Prelert Names John O'Donnell as CFO

Prelert, a provider of machine learning anomaly detection, announced John O’Donnell has joined the company as chief financial officer. In this role, he will manage all financial, legal, human resources and administrative operations, working directly with Prelert’s senior management team to drive growth and success in each area.

“John’s financial leadership experience and track record of increasing value for technology companies is the perfect fit for Prelert, especially as the demand for our security and IT operations software continues to grow,” said Mark Jaffe, Prelert’s CEO,in a press release “John’s expertise will help Prelert become an even more agile competitor – and will help ensure that our critical finance and administrative operations grow in lockstep with our success.”

With more than 20 years of industry experience, O’Donnell most recently served as CFO of Aveksa, a leading provider of business-driven identity and access management software.

While there, he built a global finance and administration organization to support the company’s dynamic growth, leading to its eventual acquisition by EMC Corporation. Prior to that, he served as the controller for both Empirix, a provider of real-time, end-to-end test, monitoring and analytics solutions and Netegrity, a provider of identity and access management that was acquired by CA Technologies. In both roles, O’Donnell was responsible for directing all accounting, tax, risk management, internal control, financial planning, analysis and international operations.

“Today, cybersecurity is more than just a concern of IT professionals – it’s vital to the health of entire companies – and worried about at the executive level. With the increasing risks that cyberattacks pose, real-time anomaly detection, like Prelert’s, is the only way to discover breaches and mitigate significant data loss,” said O’Donnell, in a written statement. “I’m thrilled to be part of an expanding company dedicated to keeping businesses aware of and ready to act on these threats.”

O’Donnell holds a BBA in accounting from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Prelert is a provider of machine learning anomaly detection for IT security and operations teams. The company is located on Speen Street in Framingham