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With Eyes On Expansion, Bigger Customers, Forcepoint Appoints New Chief

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, April 28th, 2016

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With Eyes On Expansion, Bigger Customers, Forcepoint Appoints New Chief

Matthew Moynahan has been tapped to be Forcepoint's new CEO effective May 9. Photo: Forcepoint

Raytheon [RTN] on Wednesday said that the board of its commercial cyber security joint venture Forcepoint has appointed a new chief executive, Matthew Moynahan, to help achieve the company’s growth goals by adding larger enterprises to its customer mix.Thomas Kennedy, Raytheon’s chairman and CEO and the chairman of Forcepoint, said on his company’s earnings call on Thursday that the cyber security firm needs new leadership to take it to the next level.Forcepoint is made up of the former Websense, which…

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