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Onapsis Announces Inaugural Customer Advisory Board to Shape the Future of Cyber Resiliency

Onapsis taps cybersecurity industry luminaries from Fortune 500 companies to collaborate on strategic initiatives and drive its company vision

BOSTON—June 23, 2022Onapsis, the leader in business-critical application cybersecurity and compliance, today announced the members of its inaugural customer advisory board (CAB), comprised of cybersecurity industry experts from the world’s leading brands. Under the guidance of the executive team, this incredible cast of forward-thinking cybersecurity practitioners from market-leading enterprises will further cement Onapsis’ market leadership in the business application security market by helping to shape its business direction over the coming years.

As it continues to transform the business application security industry, Onapsis has seen incredible growth over the past few years as more and more Fortune 500 organizations recognize the importance and high priority of securing their business-critical applications at the center of the business. The CAB offers Onapsis direct access to key cybersecurity leaders and practitioners who have a deep understanding of the unique industry challenges they, and other global brands, face on a daily basis. This feedback will be instrumental for Onapsis to continue to drive market-leading, innovative solutions that will help the market overcome current and future challenges.

“Our customers have been a key part of our history and have led Onapsis on to its current inflection point,” said Mariano Nunez, CEO of Onapsis. “Our CAB members are not just our customers, but strategic partners who will help us create the future of business-critical application security. We look forward to building these alliances, while providing our customers with industry-specific solutions that will address real-life use cases and solve critical security challenges as the threat landscape evolves.”

The board convened for the first time at this year’s RSA Conference to walk through Onapsis’ business objectives and company vision. During its inaugural meeting, board members collaborated on new initiatives that will help address critical customer challenges. The board consists of 12 security thought leaders from some of the top globally recognized brands, including:

  • Cardinal Health
  • Cargill
  • Celanese
  • Colgate-Palmolive 
  • CONA Services 
  • Distribution NOW
  • Dow Chemical
  • HD Supply
  • Interpublic Group of Companies 
  • Liberty Mutual
  • Oklahoma Gas & Electric  
  • Roche

In addition to its new advisory board, Onapsis has been heavily invested in experienced leadership to guide the company through its next critical phase of growth. Most recently, the company announced the appointment of Kellie Synder as its Chief Customer Officer to further Onapsis’s commitment to solving customer’s most critical challenges, while delivering an enhanced customer experience. This announcement followed several other key new hires, including Rocco Donnino as Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Alliances and Channels, Sadik Al-Abdulla as Chief Product Officer, and Denis Cashman as Chief Financial Officer.

“Launching the CAB is another key step in delivering the right application security solutions through a resonating world-class customer experience,” said Kellie Synder, Chief Customer Officer of Onapsis. “Our new advisory board will enable us to directly incorporate our customers at every stage of the product journey. We’re excited to collaborate with these industry leaders on strategic initiatives that will shape the cybersecurity market over the next few years.”

For more information on why customers choose Onapsis, please visit: https://onapsis.com/why-onapsis

About Onapsis

Onapsis protects the business-critical applications that run the global economy, from the core to the cloud. The company’s cybersecurity and compliance solution offering, The Onapsis Platform, uniquely delivers vulnerability management, threat detection and response, change assurance, and continuous compliance for business-critical applications from leading vendors such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and other SaaS platforms.

Onapsis is headquartered in Boston, MA, with offices in Heidelberg, Germany and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and proudly serves more than 300 of the world’s leading brands, including 20% of the Fortune 100, 6 of the top 10 automotive companies, 5 of the top 10 chemical companies, 4 of the top 10 technology companies, and 3 of the top 10 oil and gas companies.

The Onapsis Platform is powered by the Onapsis Research Labs, the team responsible for the discovery and mitigation of more than 800 zero-day vulnerabilities in business-critical applications. The reach of our threat research and platform is broadened through leading consulting and audit firms such as Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, PwC, and Verizon — making Onapsis solutions the standard in helping organizations protect their cloud, hybrid, and on-premises business-critical information and processes. For more information, connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn, or visit us at https://onapsis.com.