LONDON: Nuix has appointed Rod Vawdrey as its Chief Operating Officer. In his new role, Vawdrey takes responsibility for overseeing the company’s business activities globally, including sales operations, information technology, human resources, training, facilities, and strategic projects and partnerships.
Vawdrey has been an IT and innovation business leader for more than 30 years, having previously held the positions of Corporate Executive Vice President of Fujitsu Limited Global and CEO and Executive Director of Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand.
“We’re extremely proud and privileged to have Rod join our executive team and his experience will help us take the company to a new level,” said Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix. “Rod could easily be running a Fortune 500 company or global enterprise but he has chosen to be part of Nuix—that’s a major coup for us.”
Vawdrey said his decision to join Nuix was driven by his vision to change the way organisations considered the ever-present and increasing threat of cybersecurity breaches.
“Corporate and government organisations are increasingly at risk of serious cyber-threats which can have disastrous effects on their operations, financial strength and reputation,” he said.
“While technology can help address the risks, it is not enough on its own, especially when nearly half of all cybercrime incidents and security breaches emanate from within organisations themselves.
“That’s why I see the need for a major shift in culture around data security at the highest level. There is a real need to bridge the gap at the executive level so that CEOs embrace and promote a culture of cybersecurity in addition to technology software to protect them from cyber-threats.”
Vawdrey says building a culture of security must be a top priority for executives, starting with an understanding of where the organisation keeps its data “crown jewels” and then putting a strategy in place to protect them.