Skip to main content
VantaExecutive hire

Vanta Names Longtime Executive Sarah Scharf as Chief Marketing Officer

What happened

Vanta hired former Calendly chief operating officer John McCauley as its new Chief Financial Officer.

Source

Article excerpt

Highlighted: the sentence this signal was extracted from

LATEST NEWS JUL 6, 2026 Vanta Appoints Former Calendly Executive John McCauley As Chief Financial Officer Nine months after crossing $200 million in annual recurring revenue, Vanta has brought in former Calendly chief operating officer John McCauley as Chief Financial Officer. McCauley will report to CEO Christina Cacioppo and oversee finance and accounting as the compliance software company scales past $300 million in ARR. The appointment follows four consecutive quarters of accelerating growth for Vanta. To support automated software orchestration, Vanta recently introduced Vanta Agent for Risk...

theaisoftwarereport.com/vanta-names-longtime-executive-sarah-scharf-a...Read the full source

Extracted by Autobound

From the Signal API record
Event
Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
John McCauleyChief Financial Officer

Companies

  • CalendlyRelated companycalendly.com

More executive hire signals at other companies

The full record

From the Signal API record

People

  • John McCauleyChief Financial Officer · Named in the story

Topics and mentions

Job title tags

  • directors
  • finance

Extraction

Confidence
95%
Detected
Aug 31, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
hires

Use this data

Get every executive hire signal for Vanta and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.

  1. Ask Claude about it

    Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Vanta this week?”

  2. Send it to your own tools

    The Signal API returns executive hire signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.

  3. Try it free

    Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.

    Start Free1,000 free credits

The API returns more than this page shows

This page shows a preview. The full news record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.

Company

  • linkedin_urlValue in the API
  • industriesValue in the API
  • employee_count_lowValue in the API
  • employee_count_highValue in the API
  • revenueValue in the API
  • descriptionValue in the API

Signal

  • signal_nameValue in the API
  • associationValue in the API
Show the full JSONThe record on this page and the API request

GET /v1/signals/fa82fc9a-b6f2-c918-a332-c7c68157f7a6 returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for vanta.com.

{
  "signal_id": "fa82fc9a-b6f2-c918-a332-c7c68157f7a6",
  "signal_type": "news",
  "signal_subtype": "hires",
  "detected_at": "2026-08-31T16:19:25+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Vanta",
    "domain": "vanta.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "url": "https://theaisoftwarereport.com/vanta-names-longtime-executive-sarah-scharf-as-chief-marketing-officer/",
    "title": "Vanta Names Longtime Executive Sarah Scharf as Chief Marketing Officer - theaisoftwarereport.com",
    "contact": "John McCauley",
    "excerpt": "LATEST NEWS JUL 6, 2026 Vanta Appoints Former Calendly Executive John McCauley As Chief Financial Officer Nine months after crossing $200 million in annual recurring revenue, Vanta has brought in former Calendly chief operating officer John McCauley as Chief Financial Officer. McCauley will report to CEO Christina Cacioppo and oversee finance and accounting as the compliance software company scales past $300 million in ARR. The appointment follows four consecutive quarters of accelerating growth for Vanta. To support automated software orchestration, Vanta recently introduced Vanta Agent for Risk...",
    "summary": "Vanta hired former Calendly chief operating officer John McCauley as its new Chief Financial Officer.",
    "planning": false,
    "image_url": "https://theaisoftwarereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Sarah-Scharf.png",
    "job_title": "Chief Financial Officer",
    "confidence": 0.95,
    "published_at": "2026-08-31T16:19:25Z",
    "job_title_tags": [
      "directors",
      "finance"
    ],
    "article_sentence": "Nine months after crossing $200 million in annual recurring revenue, Vanta has brought in former Calendly chief operating officer John McCauley as Chief Financial Officer.",
    "related_company_name": "Calendly",
    "related_company_domain": "calendly.com"
  }
}

Long text fields are shortened on this page.

Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.