Brad Rager

Managing Partner

Apollo Information Systems

May 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

CEO & Founder

CRUX

Aug 2022 - May 2025 (2 years 10 months)

Crux is the talent platform for cybersecurity. We enable security leaders to focus on protecting against cyber threats, not hunting for talent. And cybersecurity companies to find the technical and go-to-market talent that will drive their business forward. We focus on getting to know candidates deeply upfront, in order to match them with work that is the perfect fit for their talents and aspirations. Our goal is to help build incredible teams with people who love what they do, and where they do it. Check us out at https://www.crux.so. Let's have a conversation.

Chief Strategy Officer

Optiv

Jun 2020 - Jun 2022 (2 years 1 month)

Member of Optiv’s executive officer team, led Optiv’s corporate strategy globally. Supported top line growth in excess of $1BN over 3 years. Accountability for developing strategic plans, chartering and executing corporate initiatives, setting organic and inorganic investment priorities, and agenda setting and content development for board of directors meetings. Overall strategic leadership for a large scale, fundamental transformation over the course of 2 years. Areas of focus have included corporate development, pricing, GTM design, organizational development, innovation management, and talent & culture.

Chief Marketing Officer

Optiv Inc

Aug 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 9 months)

Took on interim day to day leadership of marketing, in addition to strategy/ chief of staff roles, to drive a functional turnaround, improve fundamental execution, and align marketing activities to company strategy. Took the team from <50% positive engagement, to among the highest engagement in the company at 80%. Reduced spend while simultaneously increasing high value client touch points, thought leadership profile, PR mentions and touch points, and analyst rankings. Overhauled marketing strategy for the company, implemented marketing performance attribution tool, ran Optiv COVID response externally, pivoted entirely to virtual events overnight, and launched new thought leadership programs for the company.

Chief of Staff, SVP Strategic Execution

Optiv Inc

Sep 2018 - Jun 2020 (1 year 10 months)

VP- Grocery, Consumer, Industrial Packaging

Bemis Company Inc

Nov 2014 - Jul 2018 (3 years 9 months)

Led commercial turnaround of a struggling $1BN business segment, with general management and P&L responsibility. Direct accountability for both sales and marketing/ business management. Dotted line responsibility for nine plants and segment R&D. Complex business mix, which consisted of 20 end market clusters, 1,500 products, 1,000 customers (including 19 of top 20 CPG companies in the US). Reduced pace of business churn by 45% to stabilize business. Increased gross profits by 24% on flat volume, lapping volume and profit declines of >15%. Achieved cumulative $120M of new business awards, including the largest award in the history of the company.

VP Marketing

Bemis Company Inc

Feb 2014 - Nov 2014 (10 months)

Created and led new central marketing function for Bemis North America, and served as the most senior marketing executive in all of Bemis. Scope of responsibility included marketing communications, marketing innovation, strategic pricing and analytics, and business intelligence. • Led re-branding for all of Bemis Company aligned with new corporate mission and vision. Led agency review process and selected new agency partner. • Implemented first phase of revenue management analytics and automation software • Created business intelligence function focused on competitive and market analytics • Implemented stage gate process jointly across marketing and R&D

Director, Corporate Development

Bemis Company Inc

Apr 2013 - Feb 2014 (11 months)

Principal

Boston Consulting Group

Sep 2003 - Mar 2013 (9 years 7 months)

Extensive strategic advisory experience with leading consumer and industrial goods companies. Functional expertise in corporate strategy, marketing, and corporate finance. Experience includes: Corporate strategy: Numerous engagements developing holistic corporate strategy, including end-to-end strategy for a global packaging company, geographic investment prioritization for a global food and beverage company, portfolio strategy for a US food company. Thought leadership within BCG on topic of business model innovation. Core member of BCG strategy practice. Digital transformation: Digital strategy and organization for consumer durables company. Economic development: Led project advising US Treasury department on US manufacturing devel

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