Joy Randels, Senior Vice President - Business Development
Often asked to comment on information security and privacy matters to top media outlets including, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Red Herring, Wired, The London Times, CNN, and the BBC, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Joy Randels, has led four technology startups to successful exits, bringing small vendors into the enterprise IT market.
She is now lending her broad skill set to lead ISC8's business development, sales and marketing expansion into the commercial arena and global security market.
Randels, who joined ISC8 in 2011, brings with her an extensive track record of building both public and private technology companies to profitability through growth and acquisitions. She is now leveraging her experience in marketing, design, and technology to develop creative and innovative strategies to increase revenues, build brands, launch new lines of business, and bring value to shareholders and stakeholders.
Most recently, Randels was Vice President and Head of Worldwide Mobile Sales for Akamai Technologies, the industry leader in content delivery, where she was responsible for worldwide sales of the mobile platform. She came to Akamai when they acquired Velocitude, a mobile web platform company where she served as Executive President of Sales and Marketing. There she launched the company's go-to-market strategy and channel initiatives, building a sales organization that resulted in dramatic growth and was acquired just thirteen months after their launch.
Previously, Randels served as CEO and founder of NewMarket Partners, a startup accelerator that is focused on the development of emerging technology and professional services companies. Today, Randels still serves as Chairman of NewMarket Partners, where her vision, strategy and leadership skills ensured the company's growth and its success in launching subsidiaries focused on security, fraud, and computer forensics.
Randels was recruited as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations & Chief Marketing Officer for Clearcube Technologies as the point-person in a venture capital led a turnaround effort. She restructured all customer related aspects of the business, moving from a direct sales to 100% channel model and separating the software and hardware divisions, a project that led to the spinoff of VDI Works. Randels also developed a bi-directional OEM agreement with VMware and won the "Best Desktop Virtualization" award at VMWORLD 2007 - over VMware's own entry.
Before Clearcube Randels was Chief Operating Officer at Highwall Technologies, an early pioneer in the Wi-Fi and cellular security space. She launched and grew the brand worldwide through a multi-channel sales strategy. She developed an award winning channel and services provider program leading to the company's sale to HP. Prior to Highwall, Randels was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Business Layers where she forged new business practices and delivered the necessary revenue to position the company as the dominant player in identity management. She accomplished this through the development and execution of a strategic plan securing top clients in the Global 5000, while establishing strategic partnerships with leading vendors, practice leaders, systems integration partners, and executing OEM agreements to expand market reach with new fulfillment channels. Business Layers was acquired by Netegrity, which was subsequently acquired by CA Technologies.
Previous to joining Business Layers, Randels served as Senior Vice President of Business Development at CA Technologies, leading efforts when CA restructured and launched it's eTrust business unit. There she focused on development and implementation of sales plans and marketing programs both domestically and abroad driving the new division revenues to over $750M in under two years. Earlier at CA, Randels served as Divisional Vice President for Channel Sales, and Regional Vice President of Sales, respectively. Randels joined CA in 1996 after its $1.2B acquisition of Cheyenne Software, Inc., the market leader in storage management and security solutions. At Cheyenne, she served in several executive sales management roles, which culminated in her appointment as Vice President of Channel Sales. Earlier in her career, Randels held various sales and marketing positions with Apple Computer and MicroAge.
Randels is a graduate of Emory University, Goizueta School of Business CIO Academy, the University of Georgia and the MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship Program. She holds numerous industry certifications including CISM, CIPP, CWSP, CWNE; has been trained in ITIL, Six Sigma and ISO1799, building product and service offerings, industry standard best practices and multi-disciplinary compliance product and service offerings.
Randels serves on the Boards of Directors of several early-stage companies, and participates as an angel investor in various start-up opportunities. She is an active member of professional organizations including the Computer Security Institute (CSI), International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2), SANS Institute, Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International), the Women’s Security Council (WSC), Executive Women's Forum (EWF), and Women in Technology International (WITI).