Friends who blog ... and work together

This is not a post about Mitchell.  But most of you may already know what we announced and made official today.  My good friend Martin McKeay has joined our company as product evangelist.  Martin was one of the first people I met through blogging and over time we have developed a close friendship.  Also, over that time I have admired Martin for his ability to take his technical background and marry it to his passion for blogging, podcasting and journalism to become the person he is today. 

Martin's role in our company is to evangelize our products and some of the research that Mitchell's team is working on.  Over time Martin's role will become more defined and I am sure he will be a valuable contributer.  When Mitchell and I were speaking about this role, it seemed a natural to me for Martin. Everything just lined up right, in that Martin was looking to go in a new direction, we needed his exact mix of technical and marketing skills and his web 2.0 chops.  In Yiddush/Jewish there is a word beshert, which roughly translated means, it was meant to be.  Actually the concepts of fate and pre-determination and all of that mystic stuff are rolled in to bershet too.  Bottom line is it it just feels right.

So Martin, welcome to the StillSecure team.  We are proud and happy to have you on board.  We are also sure that you are going to be a valuable piece of the puzzle towards our success. If nothing else, between Mitchell, you and I, we will be well represented in the blog-o-sphere. To the rest of you security bloggers/podcasters out there, not to worry, eventually we will hire you too ;-)