Ontic Technologies, the leading Protective Intelligence Security Platform, today announced that Manish Mehta has joined the company as Chief Product Officer (CPO). Mehta brings over 25 years of engineering and product management experience to Ontic.

“We are fortunate to have a great track record of talent joining our organization. With Manish, we are raising the bar to the next level. His experience in scaling organizations, working cross-functionally, and developing product grounded in customer and strategic insight will help ensure our vision for Ontic materializes in the products we bring to market,” said Ontic CEO Luke Quanstrom.

Mehta joins from Spredfast where he served as Chief Product Officer and was responsible for the Product Management, Development and User Experience of the world’s leading Social Media Management Platform. While at Spredfast, his work led to a successful merger with Lithium Technologies and acquisition by Vista Equity Partners in 2018. Previously to his tenure at Spredfast he served as the Chief Product Officer for Mass Relevance and CEO at Marketvine. Mehta also brings 18 years of experience at Dell spearheading digital transformations in eCommerce (dell.com) and social media globally.

About Ontic

Ontic provides a protective intelligence software platform, aggregating disparate data sources and providing a workflow that surfaces “pre-incident indicators” for acts of violence, mental health issues and behavior of concern. Ontic’s real-time, actionable insights allow security and resource teams to better discover, investigate and collaborate on threats in order to protect executives, workplaces and schools. Ontic works with Fortune 5000 companies and some of the leading educational institutions today to keep its most prized assets safe – its people.