The Howler: An Arctic Wolf Podcast

This month, we sit down with Kerri Shafer-Page, Vice President of Incident Response, as she shares a peak behind the curtain of the day-to-day of her and her team, reflections on being a woman in tech, and so much more!Kerri Shafer-Page serves as the Vice President of Digital Forensics and Incident Response at Arctic Wolf. A proven leader in threat identification, IT security and data privacy incident response and mitigation, Kerri has served in leadership roles at IBM and AIG, overseeing incident response and cybersecurity claims.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

This month, we sit down with JJ Freitag, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, as he shares his 2025 resolutions, insights into his career where he's completed over 50 deals worth billions of dollars, and much more! JJ Freitag currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Arctic Wolf and is responsible for the company’s inorganic growth strategy, building Arctic Wolf’s M&A process, and leading the corporate development team. JJ has led and completed over 50 deals worth billions of dollars and analyzed thousands of deals over his career. Prior to Arctic Wolf, JJ spent the last 10 years at Coupa Software as the SVP of Corporate Development and Managing Director of Coupa Ventures and has also served as COO at SlideRocket and Vice President at Azure Capital Partners.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

This month we sit down with Debra Sevelius, Vice President of Legal, as she shares the "glamorous side of commercial legal," her love of curling, and much more!As the Head of Commercial Legal at Arctic Wolf, Deb is an experienced, collaborative, globally-minded executive leader, with a proven record in leading legal and cross-functional operational teams that deliver pragmatic win-win outcomes that maximize long term value, achieve process efficiencies, and increase revenue. Prior to joining Arctic Wolf, Deb led global sourcing teams within in a number of large public companies such as Northwest Airlines, ING, Ecolab, and Thomson Reuters, and has served as in-house or outsourced external commercial counsel for a number of early stage and late stage tech start-ups, including Code42 Software.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In this bonus episode, pack members from around the globe share their motivation in becoming Well Wolf Ambassadors and the importance of discussing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.https://arcticwolf.com/company/careers/Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!https://arcticwolf.com/pack-gives-back-security-awareness/Thanks for listening! HOWL!

This month we sit down with Jeff Green, Senior Vice President of R&D, as he shares his experience helping open our brand-new India office, leadership advice he swears by, and more!Jeff is an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in building world-class products and technologies for enterprises and consumers primarily focused in security. Currently as Senior Vice President of R&D, Jeff leads Arctic Wolf’s global research and engineering organization with a focus on delivering security outcomes for customers and ending cyber risk at high scale.Previously he ran engineering at security companies such as Sophos, Pulse Secure, Juniper Networks, McAfee, Dr Solomon’s and Clearswift. Jeff was instrumental in delivering the first mass scale anti-virus cloud-based technology. Jeff hold 18 patents and is a graduate in Computer Science from the University of East Anglia in the UK.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

This month we sit down with Lane Roush, Chief Technical Customer Officer, as he shares his philosophy on owning the outcome, his approach to wellbeing, his love for Halloween costumes and much more!Lane Roush has led the Arctic Wolf Sales Engineering organization since 2016. Lane brings 20+ years of IT and security experience to the team and has been a driving force in our sales, enablement, product, channel and go to market strategy.Before joining Arctic Wolf, Lane was a Principal Architect in Sales Engineering at Code42 where he supported large enterprise customers and helped identify and build the multitude of security go to market use cases that became a new solution offering. He also held Sales Engineering roles at EMC focused on large enterprise customers across many verticals. He began his career as an IT and security practitioner for organizations in Healthcare, Energy, and Real Estate.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

Join hosts Chelsea and Mary as they celebrate one year of The Howler Podcast! From sharing their meet-cute story to interviewing various pack members, this episode is full of both heartwarming & funny moments highlighting the people & programs that make Arctic Wolf so special! Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations. https://arcticwolf.com/company/careers/ Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries! https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/pack-gives-back-free-security-awareness/

