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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
David Moss
Co-Founder and CEO of StrongBlock
David Moss is a blockchain expert, keynote speaker and strategic advisor. He has the distinction of holding two prominent roles in the creation of EOS, the decentralized blockchain operating system: as SVP of Technology Operations at Block.One leading EOS technology development; and directing the EOS mainnet launch with the worldwide Block Producer community. Previously David was the founder of a technology and management consultancy for Fortune 100 companies, the founder of a predictive crowd analytics platform, the founding CIO of Edmunds.com, and President of an entertainment production company working with top international artists for major label and television networks.
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About StrongBlock: StrongBlock is a team of highly experienced blockchain, governance, security, and database technology experts.
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Richard Ma
CEO of Quantstamp
CEO of Quantstamp, Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund, YCombinator Alumni, Former Quantitative Strategist at Tower Research Capital
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About Quantstamp: Leaders in Blockchain Security
Sergey Nazarov
Co-Founder and CEO of SmartContract
Sergey Nazarov began his career building peer-to-peer marketplaces, going on to the investment team at FirstMark Capital. He joined the cryptocurrency revolution in 2011, and believes it has the ability to change the way societies distribute wealth, enforce contracts, and share critical information with their citizens.
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About Bring Me That, Chainlink, SmartContract: Smart Contracts verify an execute themselves by monitoring external data sources.
Jim Dolce
CEO of Lookout
Jim Dolce is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Lookout. He has been the founder of four successful technology companies and has held executive positions at both Juniper Networks, Inc. and Akamai Technologies, Inc. Jim joined Lookout in March 2014 to guide the cybersecurity company into its next stage of growth. That included re-architecting Lookout’s products, leadership, and workforce to serve large businesses and government agencies that seek to embrace the benefits of mobility without sacrificing security. In addition to his responsibilities at Lookout, Jim is a dedicated philanthropist. His Foundation supports education for groups that have historically been underserved in the STEM fields, including woman and students from low income areas, as well as programs providing essential services to veterans and military families. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Rhode Island.
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
Nathaniel Fick
CEO of Endgame
Nate Fick is CEO of Endgame. He has more than a decade of experience in the security community, and is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he focuses on defense and intelligence technologies. Before joining Endgame, Nate was CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a national security research organization. He served as a Marine Corps infantry officer, including combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. His book about that experience, One Bullet Away, was a New York Times bestseller, a Washington Post “Best Book of the Year,” and one of the Military Times’ “Best Military Books of the Decade.” He graduated with high honors in Classics from Dartmouth College and holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and MBA from the Harvard Business School. Nate serves as a Trustee of Dartmouth and a Director of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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About Bessemer Venture Partners, Endgame, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation: Endgame’s endpoint protection platform protects the world’s data from advanced attacks.
Greg Kidd
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of GlobaliD
Believer that ones identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved and underbanked. Adviser/Investor via hardyaka.com for numerous startups in the exchange space including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Founded and took Dispatch Management Services Corp public on the NASDAQ. Have worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School. Specialties: Portable identity, digital currencies and exchange markets for goods, services, and information with functional emphasis on messaging, payments, and reputation/trust/risk. Well versed in visualizations for risk reporting and controls.
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About Apto Payments, GlobaliD, Hard Yaka: Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
Michael Gronager
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Chainalysis
Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Anshu Sharma
Co-founder & CEO of Skyflow
Co-founder & CEO at Skyflow. Previously co-founded Clearedin and Suki. Partner at Storm Ventures. VP of Product & Strategy at Salesforce. Failed to build cloud at Oracle in 2007.
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About ClearedIn, Skyflow: Skyflow builds a secure data privacy platform fronted by an API so all this data is secure and used as promised.
Steve Papa
Founder and CEO of Parallel Wireless
Founder and CEO of Endeca building it until it was Oracle’s 6th largest acquisition ever on announcement in 2011. Prior to its acquisition, Endeca had achieved $750M in cumulative worldwide revenue and pioneered Guided Navigation, one of the leading search innovations of the decade and now an industry standard. Before founding Endeca, Steve was part of the original team creating Akamai; a member of the early team at Inktomi in charge of creating the company’s infrastructure caching business; a product manager at Teradata; and a venture associate at Venrock.
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About Andreessen Horowitz, Parallel Wireless, Reflektion: Parallel Wireless designs and maintains cellular networks.
Joshua Motta
Co-Founder & CEO of Coalition
Joshua Motta is the CEO and co-founder of Coalition.
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About Coalition: Coalition operates as a cyber insurance and security company that helps businesses manage and mitigate cyber risks.
MacLane Wilkison
Co-Founder & CEO of NuCypher
MacLane Wilkison is the cofounder and CEO of NuCypher, a Y Combinator and Polychain Capital-backed company that provides decentralized key management and cryptographic access controls for decentralized applications. He is a software engineer and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he provided M&A and financing services to enterprises in technology, media, and telecommunications. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and certified Financial Risk Manager.
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About NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Omri Lavie
CEO of Orchestra Group
Omri Lavie is a Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, focused on technology.
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About CommuniTake Technologies, Founders Group, Kaymera, Orchestra Group: Orchestra have created a broad cyber security platform by acquiring a variety of cyber companies and rolling them up into a unified solution
Dave Krauthamer
CEO of QuSecure
Dave Krauthamer is an Information systems executive who is an experienced CEO, CIO, CTO, CRO, CMO, CSO and serves as a Board Member and Chairman of the Digital Disruption Group at the Band of Angels. He has created and sold award-winning companies in addition to teaching university-level courses in information technology. Dave holds a degree in Computer Science. He loves working with people and is passionate about helping companies create incredible products, amazing brands, powerful marketing stories, and high-performance sales teams He has extensive experience in Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Product Innovation, Marketing, Sales, M&A, in addition to a wide background in the implementation of enterprise-wide systems. Dave currently serves as CEO of QuSecure and the founder of Quantum Thought. Quantum Thought is a premier quantum computing launchpad for the founding generation of quantum computing companies, as well as the generations to follow. The mission of Quantum Thought is to create, incubate, launch and guide amazing quantum companies and foundational technologies that will enable other companies to enter in a New Age. He is also the founder of NEURAL SALES an intelligent (AI) solution that evaluates all aspects of your market in real-time and learns from your interactions, successes, and setbacks. Prior to that, Dave created an award-winning company named Intelenex which became a leading partner in the transformation of Corporate Systems to the Cloud. Intelenex was recognized as Oracle’s Top Cloud ERP Sales Partner in 2015. Closing the year by selling almost 50% more Cloud ERP licenses than any other partner. Intelenex was also acknowledged as being one of the fastest-growing service companies in the country by Inc. Magazine ranking 364 out of the top 5000. The company was sold in July of 2015. He has managed the implementation of global networks and enterprise data architectures. He has taught university-level courses in Information Technology and has been a key industry contact for the Wall Street Journal, Computer World and PC Week. Dave Krauthamer holds a B.S. in Computer Science and has completed executive programs at Stanford and Cal Tech.
