Silvio Pappalardo

Silvio Pappalardo developed and implemented the Revenue Capture Plan, establishing market presence and dominance in the emerging Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) space for Permiso Security. Silvio build and led sales, sales engineering, customer success, BDR and sales ops delivering unprecedented growth in ARR/Bookings and NRR.

Silvio has more than 30 years of combined global experience in executive leadership, sales management, cybersecurity sales, and federal law enforcement, with a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, an NSA designated Center of Excellence, and a background in Financial Crimes Investigations / CC Fraud and ID theft as a Special Agent.

Prior to joining Permiso Security, Silvio served as the first Chief Revenue Officer at QuintessenceLabs, a global leader and pioneer in quantum-enabled cybersecurity, where he revamped the revenue capture strategy then built and led the global sales and marketing organizations, delivering a record-shattering quarter and setting the course for record year-over-year growth.

Silvio held sales management roles at Absolute Software, Trinity Cyber, FireEye, and Invotas International, where he led Sales and Marketing from launch in February 2014 as a division of CSG International to it's management buy-out in September of 2015 to it's acquisition by FireEye in 2016 by successfully launching the 1st security orchestration automation and response (SOAR) platform.

As VP of Sales at Absolute Software (Nasdaq: ABST), Silvio eliminated churn for Strategic Accounts and scaled endpoint resilience solutions, by recruiting, training and leading various sales leaders and teams (5 sales leaders and teams at the apex) that overachieved and led in both net new ARR and client retention.

Silvio started my career as a Special Agent for a U.S. Federal Law Enforcement agency, where he received a superior performance award for defensive tactics and had one of his federal cases featured in a legal periodical that resulted in an upward departure in sentencing guidelines due to the detailed confession extracted during the arrest and interview process. He is multilingual with fluency in English, French, Arabic, and conversational Spanish.