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. Mr. Dell also served as Chief Executive Officer of Dell Inc. from 1984 until July 2004 and resumed that role in January 2007. In 1998, Mr. Dell formed MSD Capital, L.P. 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.

He 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 also a member of the Technology CEO Council and the Business Roundtable. He 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 is 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. Dell continues to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors of VMware, Inc., a cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology company, following the spin-off of VMware from Dell Technologies in 2021. He was a director of Pivotal Software, Inc., formerly a public majority-owned subsidiary of Dell Technologies that provided a cloud-native platform, from September 2016 until it merged with VMware, Inc. in December 2019.

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.

As President and Chief Financial Officer at Salesforce from 2014 to 2021, Mark H. Hawkins was responsible for leading the company’s global finance organization and was a member of the company’s executive committee. In February of 2021, Mark was named President and CFO Emeritus at Salesforce and served in this capacity until November of 2021.

Prior to his time at Salesforce, Mark served as CFO and Executive Vice President at Autodesk, leading the company’s global finance, information technology, and procurement organizations. From 2006 to 2009, he was CFO and Senior Vice President of Finance & IT at Logitech International SA. From 2000 to 2006, he served as Vice President of Finance for Dell’s worldwide procurement and logistics organization, as well as Vice President of Finance for Dell’s U.S. Home Segment. Prior to Dell, Mark spent over 18 years at Hewlett-Packard where he held a variety of finance and business management roles, including a two-year posting in Europe. He also served on HP's board of directors in Japan and China.

Currently, Mark is a member of the Board of Directors at Workday, Toast, Cloudflare, and Secureworks. He also serves as a senior advisor and board of director for private companies. He sits on the NYSE Listed Company Advisory Board and is a founding member of the USA Chapter of The Prince of Wales' Accounting for Sustainability Project CFO Leadership Network and Chairs the A4S Global Advisory Council. Mark also serves on the Board of Directors of the Ocean Cleanup North Pacific.

The board 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 private equity 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 ServiceMax, Inc., a cloud-based field service management software company.

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.