Ken Lyons

Chief Revenue Officer Cleo

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Ken Lyons is Chief Revenue Officer of Cleo, the Rockford, Illinois company whose Cleo Integration Cloud platform handles EDI, API and application integration for supply chains. He leads Cleo’s worldwide sales organisation and is responsible for sales strategy and global market expansion through its direct sales team, channel partner programme and strategic alliances. He has spent a decade at the company, having joined in 2016 to run enterprise sales in North America and risen through the sales organisation to the top revenue role, and he came to Cleo with a background selling security, managed file transfer and B2B file-exchange software.

Career Highlights

• Chief Revenue Officer of Cleo, responsible for worldwide sales across direct, channel and alliance routes to market.
• Previously Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Cleo.
• Joined Cleo in January 2016 as Vice President of Enterprise Sales, leading sales strategy and market expansion in North America.
• Vice President of Sales at Axway, leading sales teams and go-to-market plans in key vertical markets across North America.
• Earlier sales leadership positions at Imperva and Tumbleweed Communications.
• B.A. in history, St. Mary’s College of California.

Professional Journey

Lyons studied history at St. Mary’s College of California and built his career in enterprise software sales, concentrated in the adjacent markets of cybersecurity, managed file transfer and business-to-business file exchange. He held sales leadership positions at Tumbleweed Communications, a secure messaging and file transfer company, at Axway, where he was Vice President of Sales and led sales teams and go-to-market plans for key vertical markets across North America, and at Imperva, the data and application security company.

That background mapped closely onto Cleo, whose roots lie in secure file transfer and B2B data communications. Cleo announced his appointment as Vice President of Enterprise Sales in January 2016, when the company was still based in Loves Park, Illinois, giving him responsibility for sales strategy and market expansion in North America. He was later Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales before becoming Chief Revenue Officer.

Cleo changed considerably over that period. Its product line consolidated into Cleo Integration Cloud, positioned around ecosystem and supply chain integration, and in June 2021 the company received a strategic growth investment from H.I.G. Capital, succeeding earlier investors Alpine Investors and Peterson Partners. As CRO he now runs the whole of Cleo’s worldwide sales effort, spanning the direct sales force, the channel partner programme and strategic alliances, reporting into a leadership team headed by President and CEO Mahesh Rajasekharan.

Education

St. Mary’s College of California

B.A., History