Neal Hartsell

Neal Hartsell is Chief Marketing Officer at Gradient Cyber. His career spans three decades where he has held senior leadership roles in product management, product marketing, and digital marketing in networking and cybersecurity companies. He has served in senior roles across industry giants such as Cisco, 3Com, and Northern Telecom. Neal held CMO, VP Marketing, and product management and marketing roles at startup, early-stage, and growth companies including ECI Telecom, Crossroads, TippingPoint, RGB Networks, NSS Labs, Netgate, NetSpeed (acquired by Cisco), Surgient Networks, RipCode (acquired by RGB Networks), and Click Security (acquired by Alert Logic). Neal has also served as a strategic marketing consultant to a number of cybersecurity startups.