Redwood City, Calif. - March 10, 2020 - Open Systems, a secure access service edge (SASE) pioneer with cloud-native architecture, secure intelligent edge and hybrid cloud support, today announced it has named well-known global growth catalyst Aurelie Guerrieri as Chief Marketing Officer. Guerrieri brings extensive experience in marketing strategy and innovation to Open Systems. Her role will include driving the company’s marketing efforts in supporting enterprises’ digital transformations and their increasing use of mobile devices, edge computing and the cloud.
“We are very excited to have someone with Aurelie’s depth and breadth of technology marketing experience join our team,” said Open Systems CEO Jeff Brown. “Her knowledge of the industry and market challenges make her the ideal person to lead our marketing efforts and we look forward to benefitting from her unique insights and perspectives.”
Guerrieri spent the last seven years as Founder and CEO of Akila One, a marketing strategy consultancy, where she advised digital upstarts, unicorns and veterans including IAC, 1&1-IONOS, Cadence Design Systems, and Rakuten, on digital transformation, growth scaling, and global expansion. As interim CMO and General Manager for client MobPartner, she scaled the mobile advertising service provider’s U.S. operations, leading to an attractive sale. Guerrieri began her career with McKinsey & Company, moving from there to QuinStreet, where as Vice President and General Manager, she was instrumental in preparing the performance marketing leader for its IPO. She later served as the CMO and EVP of Corporate Development for mobile content provider SendMe and engineered its exit as well.
“I was attracted to Open Systems because of its potential to be a dominant player in the emerging SASE space,” said Guerrieri. “Open Systems’ innate combination of a managed SD-WAN, comprehensive security and steadfast customer-centricity will allow enterprises to realize the business benefits of a SASE architecture, simultaneously achieving network performance, scalability, and cloud security. This will be a foundation for enterprise competitiveness in the coming years.”
Guerrieri serves on several boards, including Nelson Jobs, iWorkGlobal and Grove Collaborative. She also developed and teaches the first class on mobile marketing offered by Stanford University’s Continuing Studies program.
About Open Systems
Open Systems is an AI-first SASE platform company delivering secure access and networking to help enterprises connect users, applications and infrastructure across complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Its proprietary platform combines SSE capabilities, including ZTNA, SWG, CASB and FWaaS, with SD-WAN, end-to-end connectivity, unified policy management, and advanced analytics in a single architecture.
While many cybersecurity providers focus primarily on advancing technology capabilities, Open Systems combines its AI-first SASE platform with an execution model designed for real-world operability, ensuring services are not only deployed, but continuously run, adapted and improved through a combination of AI-enabled operations and NOC-based expertise (Mission Control), built on decades of operational experience, helping organizations reduce complexity, increase visibility and strengthen security outcomes at global scale.
Founded in Switzerland in 1990, Open Systems generates more than USD 100 million in annual revenue and supports global enterprise customers operating in more than 180 countries. Since 2024, the company has been part of Swiss Post, combining Swiss trust and stability with global reach. As a European alternative to US- and Israel-based cybersecurity providers, Open Systems is guided by strong principles around sovereignty requirements, regulatory alignment, transparency and shared responsibility - taking clear ownership for security, performance and operational outcomes, helping organizations maintain control in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
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