Five9, a leading provider of the intelligent cloud contact centre, announced the appointment of Chief Information Security Officer Hardik Parekh, an industry recognised executive with a track record of developing world-class security programmes in enterprise companies.
Panos Kozanian, Five9 EVP of Cloud Operations, said:
“Parekh joins Five9 at an exciting time in the company’s journey as we continue to grow our enterprise business and expand internationally.”
“He brings two decades of global enterprise software experience, a builder mindset, and a proven track record of developing exceptional security teams while driving security and technology transformation at scale, all of which will help fuel our company trajectory and affirm our leadership in the cloud contact center space.”
Prior to joining Five9, Parekh worked as a Head of Information Security at Rollbar where he built information security, continuous compliance, and IT teams, and defined and implemented the business technology strategy and roadmap. Parekh was also Head of Product Security at Splunk where he led DevSecOps transformation and delivered security at scale and speed. Parekh has experience working on on-premise, cloud, cloud-native platform/products, mobile products, premium applications and the application store.
Parekh built a modern, highly automated Security Operations Center at Amazon’s Physical Retail Business Unit as CISO. He contributed to industry standards like OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model, Building Security In Maturity Model, NIST Secure Software Development Framework, and SANS Top 25 Programming Errors.
Parekh said:
“The opportunity to build on Five9’s reputation for delivering the most trusted and reliable cloud contact center is exciting.”
“I am proud to join the company at a time of tremendous growth and innovation, and I look forward to partnering across the organization to advance a comprehensive, proactive security program.”
