Rita Selvaggi

Rita Selvaggi serves as Chief Marketing Officer at AlienVault. She had served as an Executive Advisor at Technology Crossover Ventures. An industry veteran with over 25 years of high-tech sales and marketing experience in both startups and multinational public companies, Rita Selvaggi was most recently the senior vice president of marketing at SolarWinds from 2006 through 2010. There, as a key member of the senior executive team, she helped to design and build the high-velocity sales and marketing engine that fueled the IT management software company's successful IPO in 2009. Selvaggi was directly responsible for the execution and expansion of SolarWinds' unique Web marketing strategy, which has shaped the SolarWinds brand and is a vital part of SolarWinds' business model today. Prior to joining SolarWinds, Selvaggi was vice president, corporate and business development at Blue Coat Systems, and she served as vice president, marketing and business development at Permeo Technologies, Inc., a network security software company, until its acquisition by Blue Coat Systems in early 2006. Prior to Permeo, Selvaggi held executive and senior management sales and marketing roles at TANTAU Software (acquired by 724 Solutions), pcOrder (acquired by Trilogy Software), VTEL Corporation, and IBM.Selvaggi holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Delaware and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.