Sydney, Australia – 1 September, 2026 – Protecht, a global leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), today announced the appointment of Stuart Kelly as Global Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Erin Marks as Global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). The creation of these executive leadership roles reflects the company's continued investment in scaling globally as demand grows for modern enterprise risk and resilience solutions.
The appointments come during a period of significant momentum for Protecht, following investment from PSG and the recent acquisition of VISO TRUST, expanding the company's ability to proactively help customers identify, manage, and respond to enterprise and third-party risk in an increasingly complex business environment.
As organisations face growing regulatory demands, heightened operational risk, and evolving cyber threats, enterprise risk management has become a strategic business priority. Protecht continues to invest in the people, technology, and capabilities needed to help customers strengthen resilience while enabling confident business growth.
"Protecht has built a strong foundation in a market with significant opportunity ahead. As the business enters its next phase of global growth, we're continuing to invest in the leadership and capabilities needed to scale and strengthen our position in the market."
John Wilson – Chairman, Protecht
Stuart Kelly appointed Global Chief Revenue Officer
As Global Chief Revenue Officer, Stuart Kelly will lead Protecht's global revenue organization, overseeing sales, customer growth, partnerships, and commercial strategy across the company's international markets.
He brings more than two decades of executive leadership experience driving commercial growth across enterprise technology, telecommunications, IoT, energy, and private equity-backed SaaS businesses. He has held global commercial responsibility for businesses exceeding $1 billion in revenue, delivering profitable growth, commercial transformation, and operational excellence across complex international markets.
His experience driving commercial transformation and scaling global go-to-market operations will help accelerate Protecht's next phase of growth and deepen customer relationships worldwide.
Erin Marks appointed Global Chief Marketing Officer
As Global Chief Marketing Officer, Erin Marks will lead Protecht's global marketing organization, responsible for corporate brand, market strategy, demand generation, customer marketing, communications, and commercial alignment.
She brings more than 20 years of experience driving revenue-focused marketing across enterprise technology and high-growth SaaS companies, including leadership roles at Energy Exemplar, Google Cloud, Pluralsight, Baker Hughes, and General Electric. Most recently, she helped build a marketing-led commercial engine that generated eight-figure annual pipeline, contributed more than half of the company's net-new revenue, and helped position the business for a successful private equity-backed exit.
"Stuart and Erin bring complementary strengths and a shared track record of driving growth and commercial transformation. Their leadership will help us deepen customer relationships, expand our global presence and continue innovating around the evolving needs of our customers. Most importantly, they share our focus on helping organisations make better, more confident risk decisions."
Jason Phillips – Chief Executive Officer, Protecht
These appointments represent an important milestone in Protecht's continued evolution as the company expands its global footprint, broadens its platform capabilities, and strengthens its ability to help organisations navigate an increasingly complex risk landscape with confidence.
About Protecht
While others fear risk, we embrace it. For over 25 years, Protecht has redefined the way people think about risk. We enable smarter risk taking by our customers to drive their resilience and sustainable success.
We help organisations increase performance through better understanding, monitoring, and management of risk. We provide a complete solution of AI-enabled governance, compliance, and risk management software supported by training and advisory services to businesses, regulators, and governments across the world.
Our GRC SaaS platform lets you manage your risks in one place: risk, compliance, incidents, KRIs, vendor risk, cyber and IT risk, operational resilience, business continuity, audit, and more.