Brent Thurrell

Chief Revenue Officer BeyondTrust

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Brent Thurrell is Chief Revenue Officer of BeyondTrust, the privileged access management and identity security vendor, where he owns the company’s global go-to-market strategy, revenue growth, sales enablement and partner programme. He is an unusually long-tenured revenue leader: he joined BeyondTrust in 2012 and ran its EMEIA sales organisation as Senior Vice President, EMEIA and APJ before taking the global role. His specialism is identity and access management specifically, built over years of work spanning single sign-on and access control through to federated identity, and including the European market introduction of two access-governance vendors before he arrived at BeyondTrust.

Career Highlights

• Chief Revenue Officer of BeyondTrust, responsible for global go-to-market strategy, revenue growth, sales enablement and the partner programme.
• Joined BeyondTrust in 2012 and led the EMEIA sales organisation as Senior Vice President, EMEIA and APJ before his promotion.
• Held in the Chief Revenue Officer role by May 2021 at the latest, per independent trade coverage of a BeyondTrust channel partnership that carried him under that title.
• Credited by BeyondTrust with the successful introduction and early-stage growth in Europe of access-governance vendor Aveksa and role-based access control vendor Vaau, the latter subsequently acquired by Sun Microsystems.
• Held management and sales team positions at Xerox and Capita in the United Kingdom before joining BeyondTrust.

Professional Journey

Thurrell’s career began outside security, in management and sales roles at Xerox and at the UK outsourcing group Capita. He moved into information security through the identity and access management market, where his work spanned single sign-on and access control through to federated identity — the part of the sector concerned with who is allowed to do what inside an enterprise, which is the same problem BeyondTrust addresses from the privileged-account end.

His most distinctive early contribution was in market entry rather than in a titled post. BeyondTrust credits him with the successful introduction and early-stage growth of two American access-governance vendors into Europe: Aveksa, an access governance company, and Vaau, a role-based access control company later acquired by Sun Microsystems. No source available to this review assigns him a formal title at either firm, so the work is described here as it is described by his employer.

He joined BeyondTrust in 2012, in what was then the pre-merger BeyondTrust, and took charge of the EMEIA sales organisation as Senior Vice President, EMEIA and APJ. That tenure spans a significant change of corporate ownership: in 2018 Bomgar, backed by Francisco Partners, acquired BeyondTrust and adopted the BeyondTrust name for the combined business, so the company Thurrell has served continuously since 2012 has been reconstituted around him.

He was promoted to Chief Revenue Officer, and independent trade coverage carried him in that title by May 2021. In the role he oversees the global revenue function — direct sales, sales enablement and the partner ecosystem — for a vendor that has positioned itself in the privileged access and identity security market. BeyondTrust is privately held and publishes no filings, so his continued incumbency rests on the company’s own current leadership page.

Education

Manchester University

BSc, Business Management