Agari was founded by the thought leaders behind Cisco’s IronPort solution and co-founders of the DMARC standard for email authentication. Using predictive AI informed by global intelligence from around 2 trillion emails annually, we protect organizations against phishing, business email compromise (BEC) scams and other advanced email threats.
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Agari partners with PayPal, Yahoo!, and Google on a pilot project, testing the program that became the DMARC open standard and paving the way for standard email authentication.
The first customers purchase the Agari software, gaining unprecedented visibility into their email security infrastructure.
JPMorgan Chase, PayPal, Facebook, Netflix, and LinkedIn jump aboard to eliminate malicious email attacks within global email ecosystems.
Agari closes a Series B financing round and quickly begins scaling the business.
Finding early success, Agari is honored as the Security Project of the Year and wins the ISE Northeast.
Agari assists the FBI in the highly publicized Citadel botnet takedown and is honored to receive the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation Award.
Revenue grows to 300% and Agari brings new executives on board, doubling the size of the team and moving into larger offices.
After securing Series C financing, Agari opens an office in the United Kingdom and launches the Agari Partner Network, rapidly expanding throughout the world.
Agari continues to make an impression in the cybersecurity space, winning the AlwaysOn Global 250 award and being recognized with the highly sought-after Gartner Cool Vendor Award.
The company grows quickly, expanding its customer base internationally and within the federal government and Fortune 1000.
Agari is included as a member of the 2015 Online Trust Honor Roll by the Online Trust Alliance, showcasing best practices in brand and consumer protection, security, and privacy.
Additional funding is raised through a Series D round and Agari welcomes Norwest Venture Partners to the Board of Directors.
Agari expands it focus and introduces Advanced Threat Protection to protect employees from inbound threats like business email compromise and spear phishing.
A government directive gives federal organizations one year to adopt DMARC and Agari helps bring government agencies into compliance.
Agari research into healthcare organizations shows that the industry is especially vulnerable, with 57% of email “from” the healthcare industry being fraudulent.
Agari secures Series E funding with $40m in growth capital from an investor group led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity.
Agari closes 2018 with explosive 234% customer growth, announces Secure Email Cloud architecture, and launches Agari Cyber Intelligence Division.
Agari unveils Continuous Detection and Response technology, insider impersonation protection, launches global SOC Network.
Agari marks 10 years of industry leadership, discovers new Vendor Email Compromise attack type that forces CISOs to rethink defenses.
Agari partners with KnowBe4 to transform phishing protection with integrated phishing defense, cyber security training and simulation solution.
Pioneers. Game-changers. Visionaries. Meet the executive team behind Agari.
Patrick Peterson is Agari’s visionary Founder and CEO, who has spent more than 15 years securing the email ecosystem. Peterson founded Agari in 2009, when he saw a real need in the industry for a solution that would secure the email channel. Under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, he has developed the company’s industry-changing security platform that now protects many of the world’s largest enterprises from email threats. Prior to Agari, Peterson joined IronPort Systems and invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service.
Armen Najarian is a 15 year Silicon Valley marketing veteran with deep experience scaling pre- and post-IPO cloud and security companies to successful shareholder outcomes. He joined Agari as CMO in April 2018 to accelerate demand and position Agari as the premier worldwide provider of advanced email security solutions. Prior to Agari, Najarian served as Chief Marketing Officer at ThreatMetrix after a successful career in product marketing.
Raymond Lim is the CFO of Agari, with 20+ years of financial and high technology experience building and scaling SaaS startups and growth companies. Prior to Agari, Lim served as CFO and VP of Finance at three other Norwest Venture Partners portfolio companies including Rafter, Badgeville and Jigsaw. He also served in the same capacity for other venture-backed technology companies including Saisei Networks and CrowdFlower.
John Giacomini is Chief Revenue Officer at Agari. He has years of experience building dedicated and growth-oriented sales teams for cybersecurity companies as Executive Vice President, Global Sales at Cylance and Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Forcepoint.
Doug Jones is Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer at Agari. Over the last 20 years, he has served in several executive positions at high-growth companies, most recently as CEO of GrandCanals. Previously, he was Interim Vice President of Corporate and Business Development at Badgeville, Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development at Lithium Technologies, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence for BridgeScale Partners.
Abhijit Dey has over 20 years of experience in software development and product engineering. As Senior Vice President of Product Development, he has deep expertise in AWS, SaaS, public cloud, storage, cybersecurity, AI/ML, data protection, data insights, data security, and analytics. Prior to Agari, Dey served in similar roles at Druva and Veritas, and has over a decade working in Engineering at Symantec, leading global teams and delivering a portfolio of SaaS and cloud-based services to enterprise customers worldwide.
Zohar Gillai is Senior Vice President of Customer Enablement and Support at Agari. Zohar has many years of experience in the cyber security space building and running world-class service delivery and customer support teams that provide outstanding customer experience and business outcomes. Prior to joining Agari Zohar was with WhiteHat Security, and has held leadership positions at Usermind and Forescout.
Patrick Peterson is Agari’s visionary Founder and CEO, who has spent more than 15 years securing the email ecosystem. Peterson founded Agari in 2009, when he saw a real need in the industry for a solution that would secure the email channel. Under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, he has developed the company’s industry-changing security platform that now protects many of the world’s largest enterprises from email threats. Prior to Agari, Peterson joined IronPort Systems and invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service.
Armen Najarian is a 15 year Silicon Valley marketing veteran with deep experience scaling pre- and post-IPO cloud and security companies to successful shareholder outcomes. He joined Agari as CMO in April 2018 to accelerate demand and position Agari as the premier worldwide provider of advanced email security solutions. Prior to Agari, Najarian served as Chief Marketing Officer at ThreatMetrix after a successful career in product marketing.
Raymond Lim is the CFO of Agari, with 20+ years of financial and high technology experience building and scaling SaaS startups and growth companies. Prior to Agari, Lim served as CFO and VP of Finance at three other Norwest Venture Partners portfolio companies including Rafter, Badgeville and Jigsaw. He also served in the same capacity for other venture-backed technology companies including Saisei Networks and CrowdFlower.
John Giacomini is Chief Revenue Officer at Agari. He has years of experience building dedicated and growth-oriented sales teams for cybersecurity companies as Executive Vice President, Global Sales at Cylance and Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Forcepoint.
Doug Jones is Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer at Agari. Over the last 20 years, he has served in several executive positions at high-growth companies, most recently as CEO of GrandCanals. Previously, he was Interim Vice President of Corporate and Business Development at Badgeville, Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development at Lithium Technologies, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence for BridgeScale Partners.
Abhijit Dey has over 20 years of experience in software development and product engineering. As Senior Vice President of Product Development, he has deep expertise in AWS, SaaS, public cloud, storage, cybersecurity, AI/ML, data protection, data insights, data security, and analytics. Prior to Agari, Dey served in similar roles at Druva and Veritas, and has over a decade working in Engineering at Symantec, leading global teams and delivering a portfolio of SaaS and cloud-based services to enterprise customers worldwide.
Zohar Gillai is Senior Vice President of Customer Enablement and Support at Agari. Zohar has many years of experience in the cyber security space building and running world-class service delivery and customer support teams that provide outstanding customer experience and business outcomes. Prior to joining Agari Zohar was with WhiteHat Security, and has held leadership positions at Usermind and Forescout.
Pioneers. Game-changers. Visionaries. Meet the executive team behind Agari.
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