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This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Cyber 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.
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
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.
David McJannet
CEO of HashiCorp
Dave has more than 15 years of extensive experience across a range of product marketing, product management, and operational functions. Prior to joining Hortonworks, Dave led the product marketing team at VMware for a number of technologies including the Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service project and the vFabric product family. Previously, Dave served as Group Manager, Server & Tools at Microsoft where his team had responsibility for the product marketing and overall performance of the Server and Tools business in Canada. Before joining Microsoft he held product management roles at webMethods (now SoftwareAG) with a primary focus on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and middleware products. Dave began his career with KPMG and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from McGill University.
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About Delphix, HashiCorp, Hortonworks: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Tomer Weingarten
Co-Founder and CEO of SentinelOne
Tomer co-founded SentinelOne in 2013. He is responsible for the company’s direction, products, and services strategy. Before SentinelOne, Tomer led product development and strategy for the Toluna Group as a VP of Products. Prior to that he held several application security and consulting roles at various enterprises, and was CTO at Carambola Media.
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About Forbes Technology Council, SentinelOne: SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection that prevents, detects, and responds to attacks across all major vectors.
Moxie Marlinspike
Founder & CEO of Signal Messenger
Moxie Marlinspike is the founder of Signal and Open Whisper Systems. He is a renowned cyber security expert and cryptographer. Moxie is known for his in-depth research of online privacy and anonymity issues. Moxie is also a member of the Institute for Disruptive Studies, and was formerly the Director of Product Security at Twitter.
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About Signal Messenger: Signal is an encrypted communications application for Android and iOS that focuses on advancing secure communications.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Jayanth Gummaraju
CEO & Co-Founder of Banyan Security
Jayanth Gummaraju has over a decade of experience in inventing, designing and building complex computer systems. Prior to founding Banyan, Jayanth worked at VMware where, along with a couple of colleagues, he started VMFork (Instant Clone) and Serengeti (Big Data) projects, and invented some of the key technologies powering vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) and vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE). He holds many patents and has published several papers in top tier conferences in the areas of distributed systems, virtualization, and security. He is also a recipient of several awards related to innovation throughout his academic and professional career. Jayanth received his PhD from the Computer Systems Lab. at Stanford University, MS from Univ. of Maryland, College Park, and BE from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Banyan Security: Banyan Security provides a zero trust network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Chad Loder
Co-Founder & CEO of Habitu8
Chad Loder is the Co-Founder & CEO at Habitu8.
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About Habitu8, IANS, Masks For Docs: Habitu8 mission is to educate and empower every enterprise worker to protect themselves and their company from cyber security threats.
Steven (Seven) Waterhouse
CEO, and Co-founder of Orchid Labs
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About Fabric Ventures, Orchid Labs: Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet.
Shankar Somasundaram
CEO & Founder of Asimily
Shankar Somasundaram is currently the CEO of Asimily. Asimily is a data driven, non-invasive medical device monitoring solution for healthcare providers and medical device manufacturers solving for asset management, risk, cybersecurity and operational use cases. Previously Shankar led the Internet of Things business unit at Symantec. In this role, he oversaw the Enterprise Internet of Things business unit that focused for multiple verticals, including Healthcare, Industrial Control Systems (manufacturing, utilities, etc.) and Facilities (buildings) . Before that Shankar was part of the business and corporate development teams driving deals in the enterprise storage and security space. Prior to joining Symantec, Shankar held engineering, strategy and product management roles at companies like Qualcomm, InterDigital and British Telecom. Shankar also established and operated startups in enterprise software and security arenas and holds 50+ granted patents across networking and security.
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About Asimily: Asimily’s IoMT risk remediation platform holistically secures the mission-critical healthcare devices that deliver safe and reliable care.