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About Band of Angels, Neural Edge, Quantum Thought, QuSecure: QuSecure is bringing vital quantum security and communication products that secure enterprise and government in the quantum computing era.
Kevin Gosschalk
Founder & CEO of Arkose Labs
Kevin Gosschalk is the founder of Arkose Labs.
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About Arkose Labs, Forbes Technology Council: Arkose Labs provides fraud prevention, anti-spam, and abuse analysis for businesses, companies, and industries.
Guy Caspi
CEO & Co-Founder of Deep Instinct
Guy Caspi is a leading mathematician and a data scientist global expert. Guy Caspi has 15 years of extensive experience in applying mathematics and machine learning in a technology elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), financial institutions and intelligence organizations around the world. Guy Caspi led some of the largest government cyber and Big Data projects in Israel and other countries. In addition, Guy Caspi was the president and general manager of a leading division at Comverse/Verint Group. Guy Caspi brings substantial management background in leading innovative technological challenges from R&D through commercialization. Guy Caspi holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and MBA degrees in Mathematics, Machine Learning and Business from leading universities in Israel and the U.S.
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About Deep Instinct, Forbes Technology Council: Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity, offering zero-day attack protection.
Jay Gotra
CEO of Alliance Security
Jay Gotra began his own security system company in 2003: Alliance Security. He started the company in his own apartment with just 2 employees. Fast forward 11 years, and Jay was able to grow the company to a projected $115 million in sales for 2016 with close to 700 employees. In addition to building Alliance into the successful home security solutions company that it is today, Jay enjoys devoting his time and resources to the fight against domestic violence. In the past 2 years, Jay Gotra and Alliance Security have joined forces with Ten Men. This Rhode Island-based initiative based empowers non-violent men to combat domestic violence. The initiative consists of programming that creates a dialogue about how men can help end this violence through education. As a member of Ten Men, Jay and Alliance provide free home security systems and monitoring to those at risk of domestic violence who are currently living in transitional housing. To date, Alliance has provided these security solutions to 60 transitional homes. Alliance provides free installation, equipment and monitoring for 2 years, all free-of-charge to the residents. At the two year mark, the free service either continues or the equipment is installed at a new transitional home in need of protection. Jay couldn’t be more grateful for the opportunity to use his professional work to help those in need. He is also deeply appreciative for being named as one of 2015’s 40 Under Forty by Providence Business News (PBN). This is a great honor that recognizes forty members of the Rhode Island community who have had professional success and also strive to make a positive difference in the world on a local, national and/or an international scale. These winners were honored at Aldrich Mansion in Warwick on July 23, 2015.
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About Alliance Security: Alliance Security is a security systems company that prides itself on protecting homes around the clock all over the United States.
William Brown
President & CEO of L3 Harris Technologies
William Brown, 52, is our Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer. William Brown joined Harris in November 2011 as President and Chief Executive Officer and was appointed Chairman in April 2014. Prior to joining Harris, William Brown was Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development, of United Technologies Corporation (“UTC”). Earlier, he served five years as President of UTC’s Fire & Security Division. In all, William Brown spent 14 years with UTC, holding U.S. and international roles at various divisions, including Carrier Corporation’s Asia Pacific Operations and the Carrier Transicold division. Before joining UTC in 1997, he worked for McKinsey & Company as a senior engagement manager. He began his career as a project engineer at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. William Brown has been a member of our Board since December 2011. William Brown serves on the board of directors of the Fire Department of NYC Foundation and the board of trustees of both the Florida Institute of Technology and Florida Polytechnic University. He is a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and is an appointee of the United States-Brazil CEO Forum.
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About L3 Harris Technologies: L3 Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems, air traffic management, avionics, and space and intelligence.
Ivan Novikov
Founder & CEO of Wallarm
Ivan Novikov serves as an advisor at ElectroNeek.
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About Wallarm: End-to-end API Security for the Modern Teams
Stina Ehrensvard
CEO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Internationally awarded entrepreneur, innovator and speaker with an unfaltering energy and passion for making the internet safer for all. Education in industrial product design at the University of the Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Sankaet Pathak
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Synapse
Sankaet Pathak is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Synapse.
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About Synapse: Synapse is a banking platform that enables companies to provide financial products to their customers.
Fujimoto Shigeo
CEO of Synapse
Fujimoto Shigeo is the CEO at Synapse.
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About Synapse: Synapse is a banking platform that enables companies to provide financial products to their customers.
Brian Schimpf
Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries
Brian Schimpf is Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries. Previously, Brian was Director of Engineering at Palantir Technologies, where he led a large engineering organization developing and deploying data integration and analysis products. He served numerous domestic and international government organizations across the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement sectors. Previously, Brian was the Founder and Lead of Cornell University’s autonomous vehicle research program where his teams competed in DARPA’s Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge. Brian graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.
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About Anduril Industries: Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance.
Eric DeMarco
President & CEO of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Eric DeMarco is President and Chief Executive Officer of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS). Eric DeMarco joined the Company in November 2003 as President and Chief Operating Officer, and assumed the role of CEO in April 2004. Since joining Kratos, Eric DeMarco has been instrumental in leading the Company’s efforts to grow and build, both organically and through strategic acquisition, a leading Product and Technology Based National Security focused business. Prior to Kratos, Eric DeMarco was the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Titan Corporation, which was later acquired by L-3. Under his leadership, Titan grew from approximately $150 million in annualized revenue to $1.5 billion, with a backlog of over $4 billion. Eric DeMarco efforts were instrumental in creating one of the largest government information technology companies in the United States. Before Titan, Eric DeMarco served in a variety of public accounting positions primarily focusing on large multinational corporations and publicly traded companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration and Finance, summa cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire.
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Saket Modi
Founder & CEO of Safe Security
Saket Modi is the Co-founder and CEO of Lucideus, an enterprise cybersecurity platforms company. A computer science engineer by education, he founded Lucideus in 2012 while in his final year of engineering. Incubated from IIT Bombay and backed by Cisco’s former Chairman and CEO John Chambers, Lucideus today protects the digital infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies around the world with its cyber risk measurement and mitigation platform called SAFE. Saket is a part of Fortune Magazine’s 40under40, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35under35, Forbes Magazine’s 30under30 lists among others. The Government of India awarded him with the title of “Champion of Change” in 2017.
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About : Safe Security is a cyber risk management startup that helps organizations mitigate cyber risk in real-time.
Stephen Trundle
President & Chief Executive Officer of Alarm.com
Steve Trundle is the president and chief executive officer of Alarm.com. Previously, he was the chief technology officer of MicroStrategy. Trundle holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering sciences and government from Dartmouth College. He lives in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Scott Petry
Co-founder and CEO of Authentic8
Scott Petry is the Co-founder and CEO Authentic8.
