Coley Burke Chief Revenue Officer, Semperis

Semperis, Inc., in identity-driven cyber resilience for enterprises, announced that Coley Burke has joined its team as chief revenue officer (CRO).

He will lead go-to-market efforts as the company undergoes a period of global expansion, fueled by demand for threat mitigation and rapid response to directory attacks. Recently, Deloitte ranked Semperis the fourth fastest-growing company in the tri-state area and 35th overall in its 2020 Technology Fast 500.

“Coley is a well-respected sales leader who has managed and scaled outstanding go-to-market teams at some of the most successful companies in the world,” said Mickey Bresman, CEO. “He is the ideal CRO to hit the ground running as we continue to deliver identity-driven security solutions designed to meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges for our expanding customer base of government agencies and enterprises.“

Burke is a sales leader with more than 30 years of experience across established IT organizations and high-growth start-ups including EMC, Kashya, IBM, Quantum, and Arrow Electronics, with a background in software, infrastructure, storage, and BCDR products and solutions. Prior to joining Semperis, he served as CRO at global IT resilience company, Zerto. He also spent more than 10 years in key sales and business development roles at Dell EMC, focused on global go-to-market strategy and revenue growth for VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, and RecoverPoint.

“Recent breaches of enterprise identity services, widespread supply chain attacks, and the ongoing fight vs. ransomware have turned unprecedented attention to Active Directory security; a critical area that Semperis’ solutions are purpose-built to address with the added benefit of unmatched Microsoft identity expertise,” he said. “With the robust team assembled at Semperis, I have no doubt we can bring its go-to-market vision to bear and make a real impac in the fight vs. cyber attackers.”

Burke joins an expanding roster of experts on Semperis’ senior leadership team, closely following the appointment of chief technologist Guido Grillenmeier (former HPE chief technologist) and chief scientist Igor Baikalov (former Bank of America SVP of global information security). Other recent appointments include CFO Rob Porell, VP of human resources Snezana Sjekloca, and VP of global channels and alliances Richard A. Weeks.