Richard Gillies

Richard Gillies is an accomplished cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in sales engineering. Since joining Proofpoint in July 2011, Richard has advanced through various roles, ultimately becoming the Director of Sales Engineering, where leadership is provided to a team spanning 14 sales teams in the Americas, focused on the protection of Enterprise customers. Prior to this position, Richard held titles such as Senior Sales Engineering Manager and Sales Engineering Manager, managing customer engagements and driving solutions for advanced threats and compliance risks. Richard's earlier career includes a role as a Pre-Sales Messaging System Engineer at EMC, where significant contributions were made in driving large revenue deals for Email Archiving and e-Discovery solutions. Richard also contributed as a Customer Support Manager at Tecmar Technologies, highlighting a well-rounded expertise in customer engagement and technical sales support within the cybersecurity and information governance domains.