# Brian Gladstein

> Brian Gladstein is Tufin's chief marketing officer, an MIT-trained computer scientist and Stanford MBA whose career moved from software engineering into product management, cybersecurity marketing, entrepreneurship and executive leadership. He founded customer-advocacy consultancy Explorics, sold it to GYK Antler in 2014, later held marketing roles at Carbon Black, Cmd Security and A-LIGN, and joined Tufin in late 2022. His public interviews reveal a practical leadership philosophy built around customer evidence, candid accountability, transparent career paths and the willingness to treat unfamiliar work as a set of smaller problems.

- **Role:** Chief Marketing Officer at Tufin
- **Organizations:** Tufin, A-LIGN, Cmd Security, Carbon Black, GYK Antler, Explorics, RSA Security, Pavilion, SlapFive
- **Education:** BS in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Founded Explorics in 2010 and sold the customer-advocacy consultancy to GYK Antler in 2014., Built a career spanning software engineering, product management, product marketing, entrepreneurship and C-suite marketing leadership., Is named as an inventor on US patents covering a speech-recognition grammar interface and shared access to an application.

## Career timeline

- **late 1990s** — Worked as a software engineer while the commercial web was emerging; his interest in joining product marketers on customer visits drew him toward the business side of technology.
- **2002** — Completed an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business after studying computer science at MIT.
- **2004** — Worked in security at RSA and moved into product marketing, combining technical proximity with customer, sales and go-to-market work.
- **2010** — Founded Explorics, a consultancy focused on customer intelligence, customer marketing and customer advocacy.
- **2014** — Explorics was acquired by GYK Antler; Gladstein stayed with his team as executive vice president of technology marketing.
- **2016-2019** — Held product and strategic marketing leadership roles at Carbon Black, including work around its Predictive Security Cloud.
- **2019-2020** — Led marketing at Cmd Security, a Linux security company.
- **2020-2022** — Served as senior vice president of marketing at A-LIGN, where he discussed scaling the marketing organization and adding an inside-sales function.
- **late 2022** — Joined Tufin as chief marketing officer. The appointment was publicly announced with Tufin's expanded executive team in January 2023.
- **2025** — Oversaw a Tufin brand refresh and discussed the company's positioning shift from firewall management toward network security posture management.
- **2026** — Presented Tufin's agentic network-security direction around RSAC 2026 and appeared in the Tufinnovate 2026 program.

## Achievements

- Founded Explorics in 2010 and sold the customer-advocacy consultancy to GYK Antler in 2014.
- Built a career spanning software engineering, product management, product marketing, entrepreneurship and C-suite marketing leadership.
- Is named as an inventor on US patents covering a speech-recognition grammar interface and shared access to an application.
- Helped Tufin articulate a broader network security posture management position and launch a refreshed brand in January 2025.
- In a 2025 podcast, described transformation work at Tufin involving customer advisory boards, analyst engagement and a shared data-driven funnel; the episode reported that cloud revenue tripled during the repositioning.
- Has served as a startup advisor and as a customer-advocacy adviser to SlapFive.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Appeared as a featured speaker in Tufinnovate 2026, an event focused on agentic AI, network security posture, hybrid-enterprise visibility and governed automation.
- **2026-03** — Published an RSAC 2026 video describing Tufin's planned network-security agents for compliance assessment, vulnerability prioritization and safer application deployment.
- **2025-10** — Joined the NexGen CMO Podcast to discuss Tufin's marketing transformation, customer advisory boards, analyst relationships and the company's move toward a broader network security posture narrative.
- **2025-01** — Announced Tufin's refreshed brand and described it as the culmination of two years of product, customer and company work following his arrival in late 2022.

## Links

- Website: http://www.briangladstein.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briangladstein/
- Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/briangladstein
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/briangladstein

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Last updated: 2026-09-04