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Absolute Names Steve Munford as Interim CEO and Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Financial Results
Thursday, January 18, 2018Company Profile | Follow Company
Former Sophos leader to contribute endpoint security leadership and experience driving rapid growth for SaaS software companies
Vancouver, BC, January 18, 2018--(T-Net)--Absolute, (TSX: ABT), an endpoint visibility and control company, today announced the appointment of Steve Munford, an accomplished cybersecurity industry leader, as interim Chief Executive Officer.
Absolute's former Chief Executive Officer, Geoff Haydon, resigned effective January 15, 2018 as both Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, bringing to a close his role in the Company's transformation into an emerging endpoint detection and response solution provider. This transition comes on the heels of recent enterprise security customer growth, strong adoption of the next-generation Absolute 7 platform, new executive hires, and rapid progress in monetizing industry partnerships.
“We are thankful for Geoff's contributions to Absolute's transformation and the momentum the company has achieved in the enterprise vertical,” stated Daniel Ryan, Chairman of the Board. “Steve will be a tremendous asset at this stage of Absolute's growth. We welcome him — and his exceptional strategic and operational expertise and knowledge of the information security industry — to the already outstanding leadership team at Absolute.”
Munford, who has a track record of guiding prominent cybersecurity brands, served as Sophos' CEO from 2006 to 2012 and led the company through a period of dramatic growth, more than tripling bookings. He currently serves as a nonexecutive director at Sophos and chairman of Carbonite, as well as a number of other companies. Munford has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario and has an MBA from Queen's University, Ontario.
“As an advisor to Absolute for the past two years, I am deeply invested in driving greater adoption of the Company's solutions by organizations struggling to manage thousands of distributed endpoint devices containing sensitive data,” said Munford.
“The company is in an enviable position, with a unique and incredibly relevant solution that provides unprecedented visibility and control to endpoints on and off the corporate network, and makes a range of other endpoint agents stronger through self-healing. I am extremely confident in the capabilities of Absolute's leadership team and look forward to working with them to accelerate growth.”
Munford will serve as interim Chief Executive Officer while the Board of Directors conducts a search for a new Chief Executive Officer.
Absolute is also providing preliminary financial results for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2017 (all figures are in U.S. dollars. Please refer to the company's September 30, 2017, MD&A for non-IFRS definitions):
These preliminary results are subject to change. The Company will provide additional details on its fiscal 2018 second quarter performance when it reports final results the week of February 12, 2018.
About Absolute
Absolute set the new standard for endpoint visibility and control with self-healing endpoint security and always-connected IT asset management to protect devices, data, applications and users — on and off the network. Bridging the gap between security and IT operations, only Absolute gives enterprises visibility they can act on to protect every endpoint, remediate vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance in the face of insider and external threats. Absolute's patented Persistence technology is already embedded in the firmware of more than one billion PC and mobile devices and trusted by over 15,000 customers worldwide.
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