Attila Security, a leading provider of portable IP security, announced today that Kathleen Booth has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. Booth will sit on the company’s management team and reports to Chief Executive Officer Gregg Smith. Her appointment follows the company’s recent announcement that retired Brigadier General of the U.S. Marine Corps John Simmons would join Attila as its Chief Strategy Officer.
Booth, an accomplished business leader with more than 20 years of marketing and strategic communications experience, will oversee Attila’s marketing team and be responsible for building and strengthening Attila’s brand, developing growth strategies, cultivating opportunities in new and existing markets, and increasing demand for Attila’s products and solutions.
“Kathleen is a truly world-class VP of Marketing” said Attila Security CEO Gregg Smith. “She has deep experience working with early stage technology companies and a keen understanding of what it will take to fuel Attila’s growth. We are excited to have her on our management team.”
Booth comes to Attila from Prevailion, a venture-backed SaaS company named by CRN as one of the 10 hottest cybersecurity startups of 2019. There, she was brought in following the company’s Series A round to build the marketing team, develop a go-to-market strategy and drive demand in preparation for a Series B round in 2020.
“Attila’s products fill a critical niche for both government and private sector clients,” said Booth. “In an increasingly mobile and connected world, the traditional cybersecurity approach of perimeter defense is no longer effective. Attila’s suite of secure communications solutions makes world-class security accessible and easy to deploy for any organization. I’m excited to join such an experienced team and look forward to working with them to deliver security and peace of mind to our customers.”
Before Prevailion, Booth was the VP of Marketing at IMPACT, where she helped lead the company’s evolution to a media business model incorporating a brand publishing division, events business, and new advertising and sponsorship revenue streams. At IMPACT, she built the company’s marketing team and developed strategies and campaigns that contributed to growth of more than 200% in the company’s top-line revenue during her tenure.
Prior to IMPACT, Booth was the Co-Founder and CEO of Quintain Marketing, an award winning digital marketing agency that developed marketing and demand generation strategies for high growth B2B companies, including a number of cybersecurity startups.
Named by TopRank as one of the 50 Top B2B Marketing Influencers in 2019, Booth is also the host of The Inbound Success Podcast and a mentor and board level advisor to several technology startups. She is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and holds a Masters in International Politics and an MBA in Marketing from The George Washington University.
About Attila Security
Based in Columbia, MD, Attila helps organizations ensure their networks and data are securely protected. Our focus has been solving and simplifying complex network security challenges since our inception. Attila’s award winning GoSilent technology was originally developed to protect government leadership and enterprises from advanced cyber threats, man in the middle attacks and foreign adversaries.
Today, the Attila platform offers the highest level of network security of any cloud-based environment, protecting data in-motion and at rest. Attila customers can choose to deploy on our global cloud network or leverage our NIAP certified virtual servers to overlay existing networks.
Learn more at http://www.attilasec.com.