Kiteworks, a provider of secure data exchange solutions that enable organizations to manage risk across the movement and use of sensitive information, has announced the appointment of Julia Rasekhi as Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Strategy. In this newly established role, Rasekhi will spearhead the company’s global partnership strategy, overseeing alliances with major technology vendors and global systems integrators, while advancing joint product integrations and go-to-market initiatives aimed at accelerating enterprise growth.
Rasekhi brings nearly two decades of experience in corporate development and strategic alliances. She joins Kiteworks from Oracle, where she served for more than 17 years as Vice President of Corporate Development, Product Partnerships, and Licensing. During her tenure, she led initiatives responsible for delivering high-impact product partnerships and managing complex, multi-faceted programs, including post-acquisition integrations, the creation of new business units, and global licensing frameworks. Earlier in her career, she held key partnership and alliance roles at Hewlett-Packard, Interwoven, and 3Com.
At Kiteworks, Rasekhi will focus on expanding the company’s partner ecosystem and driving enterprise adoption of its platform—including Kiteworks Compliant AI—across regulated sectors and government organizations worldwide. A key priority will be enhancing integrations with leading data security posture management (DSPM) providers to ensure that data classifications and policies persist across both structured and unstructured data as it moves through all communication channels governed by Kiteworks.
Her appointment comes as enterprises face increasing complexity in managing sensitive data amid accelerating AI adoption and tightening regulatory requirements such as CMMC 2.0, HIPAA, GDPR, NIS 2, DORA, and PCI DSS. As data continues to proliferate across databases, file systems, email platforms, and AI pipelines, organizations are seeking unified, partner-driven solutions that can enforce governance, compliance, and security across all data exchange channels.
“Julia is among the most accomplished strategic partnerships leaders in enterprise technology,” said Amit Toren, Chief Business Officer at Kiteworks. “Her proven ability to architect and execute partnership strategies at global scale, combining deep operational discipline with genuine executive relationship-building, is exactly what Kiteworks needs as we expand our partner ecosystem to meet surging demand for governed data exchange and compliant AI. Julia doesn’t just build partnerships; she builds the structures that make partnerships generate sustained revenue and mutual value. Under Julia’s seasoned leadership, we are committed to continued investment — in both the team and the broader resources — to build a robust, high-performing partnership organization that drives high-impact, win-win execution with our partners.”
“Kiteworks sits at the center of the most critical challenges facing enterprise security and compliance today, governing how sensitive data moves across organizations, partners, and AI systems,” said Rasekhi. “The opportunity to build a world-class partner ecosystem around the only comprehensive data exchange control plane in the market is extraordinary — one policy engine, one audit log, one security architecture governing every channel. I’m excited to build joint solutions and programs with leading technology vendors and systems integrators, delivering real value to our joint customers, and positioning Kiteworks as a premier partner within the enterprise cybersecurity and compliance market.”
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About Kiteworks
Kiteworks’ mission is to empower organizations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive, and use of private data. The Kiteworks platform provides customers with a secure data exchange that delivers data governance, compliance, and protection in a unified control plane. Kiteworks unifies, tracks, controls, and secures sensitive data moving within, into, and out of their organization, significantly improving risk management and ensuring regulatory compliance on all private data exchanges. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Kiteworks protects over 100 million end-users and thousands of global enterprises and government agencies.
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