Chad Gold joins G2 from Salesloft as Chief Financial Officer, bringing 20+ years of experience from pre- and post- IPO companies

G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace, today announced it has appointed Chad Gold as the company’s first Chief Financial Officer (CFO). With over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, including CFO roles at pre- and post-IPO technology companies, Gold joins G2 from Salesloft.

For the past five and a half years, Gold contributed to Salesloft’s extraordinary growth and expansion, overseeing Series D and E funding rounds, as well as a majority stake investment by Vista Equity Partners – which took the company’s valuation from $200 million to $2.3 billion.

“In the current age of AI, G2 is uniquely positioned to power the buying and selling of software. As we tap into our potential in this landscape and accelerate growth, it’s crucial that we have the right finance leadership at the helm,” said Godard Abel, co-founder and CEO of G2. “With Chad joining G2 as CFO, his experience leading and scaling global finance and operations functions will be instrumental in helping us reach our next peak as a company.”

Before Salesloft, Gold was CFO at Rubicon where he was responsible for the company’s financial operations and reporting — playing a key role in strategic business planning and development, global expansion, and revenue growth. He was also previously Global Vice President and CFO at SAP Ariba, leading the business’ global finance organization and overseeing a period of significant growth — with cloud subscription revenue more than doubling following SAP’s acquisition of Ariba in 2012.

“I enjoy being part of great growth stories and love the role finance can play in software businesses to impact outcomes," said Chad Gold, CFO at G2. “At Salesloft, I was fortunate enough to see the company experience 10x growth. G2 has a clear opportunity to lead the market even further and I look forward to being part of G2’s growth story.”

Prior to SAP Ariba, Gold held multiple finance leadership roles at The Home Depot and began his career working as a Senior Consultant in Business Valuation at Ernst & Young. In 2022, he was recognized as a CFO of the Year by Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Rad, the innovative video streaming platform for Web 3, has secured significant funding in a follow-on round led by Ayre Ventures. Rad is also pleased to announce it has incorporated the use of BSV Blockchain into its publishing and purchasing flow for transactional video on demand (TVOD) and open or limited edition NFT video. In addition, Rad has integrated with HandCash, a leading mobile and web wallet that users can connect to apps, games, and websites to stream money directly, to help facilitate payments. This means you can create and purchase content on Rad without needing a browser plugin, and the Company can easily expand other forms of payment.

This product release and new investment creates an unrivaled opportunity for creators and studios to release content to major streaming devices. Content creators and studios can now upload video to Rad, set all metadata associated with the video, fix pricing, and enable an arbitrary number of revenue shares and royalties to multiple payees. This means that anyone receiving payment from the sales of content can be paid directly, such as actors, musicians, agents, and more.

This platform launch will help actors and writers receive payments immediately and transparently for their work and redefines how contracting, legal, and accounting will work for selling premium content online. The publishing and payments use the native blockchain’s currency initially but will support accepting any payment type in the future, as well as payouts to traditional fiat currencies.

“Rad is excited to expand its integration of blockchain technologies with real use cases, and do so in a way that creators and viewers don’t have to think about,” said Tony Mugavero, CEO of Rad. “Who published the content, who purchased it, and who gets paid, should all be transparent and instant as well as verifiable by all parties involved. It reduces legal and accounting overhead and provides an extra layer of trust that hasn’t existed in the black boxes of streaming companies.”

Ayre Ventures founder Calvin Ayre hailed the development, saying: “The recent Hollywood actor and writer strikes showed the importance of updating rights agreements in tandem with technological change to ensure creators are properly compensated for their efforts. Ayre Ventures is pleased to support Rad’s ongoing work to demonstrate the pivotal role that enterprise blockchain technology can play in these endeavors. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and BSV Blockchain-powered transparency is the best method of ensuring a fair shake for all."

For the gas price of a single transaction on Ethereum, Rad can create 500,000 videos on BSV Blockchain. Leveraging the power of blockchain for transparency and immediacy of payments can’t be prohibitively expensive. “This is a solution to the lack of transparent and fair payouts in the streaming business, which has led to writers and actors striking, and creators leaving social platforms while struggling to pay bills,” Mugavero added. “Major studios have hundreds of lawyers and accountants shuffling money between departments, countless middlemen and agencies taking a piece of the pie, and there is no easy way to guarantee everyone is paid the right amounts. Blockchain solves this problem and enables instant payouts to the right recipients while giving ownership back to the people.”

Leading cybersecurity provider Egress has launched a highly accurate graymail solution, with full end-user control, dedicated to improving employee productivity and reducing the time administrators spend reviewing incorrectly reported phishing emails.

The graymail feature is architected into Egress’ inbound threat detection product, Egress Defend, and integrates seamlessly into customers’ Microsoft 365 environments.

