Board of Directors

Mr. Dell has served as a director and our non-executive Chairman of the Board since December 11, 2015. Mr. Dell serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Dell Technologies Inc., or Dell Technologies. Mr. Dell also served as Chief Executive Officer of Dell Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell Technologies, from 1984 until July 2004 and resumed that role in January 2007. In 1998, Mr. Dell formed MSD Capital, L.P., now DFO Management, LLC, a private investment firm, for the purpose of managing his and his family’s investments, and, in 1999, he and his wife established the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to provide philanthropic support to a variety of global causes.

Mr. Dell is an honorary member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and is an executive committee member of the International Business Council. He is a member of the Technology CEO Council and is a member of the Business Roundtable. He also serves on the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China, on the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India, and as a board member of Catalyst, a non-profit organization that promotes inclusive workplaces for women. In June 2014, Mr. Dell was named the United Nations Foundation’s first Global Advocate for Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Cary served as an executive of General Electric Company, or GE, one of the world’s largest infrastructure and financial services companies. Before his retirement in January 2015, Mr. Cary spent 29 years at GE, holding several leadership positions in consumer and wholesale finance, as well as in areas of finance, risk, and capital markets. His roles included the President and Chief Operating Officer for GE Capital Corp., the financial services unit of GE, from November 2008 until December 2014, and the President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Money (Global), a subsidiary of GE Capital in London, from February 2008 to November 2008. Mr. Cary began his career at Clorox Company.

Mr. Cary currently serves on the board of directors of Ally Financial Inc., the largest all-digital bank in the United States and an industry-leading automative financing and insurance business, and Rush Enterprises, Inc., an international, full-service retailer of commercial vehicles and related services. He is also a member of the board of directors of Lendmark Financial Services, LLC, a privately-held, U.S.-based personal lending company that serves customers who are underserved by traditional banks.

The Secureworks Board of Directors selected Mr. Cary to serve as a director and Audit Committee Chair because of his extensive experience leading finance organizations, as well as his expertise in the areas of leadership development, global operations, risk, and capital markets.

Before her retirement on January 1, 2014 from the General Electric Company, or GE, one of the world’s largest infrastructure and financial services companies, Ms. Daley served with GE in a number of roles, including Senior Vice President and Senior Advisor to the Chairman from April 2013 to January 2014, Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Development from August 2004 to March 2013 and Vice President and Senior Counsel for Transactions from 1991 to July 2004. As Senior Vice President for Corporate Business Development, Ms. Daley was responsible for GE’s merger, acquisition and divestiture activities worldwide. Before she joined GE in 1989 as Tax Counsel, Ms. Daley was a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, an international law firm, where she specialized in domestic and cross-border tax-oriented financings and commercial transactions.

Ms. Daley also serves as a director of BlackRock, Inc., a global asset management company, and BP plc, one of the five integrated supermajors in oil and gas and energy. She was a director of BG Group plc, an international gas and oil company traded on the London Stock Exchange, until BG Group was acquired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in February 2016. Ms. Daley was also a director of Patheon N.V., a global pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization, until August 2017, when Patheon was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

The Secureworks Board of Directors selected Ms. Daley to serve as a director because of her significant experience in the areas of leadership development, international operations, transactions, business development, and global strategy gained through her over 35 years of transactional experience and over 20 years of service as an executive with GE.

Mr. Hawkins served as President and CFO Emeritus for Salesforce.com, Inc., a provider of enterprise cloud computing solutions, from February 2021 to November 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Hawkins served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Salesforce.com, from August 2017 to January 2021, and as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President from August 2014 to August 2017.

Prior to his time at Salesforce, Mr. Hawkins served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Autodesk, Inc., a provider of three-dimensional design, engineering, and entertainment software, from April 2009 to July 2014. He served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Information Technology at Logitech International SA, a global provider of personal computer and tablet accessories, from April 2006 to April 2009 and served as Vice President of Finance at Dell Inc. from January 2000 to March 2006. Before joining Dell Inc., he spent over 18 years at Hewlett-Packard Company, a global IT company, where he held a variety of finance and business management roles.

Mr. Hawkins currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Workday, Inc., an enterprise cloud applications company, Toast Inc., a cloud-based restaurant software company, and Cloudflare, Inc., a global cloud services provider. Mr. Hawkins also serves as an Operating Partner for BDT & MSD Partners, LLC, a merchant bank with an advisory and investment platform built to serve the distinct needs of business owners and strategic, long-term investors, and as a Venture Partner of New Enterprise Associates, Inc., a global venture capital firm. Mr. Hawkins is a founding member of the USA Chapter of His Majesty King Charles III’s sponsored Accounting for Sustainability CFO Leadership Network and serves as Chair of the A4S Global Advisory Council.

The Secureworks Board of Directors selected Mr. Hawkins to serve as a Director because of his experience of more than 35 years with leading finance organizations at global software and technology companies, as well as his expertise in finance, information technology and global operations.

Mr. Paster is a Managing Director of Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm, where he has worked since July 2011. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco from July 2009 to June 2011. Mr. Paster currently serves on the Board of Directors of Entrata, Inc., a provider of comprehensive property management software, and Qualtrics, LLC, a provider of experience management software.

The Secureworks Board of Directors selected Mr. Paster to serve because of his strong background in technology and finance.

Mr. Pati is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Infoworks.io, an enterprise software company, and has served as its Chairman from its inception, and as its Executive Chairman from September 2017 through January 2019. Mr. Pati also has been a Partner of Centerview Capital Technology, or Centerview, a private investment firm, since May 2016. At Centerview, Mr. Pati’s investment focus is on cybersecurity and data and analytics. Previously, Mr. Pati served as an Advisor to Centerview from June 2014 to May 2016. Before his association with Centerview, Mr. Pati founded Numerical Technologies, Inc., a company that redefined how integrated circuits are designed and manufactured, and served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer from October 1995 to August 2002 and as Chairman from August 2002 to March 2003, when the company was acquired by Synopsys, Inc. He helped launch Nexus Venture Partners, a pioneer in Indian venture capital, and has served as Advisor to that firm since January 2012. Mr. Pati also founded Sezmi Corporation, a company that developed and marketed video services offerings for telecommunications service providers and served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of the company from June 2006 to December 2011.

The Secureworks Board of Directors selected Mr. Pati to serve because of his experience as the Founder and CEO of two technology companies, experience as chairman and advisor to several other companies, as well as his extensive knowledge of hardware and software technologies; specialization in technology investment in cybersecurity and data and analytics sectors.

Ms. Thomas has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2021. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Thomas served in a number of critical positions at Secureworks, including as President, Customer Success from April 2020 to September 2021, as Chief Product Officer from June 2019 until April 2020, as Senior Vice President, Business and Product Strategy, from March 2018 to June 2019, as Vice President, Strategic and Financial Planning, from March 2017 to March 2018, and as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis from July 2015 to March 2017 and from June 2008 to June 2011. In addition, Ms. Thomas served as Chief Financial Officer of Bridgevine, Inc. (currently Updater Inc.), a marketing software company, from November 2013 to July 2015, and as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis, at First Data Corporation (currently Fiserv, Inc.), a payment processing and financial services technology company, from July 2011 to October 2013. Earlier in her career, Ms. Thomas held other positions, including multiple finance roles at BellSouth Corporation, a telecommunications company, culminating in the position of Director, Finance.

Ms. Thomas leverages over 25 years of experience in strategic and functional leadership roles and has worked across multiple technology-driven companies.

Ms. Thomas currently serves on the public board of directors of IonQ, an industry leader in quantum computing.