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About Authentic8: Authentic8 is redefining how the browser is used with Silo, a secure browser in the cloud designed to insulate and isolate web data.
George Oliver
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Johnson Controls of Johnson Controls
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About JCI Ventures, JCI Ventures, Johnson Controls: Johnson Controls operates in building efficiency, automotive experience, and power solutions businesses worldwide.
Nathan Sportsman
Founder and CEO of Praetorian
As the Founder and CEO of Praetorian, Nathan is responsible for championing the vision, maintaining the culture, and setting the direction of the company. He also holds the additional duties of CTO where he is responsible for overseeing the innovation and development engine of the company keeping the firm well positioned to defeat the ever evolving cybersecurity threat. Prior to bringing in professional management to help run the company, Nathan managed the day-to-day operations of the firm from its 2010 beginnings as a bootstrapped start-up to its current YoY hyper-growth. Since Praetorian’s founding, Nathan has successfully instilled a “customer first” mentality that has become part of the DNA of the company which has led to unprecedented customer satisfaction reviews as reflected in a historical net promoter score of 86%. This reputation for delivering value to the customer has resulted in a three year growth rate of 214%. Under Nathan’s leadership, the company has earned national recognition on the Inc. 5000 list multiple times, the Cybersecurity 500, CIO Top 20, and locally on Austin’s “Fastest 50” growing firms. Prior to founding Praetorian, Nathan worked in various technical roles at industry-leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and McAfee. His experience has cross cut most industry sectors, and customers have ranged from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to government intelligence agencies and renowned educational institutions. Nationally recognized as a leader in the cybersecurity field, Nathan is a frequent public speaker, is a contributing author to the world’s best-selling computer security book, Hacking Exposed, is a U.S. patent holder, and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin (nationally ranked #5 for Computer Science and Engineering). Nathan holds a BS in electrical & computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
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About Praetorian: Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the world safer and more secure.
Tony Velleca
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CyberProof
Tony is CyberProof’s CEO and is CISO at UST Global. Tony previously co-founded and was CTO at huddle247.com, rated by PC Magazine as one of the top virtual workspace solutions in 2000. He previously worked for Boeing and Rolls-Royce, Inc. focusing on conceptual design and optimized propulsion systems for next generation aircraft. He holds a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from University of California, Irvine.
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About CyberProof, UST: CyberProof is a security services company that intelligently manages your incident detection and response requirements.
William Jeffrey
President and CEO of SRI International
William Jeffrey, Ph.D., is president and chief executive officer of SRI International, a leading research and development organization serving government and industry. Jeffrey joined SRI in 2014. From 2008 to 2014, Jeffrey was president and CEO of HRL Laboratories, a corporate R&D organization owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. Prior to joining HRL, Jeffrey served in the George W. Bush Administration as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Jeffrey also served in the Executive Office of the President as senior director for homeland and national security and as assistant director for space and aeronautics within the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Earlier in his career, Jeffrey was deputy director for the Advanced Technology Office and chief scientist for the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and assistant deputy for technology at the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office. Jeffrey started his professional career at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). Jeffrey is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected Honorary Member of the International Society of Automation, a recipient of the 2008 Navigator Award from the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Jeffrey is a member of the Board of Directors of TE Connectivity Ltd. Jeffrey received his M.A. and Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University, and his B.Sc. in physics is from MIT.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Karthik Krishnan
Founder and CEO of Concentric AI
Karthik Krishnan is currently Founder/ CEO, Concentric. Prior to Concentric, he was VP, Security Products at Aruba/HPE where he managed their security portfolio that included the Niara acquisition and their network access control product lines. He was part of the founding team and VP, Products at Niara, a security analytics company focused on user and entity behavior analytics. Niara was acquired by Aruba/HPE in 2017. He has more than 15 years of experience in engineering and marketing at various hardware, software and systems such as Intel, Microsoft, Juniper Networks, PGP Corporation and Embrane. He has a Bachelors in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, where was an F.C. Austin Scholar.
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About Concentric AI: Concentric AI delivers data risk assessment, monitoring, and protection for corporate data.
Robert Jamieson
Chief Executive Officer of CSM International
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About CSM International: CSM International focuses on providing consulting and professional services to help companies actively manage their growing digital risks.
Ofer Israeli
Founder & CEO of Illusive
Ofer Israeli is the founder and CEO of Illusive Networks. His understanding of the advanced attack process played a pivotal role in shaping Illusive’s automated, agentless deception management architecture. Before Illusive, Ofer managed development teams based around the globe for Check Point Software Technologies and worked in the Atom Chip Lab at Ben Gurion University, where he focused on theoretical quantum mechanics. Ofer holds B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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About Illusive: Illusive is a defense to eliminate attacker pathways that uses deception for detection of lateral movement of APTs, ransomware & threats.
Mahmoud Abdelkader
CEO & Co-Founder of Very Good Security
Mahmoud and Marshall started Very Good Security to solve recurring data security and privacy challenges faced by organizations in regulated and/or compliant environments. Today’s modern organizations face ever-changing data security challenges in an evolving landscape and require an adaptive approach to cyber security to augment security infrastructure investments. Mahmoud co-founded and served as the CTO of a a YCominbator W2011 company, Balanced Payments, a leading-edge developer friendly payments processor acquired in 2015. He is also an active angel investor, serves as an advisor to numerous FinTech startups, and is an avid fan of cryptography. Mahmoud holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from University of Maryland: College Park. A fun fact is that actually learned to code by reverse engineering Age of Empires and Warcraft III.
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About Very Good Security: Very Good Security is a fintech & data security enablement platform helping to maximize the value of data without compliance & breach risk.
Riddhiman Das
Founder and CEO of TripleBlind
Riddhiman Das is the Founder and CEO of TripleBlind.
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About TripleBlind: TripleBlind is a private data sharing company developing a cryptographic platform to share, leverage, and monetize regulated data.
Jennifer Bisceglie
Founder and CEO of Interos
Jennifer Bisceglie is the President and CEO of Interos Solutions, Inc. and Vigillence Inc., which are vendor and supply chain risk management (SCRM) companies that serve the US public, and global commercial, sectors. Interos is a leading provider of cyber security solutions and supply chain risk reduction to the Federal Government. Named the AT&T Innovator of the Year for its Global Threat Information Center (GTIC) ™ launched in 2015, Interos is renowned for its expertise in cyber security, supply chain risk management (SCRM) and network security. As such, Jennifer is a sought after expert on the impact of cyber risk and supply chain risk on US and global economies. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience in managing and mitigating risks in supply chains, Jennifer launched Vigillence in 2016, as the world’s leading supply chain risk research and advisory company. Vigillence provides a big data and analytics platform to proactively reduce supply chain threats for its global commercial clients by identifying risks based on each customer’s unique operational requirements and third-party partnerships. Vigillence partners with its customers to define their risk assessment posture based on organizational vulnerabilities related to supply chain vendors, partners and service providers; benchmark current risk profiles and provide “what if” scenario analyses; and provide its clients’ Boards, senior leadership and business managers with the knowledge required to make informed decisions on acceptable vendor risk exposure and how to allocate resources to mitigate it.
