Esentire has announced key appointments to its go-to-market leadership team in order to accelerate the company’s development. The 14th of March, 2018, in Cambridge, Ontario — esentire, inc., the leading pure-play supplier of managed detection and response (mdr), has today announced the hiring of chris gesell as chief strategy and marketing officer, and brett davis as executive vice president, global sales, both of which will take effect immediately. While gesell will be in charge of esentire’s business and brand initiatives, davis will be in charge of the company’s worldwide sales strategy, as well as its execution and growth. According to esentire’s Chief Executive Officer, kerry bailey, “chris and brett will play significant roles in esentire’s expansion plan.” “the experience that our clients have, beginning with the very first point of contact and continuing all the way through the delivery of our services, is of the utmost importance to us. Both Chris and Brett have extensive experience running influential and high-performing go-to-market businesses in the fields of information technology and security. Together, they make up the ideal team to steer the firm into the subsequent phase of its expansion.” chris gesell, chief strategy and marketing officer, has over 20 years of global leadership experience in it services, including consulting, cloud, security, data center, and managed services. Gesell has a proven track record of creating winning business and brand strategies. He brings this experience to esentire. The knowledge and expertise that gesell has in the areas of corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, as well as determining the path that a firm should take, will be essential in guiding esentire into its next phase of expansion. Gesell’s most recent roles were as vice president of global partner strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and chief marketing officer at terremark, a firm owned by Verizon. brett davis is the executive vice president of global sales at the company. He has over 25 years of experience in sales leadership and customer facing roles, and he has a successful track record of leading high-performing global sales organizations, building trusted client relationships, and delivering consistent growth. Davis is a successful sales leader who offers a sales process that equips customers with the knowledge and assistance they need to make the best choices for their organizations and the people who are a part of them. Davis has held positions of executive level responsibility at many companies, including digex, focal point data risk, cybertrust, and Verizon Enterprise Services. about esentire: esentire® is the biggest pure-play managed detection and response (mdr) service provider in the world. The company protects businesses and organizations against continually developing cyberattacks, which technology alone is unable to stop. Its security operations center (soc), which is manned by top security analysts and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, searches, investigates, and reacts in real time to known and undiscovered dangers before these threats become events that affect company operations. esentire absorbs the complexity of cybersecurity, giving enterprise-grade protection and the flexibility to comply with expanding regulatory requirements. esentire safeguards more than $5 trillion in business assets. The worldwide private equity firm Warburg Pincus, which focuses on growth investments, made a sizeable equity investment in the business in August of 2017. For further details, please go to www.esentire.com and follow @esentire on Twitter. It’s possible that the names of goods and services, as well as the logos of companies, that are mentioned in this text are registered trademarks owned by their respective companies. We reserve all of our rights. angela tuzzo, of MRB Public Relations for esentire, may be reached at +1 732-758.1100, extension 105, or atuzzo@mrb-pr.com. Esentire Corporate Communications, Mandy Bachus +1 226.338.7135 mandy.bachus@esentire.com mandy.bachus@esentire.com ## ###