Pravin Kothari
Founder & CEO of CipherCloud
Pravin Kothari is the founder and CEO of CipherCloud.He founded CipherCloud in 2010 when he recognized that while the cloud was disrupting enterprise IT with explosive growth, the security technologies had not kept pace and enterprises were losing control over their sensitive data. Pravin is driving the rapid growth of CipherCloud by managing its business, strategy, and operations. Pravin is a security visionary with more than 20 years of experience building industry-leading companies and bringing innovative products to market. Pravin was the Founder & CTO of Agiliance, a leading Security Risk Management company, and Co-founder & VP Engineering of ArcSight, a leading security company, which was acquired by HP for $1.6 billion. Previously, Pravin was Co-founder & Chief Architect at Impresse Corporation and also held technical leadership positions at Verity, Attachmate, and Tata Consultancy Services. Pravin holds over a dozen patents in security technologies and is the inventor behind CipherCloud’s groundbreaking cloud encryption technology.
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About CipherCloud, RiskVision: CipherCloud is a cloud security company that provides a platform that delivers data protection, compliance, and control.
Ofer Smadari
Co-Founder & CEO of Torq
Ofer Smadari is the Co-Founder & CEO at StackPulse.
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About Forbes Technology Council, Torq, UNIPaaS Payments Technologies, YL Ventures: Torq is a no-code automation platform for security and ops teams.
Michael DeCesare
CEO and President of Exabeam
Michael DeCesare is the CEO and president of Exabeam, a leading security analytics and automation company. Prior to Exabeam, he was CEO and president of ForeScout Technologies, a company that offers Global 2000 enterprises and government organizations the ability to see devices. He was previously the president at McAfee. DeCesare served as the senior vice president of worldwide field operations at EMC Software Group before which he held the same position at EMC Documentum. He also worked as the EVP of worldwide sales and alliances at Oracle. DeCesare holds a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University.
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About Exabeam, ForeScout Technologies: Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.
Lisa Falzone
CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Security
Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder & CEO of Athena Security, an award-winning Gun Detection solution enterprises. Since starting the company from the ground up in 2017, Falzone has been a trailblazer in technology. She is spearheading her last company Revel Systems which rasied over 100m in funding and a evalution over 500m. Revel’s mission was to help entrepreneurs around the world build their dream business.
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About Athena Security: Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Dhananjay Sampath
Co-founder & CEO of Armorblox
Co-founder & CEO, Armorblox.
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About Armorblox: Armorblox uses deep learning and natural language technologies to protect enterprise communications.
Chris Scanlan
Chief Executive Officer of Defy Security
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About Defy Security, Forbes Business Council: Defy Security is a cybersecurity solutions provider.
Orion Hindawi
CEO & Co-Founder of Tanium
Orion Hindawi co-founded Tanium in 2007 and serves as its chief executive officer. Orion leads product strategy and development of the Tanium Platform, in addition to all customer-facing technical operations and management functions. A technology visionary and accomplished inventor, Orion has led the development of enterprise-scale endpoint security and management platforms for the past 18 years at BigFix, Inc. (acquired by IBM in 2010) and Tanium, in addition to holding multiple software patents in the areas of network communications and systems management. Orion works closely with Tanium customers on a daily basis in the pursuit of inventing new approaches for solving the significant challenges IT departments face securing and managing large, global enterprise environments. Orion also serves on the Tanium Board of Directors.
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About Tanium: Tanium is a security and systems management platform allowing real-time data collection at an enterprise scale.
Craig Boundy
CEO Experian North America and Experian Consumer Services of Experian
Craig Boundy joined Experian in November 2011 as Managing Director of Experian UK and Ireland. Additionally, he is responsible for Sales Effectiveness and Vertical Markets globally. Prior to joining Experian, he was CEO of Logica in the UK, having joined Logica in 2008 as CEO Global Operations. Before this, Craig was at Cable & Wireless, where he was Chief Operating Officer (COO) of its business in Europe, US and Asia. Before Cable & Wireless, he was Sales Director and then COO at Energis. His early career was with BT. Craig attended Lancaster University in the UK, graduating in management studies and German.
