Mimecast Appoints Christina Van Houten as the New Chief Strategy Officer

Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: COMEDIAN), a leading email and data security company, today announced Christina Van Houten has joined the management group as the new Chief Technique Officer. In this function, Christina will drive company growth, product monitoring and market approach as part of constructing out Mimecast's leading e-mail security, archive, and cyber resilience cloud platform.

Almost every company is struggling to develop absolutely lasting cyber resilience. Keeping safety and security, administration and operational durability across a developing IT estate is costly and typically inconvenient. At the same time enemies, technical failings and human errors work against IT and safety teams that are already fighting to attract and preserve proficient personnel to do the task. Yet, too often these teams are sinking in complexity - complexity worsened by well-intentioned, however directly focused suppliers solving specific problems," said Peter Bauer, chief executive officer at Mimecast. "Mimecast intends to help customers by providing services that assist make online strength for e-mail a lot easier and a lot more cost effective with our unique platform, MimeOS. Christina's experience in driving innovation on a constant large scale technology platform, providing an abundant incorporated collection, and fixing arising customer troubles is indispensable to us in this new duty."

Christina is a veteran of the enterprise innovation industry, bringing more than two decades of experience with several of the world's largest companies including Oracle, IBM and Infor Global Solutions, along with Netezza and ProfitLogic, the entrepreneurial companies that were obtained by them. Before progressing into the innovation field, Christina was focused on public rate of interest deal with The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, DC Local Government, US Treasury Division and a number of political projects.

Christina's hire notes the most recent enhancement to the management team. Recently, Mimecast additionally invited Marc French as its chief depend on officer and information protection officer heading up GDPR initiatives, along with Janet Levesque, senior vice president of systems, danger and safety and security for global oversite of the interior technology application, security, framework and risk teams.