Graymail is bulk solicited emails which are generally low priority and not malicious phishing attacks or unsolicited spam. On average, 34% of a user’s inbox can be classified as graymail,* including newsletters, promotional materials, and notifications. This volume increases with seniority with an organization’s hierarchy: 54% of executives’ mail flow is graymail. Only 3% of these messages are ever opened. **

The high volume of graymail often means business-critical emails are buried within inboxes and employees’ time is spent on manually filtering less important messages. Additionally, graymail emails are 12 times more likely to be misreported as phishing emails versus other message categories, wasting Cybersecurity teams’ time on reviewing harmless emails and distracting them from live threats.**

To tackle this drain on organizational resources, Egress has developed an advanced graymail detection capability to remove these unnecessary distractions tailored to each individual’s preference. The technology leverages Egress’ patented AI-based phishing detection functionality, which uses zero trust models and neural networks to prevent behavioral-based threats. Applying this methodology, Egress surfaces priority messages within the inbox, while segmenting graymail into a separate folder.

Additionally, this productivity feature is easily customized by both individual users and administrators. An interactive banner is added to each message that is routed to the graymail folder, which provides a simple workflow for employees to re-categorize emails and divert them back into their mailbox. Users’ preferences are automatically learned by Defend, allowing users to customize their own experience without any management overhead.   

Tony Pepper, CEO of Egress, comments:

“Graymail is an increasing drain on everyone’s time throughout an organization. From individual users through to IT and Cyber teams, who are often functioning with extremely tight resources. The launch of our advanced graymail detection within Egress Defend will boost productivity and free up valuable time across the business. While people are generally more cybersecurity-savvy than ever before, with this comes a high propensity for false alerts that take time to investigate. We’re excited to put this release in our customers’ hands and increase the value we can offer to them.”

The two hires come as Uberflip prepares for strategic growth with new leadership

Uberflip, the leading content engagement platform, today announced Jeremy Schultz as the company's Chief Executive Officer and Jonathan Cogan as Chief Revenue Officer. Schultz and Cogan have extensive leadership experience and proven success in strengthening organizations. Together they are bringing a refreshed strategic vision to Uberflip's next chapter with plans to steer the company toward continued success and growth.

"Bringing in a new CEO and CRO will grow Uberflip in new ways," said Simon Wilson, Executive Chair at Uberflip. "Their collective experience will allow us to not only continue to deliver exceptional value to our clients, but will further solidify Uberflip's position as the leader in content experience."

Schultz brings more than 25 years of sales strategy and executive experience to Uberflip. Most recently, he was the CEO of Modus, a B2B SaaS company specializing in marketing software, where he steered the company to a 30%+ year-over-year SaaS growth and a 94%+ retention rate. His strategic leadership led to a successful exit through an acquisition in July 2023.

"As I take on responsibility as CEO, my focus is leading with integrity, empowering our team, and charting a course for sustained excellence," said Schultz. "With Uberflip being the pioneer of content experiences, we are able to position ourselves in a place where we can continue to thrive and evolve as fast as our clients' needs."

Schultz started his career in advertising sales and held roles including Vice President of Commercial sales at Salesforce, EVP Strategy & Revenue at SAVO Group, and Head of Sales Operations and Enablement at DexYP. Schultz is the Chairperson of the Board at Concerts for Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit organization he co-founded in 2019. Through this foundation, he contributes to raising funds for "make-a-wish" style grants, providing support to cancer fighters and their caregivers.

Cogan brings more than 20 years experience supporting, designing and executing revenue generating models. His experience spans sales, customer success, partnerships, strategy and operations. He was GM of the Americas at Piano, a Digital Experience Platform. Prior to Piano, Cogan was SVP of Sales at Lytics, a customer data platform. At Jama Software, Cogan led Sales and CS and helped drive a $200 million growth equity investment from Insight Partners.

"As CRO, I plan to do more than just drive revenue growth, but also create strategic partnerships, and optimize our sales and marketing efforts," said Cogan. "This will be a seamless transition for our clients who will continue to receive unparalleled innovation. It's an honor to join the Uberflip team and work closely alongside Jeremy to leverage our collective strengths and navigate this economy and industry together."

Integration empowers Final Cut Pro users to search for media across any storage and bring it directly into their editing timeline

Global media and entertainment technology company, Backlight, is making video creation workflows easier and faster with a new integration between its cloud-native media management and collaboration hub, iconik, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro (FCP). The integration aligns iconik’s flexible and accessible media management, search, and collaboration tools with Apple’s Final Cut Pro’s editing workflows.

The iconik x Final Cut Pro integration accelerates the creative process for video editors, making it easy for them to search their iconik media library and open assets on any storage in FCP for editing. Post-editing, their rendered projects can be easily returned to iconik for archival, collaboration, and reuse.

