John Curry
President · Magnet Forensics
President of Magnet Forensics, the digital forensics and investigation software company taken private by Thoma Bravo in 2023, where he leads execution of strategy and day-to-day operations. He previously served as Chief Transformation Officer at CyberArk, held go-to-market and operations roles at PTC and Cengage Learning, and began his career at Lockheed Martin and Boston Consulting Group.
Last reviewed: Sep 26, 2026
John Curry
President Magnet Forensics
Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026
Executive Summary
John Curry is President of Magnet Forensics, the company whose software public safety agencies, federal and military organisations and forensic service providers use to extract, analyse and report on digital evidence. He runs the execution side of the business — strategy delivery and day-to-day operations — alongside long-serving chief executive Adam Belsher. His background is in transformation rather than forensics: roughly 25 years that ran from engineering at Lockheed Martin and consulting at Boston Consulting Group to operating roles at PTC, Cengage Learning and CyberArk, where he was Chief Transformation Officer.
Career Highlights
- President of Magnet Forensics, leading execution of the company’s strategy and its day-to-day operations.
- Chief Transformation Officer at CyberArk, the identity security company, before joining Magnet.
- Held leadership roles spanning go-to-market and business operations at PTC and at Cengage Learning.
- Senior Principal at Boston Consulting Group.
- Began his career as an engineering leader at Lockheed Martin.
Professional Journey
Curry trained as an engineer, taking a Bachelor of Science at The Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and worked in engineering leadership at Lockheed Martin. He later earned an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management and moved into strategy consulting as a Senior Principal at Boston Consulting Group.
From consulting he went into operating roles at technology companies, holding go-to-market and business operations leadership positions at the educational publisher Cengage Learning and the industrial software company PTC. He then joined CyberArk, the identity security vendor, where he was Chief Transformation Officer; an industry advisory board listing also gives his CyberArk title as SVP Business Transformation and Operations.
He joined Magnet Forensics as President. The company was founded in 2011 around software built by Jad Saliba, a former police officer working in digital forensics, and grew under Adam Belsher to a public listing in 2021 and a take-private by Thoma Bravo in 2023 in a deal valued at $1.8 billion. It now reports more than 6,000 customers in over 100 countries. Magnet describes Curry’s remit as leading execution of its strategy and day-to-day operations, and working with the executive team to accelerate innovation and growth, strengthen organisational alignment and deliver outcomes for customers.
Education
MIT Sloan School of Management
MBA
Johns Hopkins University
Master of Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Bachelor of Science