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About Energis, Experian, Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Tony Huie
Co-Founder & CEO of Twingate
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About SignalFire, Twingate: Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
Ray Kruck
Founder and CEO of Tugboat Logic
Ray Kruck cofounded Nexgate in 2011 with a breakthrough platform to help brands discover, monitor, and secure their social presence. Nexgate was acquired by Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT) as their largest acquisition in 2014. Prior to Nexgate, Ray held executive and leadership positions in corporate development, strategy, and sales at Check Point Software, Websense, and Voltage Security (acquired by HP). Since Nexgate, Ray cofounded Pointgrey Partners, an early-stage venture investment firm focused on deep technology plays that drive competitive disruption in enterprise and life science markets. Ray is passionate about helping founders build go-to market ecosystems that enable leveraged sales models with strategic partners. Ray is a University of Toronto B.Comm graduate and holds an MBA from University of British Columbia.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Tugboat Logic: Tugboat Logic address the skills and expertise gap in the security and compliance industry.
Amit Walia
Chief Executive Officer of Informatica
Amit Walia is the president, products & strategic ecosystems, responsible for Informatica’s product & market strategy, product management, product development, user experience, cloud operations, strategic ecosystems strategy, and partnerships with strategic ecosystems. Previously, Amit was the executive vice president and chief product officer. Since joining Informatica in 2013, Amit has led the company’s product organization, delivering products and solutions to extend our leadership in our core markets and establishing our leadership in new areas of Enterprise Cloud Data Management. This has led to Informatica firmly establishing its leadership in key growth areas such as Master Data Management, Intelligent Cloud Services (iPaaS), Big Data Management, Enterprise Data Catalog, Data Governance, and Data Security. Amit has led Informatica’s innovation in Artificial Intelligence through the launch of CLAIRE. Under his leadership, Informatica is ranked as a leader in all the 5 Magic Quadrants related to its markets. Prior to Informatica, Amit worked in leadership positions across a variety of functions at Symantec, Intuit, and McKinsey & Company. He spent the earlier part of his career working for Tata Group and Infosys Technologies in India. Amit holds a Master of Business Administration with honors in strategy and economics from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Additionally, he received his Bachelor of Science with honors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Varanasi.
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Vishaal Hariprasad
Chief Executive Officer of Resilience
Vishaal Hariprasad is a co-founder at Arceo.ai.
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About Resilience, Resilience: Resilience is a cyber insurance provider that offers organizations the tools, guidance, and solutions to insure and secure their data.
Artyom Poghosyan
CEO & Co-Founder of Britive
Art Poghosyan is the chief executive officer at Britive.
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About Britive: Britive delivers complete privileged access protection for the cloud.
Idan Tendler
CEO & Co-founder of Bridgecrew
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About Bridgecrew: Bridgecrew is a developer of a codified cloud security platform used to help organizations deploy cloud security engineering.
Alex Vovk
CEO & Co-Founder of Action1 RMM
Alex co-founded Action1 together with Mike Fimin after spending more than 10 years in Co-CEO & Co-Founder role at Netwrix Corporation, where he was responsible for product strategy, technology alliances and operations. At Netwrix Alex and Mike built a very successful cybersecurity business and then they both left Netwrix after transition to a new CEO. Well known for its visibility and user behavior analytics platform, Netwrix became a leader with more than 10,000 customers worldwide. As the CEO of Action1, Alex brings more than 20 years of business and technology experience and has a PhD in information security. Alex lives in Laguna Niguel, CA with his wife and two kids.
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About Action1 RMM: Cloud-based remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution for enterprise IT professionals and MSPs.
Evan Reiser
CEO & Co-founder of Abnormal Security
Evan is the CEO and co-founder of Abnormal Security. He most recently led product and machine learning teams at Twitter after co-founding successful companies including Bloomspot (acquired by JPM Chase) and AdStack (acquired by TellApart).
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Naftali Harris
Co-Founder & CEO of SentiLink
Naftali Harris is co-founder and CEO of SentiLink, which is ending synthetic fraud. He previously was the first data scientist hired at Affirm, and later grew and managed the Risk Decisioning team, which was responsible for all production risk systems including the credit and fraud models.
