Testimonials

Kevin was a valued member of Symantec’s EMEA core team whilst I was running Symantec’s Emerging Region. Kevin’s specialist support that helped my team quadruple its business during my tenure was focused on his expertise in market research, technology trends, competitive differentiation and partner engagement. Delivering regular keynote sessions across my business in Middle East, South Africa and Russia, Kevin’s unique engagement approach, ensured that the sales partners in the Emerging Region achieved value from their engagement with him and also included Kevin as a contributor to their financial year business plans.

About Kevin Isaac

Kevin Isaac is the Founder &. CEO for Insipration in Leadership. Issac is an author, fractional CRO / CxO, Consultant, start-up advisor, NED, strategic advisor on leadership and global go-to-market for software companies specialising in cybersecurity.  

A 30-year technology industry veteran, Isaac joined Sophos in October 2020 as SVP EMEA Sales. In this role, he achieved outstanding business growth in the region and established a strong and dynamic EMEA sales leadership team. Prior to Sophos, Isaac was CRO Forcepoint and spent more than 15 years in international leadership roles at Symantec, where he was instrumental in repositioning the company as a pure security player. Before joining Symantec, Isaac spent several years in technology sales leadership and general manager roles focused on emerging European markets.

Kevin is a highly driven, personable GTM strategy professional. His background and skills provided a solid understanding of the needs of the technology market and is able to articulate that across the different disciplines that contribute to the Clearswift success. His objective whilst at Clearswift was to leverage our technology and build the engagement strategy to establish Clearswift as a leader in the Data Loss Prevention market, endorsed via the Gartner Magic Quadrant. As well as successfully establishing Clearswift in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for DLP, we also worked on US market re-entry strategy, ANZ business development as well as other strategic projects. All of these components added to the value of Clearswift in its subsequent acquisition by RUAG. 

About Heath Davies

Heath is an international CEO and investor with a particular expertise in driving substantial revenue growth by building strategic customer/partner engagements that deliver real advantage. 

Heath assumed the roles of Chairman at TrustQuay and edays, following 2 years of growth at Exclaimer.  He has worked in senior roles within multi-national conglomerates in the UK, Mainland Europe, North America, Australia, Vietnam, China, India and South Africa.

Before joining Exclaimer, Heath was CEO of Clearswift, guiding them through two acquisitions over 8 years. Prior to that he was CEO of Alterian PLC, a market leader in big data analytics. During his time there, he led the successful transition and sale of the business to SDL PLC (lon:SDL) in 2012. Prior to Alterian PLC, Heath was at Sword Group (EPA:SWP) where he oversaw the profitable growth of the company from £25m to £150m over nine years.  Heath holds a BEng (Hons) from University of Greenwich (London), is a UK Engineering Council Scholarship winner and has attended executive education programmes at London Business School and Ashridge Management School.

Kevin and I worked together on the Financial Crime and Compliance business unit’s product strategy. This contributed to the overall BAE Systems Applied Intelligence (AI) 5 Year GTM Strategy that Kevin had ownership to develop. As a major revenue generating business unit at Applied Intelligence, we worked on how the interaction between FCC and Cyber Security could provide our customers with increased protection across their business lifecycle. Kevin’s overall visibility of the different disciplines at Applied Intelligence, contributed to the need to build an evolving GTM strategy whilst still running a profitable organisation. Our final proposal recommended the evolution from a product to a platform strategy. The ‘Integrated Financial Crime Service Hub’ platform would integrate not just cloud technology, but data, and integration with external 3rd party services. This new platform approach would position Applied Intelligence as a market leader in the provision of KYC, Customer Risk Data Services and Financial Network and Counterparty Risk Services.

About Ed Doyle

Ed is a RegTech business leader with 20 years experience bringing innovative, commercially successful, technology solutions to global markets. With a track record of growing technology solution businesses from inception to global leadership (as ranked by Gartner, CEB Tower, Aite & Chartis) and working with the top 250 financial institutions globally to mitigate crime risk.  

Ed is an expert in the combined use of technology, data and analytics to drive improved customer outcomes, through effective and efficient systems and processes. 

A thought leader, and frequent speaker on financial crime prevention across payments, AML, compliance, and fraud.Ed is passionate about developing people, teams, and complementary assets to achieve global scale and sustainable competitive advantage. 

