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Venafi Names Jeff Hudson as CEO
November 2010 by Marc Jacob
Venafi, Inc., the provider of enterprise digital certificate and encryption key management, bolsters its market leadership with the appointment of experienced executive and technology thought leader Jeffrey Hudson as chief executive officer (CEO).
A key executive in four successful high-technology start-ups that have gone public, Hudson brings over 25 years of experience in information technology and security management to Venafi. Hudson has spent a significant portion of his career developing and delivering leading edge technology solutions for financial services and other Global 2000 companies.
Most recently Hudson was the CEO of Vhayu Technologies Corp. Vhayu was the market leader for the analysis and capture of market data, and was acquired by ThomsonReuters. Prior to Vhayu, Hudson held numerous executive leadership posts, including CEO and cofounder of MS2, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Informix Software, CEO of Visioneer, and numerous senior executive positions at NetFRAME Systems and WYSE Technology. Hudson began his career with IBM.
Venafi Encryption Director (Director) manages the lifecycle of hundreds of thousands of keys and certificates at the world’s largest financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, government, aerospace and retail organizations. Director automates the provisioning, discovery, monitoring, and management of the digital certificates and encryption keys across heterogeneous operating systems, infrastructure applications, certificate authorities and hardware platforms from the desktop to the datacenter.