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About Interos: Interos helps companies manage risk and continuously monitor their supply chain and business relationships to avoid disruptions.
David Politis
Founder and CEO of BetterCloud
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About BetterCloud: The SaaS Operations leader: Transform employee experience, centralize data protection, and maximize operational efficiency.
Simon S. Lee
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of STG Group
Mr. Simon S. Lee emigrated to the United States from South Korea in 1979. Beginning his career as an engineer, Mr. Lee performed in senior technical positions with various technology firms in the DC area. By 1986, Mr. Lee founded STG as the Software Technology Group to address the growing demand for high quality, information technology (IT) support services.
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About STG Group: STG Group is a provider of mission-critical technology, cyber, and data solutions.
Dan Kanninen
Partner and CEO of STG Group
Dan is an established political voice in the beltway, featured frequently on MSNBC, CNN, FOX news and FOX business, as well as being on the record in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Politico. Dan Kanninen has spent more than 15 years in influential positions at all levels of government and politics, playing key roles in policy making, campaigns, and political management. He has advised presidential candidates, cabinet members, governors, major private sector CEOs, non-profits and coalitions, and foreign heads of state. He is a Partner and CEO of the political and public affairs consulting firm STG. Dan played a critical role in President Obama’s 2008 election as the State Director in Wisconsin after working in leadership positions in Wisconsin, Ohio and North Carolina during the primaries. Dan served the re-elect by overseeing the northeastern United States (a nine state, $20 million operation including the critical battlegrounds of New Hamp- shire and Pennsylvania) from Chicago headquarters before leading the Virginia operation as Senior Advisor, turning that state blue for just the second time since 1964.
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About STG Group: STG Group is a provider of mission-critical technology, cyber, and data solutions.
Roy Dunbar
CEO of Network Solutions
Mr. W. Roy Dunbar, age 53, has been a Director of the Company since April 2011. Mr. Dunbar is the Chairman of private companies engaged in renewable energy and green construction. Prior to such time, Mr. Dunbar served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Network Solutions, Inc. from 2008 to 2009; as President of Global Technology and Operations of Mastercard International, Inc. from 2004 to 2008; and in various senior leadership roles at Eli Lilly & Company from 1990 to 2004, including President, Intercontinental Region, and Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Mr. Dunbar also serves as a director of Humana, Inc. and iGate Corporation.
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About Network Solutions: Network Solutions provides domain registration, e-commerce, SEO, online promotion, hosting and email services for small businesses.
Steven K. Sprague
CEO & Co-Founder of Rivetz
Steven Sprague is the CEO of Rivetz Corp. and one of the principle industry evangelists for the application of trusted computing technology. Steven has a strong technical foundation in the principles, capabilities and business models of incorporating trusted hardware into everyday computing, and is skilled at translating these concepts into layman’s terms. Steven is the co-founder of Rivetz Corp. a new company focused on the use of trusted computing and TEE for the consumer market. Rivetz is also playing an important role in providing the key technologies for the protection of private keys and secure instructions for Bitcoin and other crypto currencies. Steven graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. He enjoys farming in Western Massachusetts with his wife, two daughters, and a few too many horses.
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About NKrypt, Rivetz: Rivetz is a developer of a hardware-based cyber-security system used to offer a simplified approach to cybersecurity.
Randy Chou
Founder and CEO of Nubeva
Randy Chou is the Founder and CEO of Nubeva. Randy’s experience spans 15 years of technical and management leadership in the security, networking, and application acceleration fields. Prior to co-founding Panzura, Randy was a member of the founding software team at Aruba Networks, where he managed the architecture and development of the company’s security software. The combination of his technical expertise and business acumen helped Aruba become the leader in the enterprise Wi-Fi security market. Prior to Aruba Networks, Randy led the development of SSL security and load balancing software at Alteon WebSystems. Randy holds a degree in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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About Nubeva: Nubeva is a cloud security software company that provides decryption solution for real-time, historical or on-demand decryption.
Bjoern Zinssmeister
CEO & Founder of Templarbit
Bjoern is the Co-Founder and CTO of Design Inc. He is best known for his work with building community platforms like Match and Synack. Bjoern has spent more than a decade as a software engineer and built two venture backed startups from the ground up. Prior to Design Inc. Bjoern worked as a mobile lead for Match Group (Match, Tinder, OKCupid) and was instrumental in helping Match establish their labs office in San Francisco prior to their IPO and acquisition of OK Cupid. Bjoern went on to lead engineering at YCombinator backed Userfox, which was later acquired by Adroll. In September of 2013 Bjoern joined Synack as their Director of Engineering and helped to build up their engineering team from the ground up, helping the company to grow and raise successful A and B rounds. Originally from Germany, Bjoern graduated from the Trier University of Applied Sciences with a degree in Computer Science before moving out to San Francisco to pursue his work with startups.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Nimit S. Sawhney
Co-Founder,CEO of Voatz
Nimit has 14 years experience in mobile software development, information security, embedded systems including 5 yrs as the business/technical head of a R&D unit. Nimit holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Business Management from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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About Voatz: Voatz is a mobile election voting platform, secured via smart biometrics, real time ID verification, and the blockchain for irrefutability.
Bill T. O’Gara
Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of The O’Gara Group
Bill T. O’Gara, one of our founders, has been our President and Chief Executive Officer and a director since our formation in August 2003. Previously, he served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director of The Kroll-O’Gara Company and Chief Executive Officer of its Security Products and Services Group from 2000 until 2001 when that company’s O’Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company subsidiary was sold. He served as Kroll- O’Gara’s President and Chief Operating Officer from 1997 to 2000 and as Chief Executive Officer and a director of The O’Gara Company from 1996 until the 1997 merger of Kroll Holdings, Inc. with The O’Gara Company.
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About The O’Gara Group: The O’Gara Group provides security, safety, and defense products and services to governments, militaries, corporations and individuals.
Robert Douglas
CEO and Co-Founder of Skopenow
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About Skopenow: Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
Shikhar Shrestha
Co-Founder & CEO of Ambient.ai
Shikhar Shrestha is the co-founder and CEO of Ambient.ai.
