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Forescout Announces Executive Appointments: Rob Amezcua Promoted to Chief Revenue Officer, Joe Malenfant Named VP of Product Marketing

SAN JOSE – June 24, 2025 – Forescout Technologies, Inc., a global cybersecurity leader, today strengthened its executive bench with a strategic internal promotion and a key leadership hire to support its next phase of growth, innovation, and go-to-market leadership. Rob Amezcua has been promoted to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Joe Malenfant has joined the company as Vice President of Product Marketing. These leadership moves underscore Forescout’s continued momentum in the cybersecurity market and its focus on deep customer alignment, product innovation, and operational excellence.

“The appointments of Joe and Rob will help Forescout customers stay ahead of growing threats, not just to traditional IT assets, but also across the expanding landscape of IoT and OT,” said Barry Mainz, CEO of Forescout. “Rob has been one of our most effective evangelists and relationship builders, and I know he will continue to elevate our execution and drive customer success in his new role. Joe’s deep domain expertise in cybersecurity and IoT, along with his strong voice in the market, will be critical in shaping how we tell the Forescout story.”

Rob Amezcua has been promoted to Chief Revenue Officer at Forescout Technologies. In this role, he oversees all revenue-generating functions, bringing greater cohesion across sales, customer success and go-to-market strategy to support Forescout’s next phase of growth. A key leader at Forescout for over four years, Rob previously served as SVP, WW Sales, playing a pivotal role in winning, growing, and retaining some of the company’s most strategic global accounts. Prior to joining Forescout, he was Vice President of Sales at Broadcom’s Enterprise Software Division, joining via the acquisition of Symantec’s Enterprise Security business, where he drove a high-performance sales culture and delivered significant growth across a broad cybersecurity portfolio.

Joe Malenfant joined Forescout as Vice President of Product Marketing, where he leads go-to-market strategy and messaging for the company’s cybersecurity platform across IT, OT, and IoT environments. With over a decade of leadership experience in cybersecurity and IoT, Joe has a track record of launching category-defining products and driving growth through strategic storytelling and market clarity. Prior to Forescout, Joe held senior product marketing roles at Trellix, Ping Identity, Vectra AI, and Cisco. Joe brings deep experience across SaaS and hardware solutions in both IT and OT environments.

About Forescout

As AI-driven vulnerability discovery and exploitation accelerate attack velocity to machine speed, Forescout is a foundational cyber defense layer that allows organizations to segment and isolate compromised systems, block lateral movement, and automate response across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. The Forescout Vistaro™ platform, powered by agentic AI and enhanced with Vedere Labs threat intelligence, delivers a Universal Zero Trust Network Access (UZTNA) architecture that integrates seamlessly with 180+ security and IT products. With Forescout Vistaro, organizations get comprehensive inventory and classification of both managed and unmanaged assets, continuous exposure management, and real-time protection including dynamic network segmentation and automated threat response.

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