 Graduate in Computing, Business, and Law. A Leinster Rugby Referee. 

Kevin is a well-established veteran in the IT industry. Over the years I have known him while working at Symantec, he has shown particular flare in providing an interface between regional functional requirements in order to deliver market intelligence that assisted with driving the global Symantec business strategy. As a senior strategy professional with extensive management skills and business knowledge, Kevin is capable of taking charge of situations and leading others to meet deadlines in crisis situations.

About Bob Maddula

A multi-faceted business leader with 15+ years direct experience in the technology industry. Roles included Software engineer, IT Manager, Corporate Finance, Marketing, Strategy and Business Operations.

Specialties: Strategy Planning, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Science, Strategic & Business Operations, Market Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, Software Engineering, Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Product Marketing 

I have had the privilege of working with Kevin over a number of years in different organisations and on many different projects. His ability to build a differentiated GTM plan and drive cross functional alignment to execute is impressive. With an unrivalled knowledge of the technology market across all sectors he can enable organisations to determine value propositions for products, solutions or at a company level that will contribute to a competitive advantage in a very crowded market. I would hire him again in a heartbeat and wholeheartedly recommend his services to any company.

About Naomi Newport

Naomi Newport has had a 20-plus year career in the technology industry. She currently serves as the VP Global Revenue enablement for Nutanix and has previously held senior marketing positions in Pure Storage, Adobe, Symantec and Clearswift.  Naomi is also a Founding Member of Chief and holds a NED role for Jugo. Naomi thrives in high-growth environments delivering marketing plans to build pipeline, strengthen market position and accelerate growth. She is an accomplished leader with a passion for building and developing high performing teams.

Kevin excels when building out go-to-market and strategic plans to assist with business growth.  He is regarded as credible and trustworthy by the leading industry influencers and his business acumen and product leadership have been invaluable during strategic engagements to help shape the future of the organisations he has worked for. 

Kevin is one of those rare people you meet in life who has the ability to grasp quickly and address, whatever challenge is put in front of him. I have had the pleasure to work with Kevin in different organisations over the last 10 years and have found him truly inspiring, innovative, extremely knowledgeable, an excellent manager plus, a genuinely fun person to be around. His attention to detail is meticulous and the support for the team he manages is to be commended. Where others see obstacles, Kevin will always find a resolution and his encouraging nature goes a long way to ensuring not only his success, but that of his team. 

About Caroline Dennington

Caroline Dennington has more than 20 years experience and a strong track record of accomplishments in the communications industry incorporating analyst, influencer and media relations.  A previous Board Member of the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR), Caroline managed the Global AR Programme for Symantec for nine years and prior to that, EMEA Communications for Remedy Corporation and EMEA AR for BMC Software.  Her passion for Analyst Relations has enabled Caroline to build important relationships and her knowledge of the analyst community is extensive.

Specialties include working with Executives to drive market leadership and positive mindshare, engaging Product Management/Marketing to message test solutions early in the process ensuring maximum market penetration, supporting sales with bids to generate revenue and creating valuable assets for marketing to utilise in lead generation campaigns.

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Partnerships were critical to the success of the BAE Systems Applied Intelligence (AI) Cyber Security business unit. In my role as Global VP Sales, Kevin’s in-depth knowledge of how technology and sales partners can add sustainable value to Applied Intelligence's product and revenue generation objectives was key to the creation of the recommended ‘Technology Vendor Partner Program’. Our analysis of over 100 existing sales partners, provided a base line of recurring revenues, deal sizes and capabilities as possible future partners. Critical to our program was the identification and alignment of sales partners that had existing relationships with our current technology partners and also those that would be integrated into the portfolio as part of the 5-year GTM Strategy, enabling AI to accelerate new revenue streams quickly.

About Spencer Starkey

Spencer is the VP EMEA Sales, where he manages the field sales organisation, including SonicWall's partners team, sales operations, sales reps, and sales engineers.

Spencer is experienced in Direct and Indirect Leadership in software, hardware and cloud services, with accomplished management, strategy and operational experience.

He brings over 18 years experience, and prior to joining SonicWall, Spencer held leadership positions at Noble, BAE AI, McAfee, and Checkpoint Technologies, among others.