This month we sit down with Dan Larson, Chief Marketing Officer, as he shares his tips for building a personal brand, why partnering with Formula 1 and IndyCar was an exciting move, how he works with his team to dream up innovative ideas and much more!Dan Larson is Arctic Wolf’s CMO, overseeing corporate marketing, brand, communications, technical marketing, demand generation, enablement, product marketing, and marketing technology. His background includes 15 years of sales, product, and marketing leadership experience, with a proven track record of building powerful technology brands by establishing best-in-class market positioning, competitive differentiation, and product messaging.Prior to joining Arctic Wolf, Dan served as the Vice President of Product Marketing at CrowdStrike, where he led a global product marketing team and was responsible for go-to-market strategy, messaging, technical marketing, and competitive intelligence. Before CrowdStrike, Dan served seven years as Director of Technical Marketing with McAfee/Intel Security. He began his career with General Electric in the Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP) after earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.  Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

This month we sit down with Steve Craig, Chief Revenue Officer, as he shares his journey from SDR to CRO, the importance of metrics in management, leadership lessons he's learned the hard way, and settles the debate between some East Coast and Midwest slang!Steve Craig is Arctic Wolf’s Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for leading global acquisition sales, sales enablement, sales development, customer success and channel sales GTM teams. Steve brings over 15 years of sales experience with a variety of technology companies in various stages including start-up, growth, and enterprise companies. Prior to his current position, Steve served first as Arctic Wolf’s Vice President of Sales and then as Senior Vice President of Sales and General Manager, Americas. Prior to joining Arctic Wolf, Steve served as an enterprise account executive at Dell EMC, working with F100 Clients on their digital transformation journeys; as a sales manager and director at endpoint data protection company Code42; and as Regional Sales Manager at Dell/Compellent. Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts in public policy studies from Duke University.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

This month we sit down with Andy Hill, Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel, as he shares why he's always been drawn to corporate law versus litigation, how he navigates providing counsel during difficult situations, taking companies through IPO, and so much more!Andrew Hill is Arctic Wolf’s Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel. Andrew brings more than 25 years of executive leadership and legal experience, with a focus on helping technology disruptors effectively manage rapid expansion and scale. Previously, Andrew served as the SVP, General Counsel and Secretary at RMS, Inc., and as General Counsel at C3.ai (formerly C3 Energy). Prior to C3.ai, Andrew was General Counsel at TeaLeaf Technology, an IBM Company, and led the legal and contracts departments at Legato Systems (now part of Dell), where he helped expand the enterprise software company through numerous acquisitions. Andrew began his in-house career at Red Brick Systems, a data warehousing company, which he helped through a successful IPO. Before going in-house, Andrew practiced corporate law at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, concentrating on venture capital financing for high-tech and emerging growth companies. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a Juris Doctor and Masters of Business Administration from The University of Pennsylvania Law School and The Wharton School.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In this episode, our hosts sit down with Andrew Burback, Chief Information Office & SVP of Operations, as he shares about his journey from accounting to sales operations & IT, his leadership philosophy rooted in his trust of his team, as well as his love for Subway and his go-to sandwich order!As the Chief Information Officer & Senior VP, Operations, Andrew Burback has led Arctic Wolf’s business operations since April 2018. Before joining the company, Andrew was Director of Operations at Perforce Software, where he oversaw all lead-to-cash operational functions. Prior to Perforce he served as Senior Manager, Sales Operations and Renewals for endpoint-security firm Code 42. At Code 42 he led all customer renewals, as well as managed all sales and marketing technology for the company. Andrew also spent three years at Dell/Compellent, serving in a variety of sales management roles. He began his career as an accountant with Target Corporation after earning a degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In this bonus episode, pack members share their experience with Pack Unity and discuss all things diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging.Resources from Trisha, John & Chidi:1612 – podcast When They See Us – movie on NetflixThe Pink Elephant – book by Janice Gassam AsareHow to be Anti-Racist – book by Ibram X. Kendi Me and White Supremacy – book by Layla SaadRSA Conference Full Library: https://www.rsaconference.com/libraryChildren’s Books:I am WholeMixed MeLittle Black BoyDear Black GirlBlack InventorsLittle Leaders – Bold Women in Black History Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In this episode, our hosts sit down with Kristin Dean, Chief People Officer, as she shares key values she communicates when building strong teams, the importance of providing clarity to your employees, and why Arctic Wolf is her favorite job she's ever had. Kristin Dean leads the Human Resources and Facilities functions at Arctic Wolf. This is Kristin’s fourth technology company, and she brings years of experience starting and growing successful Human Resources teams for companies going through massive growth. Kristin is a recipient of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s 2017 40 under 40 award, and a Women in Business honoree in 2018.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

