Code42 Software Leadership

Visionary, results oriented leader with extensive experience in strategy development, market research, brand building, messaging and communications, campaign execution, and talent development in b2b tech. Enjoys building and leading global teams to deliver creative solutions that have a measurable impact on the business. Highly analytical and effective in developing demand generation and account based marketing (ABM) programs that deliver leads. Demonstrates excellent interpersonal and communication skills building strong “C” level and team relationships. Fluent in Dutch, French, German and Italian. Authorized to work in Europe and in the United States.

Specialties: Segmentation, Messaging, Branding, PR, Analyst Relations, Product Marketing, Social Media, Demand Generation, Market Analysis, Business Transformation

Jadee Hanson is the Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Information Officer at Code42, where she is responsible for business technology strategy and purchasing, leads global risk and compliance, security operations, incident response, and insider threat monitoring and investigations.

Jadee has over 17 years of experience driving business success for startups and iconic billion-dollar brands. She is recognized for boosting revenue, curbing risk through high-level, transformative security and IT strategies, and leveraging deep subject matter expertise in security technologies to expand the market relevance of security products.

Prior to Code42, Jadee held several senior Information Security positions at Target including serving as Senior Director of Target Information Security. In this role, she helped develop security risk governance and strategy, as well as drove risk evaluation of Target’s M&A and market expansion activities. Previously, she managed enterprise risk services at Deloitte.

Jadee was recognized by The Software Report as one of ‘2021’s Top 25 Women in Cybersecurity' and by Cyber Defense Magazine as one of ‘Top 100 Women in Cybersecurity’. She is also the co-author of Inside Jobs: Why Insider Risk Is the Biggest Cyber Threat You Can’t Ignore.

Jadee holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from the University of North Dakota. She is a certified CISSP, CISA, and AWS Cloud Practitioner.

As chief technology officer, Rob leads our software development and delivery teams. He brings more than 20 years of security, cloud, mobile, and IT management experience to Code42.

Prior to Code42, Rob worked as vice president of research and development at Ivanti, where he led and shaped the company's evolution from IT management technologies to security-focused solutions, with projects ranging from cloud-delivered analytics to hybrid cloud security. Prior to Ivanti, Rob served as senior director of research and development at VMware, the leader in virtualization and hybrid cloud.

Rob has published several papers on information technology and mobility and co-authored the first published book on wireless application protocol in the United States. His passion for the IT Industry, plotting its tracks and keeping a pulse on its future, and his expertise has made him a high-demand speaker throughout the international IT community.

Rob graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in computer science and a concentration in economics. In his spare time, he’s often moving his three ice hockey/lacrosse-playing children between rinks, or watching his Stanley Cup-destined Minnesota Wild play.

Strategic CFO and defacto COO with over 25 years of senior leadership experience delivering growth through financial, strategic and operational initiatives in public and private commercial high tech global product and service businesses. Develops strategies for growth stage, turnarounds and pivots in dynamic and international environments. A strong business partner and trusted advisor balancing top-line growth with bottom-line results.

Demonstrated areas of expertise:

-Implementing financial strategies, infrastructure and systems to facilitate revenue growth in complex multinational environments while reducing expenses through operational efficiencies. Doubled revenue at last 3 companies while reducing expenses by 45%.

-Driving financial metrics to facilitate high growth through scale, optimization, and data intelligence strategies. Consistently improved gross margins over 100% in last 3 companies, and drove EBITDA improvements multiple times over.

-Delivering shareholder value through organic and M&A growth. Leads corporate development purchasing multiple SaaS companies at below market valuations, led their integrations and packaged divestitures that sold for gains. Sold public company to a strategic partner for 22% premium.

-Fundraising through public markets, private equity & private placements.

-Creating global talent management lifecycle strategies focused on team member engagement, results-driven, high-performing teams. Creating great places to work cultures reducing attrition approx 41% and increasing team member referrals 50%+.