Player Pate

Senior Director, Marketing

Player is a Senior Director of Marketing at Dragos, Inc., where he leads product marketing across xOT, Phosphorus, industry verticals, and partners. He sets strategy and drives execution to build category leadership, brand growth, and measurable revenue impact, bringing more than 20 years of senior cybersecurity marketing experience that combines deep technical fluency with a disciplined, customer-first approach.

Player joined Dragos from Phosphorus, where he served as SVP of Marketing and led the global marketing team. Over his career, he has launched and scaled some of the industry’s most influential security innovations at Cisco and Internet Security Systems (ISS, acquired by IBM), including marketing for high-profile threat intelligence and incident response efforts with Cisco Talos and the ISS X-Force teams. He has also held senior roles at high-growth startups such as JouleX, acquired by Cisco, with a consistent focus on translating complex security challenges into clear, differentiated market value.

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