--Former AppDynamics, CA, EMC and McAfee
Exec
Brings Tech and GTM Expertise for Long-Term
Growth of Laconic's Platform--
CHICAGO,
Ill., May 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Laconic
Infrastructure Partners Inc. (Laconic), today announced the
appointment of Joe Sexton to its
Board of Directors effective immediately. With deep roots in
cybersecurity, cloud transformation, and application performance,
Mr. Sexton's experience with some of the largest, global tech
companies in the world will add significant value as Laconic's
newest Board Director.
Mr. Sexton is a technology industry veteran and proven operator
with more than 30 years Go-To-Market expertise in software, SaaS,
and PaaS businesses. His experience will complement the existing
skill set of Laconic's current Directors and facilitate more
effective governance and strategic development of the
company.
"The entire team welcomes Joe
Sexton to our Board of Directors," said Andrew J. Gilmour, CEO and Co-founder,
Laconic. "Joe brings an enormous amount of technology know-how
which will assist us in tailoring our offering to corporate
clients, accelerate the uptake of our platform by the market, and
drive our long-term contracted ARR growth."
"Now more than ever, the world is looking toward technology to
help solve its carbon emission problems. Laconic is at the
forefront of this meaningful worldwide effort by ensuring carbon
instruments can be traded at scale in global financial markets via
its world-class and revolutionary SADAR platform",
said Joe Sexton. "I have never been so invigorated by a
company's mission and look forward to helping Laconic achieve it,"
he added.
Mr. Sexton currently serves as a Board of Director for Aqua
Security, XFactor, Menlo Security, and BrainBox Intelligent
Marketing. He is also on the Advisory Board of Jugo. Formerly, he
served as Member of the Board at CrowdStrike where he helped grow
the company from $25M to over
$1.7B in annual recurring revenue.
Mr. Sexton was also board member at DecisionLink, D2iQ, and
PagerDuty where he helped take the company through its successful
IPO in 2019.
From December 2012 to April 2017, Mr. Sexton served as President of
Worldwide Field Operations at AppDynamics, Inc., which was acquired
by Cisco in 2017 for $3.7B. He led
AppDynamics from $28m to over
$280m in sales while there. He has
also held executive sales positions at McAfee, Mercury Interactive,
EMC, and CA Technologies. Mr. Sexton holds a B.B.A. in Marketing
from the University of Kentucky.
Over the past year, Laconic has attracted top executives and
talent to its ranks. Mr. Sexton joins Laconic's leadership
following other significant appointments including Chairman and CEO
of Computer Trading Corporation (CTC), Peter Borish, as a member of Laconic's Board of
Directors, and Alistair Mullen,
senior advisor to UN climate affairs negotiators, who joined
Laconic as Senior Vice President, Carbon Markets.
About Laconic
Laconic delivers accurate environmental
intelligence, data management tools, and geospatially-fused
insights that enable governments, corporations, and financial
institutions to engage fairly in data interchange activities that
facilitate open and compliant capital markets activity in
carbon-linked instruments. Founded in 2019, the company is a Public
Benefit Corporation (PBC) headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Toronto, London, Singapore, and Bali. For more information, please visit
www.laconicglobal.com.
Laconic and SADAR (Sentient All-Domain Augmented Response),
LUEI, and LUCID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Laconic
Infrastructure Partners Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All
other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.
Media contacts:
Laconic
Elke Heiss
elke.heiss@laconicglobal.com
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