Binarly Names Rick Congdon Independent Board Member and Strategic Advisor; Appoints AppSec Leader Chris Eng as Strategic Advisor

Congdon to provide expert guidance on global GTM and sales strategy; Eng to sharpen product vision and roadmap as software supply chain security becomes a board-level priority.

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Binarly, the industry leader in software and firmware supply‑chain security, today announced Rick Congdon has joined the company as an Independent Board Member and Strategic Advisor. Congdon will provide expert guidance to steer Binarly’s global go-to-market and enterprise sales strategy.

The company also appointed software security veteran Chris Eng as a Strategic Advisor focused on product vision and long-range roadmap.

Congdon, a proven growth leader who serves as Vice President of Americas Sales at Cloudflare, has held senior global sales leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks and NetApp.

“Rick is a field-tested GTM leader who has scaled sales organizations at category-defining security and networking companies,” said Binarly Chief Executive Officer Alex Matrosov. “Rick brings the exact mix of product vision and go-to-market rigor we need as the software supply chain security category matures from pilots to platform decisions.”

Chris Eng, who was a founding team member and Chief Research Officer at Veracode, is joining the Binarly advisory board to provide guidance on product strategy and long-range roadmap decisions. He is a leading industry voice around applied research and product security and serves on the Black Hat USA Review Board.

“Chris has spent his career turning security research into outcomes. He’ll push us to build what measurably reduces risk and sharpen our product bets for the enterprise,” Matrosov said. “Chris helped define modern AppSec. He’s going to help define what comes next for software supply chain security.”

Quotes:

Rick Congdon, Strategic Advisor and Independent Board Member:
“Security buyers are consolidating around platforms that solve real risk and compliance without adding more tools. Binarly’s advantage is clear customer value, visibility across firmware and software components, exploit-aware scoring, and automated remediation workflows. My focus is helping the team scale repeatable enterprise GTM: partner-led motions, vertical plays, and outcomes-based sales execution.”

Chris Eng, Strategic Advisor to Binarly:
“Software supply chain security is shifting from vulnerability catalogs to evidence-based prioritization: exploitability signals, reachability, provenance, and provable remediation. Binarly’s platform already treats binary analysis as first-class data, and that’s the right foundation to protect everything below the OS as well as modern software artifacts. I’m excited to help make defenders measurably faster and more precise.”

About Binarly

Binarly is a U.S.‑based software and firmware supply‑chain security company founded in 2021. The Binarly Transparency Platform helps device manufacturers, OEMs and enterprise security teams detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets and malicious code in firmware and software components—while accelerating the shift to post‑quantum cryptography. Visit https://binarly.io for more information.