“With this integration, we’re extending iconik’s powerful and accessible search and retrieval tools and ‘bring your own storage’ capabilities to Final Cut Pro users,” said Mike Szumlinski, EVP of product for Backlight. “Editors using FCP can now spend more time editing and less time wrangling files because together iconik and Final Cut Pro present a fast, simple way to deliver media where it needs to be and to the people who need to see it.”

The iconik x Final Cut Pro integration mitigates several common video production pain points, delivering value, such as:

• Locating & Importing Media: Iconik looks beyond file and folder names and offers more ways to find footage with rich metadata, time-based and AI-generated tags. As iconik can index any existing storage location, users can quickly locate assets wherever they live, be it on the cloud or on-premise, vastly reducing the time it takes to find the right assets.
• Collaboration & Media Review: Iconik is not just for media management – it is a collaboration hub. Users can manage versions, comments, annotations, and approval status in the same place they manage their media. Managing feedback in a central place means responsive edits can happen quickly, and projects get over the finish line faster.
• Fast access to media: Iconik indexes media across any storage in the cloud, presenting users with scannable proxy files that allow users to quickly preview and identify media. When they want to bring their selected assets into FCP for editing, there are no lengthy download times, egress fees, or transferring from file-sharing platforms that aren’t optimized for video – users can choose to open their iconik media in FCP and start editing.
• Streamlined Process: Iconik reduces the number of tools needed to manage media and collaboration. Users can easily export from the FCP share menu to iconik for a full-circle workflow between the platforms.

Iconik also offers an integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, empowering users to access, collaborate on, and manage their iconik assets via the native Adobe Panel.

New AI Post Copilot, AI Avatar and AI Chatbot keep GETTR at forefront of innovation

GETTR, one of the fastest-growing social media companies in the world, has launched a trio of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on its platform to give users more flexibility and creativity in creating social media content.

GETTR’s new GETTR AI Post Copilot™ is exclusive to the platform, and makes creating engaging and impactful posts easier for users. The GETTR AI Post Copilot™ uses generative AI to offer suggestions and guide content creation. The new AI tool uses state-of-the-art language models to help users generate compelling content, including suggesting hashtags and helping capture the essence of the user’s draft message. AI-assisted content development helps users articulate their thoughts and overcome issues such as writer’s block.

The social media platform has also added GETTR AI Avatar™ as part of its premium service. With the GETTR AI Avatar™, paid subscribers can create personalized AI-generated visual personas using selfies or uploaded images. Using advanced AI algorithms to transform user photos makes creating custom avatars easy and increases the fun of using GETTR.

Finally, GETTR is preparing for its public launch of a GETTR AI Chatbot™. The GETTR’s AI Chatbot™ provides a highly customizable experience with a variety of personalities to match your unique conversational style. Depending on the GETTR AI Chatbot™ chosen, it can provide personalized guidance and resources to learn a new skill, from fitness, to cooking, and beyond. The GETTR AI Chatbot™ also provides a seamless way for advertisers to connect with GETTR’s users via relevant and timeline in-chat commercial recommendations, enhancing the relevance and engagement of the GETTR AI Chatbot™ interaction.

“GETTR is committed to maintaining our technology leadership position, giving our users the most flexible and powerful social media platform available,” said GETTR CEO Ken Huang. “Our users are some of the most passionate and creative people from around the world. Adding state-of-the-art technology like generative AI will help GETTR attract more users and give us a distinct advantage over other social media. Harnessing AI allows GETTR users to create content in fun, easy and creative ways.”

“We are delighted with the initial response to the GETTR AI Copilot™,” said Huang. “We developed this AI feature in less than a month, and we’ve already seen a higher engagement rate for posts created with the help of the GETTR AI Copilot™. We expect users will get more out of GETTR and use it more often once they experience the power of AI-assisted content.”

FileCloud, a preeminent secure enterprise file-sharing and content collaboration provider, is pleased to announce a partnership with Votiro, the category leader in disarming and delivering safe content, to provide customers with state-of-the-art options to enhance their security posture. FileCloud is used by leading government and private sector organizations worldwide for secure, compliant file sharing and content collaboration. This partnership shows FileCloud's commitment to providing ways for enterprises to stay ahead of potential threats from incoming infected files, and to working with strategic partners at the vanguard of cybersecurity to achieve this. In doing so, FileCloud empowers customers to strengthen their security posture by using Votiro's powerful Positive Selection® Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology, integrated with their FileCloud deployments.

Currently, unstructured data is growing by around 27% annually, a figure set to increase as technological advancements requiring large data sets, such as AI and ML, continue apace. This creates a risk of data sprawl, creating broader enterprise attack surfaces. Critically, this growth includes large numbers of files entering organizations from outside sources. The global increase in remote working in recent years also amplifies the risks inherent in data from unmanaged systems containing malicious content. This means it's increasingly vital to ensure the safety of incoming files prior to their entry into organizational infrastructures.

