BlackFog Continues Expansion with Key Appointment in North America

Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 12, 2020. BlackFog, Inc. today announced the appointment of Patrick Buckley as Chief Revenue Officer for North America. Patrick brings over 20 years of sales/sales management and senior VP management experience selling SMB business to Fortune 50 companies in the enterprise software space.

Patrick started his career at Oracle where he worked his way up the ranks during his 12-year tenure, holding positions such as Application Sales Representative, Technology Sales Representative and Regional Sales Manager. More recently Patrick was at Workday where he spent 6 years in a senior management role as Regional Vice President for the south region where he was an integral part of Workday’s success in the Fortune 500 and Fortune 50. His teams were instrumental in growing Workday’s revenue from a 200M pre-IPO revenue-based company to a 29-billion-dollar Mkt CAP publicly traded company (WDAY).

“We are very excited to have Patrick join the BlackFog team. His experience in building dynamic and process driven sales teams will help continue BlackFog’s rapid growth during 2020, said Dr. Darren Williams, CEO and Founder of BlackFog. Patrick is also a great cultural fit with the existing team and we look forward to an exciting year ahead.”

“I am looking forward to working with Darren and his team to help BlackFog build out the North American operations.  Darren has a track record for building great companies.  BlackFog is his latest success and he has created a world class data privacy product protecting our data across all devices and platforms, said Patrick Buckley, Chief Revenue Officer, BlackFog.”

BlackFog is the category-defining vendor in anti data exfiltration (ADX). Founded in 2015, the company invented ADX on the thesis that the endpoint is the only control point capable of stopping data from leaving an organization, an architectural bet that has now been validated across three exfiltration vectors: ransomware, shadow AI, and autonomous AI agents. BlackFog’s endpoint-native platform protects more than 500 enterprises, government agencies, and critical infrastructure operators worldwide. The company is the publisher of the annual State of Ransomware report and the BlackFog/Sapio Shadow AI Research, the most-cited primary research in the category. BlackFog’s recognition includes the teiss Awards 2026, the AI Excellence Award 2026, the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2026, and the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award. Headquartered in San Francisco with international operations in London and Belfast. Learn more at blackfog.com.