PRESS RELEASE – MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – June 8, 2015 – HyTrust Inc. , the Cloud Security Automation Company, today announced that longtime industry professional Fred Kost has been named to the post of Senior VP, Marketing. The appointment comes on the heels of the company's most recent funding infusion, which reached $33 million, and enables HyTrust to greatly expand existing initiatives related to sales and marketing, and target overseas markets with its cloud security automation solutions. For his part, Mr. Kost is uniquely qualified to lead those efforts—he has accumulated a stellar track record successfully positioning early-stage companies for category leadership and market growth.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Kost has played key roles in the leadership team at several high-growth ventures, including Recourse Technologies, which was acquired by Symantec; Blue Lane Technologies, which was acquired by VMware; and nCircle.
He was most recently VP, Security Solutions Marketing, at Ixia, which provides application performance and security resilience solutions to validate, secure and optimize businesses' physical and virtual networks. In that position he helped raise the company's profile and drive the growth of the enterprise business. Before that he led Product Marketing at Check Point Software Technologies, where he built and led a product marketing team that had primary responsibility for global marketing for a $2 billion-plus product portfolio. Earlier in his career, he spent more than four years at Cisco where, among other responsibilities, he oversaw Security Solutions Marketing and developed go-to-market strategies for security architectures and solutions. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.
The Company is backed by top tier investors VMware, Cisco, Intel, In-Q-Tel,Fortinet, Granite Ventures, Trident Capital, Epic Ventures and Vanedge Capital; and its partners include VMware; VCE; Symantec; CA; McAfee;Splunk; HP Arcsight; Accuvant; RSA and Intel.