Mike Potts to take over as CEO at Webroot
U.S. antivirus and cybersecurity company Webroot will have a new CEO by the end of the month after Dick Williams, 73, retires after eight years at the helm. Mike Potts, previously an executive at Cisco, takes over Sept. 25. Colorado-based Webroot, founded in 1997, employs 680 people globally and brought on a new CISO, Gary Hayslip, in April 2017. Before Cisco, Potts served as CEO of the network security company Lancope and CEO of Motorola AirDefense (now the IoT security company 802 Secure). The balance sheet has seen little but good news of late for Webroot, which reported an ongoing streak of 14 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth under Williams. Under his leadership, Williams expanded the business to include endpoint security, network security and threat intelligence services. Potts will be building Webroot’s threat intelligence business along with building the company’s managed service provider work for small to medium-sized businesses. The consumer market is also viewed […]
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