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Derek Collison
Founder & CEO of Synadia Communications
Derek Collison is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synadia Communications. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek founded Apcera and has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software. Derek created NATS.io and CloudFoundry as well as TIBCO’s messaging systems. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During Derek’s time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, Derek spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. Derek holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. Derek earned a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Covaxx, Heavybit, NATS, Savonix, Synadia Communications, Vicarious, Xperiel: Powering the secure connective technologies to drive cloud and edge native
David Selinger
Co-Founder & CEO of Deep Sentinel
David Selinger founded RichRelevance in 2006 to give retailers the most advanced personalization platform for transforming customer data into extraordinary consumer experiences. RichRelevance is ranked #1 for personalization in both the Internet Retailer 500 and Internet Retailer EU 250, and currently drives over one billion real-time decisions every day. David has led the company through four acquisitions and introduced multiple product lines to create new business value from data through personalization. Both RichRelevance and David (known as Selly to his friends and colleagues) are known for their innovation in this space—delighting consumers, generating revenue and profit for retailers, and creating an award-winning company; RichRelevance has been recognized by numerous publications as a top place to work by employee surveys. An early pioneer in data analytics and personalization, David previously led the research and development arm of Amazon’s Data Mining and Personalization team. In that role, David developed and deployed three new recommender systems that increased Amazon’s annual profit by over $50 million (25% of US profit, 2003), setting the industry standard for recommendation services. David also cofounded Redfin, a venture backed, industry-leading real estate search/brokerage company, where he helped to build the world’s first real-time mapping and real estate data analytics engine. Recognized as a “40-under-40” innovator in the San Francisco region and amongst direct marketers, David holds a broad collection of patents in customer segmentation, analytics and data mining, including over a dozen pioneered at RichRelevance. He received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and is active in social change, serving on the board of directors of Potential Energy, and as an advisor to the Family Giving Tree, Fostering Change for Children and Solace International.
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About Deep Sentinel, Palindrome Advisors, Silicon Climate: Deep Sentinel is a home security company that produces a series of cameras powered by deep learning that can evaluate threats on a property.
Chrissa McFarlane
Founder and CEO of Patientory
Chrissa McFarlane is the CEO of Patientory, a global currency and population health management service that regulates and secures patient data, Named as one of the top women “leaving their mark on the medtech field” by Becker’s Hospital Review, Chrissa launched Patientory in December 2015 after seeing the need in the market for a more personalized and secure population health management solution. She resides in Atlanta and Tweets at @ChrissaTanelia. Chrissa exudes creativity and is a high-performing strategic thinker and excellent team-builder. She’s an entrepreneur with a passion for creating cutting-edge healthcare products that transform the face of healthcare delivery in the US and abroad. She brings over 10 years in the healthcare industry conducting research and managing teams. She holds notable international published research in healthcare and has helped create breakthrough digital health companies that have provided services to companies such as Tumblr, Blue Apron, Casper and Meetup. Her passion for health care began as early as high school, where she conducted microbiology research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and won top honors at the Otto Burgdorf Research Competition. Later at Cornell University, Chrissa worked with organizations such as the United States Department of Agriculture-Robert Holey Center for Agriculture and Health and Cayuga Medical Center. After teaching Math and Science for a year in an underserved community inside the Atlanta Public School system, Chrissa decided to pursue business school. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude from Cornell, and a Masters in Management from the Wake Forest University School of Business. Chrissa resides in Atlanta and Tweets at @ChrissaTanelia.
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About Forbes Magazine, Patientory, StartUp Health: Patientory is a global population health management software that gives users access to their health data.
Raghu Kulkarni
CEO of IDrive Inc.
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About IDrive Inc.: IDrive is a backup unlimited PCs, Macs, iPhones, iPads and Android devices into a single account.
Udi Mokady
Founder, President & CEO of CyberArk Software
Udi Mokady is the Chairman and CEO of CyberArk, and a pioneer in establishing the Privileged Access Management software market. Since co-founding the company in 1999, Mokady has entrenched CyberArk as the market leader. During his tenure at CyberArk, Mokady has also served as CyberArk’s chief strategist and visionary, overseeing global expansion, management, execution and corporate development.
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About CyberArk Software: CyberArk is a security company focused on striking down targeted cyber threats before they affect business operations.
Chase Harmer
Chief Executive Officer of PayCertify
Integrity, honesty, and longevity. Those are the qualities that have shaped Chase Harmer, a successful entrepreneur, leader, speaker, and innovator. For 15 years, Chase has built businesses, led companies, created products, and helped bring the best out of his employees. As a merchant services professional, Chase has launched several companies and products—such as MLS Hotel, Power Payments, Payment Reservations, and Pay Certify—that focus on hotel and e-commerce verticals. His companies process transactions and create software products that help increase cash flow and longevity of merchant accounts in those industries.
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About PayCertify: The PayCertify Companies Inc. is an All-In-One payments co and digital wallet with a family of brands and services in the US, EU and CA.
Ryan Denehy
Founder and CEO of Electric
Ryan Denehy is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Electric.
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About Electric: Electric is an information technology company that helps businesses manage their IT security, support, and devices in real-time.
Brian Murphy
CEO & Founder of ReliaQuest
Brian Murphy is the founder and chief executive officer at ReliaQuest.
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About ReliaQuest: ReliaQuest provides a SaaS security platform designed to minimize data loss and business disruptions.
Elias Manousos
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RiskIQ
Elias is a recognized expert in Internet security and fraud prevention. He has been developing and delivering enterprise protection technologies for more than 15 years. As CEO of RiskIQ, he has spearheaded a new approach that helps Internet, financial services, healthcare, media and consumer packaged goods companies protect their brands from online fraud. Elias is also co-chair of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Anti-Malvertising Working Group and is responsible for Malvertisements.com, the first and only public database documenting malvertising incidents on a continuous basis. Prior to RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), which pioneered identity and access management for web applications. At Securant, he was instrumental in creating now-commonplace technologies for single sign-on (SSO) security.
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Arif Kareem
President/CEO of ExtraHop
Arif Kareem has been the Chief Executive Officer and President at ExtraHop Networks, Inc. since July 26, 2016 and December 15, 2016 respectively. Mr. Kareem served as President of Fluke Networks. During his tenure, he realigned and expanded the Fluke Networks’s product portfolio to provide greater visibility across networks and cloud applications, improve the end-user experience and increase business value. He also oversaw the acquisition and integration of Air Magnet and ClearSight Networks. He joined RadiSys Corporation in July 1997 as Vice President of Telecom Business Unit and served as its Vice President and General Manager of Telecommunications Division since October 1997 and Senior Vice President since October 2000. Since February 2002, Mr. Kareem served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Corporate Marketing at RadiSys Corporation. From 1980 to 1997 Mr. Kareem held various engineering and marketing management positions at Tektronix, Inc. before serving as General Manager of Tektronix’s Telecom Product Line and subsequently General Manager of the Communications Test Business Unit. Mr. Kareem holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon.
