KnowBe4 appoints Bryan Palma as its new CEO and president
Current CEO and founder Stu Sjouwerman has transitioned to executive chairman role.
Cybersecurity education platform KnowBe4 has appointed Bryan Palma as its new CEO and president, with its current founder and cheif executive stepping down.
Founder and former CEO Stu Sjouwerman has transitioned to the role of executive chairman.
Palma has more than 25 years of technology and cybersecurity experience under his belt.
He was recently the chief executive officer of Trellix, a multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity market leader formed through the merger of FireEye and McAfee Enterprise.
Prior to joining Trellix, Palma has held roles at Cisco, Boeing, EDS, PepsiCo, and the US Secret Service. He serves on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and the CloudBees board of directors.
Commenting on his appointment, Palma said, “KnowBe4 is an incredibly important company in the cybersecurity ecosystem and at the forefront of human risk management and artificial intelligence.
“I am humbled to join the company at such an important moment and accelerate the leadership position established by Stu and the team. I am looking forward to serving our global customers and proudly calling myself a Knowster.”
Executive chairman, Sjouwerman founded KnowBe4 over fifteen years ago and over the last two decades has led the company through multiple rounds of venture capital funding, executed key strategic acquisitions, successfully led a public offering, and grew KnowBe4 to serve over 70,000 customers.
Sjouwerman said, “As Founder of KnowBe4, I am grateful to contribute to the creation of a new market category focused on managing human risk and confidently leave KnowBe4 in the capable hands of Bryan.”
As executive chairman, Sjouwerman will help guide KnowBe4’s artificial intelligence innovation and work closely with Palma on the transition.
Security culture and human risk platform KnowBe4 offers an AI-driven ‘best-of-suite’ platform for Human Risk Management, creating an adaptive defence layer that fortifies user behaviour against the latest cybersecurity threats.
Its HRM+ platform includes modules for awareness and compliance training, cloud email security, real-time coaching, crowdsourced anti-phishing, and AI Defence Agents.