AUSTIN and GENEVA – December 11 – Earlier this year, leading business technologist Darryl West joined Sonar as a Senior Advisor to provide strategic guidance to CEO Tariq Shaukat and the company’s Product and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams. Mr. West has driven transformational business change through the adoption and evolution of new technologies and his approach to innovation, with more than 35 years of experience leading global financial institutions. Previously, he was the CIO at HSBC, Barclays, and Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to Mr. West’s CIO position, he held other leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase and National Australia Group Europe.
In his efforts with Sonar, Mr. West will help to further the company’s mission to increase the value of software as a business asset through improved code quality and security. Sonar’s focus on the developer experience helps organizations continuously reduce the exposure and risk that results from poorly written code and improve the performance of their software. As organizations increasingly adopt AI assistants to write code and develop software, having scalable, flexible solutions that seamlessly integrate into the CI/CD lifecycle has become a business imperative.
In addition to his work with Sonar, Mr. West advises several other leading technology organizations and sits on multiple boards. Now residing in Hong Kong, Mr. West has lived and worked in Australia, France, Germany, the USA, and the UK.
About Sonar
Sonar is the trust and verification layer for AI code, and the industry standard for automated code review for 17+ years. Integrating code quality and code security into a single platform, Sonar delivers deterministic, repeatable, and actionable code verification at scale, analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure software is secure, reliable, and maintainable. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar is trusted by 7M+ developers globally, including teams at Microsoft, Adobe, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company.
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