Andrew Young

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Andrew Young

Chief Product Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Management

Andrew Young joined WatchGuard in 2015, and serves as SVP of Product Management and Chief Product Officer. He is responsible for WatchGuard's product strategy, executing on both organic and M&A platform expansion. Andrew brings 25 years of experience delivering security hardware and software products and SaaS services to market, including more than 10 years of progressive product management expertise.

Prior to WatchGuard, he served as Senior Vice President of Identity Protection at Gemalto, managing the Enterprise, eBanking and Trusted Identity segments. Prior to that, Andrew spent 11 years with SafeNet in a variety of senior product management roles for IPsec and SSL VPN, high-speed encryption, and identity and authentication. Before that, he managed engineering teams at Rainbow Technologies, a leader in enterprise security products.

Andrew studied Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo.