British technology entrepreneur, business owner and activist, Tracy Pound will be chairwoman of the board of directors of CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry.
The founder and managing director of Maximity in Birmingham, England, Pound is the first industry executive from Britain to chair the CompTIA board.
Pound identified three areas of focus for the board and the association in the coming months.
“CompTIA has made great advances in workforce development and in championing apprenticeships as an opening to careers in technology and I look forward to expanding both of these programmes. The CompTIA ISAO will be a huge help in fighting cybercrime. CompTIA’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion remain central to all that we do. I’d really like to see a great step change for the better in our industry”, she said.
Pound succeeds Gordon Pelosse, formerly an executive with Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Canada, as board chair. Pelosse remains on the board as immediate past chair.
CompTIA also announced Scott Barlow, vice president for global MSP at Sophos, a provider of cybersecurity products and services, and Quy Nguyen, CEO of Allyance Communications Inc., which specialises in telecom, data centre and cloud computing solutions, will serve as vice-chairs of the association’s board for 2021-22.
