College Park, MD – December 15, 2020 – INKY Technology Corporation, a pioneer in next-gen email phishing protection, today announced that Roger Kay, former Vice President of Client Computing at IDC, will be joining the leadership team as Vice President of Security Strategy to enhance the company’s product and market strategies, including competitive assessment, forecasting, and market positioning.
“Roger is an accomplished tech analyst and entrepreneur with a deep level of go-to-market expertise and strong background positioning and optimizing high-visibility tech firms in the market,” said Dave Baggett, CEO at INKY. “With his innovative approach to product messaging and marketing segmentation, we know Roger is the perfect choice to help lead efforts to our next phase of growth and are confident that he will consistently support INKY’s expansion goals.”
Kay founded Endpoint Technologies Associates, Inc., an independent technology market intelligence company providing research, consulting, analysis services, and written products to information technology vendors, investors, and users. Previously, he served as an advisor for the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a non-profit organization formed to enable secure computing through open standards and specifications.
“INKY is always looking for new ways to amplify its award-winning email protection software by introducing it to new companies in the market,” said Roger Kay, Vice President of Security Strategy at INKY. “I’m confident that articulating and delivering a unified product and marketing vision will help INKY’s unique offering stand out among other high-tech companies in the rapidly evolving security market.”
Formerly, Roger was the Vice President of Client Computing at IDC, where he was responsible for covering technological, market, and competitive developments related to desktop and portable personal computers. Before that, he was the director of operations at ILA, a developer that created multilingual text processing software for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Kay will be tasked with growing the market share of INKY’s cloud-based email security solution, INKY Phish Fence, which uses computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to prevent phishing attacks and provide organizations with unparalleled security against email fraud.
Kay holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Finance and Marketing from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Music and Psychology from Bennington College.
To learn more about INKY’s leadership team, please visit: https://www.inky.com/leadership/.
About INKY
Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, INKY leads the industry in mail protection powered by unique computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The company’s flagship product, INKY Phish Fence, uses these novel techniques to “see” each email much like a human does, to block phishing attacks that get through every other system. INKY founder Dave Baggett also co-founded ITA Software, the industry-leading airfare search company purchased by Google in 2011 for $730M, which now powers Google Flights®. For more information, please visit https://INKY.com/.