Trellix Strengthens Focus on Customer Engagement and Regulated Industries with Executive Appointments

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 7, 2025--

Trellix, the company delivering the future of AI-powered cybersecurity, today announced the appointment and promotion of members to the Trellix executive leadership team. These appointments enable Trellix to wrap all operations and functions around customer value as Trellix enters its next phase of growth, focused on driving innovation, customer experience, and market expansion.

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Nanhi Singh joins Trellix as President, Chief Customer Officer (CCO), while James Denena and Joe Gonyea, have joined as EVP, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and EVP, Chief Legal Officer (CLO), respectively. Further, Kenneth Kartsen was promoted to SVP, Global Public Sector, joining the executive leadership team.

“Trellix customers are some of the most important organizations in the world. We exist to serve and protect them, and this year, our customers will see us invest in their success with intensity and focus,” said Vishal Rao, CEO, Trellix. “Nanhi brings tremendous talent and experience as a customer advocate and strategist to Trellix. With her leadership and these additional appointments, I have every confidence our leadership team will guide Trellix to new growth and to realize new value for our customer base.”

Expanding customer value
As President, CCO, Singh will lead all portions of customer engagement post-sales, including customer health, education services, professional services, support, and customer marketing, to drive customer value and ensure a consistent feedback loop for Trellix. She joins Trellix from Thales Cloud Security, where she was chief customer officer and general manager of application security. She’s previously held executive and senior roles supporting customers at leading organizations, including Imperva, Symantec, Blue Coat, Nokia, and NIIT.

“Trellix secures critical infrastructure, advances business resilience, and makes it possible for everything to be done safely and securely for our customers,” said Nanhi Singh, President, CCO, Trellix. “I’m eager to collaborate with our people, partners, and customers in this role to create an exceptional customer experience.”

Denena comes to Trellix from sister company Skyhigh Security, and leads finance at both organizations, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, global compliance, tax, treasury, and investor relations, and brings extensive financial, operational, and strategic experience at both public and private companies. Gonyea specializes in business transformation and corporate development, with a focus on rapid and efficient growth, and leads the Trellix and Skyhigh Security global legal teams.

Focus on regulated industries
Public sector organizations and enterprises require best in class security technology to enable them to stay ahead of threats so they can prioritize their own resilience and success. Trellix serves customers extensively across the public sector, government, and other regulated industries and aims to be the first and only choice in their security. As SVP, Global Public Sector, Kartsen guides business operations and field sales for the company’s largest verticals inclusive of Federal, State, and Local Government; Critical Infrastructure; Defense; Higher Education; Healthcare; and more.

“The pressurized threat landscape, especially when it comes to heavily regulated sectors and segments, creates great relevance for Trellix to deepen its customer relationships and deliver innovation specific to these industries,” said Kenneth Kartsen, SVP, Global Public Sector.

About Trellix
Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity and soulful work. The company’s comprehensive, open and native cybersecurity platform helps organizations confronted by today’s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Trellix, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerates technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 50,000 business and government customers with responsibly architected security. More at https://trellix.com.

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Kenneth Kartsen, SVP, Global Public Sector, Trellix

Joe Gonyea, EVP, Chief Legal Officer, Trellix

James Denena, EVP, Chief Financial Officer, Trellix

Nanhi Singh, President, Chief Customer Officer, Trellix

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. flu infections showed signs of a slight decline last week, but health officials say it is not clear that this severe flu season has peaked.

New government data posted Friday — for flu activity through last week — showed declines in medical office visits due to flu-like illness and in the number of states reporting high flu activity.

However, some measures show this season is already surpassing the flu epidemic of last winter, one of the harshest in recent history. And experts believe there is more suffering ahead.

“This is going to be a long, hard flu season,” New York State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said, in a statement Friday.

One type of flu virus, called A H3N2, historically has caused the most hospitalizations and deaths in older people. So far this season, that is the type most frequently reported. Even more concerning, more than 91% of the H3N2 infections analyzed were a new version — known as the subclade K variant — that differs from the strain in this year’s flu shots.

The last flu season saw the highest overall flu hospitalization rate since the H1N1 flu pandemic 15 years ago. And child flu deaths reached 289, the worst recorded for any U.S. flu season this century — including that H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic of 2009-2010.

So far this season, there have been at least 15 million flu illnesses and 180,000 hospitalizations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. It also estimates there have been 7,400 deaths, including the deaths of at least 17 children.

Last week, 44 states reported high flu activity, down slightly from the week before. However, flu deaths and hospitalizations rose.

Determining exactly how flu season is going can be particularly tricky around the holidays. Schools are closed, and many people are traveling. Some people may be less likely to see a doctor, deciding to just suffer at home. Others may be more likely to go.

Also, some seasons see a surge in cases, then a decline, and then a second surge.

For years, federal health officials joined doctors' groups in recommending that everyone 6 months and older get an annual influenza vaccine. The shots may not prevent all symptoms but can prevent many infections from becoming severe, experts say.

But federal health officials on Monday announced they will no longer recommend flu vaccinations for U.S. children, saying it is a decision parents and patients should make in consultation with their doctors.

“I can’t begin to express how concerned we are about the future health of the children in this country, who already have been unnecessarily dying from the flu — a vaccine preventable disease,” said Michele Slafkosky, executive director of an advocacy organization called Families Fighting Flu.

“Now, with added confusion for parents and health care providers about childhood vaccines, I fear that flu seasons to come could be even more deadly for our youngest and most vulnerable," she said in a statement.

Flu is just one of a group of viruses that tend to strike more often in the winter. Hospitalizations from COVID-19 and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, also have been rising in recent weeks — though were not diagnosed nearly as often as flu infections, according to other federal data.

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

FILE - Pharmacy manager Aylen Amestoy administers a patient with a seasonal flu vaccine at a CVS Pharmacy in Miami, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)