Like FileCloud, Votiro applies Zero Trust principles to detect, disarm, and deliver safe files used in content and collaboration business solutions. Its Positive Selection® technology sanitizes all inbound and outbound files in real-time, constructing new, fully functional versions by extracting the known good elements and reconstructing them on top of a safe file template. Votiro has achieved this by leveraging deep internal expertise in the architecture of each file type – including common, complex, and regional specific file types. Users can open and work on all fully functional files coming from external sources with 100% confidence that they remain uncompromised by any malicious scripts or other weaponized content.

Due to Votiro's ability to extract only clean, safe objects to create new files, it's particularly effective at detecting and neutralizing zero-day threats. These threats typically remain undetected by security software using predictive methods. Positive Selection® CDR dissects files into content, templates, and objects prior to reconstructing them. Using this method, Votiro delivers guaranteed safe files to users in milliseconds.

Votiro's leading technology, when integrated with FileCloud's various technical layers of file security, as well as its impressive threat analytics capabilities, will empower customers to reinforce their data security and enable adherence to increasingly tough global privacy legislation. Votiro disarms huge volumes of files annually for organizations in the areas of healthcare, insurance, legal, MSPs and MSSPs, and other sectors.

"The current threat landscape, wide content attack surface and increasing pressure on IT leads customers to look for zero trust solutions that explicitly safeguard content and enables employees to safely work from anywhere they will be productive," said Jason Dover, CPO of FileCloud. "We're committed to enabling our customers to meet their security posture requirements by working with top-tier security solution providers like Votiro. Through this partnership, we are providing customers with a powerful toolset to minimize risk around content entering their environment that could be leveraged as a vector by threat actors. We look forward to jointly delivering enhanced value to our customer base."

Votiro's CEO Ravi Srinivasan commented, "Votiro's mission to provide zero trust content security aligns perfectly with FileCloud's vision to build a hyper-secure content collaboration platform. This partnership will enable safe and secure content collaboration and exchange, keeping customers safe from any file-borne threats."

A Potent Combination for Content Security

Similar to Votiro, FileCloud supports a wide variety of file types, making the integration particularly fitting for enterprises requiring robust data security. Votiro detects and disarms weaponized files of numerous formats, including password-protected and archive files. Its capabilities also extend to PDF, RTF, text, Microsoft Office files, email containers, and all prevalent image formats.

Since malicious payloads are removed from all files, Votiro has a consistent rate of zero false positives. The lack of file quarantining means that users can access and work on clean versions of their documents without delay, minimizing negative impacts on productivity or increased workload on IT staff. In a world in which AI-assisted attacks are on the rise, FileCloud and Votiro together offer an invaluable extra layer of security.

This latest partnership is indicative of FileCloud's ongoing commitment to broadening the range of customized file security integrations available to its tens of thousands of global users. FileCloud prides itself on facilitating enterprises in maintaining operational effectiveness, while also safeguarding those all-important digital assets.  

Organisation moves to a regional operating model to rapidly scale the business and enhance customer success.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) specialist, ProofID has created two new regional CEO roles to steer the organisation in the next phase of its growth. The strategic move follows the company's recent acquisition of US-based Regatta Solutions Group, (a SailPoint Admiral delivery partner) and FY2023 organic revenue growth in excess of 25%, and supports its unwavering dedication to prioritising customer needs.

In 2023, the company has experienced both organic growth and expansion through acquisition. Consequently, it is undergoing a transition from a global operating model to a regional one. This strategic shift aims to empower teams in the Americas and EMEA, enabling them to effectively cater to customer demands and respond promptly to regional market conditions. The implementation of a new management structure will foster scalability, paving the way for future growth opportunities.

New Roles

The creation of three new standout roles will decentralise top management, while maintaining the global roles of HR, finance, technology, strategy, and marketing to continue to benefit from economies of scale. New roles are:

• Tom Eggleston – Formerly CEO, will now hold the position of Group CEO.
• John Iandolo - Previously serving as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), has been promoted to CEO, EMEA.
• Ben Sportel - Former VP of US Operations and Global Professional Services, has been promoted to CEO, Americas.

The Regatta management team will remain unchanged, ensuring continuity and stability in operations.

"Enabling our teams across the regions to adapt to fast-changing market conditions ensures we are providing the best possible solutions for customers across multiple time-zones and differing regional requirements," said Tom Eggleston, Group CEO, ProofID.

"Placing ownership of customer relations within the territories and tailoring services to meet their regional needs is core to building stronger customer relationships, tailoring our approach to market opportunities and creating a more scalable business – it's simply a better fit for future growth."

The strategic reorganisation reflects ProofID's commitment to adapt and excel in a dynamic and evolving business landscape and focus on continued growth.