Marc Olesen

Senior Vice President & General Manager, Content & Cloud Security

Marc Olesen is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for McAfee’s Content and Cloud Security business. Olesen leads the engineering, marketing, and sales functions that drive worldwide growth for this area of the business, including McAfee’s email and web security and data loss prevention products. The content security solutions span on-premise software, gateway appliances, and cloud-based Security-as-a-Service offerings.

Olesen’s extensive experience spans more than 20 years in software and services, including organizational leadership, profit and loss accountability, and solution management. Before joining McAfee in 2009, Olesen was the vice president of software-as-a-service at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he led the SaaS for IT management business, including all solution development, go-to-market, and delivery functions.

Prior to joining HP, Olesen was the senior director of customer service for Qwest CyberSolutions (QCS), where he was responsible for global application management services. Before QCS, he was a technology consulting practice manager with BearingPoint. Olesen also held positions at Remedy and Oracle.

Olesen is a member of Cloud Connect Advisory Board and has given keynote presentations at Computerworld’s SaaScon, SIIA’s All About the Cloud conference, the China Cloud Computing Congress, and the Federation of Security Professionals.

Olesen has a master’s degree in industrial engineering and a bachelor’s degree in economics, both from Stanford University.

Olesen grew up in Canada and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and four daughters. He enjoys skiing, hockey, and running.