Twenty-year enterprise technology and cybersecurity leader joins to accelerate global adoption of the Forcepoint AI Data Security platform, delivering command of agentic AI to liberate intelligence
Global AI data security leader Forcepoint announced that Vincent Merlin has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer. Reporting to CEO Ryan Windham, Merlin will lead global marketing across brand, demand generation, product marketing and analyst relations as Forcepoint defines the AI data security category, enabling enterprises to keep command of AI while putting their best intelligence to work.
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“The next decade won’t be won by organizations using the most AI. It will be won by those that never lost control of it. Vincent’s global expertise will help our customers and partners see what command of AI makes possible.” Forcepoint CEO Ryan Windham
“Trust used to be a posture, and it is becoming a deliverable for the agentic enterprise: every AI interaction with data governed, every decision recorded, every time,” said Windham. “The next decade won’t be won by organizations using the most AI. It will be won by those that never lost control of it. Vincent’s global go-to-market expertise will help our customers and partners see what command of AI makes possible.”
Merlin joins Forcepoint from Proofpoint, where he spent 10 years in senior marketing leadership roles, most recently as Senior Vice President of Global Growth Marketing. His responsibilities spanned the worldwide marketing organization and inside sales, helping build the global growth engine and drive AI-led transformation as the company scaled from approximately $400 million to more than $2.4 billion in annual recurring revenue. He previously held global and regional marketing leadership roles at AVEVA, as well as Dell EMC and RSA. Merlin holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and an engineering degree in quantum photonics and optics from Institut d’Optique Graduate School.
“Every technology worth adopting showed up before anyone knew how to secure it. The web, email, the cloud,” said Merlin. “Companies moved anyway, and the ones that moved early could because somebody made it survivable. Forcepoint is doing that for AI, giving enterprises the confidence to put their best information to work while staying in control. That’s why I’m here.”
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