Alert Logic Makes Three New Key Executive Hires
New Chief Financial Officer to Assist in Continued Global Growth
HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - August 24, 2016) - Alert
Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions
for the cloud, today announced that the company has made three new executive hires that will be instrumental in helping to
facilitate its continued global growth. Alert Logic hired Houston-based John Karnes as the new Chief Financial Officer, John
Carse as the new Vice President of Security Operations and Bob Layton as Vice President of Global Channels.
Having served as a CFO for the past 16 years in four different organizations, Karnes has proven experience
assisting rapidly growing companies, providing expertise in the areas of strategic planning, risk management, controls and
corporate governance. Karnes has provided numerous highly entrepreneurial public and emerging-public companies with strategic
leadership, access to capital, robust compliance programs and streamlined operational efficiencies.
"John has held a variety of roles over his more than 30-year career in both public and private companies and
he will be critical in helping Alert Logic scale its operations and continue to grow our business," said Gray Hall, CEO of Alert
Logic. "He's a hands-on transactional leader with critical public company experience."
Karnes has spearheaded more than $15 billion of Wall Street capital markets and M&A transactions,
including initial public offerings, private offerings and venture capital and private equity. In addition to serving as CFO for
Mariner Energy, KiOR, Houston Exploration, and CyberCash, earlier in his career, Karnes practiced law with the national law firm
of Kirkland & Ellis, specializing in public securities offerings and acquisitions.
"Alert Logic is poised for next-level growth with its rapidly expanding customer base, important global
partnerships and highly differentiated cybersecurity solution," said Karnes. "I value the opportunity to contribute to Alert
Logic's next phase of maturity and, ultimately, help bring these market-leading cybersecurity tools and services to exponentially
more businesses."
John Carse joined Alert Logic in the role of Vice President of Security Operations. In this role, Carse will
be responsible for Alert Logic's global security and compliance teams who provide 24x7 monitoring of its more than 3,800
customers' IT infrastructures. This includes Alert Logic ActiveWatch Services, Alert Logic LogReview Service, Alert Logic
ActiveWatch Premier and all other Security Operations Center (SOC) operations across two continents. Carse joins Alert Logic from
JPMorgan Chase, where he served as Vice President of Global CyberSecurity Engineering. Carse has significant international
experience having lived and worked in Bahrain and Japan, serving in leadership roles at Computer Sciences Corporation, ITT
Exelis, FlowBridge and IBM.
Bob Layton joined Alert Logic in the role of Vice President of Global Channels. In this capacity, Layton will
guide the channels that are principally responsible for the company's strong growth in cloud, hosting, global systems
integration, distribution and emerging business models in the traditional VAR space.
Layton joins from Pluribus Networks where he served as Vice President of Sales and Channels for the Americas
and Europe. In this role, Layton established the Pluribus sales organization, including creating Channel programs for its
software defined networking, analytics and data center virtualization solutions. Prior to Pluribus, Layton was Vice President of
Sales for Lumenate, a leading Cisco channel partner. Layton joined Lumenate after eight years at Cisco serving in a series of
increasingly responsible sales and channel management leadership roles. Prior to his years at Cisco, Layton held enterprise sales
positions with Xerox and Thomson Reuters.
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About Alert Logic
Alert Logic, the leader in security and compliance solutions for the cloud, provides Security-as-a-Service for
on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures, delivering deep security insight and continuous protection for customers at a
lower cost than traditional security solutions. Fully managed by a team of experts, the Alert Logic Security-as-a-Service
solution provides network, system and web application protection immediately, wherever your IT infrastructure resides. Alert
Logic partners with the leading cloud platforms and hosting providers to protect over 3,800 organizations worldwide. Built for
cloud scale, the Alert Logic patented platform stores petabytes of data, analyses over 400 million events and identifies over
50,000 security incidents each month, which are managed by its 24x7 Security Operations Centers. Alert Logic, founded in 2002, is
headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Austin, Seattle, Dallas, Cardiff, Belfast and London. For more information,
please visit www.alertlogic.com.
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Mackenzie Kreitler
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(978) 518-4536
mkreitler@matternow.com