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Franz Hinner
Sr Director Analyst
1 year at Gartner, 30 years' experience
Location: TX USA | Language(s): English, German
Roles and Responsibilities
Franz S. Hinner is a Sr. Director Analyst in the Endpoint Security team specializing in cybersecurity, endpoint protection platforms (EPP), endpoint detection & response (EDR), extended detection & response (XDR), next-generation endpoint & email security. Franz has a proven track record of creating industry-leading & revolutionizing product solutions. Mr. Hinner has 20+ years of visionary, results-oriented leadership experience in security, cybersecurity, endpoint protection, endpoint management, system management & identity management. Franz's focus over the last 15+ years was building genuine Software as a Service Cloud solutions that significantly changes how customers use software infrastructure & provide the financial structures for fiscal success.
Background
Previous Experience
Before joining Gartner, he envisioned Trend Micro's technology stack & drove the strategic vision for a pure multi-tenant cloud endpoint & email solution. Previous to Trend Micro, Mr. Hinner created the identity & authentication strategy at Gemalto, now Thales, that led to the acquisition of SafeGuard. Ahead of Gemalto, Franz established a cloud strategy, Borland's application lifecycle business & testing solutions to the cloud. These SaaS solutions achieved the goal to make Borland profitable & led to the acquisition of Borland by Micro Focus, during which he became a certified Scrum Master & Agile Coach while living the day-to-day DevOps experience. Before Borland, Franz had several leadership positions in Product Management at Vignette, Tivoli Systems & IBM. Before moving to the US with Tivoli, Franz worked for Tivoli System as the EMEA chief architect & as the Director of the Center of Competence at IBM in London. Franz is a published author with Markt & Technik, having written extensively about network protocols & local area networks. In addition, Franz has worked on 8 IBM Redbooks, spanning from topics like LDAP, X.500 to local area network (LAN) solutions & remote access solution sets.
Professional Background
- Borland, Senior Director Product Advocacy & Management, 2 years
- Gemalto now Thales, Senior Director Product Management & Marketing - Security Solutions, 1 year
- Trend Micro, Dir. Product Experience Multi-Tenant & xSP/MSP/MSSP & Chief Strategist SaaS, 12 years
Industry Awards/Accolades
- 12+ years experience creating & managing security SaaS products
- 12+ years in technical solution & architecture consulting
- 20+ years experience in building SaaS infrastructure, products & platforms
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