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About SentiLink: SentiLink is an identity verification technology company that helps in detecting and blocking synthetic identities.
Harshil Parikh
CEO and Co-Founder of Tromzo
Harshil Parikh is the Co-Founder at Tromzo.
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About Medallia, Tromzo: Developer-First AppSec Management Platform
Ashish Gupta
CEO and President of Bugcrowd
Ashish drives strategy for global corporate and product marketing at Infoblox, including brand awareness, go-to-market programs, and demand generation initiatives. With more than 20 years of general management experience,Ashish specializes in creating new markets and categories, positioning companies for growth, and developing differentiated business strategies in highly competitive industries. He joined Infoblox from Actian, where he was CMO and SVP of business development. Previously, he held leadership positions at Vidyo, Microsoft, Alcatel/Genesys Telecommunications, Telera, Deloitte Consulting, and Hewlett-Packard.
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About Bugcrowd, Infoblox: Bugcrowd harnesses the power of a global community of security researchers to surface critical software vulnerabilities.
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder & CEO of Horizon3.ai
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About Horizon3.ai: Horizon3.ai leverages autonomous Pentesting to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.
Andrew Peterson
Founder & CEO of Signal Sciences
Andrew Peterson is the founder and CEO of Signal Sciences, a Software-as-a-Service platform that provides security monitoring and defense solutions for web applications. He was previously the group product manager of international growth at Etsy. Prior to Etsy, Peterson was a health information management officer at the Clinton Foundation before which he was a senior product specialist at Google. Peterson holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.
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About Signal Sciences: Signal Sciences is a software as a service platform providing security monitoring and defense for your web applications.
Rotem Iram
Founder and CEO of At-Bay
Rotem Iram is the Founder and CEO of cyber insurance company At-Bay. With nearly two decades of security and engineering experience, Rotem previously served as a Managing Director and COO in the Cyber Security practice of K2 Intelligence, a leading global risk management firm, focusing on cyber intelligence, cyber defense strategy and incident response. Rotem began his career as a Captain in Israel’s elite Intelligence Unit 8200, and also served as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Rotem holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About At-Bay: At-Bay is a cybersecurity insurance company that helps businesses meet digital risk head-on.
Ryan Noon
Co-Founder & CEO of Material Security
Ryan Noon currently works as the CEO for Material Security. He previously worked at Dropbox as the Engineering Manager.
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About Material Security: Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization’s users and data.
Ajay Mishra
CEO of ClearedIn
Ajay is CEO of ClearedIn. As work-based communication is shifting from email to collaboration tools, we are purpose-built to solve cloud collaboration and email security use cases. Our modern “Identity Trust Graph” architecture serves as the foundational technology. Prior to joining Clearedin, Ajay co-founded enterprise mobile security company MobileIron (IPO, 2014, acquired by Ivanti in 2020), and enterprise wireless pioneer, Airespace (acquired by Cisco in 2005). Before founding Airespace, Ajay ran product management for the Cisco Mobile Office Network (MNET). Ajay started his career as an engineer at Motorola, where he was part of the team that designed the world’s first commercial GSM handset in 1990. He was also instrumental in developing Motorola’s first CDMA handset in 1993.
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About ClearedIn, Sand Hill Angels: Cloud Collaboration Security
Gopi Sirineni
Chief Executive Officer of Axiado Corporation
Gopi Sirineni is the CEO of Axiado, spearheading transformative security technologies with AI in hardware. He is a Silicon Valley veteran with over 25 years of successes in the semiconductor, software and systems industries. Before joining Axiado, Gopi spent eight years as vice president of Qualcomm’s Wired/Wireless Infrastructure business unit where he developed Wi- Fi and Wi-Fi SON creating the market dominating technology. His career highlights include executive positions at Marvell Semiconductor, AppliedMicro, Cloud Grapes, and Ubicom that was acquired by Qualcomm under his direction. He has chaired IEEE Project Authorization Requests (PARs) and contributed to both Ethernet and Wi-Fi standards. His pioneering foresight into distributed mesh technology created the connected, AI-based home market segment.
