Stephen McCarney Joins CodeHunter as Chief Strategy Officer

CodeHunter has named Stephen McCarney as Chief Strategy Officer, adding a go-to-market leader with a track record of scaling category-defining security companies to help expand Zero Trust for Code across enterprise and government markets.

McCarney will lead corporate strategy, market expansion, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market execution as CodeHunter builds out its footprint across software supply chain, endpoint, DevSecOps, and security operations environments.

He joins from Merlin Group, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer helping scale disruptive cybersecurity companies for government and commercial critical infrastructure markets. Earlier in his career, he helped position and scale one of the industry’s first cloud-based SASE and Zero Trust Network Access platforms as VP of Marketing at OPAQ Networks, later acquired by Fortinet, and held senior marketing and security leadership roles at Arxan Technologies and Unisys. 

“Stephen has spent his entire career helping category-defining cybersecurity companies translate technical innovation into market leadership…His experience scaling Zero Trust, SASE, cloud security, application security, and emerging technology companies will be instrumental as we expand Zero Trust for Code into a critical control layer for enterprise and AI security,” said Ken Ammon, CEO of CodeHunter.

McCarney points to timing as the opportunity: AI-generated code, autonomous development tools, and machine-speed attacks are testing the assumptions behind traditional detection and software supply chain security, the exact gap Zero Trust for Code is built to close. 

Read Stephen’s thoughts on joining the CodeHunter team on LinkedIn.