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Announcing our second UpGuardian MVP of last quarter - Ellen Finnegan! Ever since Ellen joined the US Customer Success team, she has embodied what it means to be an UpGuardian (and awesome coworker!) Ellen engages, celebrates, and listens to their peers. From jumping in to lead our weekly US Unwinds, to being an all-around team player, Ellen goes above and beyond to help make UpGuard a great place to work! Congratulations, Ellen, and thank you for positively contribution to the culture at UpGuard!
Each quarter at UpGuard, we celebrate our Most Valued Player (MVP) Awards, which recognises those team members who, through their values-led actions, have had a positive impact on our customers, our colleagues or our culture. In addition we present our UpGuardian Award, to recognise the team members, who within the quarter have embodied what it is to be an UpGuardian - a good human, who cares about our people, takes pride in what we do, who doesn’t #%&$ the Customer and who makes the impossible possible - delivering consistently awesome performance and outcomes which go beyond their normal day-to-day role. We’re excited to introduce you to one of our newest UpGuardian Award Winners, Harry Farrell-Beales! Harry brings a never-give-up attitude each day, going above and beyond for his team while smashing his targets during a pretty challenging quarter. Harry is an exceptional human to work with, treating everyone he interacts with respectfully and is a champion of taking ownership and accountability while operating with a cool head. Congratulations, Harry - and thank you for all that you do!
We have exciting news – UpGuard has been recognized as a Leader by G2 in the Third Party & Supplier Risk Management category for the *5TH CONSECUTIVE QUARTER*! See what our satisfied customers are saying about us on G2: “UpGuard helps us to protect from cyber risk, which can lead to the potential loss of an organization's most sensitive data.” - Atif Irshad, IT Global, Risk & Compliance at Ansell Want to learn more? Head over to https://www.upguard.com/g2 to download the full report and see why hundreds of businesses choose UpGuard as their main Vendor Risk Management solution!
As a remote-first company pre-covid, we are equipped to work successfully with colleagues and customers in all corners of the world. While our approach has allowed us to hire top talent irrespective of their location, we recognize the importance of creating moments of magic that bring our team together to spend quality time face-to-face. Enabling us to build trust and promote inclusion, as well as ensure alignment with our ways of working, mission, and brand. Throughout the year, we invest heavily in bringing our team together through a number of key rituals and events - ranging from functional offsites 👩🏻🔧 to local UpGuardian MeetUps 🏡; Regional Gatherings 🇺🇸🇮🇳🇦🇺🇨🇦🇵🇭🇬🇧🇮🇪🇳🇿🇼🇸🇸🇬 🇳🇱 through to our Biannual Global Safari 🌏. Last week, our North American team gathered in sunny San Diego for our 2023 Canada/USA regional offsite. With many of our team meeting in person for the first time, we enjoyed an action-packed three days together, learning, forming and strengthening connections, and above all, sharing plenty of fun as we created many new shared memories together as one team. While it was sad to say goodbye, we're looking forward to our Global Team Safari in a few months, when team members from 11 countries will come together for a week in Thailand! Want to join us? We are currently hiring a number of awesome roles in Australia, USA & India. Check out our careers website for more information or to apply! www.upguard.com/careers
✨ UpGuard Team Member Spotlight ✨ "Chris Kopf has been promoted to SDR Team Lead for going above and beyond the duties of a Sales Development Rep. He has a complete understanding of the problems UpGuard solves for our clients and embeds these fundamentals in all of our new Sales Development Reps. I'm excited for him to lead his own team and continue his personal growth within the company!" -Walker Fraser, Director of Business Development Learn more about #UpGuard career opportunities here👇 https://lnkd.in/gDDGAgf
✨ UpGuard Employee Spotlight ✨ "Zindzi Speede has been a high achiever at UpGuard since day one. Her skills as an SDR and experience in a customer-facing role have led to her promotion to Technical Account Manager in Customer Success. Congrats on the fantastic accomplishment!" -Aaron Spiteri, Director, Customer Success APAC Learn more about our career opportunities here: https://www.upguard.com/careers
We are a diverse team here at UpGuard, and in recognition of IWD, this week we proud to showcase just come of the talented and inspiring women who have chosen UpGuard as part of their career journey. We proudly amplify their voices and experiences, as we explore their perspective on how we as an employer, embrace equity, we learn the advice they have to help other women navigate a career in cybersecurity, and about those who have been an inspiration to them throughout their careers. Today we hear from Lisa Baldacchino , who is our Senior Product Manager, based in the Melbourne, VI, Australia . You can read more about Lisa and her story, via the below link.
Globally, women are nearly three times more likely than men to experience violence from an intimate partner, and almost 10 women a day are hospitalised for assault injuries perpetrated by a spouse or domestic partner. As part of our commitment to promoting a workplace free from all forms of violence, sadly we recognise that our team may experience situations of violence or abuse which constitute family violence that may affect their attendance or performance at work. To ensure we can adequately support team members experiencing or at risk of experiencing Family & Domestic Violence, this week, we announced our new Global Family & Domestic Violence policy and Paid Leave entitlement - Providing every UpGuard team member with 10 days paid Family & Domestic Violence leave each year, irrespective of location, employee status or tenure. Other initiatives include appointing a new contact officer, internal and local resource guides, and a range of meaningful flexibility supports, all to ensure, if a team member experiences violence, the full support of UpGuard is there - if wanted.
We are a diverse team here at UpGuard, and in recognition of IWD, this week we proud to showcase just come of the talented and inspiring women who have chosen UpGuard as part of their career journey. We proudly amplify their voices and experiences, as we explore their perspective on how we as an employer, embrace equity, we learn the advice they have to help other women navigate a career in cybersecurity, and about those who have been an inspiration to them throughout their careers. Today we hear from Arpita Sidhu, who is our Content Marketing Manager, based in the Bay Area, CA. You can read more about Arpita and her story, via the below link.
This week we are celebrating International Women’s Day and amplifying the voices and experiences of the women who are integral to the growth and innovation of UpGuard, exploring their perspective on how we embrace equity, the advice they have to help other women navigate a career in cybersecurity as well as honoring those who have influenced and inspired their careers. Today we hear from Payton Vallee, SDR Team Leader. You can read more about Payton and her story, via the below link.
