Fergus Kennedy

Fergus Kennedy currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Engineering at DataGuard, where the focus is on the operation, transformation, and scaling of engineering in collaboration with product teams to develop a leading security and compliance platform. Prior to this role, Fergus held the position of VP of Engineering at UserTesting, contributing to the establishment of the company's EMEA headquarters and achieving a significant workforce expansion during a challenging global pandemic. Fergus's extensive career also includes leadership roles at Pulsant, where responsibilities encompassed interim CTO and head of information systems and assurance, and earlier experiences at Lumison and Turbine Services Limited as a senior software engineer. Fergus holds a BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering from Edinburgh Napier University.