Bertrand Yansouni Executive VP of WW Field Ops for Coverity

Coverity, Inc., in improving software quality and security automatically, announced Bertrand Yansouni has joined Coverity as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, overseeing Coverity’s global team of sales professionals and its service and support personnel.

"We are extremely pleased to have Bertrand join our team and lead our next stage of growth worldwide," said Seth Hallem, Coverity CEO and co-founder. "Bertrand’s deep experience in rapid-growth companies will help us execute new market opportunities, lead our global expansion plans, and drive success for our growing base of 500 plus customers."

Prior to joining Coverity, Yansouni served as vice president of channels for Riverbed [RVBD], a successful company that produces Wide Area Networks (WANs) based in San Francisco. Before Riverbed, Mr. Yansouni helped build VMWare’s sales organization and has held sales and management positions at Portera, Informix, and IBM.

"Coverity has a tremendous opportunity to extend its leadership in software integrity and fundamentally improve the way companies ensure the quality, security and integrity of the software that runs their business," said Yansouni. "I look forward to cultivating Coverity’s world-class field organization so we continue to deliver exceptional value to our worldwide customer base."