Marty Ward
Chief of Staff
Marty Ward is Chief of Staff for Sophos’ Senior Management Team (SMT). He is responsible for helping to develop the company’s strategic business direction, and working with Sophos CEO Joe Levy and other SMT executives to implement their vision for further building Sophos into a global cybersecurity giant.
Prior to becoming Chief of Staff, Marty served as Vice President of Product Marketing at Sophos for more than 10 years where he led go-to-market messaging, content, planning and marketing efforts for the company’s complete portfolio cybersecurity products and services worldwide.
Before joining Sophos, Marty held executive marketing and product management roles at McAfee, Symantec, Asempra, Veritas Software, and Sun Microsystems. Marty started his career as an engineer at IBM before moving into engineering management. His more than 30 years of cybersecurity and technology industry experience spans product management, marketing, engineering, sales, and customer support.
Marty holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University.