Beth Tschida

Chief Executive Officer Jamf

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Beth Tschida is Chief Executive Officer of Jamf, the platform that enterprises use to manage and secure Apple devices at work. She was appointed on 20 May 2026 after two months as interim chief executive, becoming the first woman to lead the company in its more than twenty-year history. Her elevation came at a genuine inflection point: Jamf had completed a $2.2 billion take-private acquisition by Francisco Partners four months earlier, ending its run as a Nasdaq-listed company, and the incoming leadership faces both the operating discipline of private-equity ownership and a market in which artificial intelligence is reshaping what enterprise device management means. Tschida is an internal promotion with deep product credibility — she joined Jamf in 2018 as Senior Vice President of Engineering, became Chief Technology Officer in 2022, and by the time she took the top job was running an 800-person global organization covering product, engineering, AI, cloud and security. Before Jamf she spent more than two decades in senior technology roles at Fortune 100 financial-services companies including Voya Financial and MetLife.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer of Jamf since 20 May 2026; interim CEO from March 2026.
• First woman to lead Jamf in the company’s more than 20-year history.
• Chief Technology Officer of Jamf from 2022, leading an 800-person global organization across product, engineering, artificial intelligence, cloud and security.
• Oversaw growth of Jamf’s security annual recurring revenue by 40 percent year over year.
• Delivered eight consecutive years of same-day support for new Apple operating system releases.
• Joined Jamf in 2018 as Senior Vice President of Engineering.
• More than 20 years of senior technology leadership at Fortune 100 companies including Voya Financial and MetLife, spanning digital transformation, M&A integration and SaaS development.

Professional Journey

Tschida spent the first two decades of her career in financial services technology, holding senior leadership roles at Fortune 100 companies including MetLife and Voya Financial. The work there was of a particular kind — large-scale digital transformation, integration of acquisitions, and the shift of established institutions onto SaaS delivery models. It is unglamorous but demanding territory, and it gave her experience of running technology inside organizations where reliability and regulatory exposure constrain every decision.

She moved to Jamf in 2018 as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Jamf occupies a narrow but valuable position: it is the dominant platform for managing and securing Apple hardware in enterprise and education environments, and its central promise to customers is that Jamf will support each new Apple operating system on the day Apple ships it. Sustaining that promise is an engineering commitment renewed annually, and Jamf has now met it for eight consecutive years under her engineering leadership.

In 2022 she was named Chief Technology Officer, expanding her remit from engineering to the full product organization, including artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure and security. Security was the growth story of that period: Jamf pushed beyond device management into endpoint protection for Apple estates, and security annual recurring revenue grew 40 percent year over year under her leadership. By this point she was responsible for roughly 800 people globally.

The corporate context then changed sharply. On 30 January 2026 Francisco Partners completed a take-private acquisition of Jamf valued at $2.2 billion, at $13.05 per share in cash, following shareholder approval earlier that month. Jamf’s shares ceased trading on Nasdaq, the board was replaced, and the officer team remained in place. In March 2026 Tschida was appointed interim chief executive, and on 20 May 2026 the appointment was made permanent. John Strosahl, her predecessor, publicly supported the succession, noting that they had worked together for more than seven years, and Francisco Partners’ Brian Decker framed the choice as the leadership Jamf needed for its next phase of growth.

She takes over a company whose core market — Apple in the enterprise — is expanding as Apple hardware penetrates further into corporate fleets, while the management layer itself is being reshaped by artificial intelligence. Her own framing on appointment emphasised the eight years spent building the platform alongside the team rather than a change of direction.

Education

University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

Jamf’s own biography states that she holds a degree from the Carlson School of Management but does not name the degree or the field, and no other source supplies them. Neither is recorded here rather than being inferred.