Tyler Technologies, Inc. has announced the appointment of industry leader Andrew Kahl to the company?s first chief client officer position. Kahl will be responsible for overseeing and continuing to enhance the experience of Tyler?s thousands of public sector clients from more than 13,000 locations. Prior to joining Tyler, Kahl served as CEO and board member of BackBox Software, a global software category leader in the network security automation market.

While at BackBox, he led the strategic transformation of a native SaaS and cloud-hosted product, enhanced services offerings, and transitioned the go-to-market motion from a perpetual to a subscription revenue model. Under his leadership, the company achieved significant year-over-year revenue growth and doubled its North American customer base. Prior to BackBox, Kahl served as chief customer officer at SailPoint, a leader in the identity management cybersecurity market, where he led a global team including customer success, services, technical support, cloud-managed services, and partner enablement.

He also served as vice president of customer success delivery at NetApp, a leading data management company. Kahl co-founded Credant Technologies, a leader in data encryption security software, which was successfully acquired by Dell Technologies in 2012. Kahl holds bachelor?s degrees from the University of Iowa and Northern Illinois University, as well as an MBA from the University of Notre Dame, and is a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Notre Dame and at Duke University.