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About ExtraHop: ExtraHop helps organizations to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Guy Zyskind
Founder & CEO of Enigma
Guy is a long time tinkerer, most comfortable sitting at the intersection of entrepreneurship and research, and he is deeply passionate about decentralization. Prior to Enigma, Guy was a graduate student at MIT researching and teaching blockchain technology. Guy has authored several academic papers, most recently on privacy and the blockchain, including the Enigma whitepaper (downloaded over 100K times) and “Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data” which has received over 200 citations. Previously, Guy led the development of several start-up companies. Guy holds a M.S. from MIT and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.
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About Enigma: Enigma shares and analyzes encrypted data.
Gidi Cohen
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Skybox Security
Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies, Gidi Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Gidi Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Gidi Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
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About Skybox Security: Skybox Security is a global leader in security analytics for cybersecurity management.
David Calhoun
President and CEO of The Boeing Company
David Calhoun is an American businessman, author, philanthropist, and the president and CEO of The Boeing Company. David had served on Boeing’s board of directors since 2011 and now leads the aerospace company’s strategic direction. Previous to leading Boeing, Dave was senior managing director and head of portfolio operations at The Blackstone Group. He began there in January 2014, after leading Nielsen Holdings as Chief Executive Officer since 2006. During this time, Dave oversaw Nielsen’s transformation from a privately held company into a publicly traded corporation. He continued to serve on Nielsen’s board of directors as the Executive Chairman from January 2014 to January 2016. In this role, he remained engaged in the company and provided counsel to Nielsen’s executives. Dave began his career at The General Electric Company. Before leaving GE for Nielsen, David served as vice chairman of The General Electric Company and chief executive officer of GE Infrastructure, GE’s largest business unit. During his 26-year tenure at General Electric, Calhoun led several business units, including GE Lighting, GE Employers Reinsurance Corp., GE Aircraft Engines, and GE Transportation. He held various roles across the company earlier in his career, which ranged from finance to marketing. In these roles, Dave gained a great deal of experience in business strategy and operations. David serves on the board of directors at Caterpillar, Inc. and Neurofocus, Inc. He is also a member of The Business Roundtable — a group of CEOs and business leaders dedicated to broadening opportunities for Americans that work in the U.S. economy. Dave earned his BS in accounting at Virginia Tech and now serves on their Pamplin Advisory Council. He supports Virginia Tech through philanthropic initiatives that help provide resources to underprivileged students. He is the co-author of the book, How Companies Win. In the book, he and Rick Kash of the Cambridge Group discuss the changing business landscape and how companies can maintain success while navigating the economy’s continuous digital transformation.
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About The Boeing Company: Boeing Company manufactures and sells aircraft, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites and provides product leasing and support services.
Theodore Colbert
President and Chief Executive Officer, Boeing Global Services of The Boeing Company
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About The Boeing Company, The Boeing Company, The Boeing Company: Boeing Company manufactures and sells aircraft, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites and provides product leasing and support services.
Yuri Frayman
Co- Founder & CEO of CAST AI
Yuri Frayman has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial venture capital – backed entrepreneur across four very successful ventures. As a serial entrepreneur, Yuri has helped lead four venture-backed companies to successful exits for his investors. Specialties:Global Entrepreneurship, Global Go-to-Market, Strategic Marketing, Raising Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Sales, Open Innovation, B2B Social Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Senior Advisory and Board of Director roles.
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About CAST AI, Zenedge: AI-driven cloud optimization platform that slashes cloud cost, optimizes DevOps, and automates disaster prevention.
Jiren Parikh
CEO of Ghost Robotics
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About Ghost Robotics: Robots that Feel the World™ | Quadrupedal Robots (Q-UGV) for Unstructured, Demanding and Continuous-Use Environments
Josh Lefkowitz
CEO of Flashpoint
Josh Lefkowitz executes the company’s strategic vision to illuminate the Deep and Dark Web and deliver unparalleled insights to customers, empowering them with the industry standard in intelligence from these areas of the Internet. He has worked extensively with federal, state,and local authorities to track and analyze terrorist groups. Mr. Lefkowitz also served as a consultant to the FBI’s senior management team and worked for a top tier, global investment bank, where he gained experience with Fortune 500 companies and ultra high net worth individuals.
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
Matt Gillis
CEO of clean.io
Matt Gillis is the Chief Executive Officer of Clean Creative.
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About clean.io: Clean.io is a digital engagement security platform that helps businesses control the third party code that executes on their websites.
Neil Serebryany
CEO of Calypso AI
Neil is the founder and the CEO of Calypso.
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About Calypso AI: Calypso AI provides a platform that allows organizations to accelerate their use of AI technologies.
Karthik Kannan
CEO of Anvilogic
Karthik Kannan is the Founder and CEO of Anvilogic.
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About Anvilogic: Anvilogic is a security detection automation platform w/ AI-driven insights and recommendations to measure/improve threat detection coverage
Mike Wiacek
CEO of Stairwell
Founder and CEO of Stairwell, Inc.
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About Stairwell: Stairwell is a cybersecurity company that offers a platform for threat hunting, detection, and response.
Russ Heddleston
Co-founder & CEO of Dropbox DocSend
Russ is the Co-founder and CEO of DocSend, a service for securely sending and tracking documents that has over 9,000 customers. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Microsoft, and Trulia. Russ holds a BS/MS in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Dropbox DocSend: Dropbox DocSend is a secure document sharing and tracking solution that helps companies share business-critical documents with ease.
Graham Plaster
CEO of The Intelligence Community Inc.
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About The Intelligence Community Inc.: The Intelligence Community Inc. is a network for U.S. government, military, national security, and private sector personnel.
Jordan Brandt
Co-founder & CEO of Inpher.io
Jordan Brandt is CEO at Inpher.io.
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About Inpher.io: Inpher.io is a secret computing technology for privacy-preserving machine learning and AI.
Rick Song
Co-Founder & CEO of Persona
Rick Song is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Jim Reavis
Co-Founder & CEO of Cloud Security Alliance
For many years, Jim Reavis has worked in the information security industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim’s innovative thinking about emerging security trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many. Jim is helping shape the future of information security and related technology industries as co-founder, CEO and driving force of the Cloud Security Alliance. Jim has been named as one of the Top 10 cloud computing leaders by SearchCloudComputing.com. Jim is the President of Reavis Consulting Group, LLC, where he advises security companies, governments, large enterprises and other organizations on the implications of new trends such as Cloud, Mobility, Internet of Things and how to take advantage of them. Jim founded SecurityPortal, the Internet’s largest website devoted to information security in 1998, and guided it until a successful exit in 2000. Jim has been an advisor on the launch of many industry ventures that have achieved a successful M&A exit or IPO. Jim is widely quoted in the press and has worked with hundreds of corporations on their information security strategy and technology roadmap. Jim has a background in networking technologies, marketing, product management and systems integration. Jim received a B.A. in Business Administration / Computer Science from Western Washington University in 1987 and serves on WWU’s alumni board.
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About Cloud Security Alliance, Jam Cyber, Reavis Consulting Group LLC: The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security.
