Stamford’s Protegrity recruits Rick Farnell as CEO

Protegrity, a Stamford-headquartered provider of data security solutions, has hired Rick Farnell as CEO.

Farnell previously served as senior vice president at Teradata, where he was responsible for the company”™s global consulting business comprising 5,000 consultants across 75 countries. He was formerly co-founder and president of Think Big Analytics and a director of Sun Microsystems”™ global software practice. He replaces Suni Munshani, who served as the chief executive since 2011.

“I am thrilled to join Protegrity to help the company scale into the future with its industry leading security software,” Farnell said. “Data security is a top concern in boardrooms and for C-suites at companies of all sizes and in every industry across the globe. As the world increasingly adopts digital, hybrid-cloud and artificial intelligence solutions, Protegrity”™s proven data security software will be on center stage helping our customers to choreograph safe analytical innovation with the use of data in all its forms.”