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Orca Security Appoints Rachel Nislick as Chief Marketing Officer


Orca Security Appoints Rachel Nislick as Chief Marketing Officer
  • by: Business Wire
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  • March 9, 2026

Orca Security, the pioneer of agentless cloud security, has appointed Rachel Nislick as Chief Marketing Officer. With over 25 years of experience leading global marketing for prominent cybersecurity companies, Nislick will drive Orca’s brand strategy, demand generation, product marketing, and communications to accelerate growth and position its AI-powered platform as the standard for securing complex multi-cloud and AI environments.

Quick Intel

  • Rachel Nislick joins Orca Security as CMO, bringing 25+ years of cybersecurity marketing leadership.
  • Most recently VP of Revenue Marketing at Darktrace, contributing to scale toward $1B ARR and Thoma Bravo acquisition.
  • Previously VP of Growth Marketing at Mimecast, driving growth from $150M toward $1B ARR and Permira acquisition.
  • Will lead global marketing to amplify Orca’s AI-first cloud security vision, reduce tool sprawl, and demonstrate strategic ROI.
  • Appointment aligns with Orca’s rapid innovation and expansion in multi-cloud and AI security.
  • Nislick emphasizes collaborative, cross-functional teams to make cloud security a strategic advantage.

Orca Security strengthens its executive team with a proven marketing leader as enterprises increasingly seek unified, agentless solutions to simplify security operations, eliminate complexity, and protect dynamic cloud infrastructures in the cybersecurity and cloud technology sector.

Bringing Proven Scale to Orca’s Growth Phase

Rachel Nislick’s career spans building high-performing marketing organizations at leading cybersecurity firms, where she has consistently driven revenue acceleration, pipeline growth, and successful exits. At Darktrace and Mimecast, she shaped go-to-market strategies that supported massive ARR expansion and major private equity transactions.

Her expertise in demand generation, brand building, and cross-functional alignment will support Orca’s mission to convert technological innovation into market leadership, particularly as organizations face rising threats in multi-cloud and AI-driven environments.

Gil Geron, CEO and co-founder of Orca Security, stated: “Rachel is a transformational marketing leader with a proven track record of helping cybersecurity companies scale from momentum to market leadership. As Orca continues its rapid growth, her leadership will be pivotal in amplifying our global brand, accelerating revenue, and positioning our AI-powered platform as the standard for securing today’s complex cloud environments. Rachel will help us convert innovation into category dominance.”

Advancing Orca’s AI-Powered Vision

Nislick will oversee the evolution of Orca’s marketing to highlight the platform’s agentless-first approach, comprehensive visibility, and unified protection across multi-cloud setups. This includes strengthening messaging around reducing tool sprawl, delivering clear ROI, and enabling security teams to operate proactively.

Rachel Nislick added: “Orca is redefining how organizations approach cloud security. Its independent, innovation-first mindset and AI-powered unified platform give customers the visibility, speed and clarity they need to protect and scale their cloud environments. I am excited to join a company that is empowering security teams to reduce complexity, demonstrate clear ROI and turn cloud security into a strategic advantage.”

The appointment reflects Orca’s focus on assembling a leadership team capable of scaling globally while maintaining a customer-centric, innovation-driven culture in the fast-evolving cloud security landscape.

About Orca Security

Orca enables organizations to make cloud security a strategic advantage. With the most comprehensive coverage and visibility across multi-cloud environments, the agentless-first Orca Platform unites teams to eliminate complexities, vulnerabilities and risks. Backed by Temasek, CapitalG, ICONIQ Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Notable and others, Orca is trusted by hundreds of organizations, including SAP, Gannett, Autodesk, Lemonade and Digital Turbine.

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