The Howler: An Arctic Wolf Podcast

This month, we sit down with Todd Warner, Senior Vice President of Customer Success, as she shares the best leadership advice he's ever received, why he loves working in customer success, his love of swim spas, and much more!Todd Warner is the SVP of Customer Success at Arctic Wolf, where he focuses on taking care of our customers and leading the CS team. With 10+ years leading and building CS teams and 10+ years in various sales roles, he has learned the importance of listening to customers and working toward outcomes that best suit their needs. Prior to joining AW in 2017, he helped build out the Customer Success function at Code42 which is where he first learned about the importance of Customer Success in a subscription business. Additional sales experience at Dell/Compellent and a local MSP/VAR have also brought additional perspective to the Arctic Wolf go to market motion. Outside of work, Todd is busy with his family (wife, 3 kids, and a dog), and enjoys travel, fly fishing, golf and reading when able.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations. Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries! Thanks for listening! HOWL!

In this bonus episode, pack members from around the globe share their motivation in becoming Pack Gives Back Ambassadors and why giving back is important to them along with some of the initiatives they've led for their regions so far!Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.https://arcticwolf.com/company/careers/Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!https://arcticwolf.com/pack-gives-back-security-awareness/Thanks for listening! HOWL!

This month, we sit down with JJ Freitag, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, as he shares his 2025 resolutions, insights into his career where he's completed over 50 deals worth billions of dollars, and much more! JJ Freitag currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Arctic Wolf and is responsible for the company’s inorganic growth strategy, building Arctic Wolf’s M&A process, and leading the corporate development team. JJ has led and completed over 50 deals worth billions of dollars and analyzed thousands of deals over his career. Prior to Arctic Wolf, JJ spent the last 10 years at Coupa Software as the SVP of Corporate Development and Managing Director of Coupa Ventures and has also served as COO at SlideRocket and Vice President at Azure Capital Partners.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations. Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries! Thanks for listening! HOWL!

In this bonus episode, pack members from around the globe share their motivation in becoming Well Wolf Ambassadors and the importance of discussing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.https://arcticwolf.com/company/careers/Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries!https://arcticwolf.com/pack-gives-back-security-awareness/Thanks for listening! HOWL!

This month we sit down with Lane Roush, Chief Technical Customer Officer, as he shares his philosophy on owning the outcome, his approach to wellbeing, his love for Halloween costumes and much more!Lane Roush has led the Arctic Wolf Sales Engineering organization since 2016. Lane brings 20+ years of IT and security experience to the team and has been a driving force in our sales, enablement, product, channel and go to market strategy.Before joining Arctic Wolf, Lane was a Principal Architect in Sales Engineering at Code42 where he supported large enterprise customers and helped identify and build the multitude of security go to market use cases that became a new solution offering. He also held Sales Engineering roles at EMC focused on large enterprise customers across many verticals. He began his career as an IT and security practitioner for organizations in Healthcare, Energy, and Real Estate.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations. Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries! Thanks for listening! HOWL!

This month we sit down with Dan Larson, Chief Marketing Officer, as he shares his tips for building a personal brand, why partnering with Formula 1 and IndyCar was an exciting move, how he works with his team to dream up innovative ideas and much more!Dan Larson is Arctic Wolf’s CMO, overseeing corporate marketing, brand, communications, technical marketing, demand generation, enablement, product marketing, and marketing technology. His background includes 15 years of sales, product, and marketing leadership experience, with a proven track record of building powerful technology brands by establishing best-in-class market positioning, competitive differentiation, and product messaging.Prior to joining Arctic Wolf, Dan served as the Vice President of Product Marketing at CrowdStrike, where he led a global product marketing team and was responsible for go-to-market strategy, messaging, technical marketing, and competitive intelligence. Before CrowdStrike, Dan served seven years as Director of Technical Marketing with McAfee/Intel Security. He began his career with General Electric in the Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP) after earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations. Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations. Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries! Thanks for listening! HOWL!

This month we sit down with Andy Hill, Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel, as he shares why he's always been drawn to corporate law versus litigation, how he navigates providing counsel during difficult situations, taking companies through IPO, and so much more!Andrew Hill is Arctic Wolf’s Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel. Andrew brings more than 25 years of executive leadership and legal experience, with a focus on helping technology disruptors effectively manage rapid expansion and scale. Previously, Andrew served as the SVP, General Counsel and Secretary at RMS, Inc., and as General Counsel at C3.ai (formerly C3 Energy). Prior to C3.ai, Andrew was General Counsel at TeaLeaf Technology, an IBM Company, and led the legal and contracts departments at Legato Systems (now part of Dell), where he helped expand the enterprise software company through numerous acquisitions. Andrew began his in-house career at Red Brick Systems, a data warehousing company, which he helped through a successful IPO. Before going in-house, Andrew practiced corporate law at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, concentrating on venture capital financing for high-tech and emerging growth companies. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a Juris Doctor and Masters of Business Administration from The University of Pennsylvania Law School and The Wharton School.Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations. Do you know your cybersecurity basics for keeping yourself safe? Arctic Wolf wants to ensure that everyone has access to the information and insights they need to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from scams and cyber attacks. These free trainings will arm you with knowledge to fend off adversaries! Thanks for listening! HOWL!