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About Axiado Corporation: Security processor company redefining hardware root of trust with hardware-based security technologies, including per-system AI.
Paul Martini
CEO, CTO and Co-Founder of iboss
As CEO, CTO, and co-founder of iboss Cybersecurity,Paul Martini pioneered the award-winning iboss Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and has furthered iboss’ position as a leading security innovator with the introduction of FireSphere™ Advanced APT Defense. Prior to founding iboss, Paul was with an electrical engineering firm where he developed proprietary security solutions for clients such as Phogenix, the U.S. Navy and Hewlett Packard, leading the design and implementation efforts for HP’s e-tester used in their TIJ print heads. He was also a key contributor at Copper Mountain Networks and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), both of which, launched successful IPO’s. Paul holds a computer science degree from the University of California, San Diego and has had his work published in prestigious scientific journals including, the Journal of Foundations in Computer Science, and Journal of Analytical Biochemistry. As a recognized security expert, he has been featured in a wide range of publications such as USA Today, Forbes, and CSO magazine. Paul has been recognized for his leadership and innovation, receiving the Ernst Young 2014 Entrepreneur Of The Year™ award in the technology category for San Diego, and one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2014. He is committed to the advancement of San Diego as a cyber-security hub, and is a member of the Cyber Security Sub Committee for CAL OES (California Office of Emergency Services) and also serves on the board of the San Diego Economic Development Committee.
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About iboss: iboss is a cloud security company that provides network security as a service, delivered in the cloud, and as a complete SaaS offering.
Guy Bejerano
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SafeBreach
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About SafeBreach: SafeBreach executes active breach scenarios and performs continuous validation to find holes in an environment before an attacker does.
James Donelan
Founder, CEO of Trace Data
James brings more than 20+ years of technology and software engineering leadership experience across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, big data, machine learning, web and mobile. He’s lead technology and engineering at a number of successful hyper growth technology companies, ranging from early stage startups to IPO companies such as MuleSoft, Amplitude, Lithium, Epiphany, Charles Schwab and Compaq. An engineer by heart he loves building stellar product engineering teams and creating innovative and disruptive products.
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About Trace Data: Data observability for a connected world. Trace Data helps companies understand, monitor and secure their data.
Victor Fang
Founder and CEO of AnChain.ai
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About AnChain.ai: AnChain.AI : Next Generation AI-powered Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering
Ameesh Divatia
Co-Founder & CEO of Baffle
Ameesh Divatia is CEO & co-founder of Baffle, Inc., which provides an advanced data protection solution for databases. He has a proven track record of turning technologies that are difficult to build into successful businesses, selling three companies for more than $425 million combined in the service provider and enterprise data center infrastructure market. Baffle is Ameesh’s third startup dealing with how data is stored and used in IT. Prior to starting Baffle, he led a premier CMOS photonics innovator (Lightwire Inc.) from technology development into product development leading up to an acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc. for $271M within a timespan of 29 months. He has also founded two venture-funded startups: Aarohi Communications (Storage Virtualization, acquired by Emulex Corporation for $39M) and PipeLinks Inc. (Optical Networking, acquired by Cisco Systems for $126M).
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About Baffle: Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Belsasar Lepe
CEO & Co-Founder of Cerby
Belsasar (Bel) is co-founder and CEO of Cerby. He previously was Head of Product at Impira, where he led the company’s Product Life Cycle, helping drive a 4x increase in revenue. Prior to his role at Impira, Bel was co-founder and CTO at Ooyala where he led a global product, design, and engineering team of 300+ Ooyalans spanning five countries and seven offices. Ooyala achieved two successful exits totaling over $440M. Bel began his career as an engineer at Google working on Enterprise Collaboration products and studied Computer Science at Stanford University. He is an active advisor and investor in start ups, with a specific focus in Latin America.
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About Cerby: Cerby is a cybersecurity company focused on helping enterprises harness Shadow IT.