Ben Cotton
Founder & CEO of Cyfir
Ben Cotton is the President, CEO and founder of Cytech Services, an industry leading computer forensics and incident response firm serving both public and private industry. Prior to founding CyTech in 2002, Ben was a twenty-one year veteran of the US Army, Special Operations Command (SOCOM). Mr. Cotton served in both unclassified and classified units fighting the Global War on Terrorism, specializing in sensitive site and digital device exploitation, Computer Network Attack (CNA), and Computer Network Defense (CND). While on active duty—in addition to being a fully qualified operator—Mr. Cotton was a technical visionary and pioneer in Cyber Security and Computer Forensics for the US Government and the SOCOM. Ben is a plank holder for the SOCOM capabilities that now exist within these technical areas. Ben holds a Masters of Science in Information Technology Management and has also earned numerous technical certifications, including the CISSP and other industry-recognized computer forensic and incident response certifications.
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About Cyfir, eSentire: CyFIR is the ideal network investigation and Incident Response tool for performing live computer investigations across any size enterprise.
Paul Nguyen
Co-founder/Co-CEO of Permiso Security
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About Permiso Security: Permiso Security delivers cloud security with a simple, smart and dynamic approach to help organizations to grow.
Wendell Brown
CEO & Chairman of Averon
Wendell Brown is the CEO, Chairman and co-founder of Averon. He is a prolific innovator whose creative triumphs include building a global VoIP solution (acquired by Microsoft), founding America’s largest online voicemail platform solution (acquired by AOL), and co-founding Liveops, America’s largest virtual work-at-home call center (honored by the White House in 2010), all of which contribute to the advancement of technology and betterment of society. Wendell is proud of his unique blend of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and West Virginia roots, where his family tree dates back to the Mayflower era. After enjoying his upbringing in the northernmost Appalachian town of Oneonta, he attended Cornell University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Wendell then followed his dreams to Silicon Valley, initially gaining success as a popular video game designer (including blockbuster hits such as Star Wars, Beauty & The Beast, and Nova Blast) and soon thereafter he created the first C-compiler for Mac. Later, as the creator of one of the world’s first mass-market cybersecurity products, WalkSoftly (acquired by Intel), then as a pioneer of work-at-home call centers (Liveops), which greatly increase employment opportunities for veterans and workers with disabilities, and today as the leader of Averon, Wendell’s innovations continue to empower and improve the lives of countless people around the world. He enjoys participating as a speaker, tech judge and advisor in a wide range of communities including the World Economic Forum, DLD Munich & Tel Aviv, XPRIZE, Burning Man, TED, the MITA Tech Talks and more. Wendell is a licensed private pilot, and has been active in the development of new airplane and electric vehicle designs. A strong believer in giving back, he’s created scholarships for underprivileged students, and is a proud founding member of the Human Rights Campaign. In his (rare) spare time, Wendell enjoys international explorations, having visited more than 30 countries as of 2019, and spending quality time at home with his treasured family including beloved Italian greyhound, Magic.
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About Averon: Averon is the developer of the Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA), the first fully automatic, secure mobile identity standard
Patrick Morley
President & CEO of Carbon Black
Board Member at Nexthink & RStudio PBC.
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About Carbon Black, Carbon Black (acquired by Bit9), VMware: Carbon Black provides a cloud native endpoint and a workload protection platform that allows customers to prevent cyber attacks.
Timothy Eades
CEO of vArmour
With over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and executive management at the CEO level, Tim has deep expertise in driving high growth for computing, security and enterprise software companies. Tim joined vArmour as CEO in October, 2013. Prior to that, he was the CEO at Silver Tail Systems from March, 2010 until the company was acquired by RSA, the security division of EMC in late 2012. Prior to leading Silver Tail Systems, Tim was CEO of Everyone.net, an SMB focused SaaS company that was acquired by Proofpoint. Tim has also held sales and marketing executive leadership positions at BEA Systems, Sana Security, Phoenix Technologies and IBM. Tim holds advanced degrees in business, international marketing, and financial analysis, primarily from Solent University in England.
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About Cyber Mentor Fund, vArmour: VArmour offers data defined perimeter security solutions for mobile, virtual, and cloud platforms.
Chris Young
CEO of McAfee
Chris Young is CEO of McAfee, LLC. He serves as a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and is on the board of directors of American Express and Snap Inc. Chris holds an A.B. from Princeton University.
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About McAfee: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Tim Junio
Co-Founder & CEO of Expanse
Tim has over a decade of operational and academic experience in cybersecurity and large-scale distributed sensing. Prior to co-founding Qadium, he worked at DARPA, RAND Corporation, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and CIA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and remains an affiliate,occasionally lecturing and mentoring students on cybersecurity. Tim holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Expanse: Expanse is an enterprise software company that provides an updated view of all internet-connected assets that belong to an organization.
Aaron Rudenstine
CEO of ButterflyMX
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About 3L Capital, Bling Capital, ButterflyMX, Button, Clear Ballot Group, Inc., FilmRise, HENRY The Dentist, Omaze, Parallel Wireless, PINATA, Reddit: ButterflyMX develops property access solutions including video intercom systems and keypads that users can manage from a smartphone.
Daniel Barber
CEO & Co-founder of DataGrail
Daniel Barber is the CEO & Co-founder of DataGrail. Prior to DataGrail, Daniel built and led go-to-market teams at Responsys (acquired by Oracle), ToutApp (acquired by Marketo), Node.io, Datanyze (ZoomInfo), and DocuSign.
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About DataGrail, Forbes Technology Council, GTM Orchestration: DataGrail is a data privacy startup that helps businesses navigate the growing array of privacy regulations.
Founder & CEO of Cyral
Manav Mital is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cyral and Instart Logic. Previously, he worked with Aster Data, where he led the design of major components of their flagship product, including the core database engine and all query processing. Aster Data, a pioneer in the big data market, was acquired by Teradata Corp for $263M. Before Aster, Manav was part of Yahoo’s Web Search team, where he helped in designing and building systems to improve search rankings by better web page classification. Manav has a MS in Computer Science from UCLA and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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About Cyral, Instart: Cyral is the first cloud-native solution that makes it easy to observe, control, and protect the data cloud.
Kevin Mandia
CEO of FireEye
Kevin has served as FireEye Chief Executive Officer since June 2016 and was appointed to the company’s Board of Directors in February 2016. He was previously President of FireEye from February 2015 until June 2016. Kevin joined FireEye as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in December 2013, when FireEye acquired Mandiant, the company he founded in 2004. Before Mandiant, Kevin was the Director of Computer Forensics at Foundstone (acquired by McAfee Corporation) from 2000 to 2003, and the Director of Information Security for Sytex (later acquired by Lockheed Martin) from 1998 to 2000. Kevin also served in the United States Air Force, where he was a computer security officer in the 7th Communications Group at the Pentagon, and a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). He holds a B.S. in computer science from Lafayette College and a M.S. in forensic science from The George Washington University.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Sean Li
CEO & Co-founder of Magic
CEO @ Magic
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About Magic: Plug and play auth that grows with you
Irv Rothman
President & CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Steven J. Demetriou
President & Chief Executive Officer of Jacobs
Steve Demetriou is the Financial Controller at Inventis Ltd.
