INTRUSION Inc. Makes Moves to Strengthen Sales Team

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INTRUSION Inc. (NASDAQ: INTZ) has appointed Joe Head as Senior Vice President of Sales Engineering, effective January 21, 2021. Joe, a co-founder with over 30 years of experience, will lead a team to enhance sales support for Shield™, the company's advanced cybersecurity solution. This appointment aims to bolster the company's sales strategy, with the addition of Tina Carnow as Vice President of Sales, who brings over 20 years of technology sales expertise. These changes are expected to drive growth and enhance INTRUSION's market position in cybersecurity.

Positive

• Appointment of Joe Head as Senior VP of Sales Engineering enhances leadership in sales support for Shield™.
• Tina Carnow's promotion as VP of Sales is expected to accelerate sales growth, leveraging her 20+ years of experience.

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• Potential risks associated with executive changes may impact anticipated benefits.

Joe Head named Senior Vice President of Sales Engineering

PLANO, Texas., Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- INTRUSION Inc. (NASDAQ: INTZ), a leading provider of entity identification, high speed data mining, cybercrime and advanced persistent threat detection services, is expanding its sales and engineering teams to support the company’s continued growth.

Joe Head, one of INTRUSION’s co-founders, has been named Senior Vice President of Sales Engineering. In this role, he will lead a team of engineers who will support the sales team’s efforts to help demonstrate the technology and value of INTRUSION’s newest cybersecurity solution, Shield™ to potential customers.

“Because of Joe’s 30+ years of technical expertise, along with his experience partnering with government entities to support their cybersecurity strategies, he is the right person to lead a team of systems engineers to further develop our solutions to address customer needs,” said Jack B. Blount, President and CEO of INTRUSION.

Head has served as a director with INTRUSION since the company was founded in 1983. Prior to that, he served as Product Marketing Manager and Marketing Engineer at Honeywell Optoelectronics. In this role, Head will oversee a team of seven systems engineers, as well as the recently named Vice President of Sales, Tina Carnow.

“After working with Tina for just a few short months, I was impressed with her leadership and depth of knowledge. We are excited to see her accelerate the pace of our sales growth,” said Blount.

Carnow has served as INTRUSION’s Southwest Regional Director and is moving to the Vice President role with more than 20 years of experience in technology sales. Prior to INTRUSION, she successfully led sales teams for five companies and was SVP of Sales & Marketing for Adicio. She will be responsible for growing direct sales to large customers for Shield across the country.

About INTRUSION Inc.

INTRUSION, Inc. is a global provider of entity identification, high speed data mining, cybercrime and advanced persistent threat detection solutions. INTRUSION’s family of solutions includes Shield™, a combination of plug-n-play hardware, software, global data, and real-time Artificial Intelligence (AI) services that provide organizations with the most robust cybersecurity defense possible, TraceCop™ for identity discovery and disclosure, and Savant™ for network data mining and advanced persistent threat detection. INTRUSION’s solutions help protect critical information assets by quickly detecting, protecting, analyzing and reporting attacks or misuse of classified, private and regulated information for government and enterprise networks. For more information, please visit www.intrusion.com.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Information

This release may contain certain forward-looking statements, including, without limitations, statements about the performance of protections provided by our Shield products, or other statements which reflect management's expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date hereof. These forward- looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including, the risk that the Company does not benefit as anticipated from these changes in our executive team. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including, risks that we have detailed in the Company's most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, particularly under the heading “Risk Factors.”

 

FAQ

What recent executive changes did INTRUSION announce?

INTRUSION appointed Joe Head as Senior Vice President of Sales Engineering and Tina Carnow as Vice President of Sales.

What is Joe Head's experience before joining INTRUSION?

Joe Head has over 30 years of technical expertise and has been a director with INTRUSION since its founding in 1983.

What is the role of Joe Head at INTRUSION?

Joe Head will lead a team of engineers to support the sales team in demonstrating the value of INTRUSION's cybersecurity solution, Shield™.

Who is Tina Carnow and what is her new role?

Tina Carnow has been promoted to Vice President of Sales, responsible for growing direct sales of Shield™ to large customers.

What product is INTRUSION focusing on with these executive changes?

INTRUSION is focusing on its cybersecurity solution, Shield™.