– USA, CA – LiveAction, a leading global provider of network monitoring, and security software, today announced the appointment of Francine Geist as CEO, succeeding Steve Stuut who retired as CEO and has joined the Board of Directors as Executive Chairman.
“Over the last several years, LiveAction has seen record growth, heavily invested in product innovation, and continued to build a world-class team designed to help customers and partners overcome the most advanced networking and security challenges,” said Executive Chairman, Steve Stuut. “It’s been an honor to serve as the CEO at LiveAction and work with a talented leader like Francine, whose leadership ability was very visible from when she first joined my team. She’s been heavily involved in guiding the strategic direction of LiveAction, resulting in the company delivering record growth in 2021. Francine led several key initiatives, including a shift to a subscription-based software model and a focus on customer success, which led to a greater than 350% increase in net new ARR. Her keen understanding of the networking and security space, combined with her leadership skills and expertise in leading performance-driven GTM teams, will ensure the company continues this momentum in the future.”
About Francine Geist
A B2B software industry veteran, Francine Geist has served as LiveAction’s CFO since joining the company in 2019 and has since taken on successive responsibilities as COO and more recently as President.
Geist has more than 25 years of senior management experience, leading financial strategy, operations, and GTM for B2B software and data companies. Before LiveAction, she served as the Deputy CFO and VP of Finance at INTTRA, a software and network business for the shipping industry where she led the company through a successful exit and sale to E2Open. She also previously served as the VP of Global Sales Operations and Finance at TravelClick, a private-equity sponsored global provider of cloud-based data solutions for maximizing hotel revenue and spent 10 years with Dun & Bradstreet, a leading provider of B2B commercial information and insights. Geist began her career with Deloitte & Touche.
Francine Geist has an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Leading enterprises around the world rely on LiveAction’s network performance monitoring and security solutions to gain visibility into their networks and to remediate problems quickly. With the launch of ThreatEye NV earlier this year, we’re working to give our customers a unified platform for security incident detection and response,” said CEO, Francine Geist. “Steve has done a fantastic job laying the foundation for future growth and I am committed to investing in product innovation, and operational excellence to drive business growth and better support our customers and partners.“
About LiveAction
LiveAction provides unmatched visibility into network and application performance from a single pane of glass. This gives enterprises confidence that the network is meeting business objectives, offers IT administrators full visibility for better decision making, and reduces the overall cost of operations. By unifying and simplifying the collection, correlation, and presentation of network and application data, LiveAction empowers network professionals to proactively and quickly identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across increasingly large and complex networks.
For more information: https://www.liveaction.com/
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