Cyberhaven Names James McCarthy SVP of Sales to Meet Growing Demand for Data Security Solutions

McCarthy brings over two decades of leadership experience in network and data security.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyberhaven, the leader in AI-powered data security, today announced it has hired cybersecurity industry leader James McCarthy as Senior Vice President of Sales. With 25 years of go-to-market experience, McCarthy brings deep operational expertise and a strong track record of scaling technology enterprise sales teams. His addition reinforces Cyberhaven's commitment to helping more organizations identify data risks and take action to protect their data.

With Cyberhaven, McCarthy will assume leadership of the sales team, focusing on driving meaningful growth, scaling revenue engines, and nurturing the company's customer-centric commitment.

"Cyberhaven is reimagining data loss prevention and insider threat protection, and we're thrilled to have an accomplished industry leader join our team as we meet the growing demand from organizations to protect their data," said Nishant Doshi, iCEO of Cyberhaven. "James's commitment to exceptional customer experiences, as well as his impressive ability to rapidly innovate and drive revenue, make him an exciting addition to our talented team."

Most recently, McCarthy served as Chief Revenue Officer at ZeroFox, overseeing sales teams across North America, EMEA, and the Federal sector. During his tenure, ZeroFox substantially grew its customer base while improving the overall customer experience. Before that, he served as SVP of Sales for the Americas at Forcepoint, where he introduced a leader-to-leader sales model that empowered regional teams, fueled growth in underperforming markets, expanded the company's total addressable market through differentiated solution bundling, and revitalized its Federal business. McCarthy also previously held leadership roles at Cyera, Digital Guardian, BT Group, and IBM.

"Cyberhaven represents the most dramatic opportunity to revolutionize data protection in today's market," McCarthy said. "Our technology is trusted by world-class organizations who are focused on leveraging cloud and AI in very meaningful ways. We are building a team to bring our exciting, outcome-driven platform to the world, and I could not be more excited to be with the team leading this revolution."

McCarthy joins Cyberhaven as demand for data security and insider threat protection grows. Cyberhaven's AI-enabled data lineage technology dramatically reduces false positives, proactively blocks sensitive data leaks as they occur, and accelerates incident resolution with full context. The company was recently named to the Redpoint InfraRed 100 for the third consecutive year.

McCarthy will be meeting with customers and fellow industry leaders at Black Hat USA 2025 this August.

About Cyberhaven

Cyberhaven is reimagining data security. Until now, data security products were limited to scanning data content or looking for specific user actions. Our AI-enabled data lineage technology analyzes billions of workflows to understand every piece of data within an organization, identify when it's at risk, and take action to protect it. To learn more, visit cyberhaven.com.

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