Patrick Sweeney

CEO

Menlo Park, California, United States24 yrs 8 mos experience

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Experience

24 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Autorabit

CEO AutoRabit, Inc.

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr

Career break

Travel

Jun 2023Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Cloudflare

Global Head, Cloudflare (Area 1 acquired in April 2022)

Apr 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Area 1 security

President & CEO

Apr 2020Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · California, United States

  • Area 1 Security is the only company that preemptively stops Business Email Compromise, malware, ransomware, and targeted phishing attacks. By focusing on the earliest stages of an attack, Area 1 stops phish — the root cause of 95 percent of breaches — 24 days (on average) before they launch. Area 1 also offers the cybersecurity industry's first and only performance-based pricing model, Pay-per-Phish.
  • Area 1 is trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure and other industries, to preempt targeted phishing attacks, improve their cybersecurity posture, and change outcomes. www.area1security.com

Talari (acquired by oracle)

CEO

Nov 2017Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Jose

  • Talari Networks, the trusted SD-WAN technology and market leader, engineers failsafe WANs that deliver superior business-critical application reliability and resiliency, while unlocking simplification and cost reduction benefits of branch consolidation.
  • Talari was acquired by Oracle Inc. on Nov 28th 2018. Talari Networks was founded in 2007 and launched its initial beta product in early 2008. Passionate and committed to their customers, Talari has incorporated eight years of innovation into six generations of product and is successfully deployed across thousands of sites in over 40 countries.
  • Talari's comprehensive solution supports a variety of network services in physical, virtual and cloud locations, which can be acquired through perpetual licensing, monthly subscription rates or as-a-service.
  • Talari has received numerous industry awards and accolades over the years but the biggest award is the trust and ongoing business we continue to receive from customers in all industry segments.
  • Talari is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D in Raleigh, North Carolina and sales offices across the United States and Europe.

Sonicwall inc.

Vice President Marketing & Product Management

Oct 2001Nov 2017 · 16 yrs 1 mo · Santa Clara, CA

  • Drive all things Marketing for Dell SonicWALL's Network Security (Next-Gen Firewalls, SSL VPN, Email Security, Global Management Systems, as well as Identity and Access Management solutions.

Education

Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business

Bachelor’s Degree

Jan 1983Jan 1987

Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business

MBA

Jan 2000Jan 2005