Ambuj Kumar
CEO of Fortanix
Ambuj Kumar is co-founder and CEO of Fortanix, Inc., the Runtime Encryption company, whose mission is to solve cloud security and privacy. Ambuj is a recognized leader in cryptography with more than 30 patents in the field. Prior to founding Fortanix, Ambuj was lead architect at Cryptography Research Inc. where he led and developed many of the company’s security technologies that go into millions of devices every year. Previously, he worked for NVIDIA where he designed world’s most advanced computer chips including world’s fastest memory controller. Fortanix has established itself as a leader in Runtime Encryption with strategic partnerships with IBM and Equinix.
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About Fortanix: Fortanix solves cloud security and privacy using Runtime Encryption(R) technology build upon Intel SGX.
Chase Perkins
Founder & CEO of Impervious.ai
Founder & CEO of Impervious.ai
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About Impervious.ai, Thoughtly: Impervious is building Layer 3 of Bitcoin via IMP API – A programmatic layer for developing censorship-resistant, P2P streaming services.
Douglas Murray
CEO of Valtix
Douglas Murray is the chief executive officer of Valtix. Previously, he was as the CEO of Big Switch Networks as well as SVP & GM at Juniper Networks. Murray holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Colgate University and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
Tim Keeler
Founder & CEO of Remediant
Timothy Keeler is the co-founder and CEO of Remediant.
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About Remediant: Remediant provides enterprises with Privileged Access Management (PAM) software to help them protect their accounts from misuse and abuse.
Catherine (Kitty) Parry
Founder and CEO of DeepView
Catherine Parry is a serial entrepreneur with deep experience in the regulatory technology and finance. In 2014, Catherine was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for her entrepreneurial success. She is now Founder and CEO of DeepView, an enterprise cyber security software solution using AI to alert photo and video data leaks. The privacy-forward archiving solution allows regulated employees to safely and compliantly use encrypted chat channels e.g. WhatsApp for work chats. Prior to founding DeepView, Catherine worked at WPP as part of a team designed to help listed clients boost share prices. She then started Templars Communications, a strategic communications firm specialising in financial services. This was successful sold to New York based PR firm, Vested in 2017. Many of Catherine’s clients were London’s best-known investment boutique firms. In 2013, she founded the Social Media Charter, an organisation that provides firms and regulators social media compliance guidance. Catherine regularly speaks about regulation, digital and social media, and has spoken on World Economic Forum panels at Davos as well as on the BBC, Radio 4 and CNBC. She is one of only 17 Brits to ever be nominated as a World Economic Forum YGL. Catherine has committed to Founders Pledge, a global community of entrepreneurs finding and funding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems
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About DeepView, Templars Communications: A privacy-focused platform to monitor and archive business communications
Jay Kaplan
CEO and Co-Founder of Synack
Jay co-founded Synack after serving in several security-related capacities at the Department of Defense, including the DoD’s Incident Response and Red Team. Prior to founding Synack, Jay was a Senior Cyber Analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA), where his focus was supporting counterterrorism-related intelligence operations. Jay received a BS in Computer Science with a focus in Information Assurance and a MS in Engineering Management from George Washington University studying under a DoD/NSA-sponsored fellowship. Jay holds a number of security certifications from ISC(2) and GIAC.
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About Synack: Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that utilizes augmented intelligence to discover and secure vulnerable applications.
Varun Badhwar
Founder & CEO of RedLock
Varun Badhwar is the cofounder of CipherCloud where he is responsible for product strategy, product marketing, evangelism, and sales enablement. As a subject matter expert on cloud security, he is regularly invited to speak at a number of global industry conferences. Prior to joining CipherCloud, Varun was responsible for ensuring the security of the Force.com ecosystem at salesforce.com, which included over 1,500 partner applications. Prior to salesforce.com, he was a Consultant within the Risk Advisory Services group at KPMG, where he advised Fortune 500 Clients on managing IT security and privacy, operational risks, and alignment with overall business strategy. Varun earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT).