Our hosts sit down with Mark Manglicmot, Senior Vice President of Security Services at Arctic Wolf, who brings his fun, energetic personality to the podcast while sweating it out over hot sauce!Mark is a US Air Force Veteran and experienced consultant, his experience is concentrated in enterprise security strategy, APT incident response, adversary hunting tactics, security operation center (SOC) formation, Red Teaming and security analytics. He has taught USAF course lectures and college seminars on network warfare and is a published Author.In this episode, Mark shares about the "most impactful 15 minutes of his life," brags on our best-in-class security services team, and discusses the importance of diversity of thought and how he works to diversify the cybersecurity industry. Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In this episode, our hosts sit down with Nick Schneider, President & CEO at Arctic Wolf.  As President and CEO of Arctic Wolf, Nick Schneider brings more than 15 years of experience in building global, high-growth technology companies spanning both emerging and established markets. As a veteran in the security industry, Nick has developed expertise in creating best-of-breed technology platforms and world-class sales organizations, which have been the driving force behind Arctic Wolf’s explosive growth and leadership position in the security operations market.In this episode, Nick shares about his early days at Arctic Wolf, advice for good decision making, skills he thinks are valuable regardless of role, three things that will significantly impact your success or lack thereof, the aspiration he has taken into every role he's had in his career, what he looks for (and looks out for!) when hiring, and so much more! Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In this bonus episode, pack members from around the globe have a conversation about what it looks like for them personally to prioritize mental health and wellbeing.   Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In this episode, our hosts sit down with Clare Loveridge, Vice President and General Manager, EMEA, at Arctic Wolf.   Clare is an internationally focused global leader with more than 20 years experience in sales and channel leadership roles at companies like Data Domain and Nimble Storage where she's grown businesses across EMEA. Clare was the first person hired in the EMEA region at Arctic Wolf to start the region almost 3 years ago.   In this episode, Clare shares about collaborating across multiple countries and teams, growing Arctic Wolf from day and square one in EMEA, leadership philosophies, and how she rises above setbacks and helps the people she leads do the same. Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In this episode, our hosts sit down with Dan Schiappa, Chief Product Officer at Arctic Wolf.  Dan is responsible for driving innovation across product, engineering, alliances, and business development teams to help meet demand for security operations through Arctic Wolf’s growing customer base—especially in the enterprise sector. Before joining Arctic Wolf, Dan was CPO with Sophos. Previously, Dan served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Identity and Data Protection Group at RSA, the Security Division of EMC. Before his tenure at RSA, he held several GM positions at Microsoft Corporation, including Windows security, Microsoft Passport/Live ID, and Mobile Services.   In this episode, Dan shares a leadership philosophy inspired by Star Wars, what he’s most proud of within the Product and R&D organization, and the things he prioritizes in leading his teams to innovate against adversaries.  Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In this episode, our hosts sit down with Adam Marre, Chief Information Security Officer at Arctic Wolf.  Prior to joining Arctic Wolf, Adam was the Global Head of Information Security Operations and Physical Security at Qualtrics. With deep roots in the cybersecurity space, Adam spent almost 12 years with the FBI, holding positions like SWAT Senior Team Leader and Special Agent.  In this episode, Adam gives us a peak into the life of a CISO, what keeps him up at night, how he manages stress, and what he believes is foundational to leadership.  Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL! 

In the first Howler podcast episode, our hosts sit down with Brian NeSmith, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Arctic Wolf.   Brian NeSmith is an internationally recognized business leader, bringing more than 30 years of cybersecurity leadership, including extensive experience driving revenue growth and scaling organizations globally. Before founding Arctic Wolf, he served as CEO of Blue Coat Systems, and prior to Blue Coat, CEO of Ipsilon Networks (acquired by Nokia), which became the leading appliance platform for Check Point firewalls.   In this episode, Brian shares how he started founding companies, lessons he’s learned from failure, and a key exercise that has helped him succeed in both career and life.  Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.   Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!  Thanks for listening! HOWL!