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Scott Gainey Joins Checkmarx as Chief Marketing Officer to Spearhead New Growth Strategies

PARAMUS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 19, 2025-- Checkmarx, the leader in agentic AI-driven, cloud-native application security that helps enterprise developers build trust at scale and speed, welcomes security industry veteran Scott Gainey to its executive leadership team as chief marketing officer. Gainey will lead the company's global marketing strategy, branding, messaging, communications, demand generation and partner marketing development efforts. Key goals include scaling new business growth by aligning and executing with sales and partners to deliver significant value to customers. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: Cybersecurity industry veteran Scott Gainey has joined Checkmarx as Chief Marketing Officer 'Checkmarx is hyper focused on aggressive growth, so Scott's history of success and scale in leading marketing in high-growth companies will be an important component of our continued growth and success,' said Checkmarx CEO Sandeep Johri. 'As a company, Checkmarx is in a uniquely strong position with a solid foundation of innovative, market-leading products and a fully engaged worldwide team. With Scott's leadership driving the brand and demand, Checkmarx is poised to continue leading the application security industry well into the future.' Gainey brings over 20 years of marketing leadership experience to Checkmarx, having served as CMO and in other leadership positions at disruptive technology companies including Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, Cisco Security and NetApp. He joins Checkmarx from Nile, where as CMO he led go-to-market strategy launching a solution with a new AI networking architecture that delivers enterprise networks entirely as a service with zero-trust security. Gainey received his B.S. from California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt and has studied business and leadership at Stanford GSB and West Point's Thayer Leadership Development Group. 'It's such an exciting time to be joining Checkmarx as our agentic AI for AppSec vision is redefining enterprise application security,' Gainey remarked. 'I look forward to collaborating with the entire team to ensure that our impact in securing the code that drives global business is well understood in the market. With a large and thriving customer base and the right combination of innovation and support, Checkmarx will continue to lead and to ensure the success of the global companies we serve.' For more information on Checkmarx, visit the website. About Checkmarx Checkmarx is the leader in agentic AI, cloud-native application security that empowers the world's largest development organizations with real-time scanning and closed-loop remediation to boost developer productivity on security tasks by up to 50%. Based on the powerful Checkmarx One platform that scans over six trillion lines of code each year, Checkmarx is designed for large-scale, hybrid human and AI-assisted development teams. Checkmarx. Always Ready to Run. Follow Checkmarx on LinkedIn, YouTube and X. View source version on CONTACT: Media Contact Katie Brookes Merritt Group for Checkmarx [email protected] KEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA NEW JERSEY INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE NETWORKS INTERNET ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY APPS/APPLICATIONS SECURITY SOURCE: Checkmarx Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 06/19/2025 07:00 AM/DISC: 06/19/2025 06:59 AM