The ‘CTE’ role will entail engaging with the company’s current and potential customers to drive sales, according to Fortune. Zscaler, which closed a $110 million funding round in September 2015, was last valued at $1 billion.
“It made sense for us to have someone who can evangelize the message,” Jay Chaudhry, CEO, chairman and founder of Zscaler, told Fortune. “Quite often a [CIO] will say, I like what you’re saying but I’m nervous about moving to the cloud. It’s a major change and the whole business depends on it.”
The company currently reports a customer base of more than 5,000, including major banks, and has more than 100 worldwide data centers it uses to monitor and secure client networks.
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