Sean Blenkhorn

Vice President, Global Sales Engineering & Professional Services

Absolute Security

Nov 2025 - Current (10 months)

Leading global Sales Engineering and Professional Services teams as part of the broader GTM / Revenue team at Absolute.

Entrepreneur in Residence (Mentor)

Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst Toronto Metropolitan University

Dec 2024 - Current (1 year 9 months)

Part of Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst program as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) / Core Mentor and as a keynote speaker to early stage Canadian cybersecurity startups.

Founder & Advisor

Revity Labs

Mar 2020 - Current (6 years 6 months)

Mentor, advisor and investor in early stage cybersecurity startups across GTM, including both Sales & Marketing, Product, Product Marketing, and Services. Technologies have covered areas in cybersecurity including AI, vulnerability management and, more broadly, exposure management, endpoint security, encryption, managed security services, threat intelligence, data backup and more.

Chief Customer Officer

CyCognito

Jan 2024 - Nov 2025 (1 year 11 months)

Lead Pre and Post Sales technical / operational delivery and execution across the (Pre) Sales Engineering, Customer Success and Customer Support teams globally. Globally distributed team(s) with team members in Israel, UK, Germany, Canada and United States. Focused on helping prospects and customers realize the value of the CyCognito platform to identify (and map) your organization's external attack surface, validate issues through automated black box testing, and to help security teams prioritize and focus on the most important risks that require remediation to keep your organization safe.

Vice President, Worldwide Sales Engineering

Axonius

Nov 2021 - Jan 2024 (2 years 3 months)

Led Sales Engineering team across Large Enterprise, Commercial, Federal, Channel, and Inside SE to support a high-performance SaaS/software sales team. Rapidly scaled SE team from 14 SEs globally to 40+ SEs across North America, EMEA, Middle East, APAC and LATAM. Revenue growth from $25M to $108M in ARR in less than 2 years.

Chief Experience Officer (CXO)

eSentire

Jan 2020 - Mar 2020 (3 months)

Create team, as part of broader Product organization, to focus on developing market leading end-to-end customer experience and journey; from initial customer interactions during the pre-sales cycle through continuous delivery of eSentire’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services.

Chief Product Officer (CPO)

eSentire

Jun 2019 - Jan 2020 (8 months)

Led global cross-disciplinary team across Product Management, Advisory Services, Product Marketing, Project Management and Security Research Teams. Responsible for a period of transformational change resetting the strategy and vision across the eSentire product & services portfolio and for supporting, enhancing existing or developing new security services to successfully take to market.

Field CTO

eSentire

Jul 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year)

Established Field CTO Office to support Product research and development (R&D). Continued to lead and grow global team of Field & Sales Engineers (Solutions Architects) and Advisory Services teams (Red Team, Blue Team and CISO services). Provide R&D into new products and services to help support achievement of revenue/growth targets across broader sales organization.

Vice President, Sales Engineering & Advisory Services

eSentire

Jan 2017 - Jul 2018 (1 year 7 months)

Continued Executive leadership across Sales Engineering and Advisory Services teams.

Director, Sales Engineering

eSentire

Jul 2013 - Jan 2017 (3 years 7 months)

Founded and led eSentire’s first ever Sales Engineering group to broadly support all technical pre-sales activities throughout our customers’ buying journey.

Sr. Systems Engineer, Threat & Risk Management Specialist

Symantec

Oct 2012 - Jul 2013 (10 months)

As a Senior Systems Engineer for Symantec’s Security Business Practice, responsible for the (technical sales) positioning of Symantec’s line of Threat & Risk Management portfolio; Managed Security Services (MSS), DeepSight (Threat Intelligence), and Symantec SIEM platform. Territory covered Great Lakes (MI, OH, IN, KT, PA, WV), and all of Eastern Canada. Core target market was Fortune 100/500 customers.

Director, Security Professional Services

Conventus Corporation

Feb 2010 - Oct 2012 (2 years 9 months)

Security Strategist and Services Practice Lead with Conventus responsible for establishing core practices delivering best-in-class services to help address security and compliance concerns around PCI, SOX, HIPAA/HITECH, GLBA, and others. Providing security and compliance strategy predominately to Fortune 50/100/500 customers.

Professional Services Practice Lead, Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Creative Breakthroughs Inc

Mar 2008 - Feb 2010 (2 years)

Practice Lead and expert security consultant responsible for complex, large-scale security and compliance solution deployments in large multi-national and regional customers’ environments. Provided expertise architecture design and deployment to Fortune 50/100/500/1000 organizations in Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Endpoint (AV), Security Information & Event Management (SIEM), Mail Security (Email), Encryption (Full Disk Encryption), and Network Access Control (NAC).

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Chief Technology & Operations Officer

edtec central

Sep 2005 - Mar 2008 (2 years 7 months)

Led edtec, a small educational consulting organization, through the transformation to becoming a Management Company for Charter Schools in Michigan. Developed an educational technology practice focused on providing technology consultancy and technology grant funding assistance to Detroit area schools.

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Business Data Manager

Cornerstone Schools

Jun 2003 - Sep 2005 (2 years 4 months)

Provide technical and business leadership to inner-city, private, faith-based school in Detroit. Focused on transforming the school’s technology backbone to provide the ability for the school to grow and expand; delivering critical educational opportunities to more under-privileged students.

e-Business Manager

Stratford Shakespeare Festival

Jan 2001 - Jan 2003 (2 years 1 month)

Responsible for creating and managing online presence for world renowned Stratford Festival. Led the vision, design, and development for an integrated online selling experience for their global presence.

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Senior Developer & Technical Lead

tdgINTERACTIVE

Jan 2000 - Jan 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Lead developer and project manager on several large-scale web development projects for global content delivery. Technologies leveraged included: ColdFusion, JAVA, PHP, ASP, XML, HTML, JavaScript, for coding and MySQL and SQL Server for (backend) database technologies.

Senior Developer & Team Lead

CIBC

Jan 1998 - Jan 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Member of a centralized web-application software development team responsible for leading and developing (web-based) applications to support the various business unit (BU) needs from across entire CIBC global corporation.

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