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About Inventis, Jacobs: Jacobs leads the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world.
Hemen Vimadalal
CEO of 1Kosmos – BlockID
Hemen Vimadalal directs and drives the overall vision and strategy for Simeio with a passion for building high performance teams, driving innovation and focusing on delivering value to customers. Prior to founding Simeio, Hemen worked with Vaau from its inception, where he established the company as the leader in the identity and access management industry. Hemen has led many assessments and end-to-end implementations of role-based access control, user provisioning, identity auditing, identity certification, web services, and directory & password management products. Hemen holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Southern California.
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About 1Kosmos – BlockID: Secure online services from password-based attacks with a next generation approach to MFA that delivers a frictionless user experience
Lebin Cheng
Chief Executive Officer of CloudVector
Lebin Cheng is Co-founder and Vice President, App Engineering at Netskope. Perviously, he was with VMware as a group product manager and senior manager of research and development. Mr. Cheng holds a masters degree both in business administration and computer sciences.
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About CloudVector: CloudVector protects an organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them.
James Legg
President & CEO of Thycotic
Responsible for day-to-day operations, James creates and executes growth strategies and initiatives designed to propel Thycotic to the next level. James has amassed over 25 years of managerial and sales experience in guiding technology companies to accelerated, sustained growth. Most recently, he served as EVice President and GM of Unitrends, Inc., after serving as CEO of PHD Virtual, acquired by Unitrends in 2013. Previously, he served as Vice President of worldwide sales for Idera Corporation, and was Vice President of sales at NetIQ Corporation, having come there via the acquisition of PentaSafe Security Technologies, a remote access, vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection solution provider.
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About Thycotic: Thycotic protects companies from cyber attacks with innovative technologies that secure privileged accounts across the modern enterprise.
Rabbi Thomas
Chairman, CEO of Team Cymru
Rob Thomas is CEO and founder of Team Cymru, and a Cymru Fellow. Rob has worked as a network engineer, Unix kernel developer, systems administrator, and security architect at companies as diverse as Motorola, Sun, Cisco, and Ameritech. Rob has a passion for all things technical, and it shows in his dynamic writings and presentation style. Rob is proud to serve as CEO for this motivated team of Internet security analysts.
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About Motorola Solutions, Team Cymru: Team Cymru is an internet security firm that offers research services making the internet a more secure place.
Amir Ben-Efraim
Co-Founder & CEO of Menlo Security
Amir Ben-Efraim is co-founder and CEO of Menlo Security. Previously, Amir was VP of cloud security at Juniper Networks where he helped define the company’s strategy to secure the virtualized data center, public and private clouds. He joined Juniper via its acquisition of Altor Networks, which he led as founder and CEO. Prior to Altor, Amir was an executive at Check Point Software, a pioneer in Internet security. He holds an MBA from UCLA, an MSEE from Stanford University and a BSEE from UC Berkeley.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Patrick Peterson
Founder & CEO of Agari
Patrick Peterson is Agari’s visionary Founder and CEO, who has spent more than 15 years securing the email ecosystem. Peterson founded Agari in 2009, when he saw a real need in the industry for a solution that would secure the email channel. Under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, he has developed the company’s industry-changing security platform that now protects many of the world’s largest enterprises from email threats. Prior to Agari, Peterson joined IronPort Systems and invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Maximus Yaney
CoFounder & CEO of Kangaroo
Maximus Yaney is a disruptor, entrepreneur, engineer, and avid inventor. A serial dreamer and company builder, Maximus is Co-Founder and CEO of Kangaroo.
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About Ellis Carpet Cleaning, Kangaroo: Kangaroo is an electronics company that provides simple home security systems.
Andre Durand
Founder & CEO of Ping Identity
CEO Ping Identity NYSE:PING.
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About Identiverse, Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Adam Markowitz
Co-Founder & CEO of Drata
Founder/CEO of Portfolium (Acquired by Instructure – 2019), proudly serving millions of students and grads from over 3,600 colleges and universities as they connect their learning with opportunity. Prior to Portfolium, Adam earned a BS in Structural Engineering from UC San Diego and an MS in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California. For 6 years, Adam worked as an Aerospace Engineer – designing, analyzing and testing liquid rocket engines for NASA’s next generation space launch vehicle as well as the Space Shuttle Main Engine.
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About Drata: Drata is a compliance and security platform that automates the compliance workflow on a company’s security controls.
Marc W. Chenn
CEO & Co-Founder of SaltStack
Marc has a history of building significant value for high-growth technology companies. He has extensive experience in the systems management industry with Altiris where he participated in its 2002 IPO and eventual $1 billion acquisition by Symantec. In 2009, Marc joined SaaS provider Compliance11 and in two years grew the client base from 40 to more than 500 clients prior to an acquisition by Charles Schwab in 2011. Prior to Compliance11, Marc worked for Morgan Stanley within its investment management division. Marc holds an MBA in finance from Brigham Young University where he was an All-American high jumper and member of the U.S. Olympic development team.
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About SaltStack: SaltStack is intelligent automation for a software-defined world.
Simon Biddiscombe
President and CEO of MobileIron
Simon Biddiscombe is the president and CEO of MobileIron. Prior to becoming the CEO, Simon served as the CFO of the company.
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About MobileIron: MobileIron offers a mobile-centric, zero trust security approach that verifies user, device, application, network, and security threat.
Bryson Bort
CEO and Founder of SCYTHE
Bryson Bort is the Founder and CEO of SCYTHE, Founder of GRIMM, and Co-Founder of the ICS Village, a nonprofit advancing education and awareness of security for industrial control systems. He led an elite research and development (R&D) division that directly contributed towards national security priorities and interest. Bort received his BS in computer science from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He holds a master’s degree in telecommunications management from the University of Maryland and a master’s in business administration from the University of Florida in addition to completing graduate studies in electrical engineering and computer science.
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About GreyNoise Intelligence, Grimm, IANS, ICS Village, National Security Institute (NSI), R Street Institute, SCYTHE: SCYTHE is an adversary emulation platform for the enterprise and cybersecurity consulting market.
Jesper Andersen
CEO & President of Infoblox
A seasoned networking and software industry executive with a track record of building large businesses, Jesper is the leader of Infoblox, responsible for the company’s continuing growth and innovation. Prior to joining Infoblox in December 2014, he served in a number of roles at Cisco Systems, including senior vice president for network management. Previously, he held senior management positions at Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pivotal Software and Computer Resources International.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
