COLUMBUS, OH – Wiretap, a leading innovator of solutions designed to secure and safely grow the use and corporate governance needs of Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs), today named Jeff Spridgeon Vice President of Sales. Spridgeon will be responsible for building Wiretap’s sales organization and accelerating go-to-market efforts throughout the world.

Spridgeon brings more than 18 years of diversified sales experience, joining Wiretap most recently from Dell Software Group, where he managed a worldwide sales organization of more than 150 employees, accountable for $500M in annual software maintenance renewal revenue. Prior to joining Dell Software, Spridgeon was a Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Quest Software, acquired by Dell in 2012. At Quest, he relocated and rebuilt the company’s worldwide software maintenance sales organization, establishing headquarters locations in Columbus, Ohio and Cork, Ireland.

Spridgeon joined Quest following the acquisition of Aelita Software where he served as Senior Director of Sales Operations. In his four years at Aelita, he was responsible for leading sales efforts as well as customer contract negotiation, sales compensation management, renewal sales, CRM systems, territory planning, and sales analysis.

“Jeff brings an outstanding portfolio of proven technology sales success and we are thrilled to welcome him to the Wiretap senior management team. We believe Jeff is uniquely suited to build and sustain a groundswell of sales momentum as we execute on our vision to be the de facto standard technology choice for HR and IT administrators looking to securely deploy and grow their use of enterprise collaboration tools” said wiretap CEO Jeff Schumann.

Wiretap empowers safe, intuitive and intelligent collaboration by closing the security gaps inherent in today’s ubiquitous Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs), as well as collaboration tools such as Microsoft Yammer^®, Workplace by Facebook and Slack. The conversational and collaborative nature of these tools provides a natural ‘water cooler’ environment where employees share new ideas, collaborate on initiatives, share information and achieve greater collaboration than ever before.

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