DigiCert CEO and leadership

John Merrill was named DigiCert CEO in August 2016, after serving as the company’s COO during the previous three years. Merrill has led the DigiCert acquisition of Symantec’s Website Security and related PKI solutions as well as Verizon’s Enterprise SSL business, significantly expanding DigiCert’s global footprint. He has played a pivotal role in overseeing the company’s finance, operations, sales, and emerging markets divisions. Among his initiatives as COO, Merrill oversaw the company’s focus on enhancing its solutions for the Internet of Things, advancing its industry leadership, and developing innovative certificate management platforms. Merrill has a strong, multi-decade background in corporate finance, marketing, and operations for high-revenue growth companies.

Prior to joining DigiCert, Merrill was President of the Global Retail Division for Connolly, Inc., where he led efforts that grew the division revenue by 93 percent during his five-year tenure. Previously, Merrill was COO for UserTrust, Inc., where he oversaw the digital security company’s growth and ultimate acquisition. He also led division growth at GE Capital and Evans and Sutherland. Merrill received a BA in Economics from The University of Utah and an MBA from Cornell University.

Jason Sabin is a Chief Technology Officer at DigiCert Inc..

Christophe Bodin joined Tradeshift as Chief Revenue Officer October 2020. As CRO, Bodin oversees all customer-facing segments across Tradeshift’s enterprise SaaS business and is responsible for scaling revenue across these business lines and refining go-to-market strategy as the company enters its next phase of growth and expansion.

An expert in end to end customer experience with over 25 years of success across the software industry, Bodin joined Tradeshift from cloud-based planning software company Anaplan, where he was Chief Customer Officer. He played a pivotal role in helping Anaplan scale revenues during and following the company’s highly successful IPO in 2018, leading the company’s global professional services, customer care, customer success operations teams, and the Anaplan Academy.

Before Anaplan, Bodin led the software practice for SBI, a management consulting firm specializing in marketing and sales. He had previously spent five years at BMC Software, holding several senior positions, including Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations and Strategy. Earlier in his career, Bodin held customer-focused leadership positions across a range of start-up, mid-size and Fortune 50 technology companies, including IBM, Oracle and BEA Systems.

Financially and operationally driven senior finance executive with a proven track record across consumer and enterprise technology markets. Broad multi-functional global experiences across Cloud SaaS, Computer Peripherals, Semiconductor, and Consumer Electronics industries. Expertise in capturing opportunities within high-growth revenue markets and implementing profitability strategies for mature markets. Recognized for assuming rapid, progressive leadership responsibilities while successfully overseeing global financial operations, IT, legal, procurement, workplace operations, investor relations, corporate development, corporate communications, sales operations and business analytics. Led Anaplan through one of the most successful tech IPOs. Proven business acumen and valuation awareness. Success in building peak-performing teams through active talent recruitment and individual leadership development as a public and private company CFO.