Zscaler Names John Vecchi as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing

  • Jul 19, 2011

Zscaler, a cloud security company, has appointed of John Vecchi as vice president of worldwide marketing. Vecchi brings more than 16 years of experience delivering new security and technology products to market. In this role, Vecchi will be responsible for driving Zscaler's market-expansion initiatives.

Vecchi joins Zscaler from Check Point Software, where he was head of global product marketing for Check Point's enterprise and SMB solution portfolio. He also served as Check Point's primary corporate spokesperson—responsible for articulating the company vision, strategy and value proposition. Prior to Check Point, he was an executive marketing consultant for Symantec Corp., as well as VP of marketing at early-stage ePrivacy and encryption start-up Webloq Inc. Vecchi has held various executive marketing and product marketing positions at McAfee and Motorola/Symbol.

"I am pleased to add a proven marketing executive like John to further strengthen the leadership team of Zscaler at this exciting time," said Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler. "Our strong growth and position as the leader in cloud security continues to accelerate, and we will rely on John's knowledge and expertise as we rapidly expand and deliver our innovative, game-changing security solutions to enterprises, SMBs and service providers."

"I am thrilled to join such a strong team and continue to build upon the leadership position Zscaler has already achieved as the cloud security company," said Vecchi. "The Zscaler cloud is increasingly the way advanced threat management will be delivered, and we are already providing the most powerful solution to secure any user, on any device—all without hardware, software or boundaries. I'm excited to be part of the team advancing this needle-moving technology that secures and empowers businesses, while greatly reducing costs and complexity."

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