award-winning marketing executive and industry influencer with nearly two decades of experience spearheading marketing and sales enablement transformation at multiple technology companies including Level Access, BackOffice Associates, IBM, Emptoris and Rivermine. Zhou has also served as vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research covering marketing and sales technology trends. As CMO of LogRhythm, she will be responsible for driving the global marketing strategy and collaboration with the sales, customer success and product teams.

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“LogRhythm has a long-standing reputation for innovation in the cybersecurity space, and I am thrilled to lead a group of talented marketers dedicated to helping our customer succeed,” said Zhou. “I look forward to engaging our thousands of customers to promote the great work they do everyday, defending their organizations against the increasing number of cyberthreats.”

With a long-standing track record in the security industry, Michael Jones joins LogRhythm as the new vice president of product. In this role, Jones will oversee product strategy for LogRhythm’s market-leading SIEM and security analytics products. Previously, Jones led the product management, product marketing, UX and business development efforts at DomainTools. Earlier in his career, he drove Cisco’s cloud-based security efforts and has led projects involving encryption solutions, McAfee server and gateway antivirus products and products in the security orchestration space.

“With over 20 years in the security industry, I have developed a deep passion for building products that customers love and for driving significant product growth,” said Jones. “Given the growing sophistication of threats and the alarming number of security breaches, there is a strong market for next-generation SIEM solutions. I am honored to join the LogRhythm team and look forward to driving our product roadmap to further increase customer satisfaction and company growth.”

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These new appointments validate LogRhythm’s mission to accelerate continued innovation and extend its position as the industry’s pre-eminent NextGen SIEM built for the user. LogRhythm provides complete end-to-end threat lifecycle management within a single platform for more than 4,000 customers around the world. It is an indispensable part of how they detect, investigate and neutralize advanced threats.