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About RedLock: RedLock develops an infrastructure security platform designed to provide deep security visibility for dynamic environments.
Benny Czarny
Founder and CEO of OPSWAT
Benny Czarny is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at OPSWAT. As CEO, Benny oversees OPSWAT’s day-to-day-operations, as well as leading the company’s overall business strategy. Benny has over 20 years of experience in the Computer and Network Security field. From the early days of computer viruses he was interested and involved in the fields of encryption, network operations, security vulnerabilities detection and research. He worked as a programmer, team leader and engineering manager in several companies before founding OPSWAT in 2002. Benny earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
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About OPSWAT: OPSWAT is the global leader for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cybersecurity for ICS and OT environments
Robert Fly
Co Founder & CEO of Elevate Security
Robert Fly is an advisor at Qualia.
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About Elevate Security: Proactive Defense Against Insider Risk
Hitesh Sheth
President and CEO of Vectra
Hitesh Sheth is the president and CEO of Vectra. Previously, he held the position of chief operating officer at Aruba Networks. Hitesh joined Aruba from Juniper Networks, where he was EVP/GM of its switching business and before that, SVP for the Service Layer Technologies group, which included security. Prior to Juniper, he held a number of senior management positions in the switching organization at Cisco Systems, including running its metro Ethernet business. Before Cisco, he held executive and engineering management positions at Liberate Technologies and Oracle Corporation. He started his career as a Unix programmer at The Santa Cruz Operation. Hitesh holds a bachelor of arts degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Vectra: Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive incident investigations.
Mark Woodward
CEO of Armor
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About Armor: Armor is a cyber defense company that offers customer-centric security outcomes for e-Commerce, healthcare, and financial institutions.
Reed Taussig
CEO of RSA
Reed Taussig is President and Chief Executive Officer of ThreatMetrix. With expertise in building high-growth companies at the forefront of technological change, Taussig has led ThreatMetrix since 2008. Under his leadership the company has become the driving force in an emerging digital identity space by leveraging pioneering global shared intelligence technology. Taussig has extensive executive leadership experience, and prior to ThreatMetrix served as CEO of Callidus Software. Here, he was responsible for a successful IPO, having led the company from its inception, to establishing it as a profitable business with $70+ million in revenue. He has also served as CEO for Vormetric, Inc. and Inquirey.com.
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About Apptimize, Arkose Labs, ClearDATA, Marlin Equity Partners, RSA: RSA offers cybersecurity firm that offers address security, risk management & fraud challenges services.
Vishal Gupta
CEO of Seclore
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About Seclore: Seclore provides enterprise digital rights management solution that enables organizations to control the usage of files wherever they go.
Feross Aboukhadijeh
CEO of Socket
Feross is the founder and CEO of Socket. He’s also the author and maintainer of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and 100s of other open source projects. His software is downloaded 500+ million times per month. He was a lecturer at Stanford where he created the course CS 253 Web Security.
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About Brave, Socket, Standard JS, WebTorrent: Socket is a cybersecurity platform that protects companies from software supply chain attacks.
Dave Jevans
CEO of CipherTrace
Dave Jevans is a founder and CEO of CipherTrace. He has 20 years of experience in the security and payments markets. He is the holder of 17 US patents in cybersecurity, and has founded and sold three cybersecurity startups. In 2015, He sold mobile security pioneer Marble Security to Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT). Before Marble, he founded IronKey, which was acquired by iMation (NASDAQ: IMN). Previously He founded Receipt.com (acquired by Valicert NASDAQ: VLCT). He has held senior management positions at security companies Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ: TMWD) and Teros (acquired by Citrix, NASDAQ: CTXS). He also serves as the chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (www.APWG.org), a consortium of more than 1,500 government agencies, financial services companies, ISPs, law enforcement agencies and technology vendors dedicated to fighting electronic crime.
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About CipherTrace: CipherTrace is a cryptocurrency intelligence company that delivers delivers cryptocurrency AML compliance solutions.
Rajesh Ramanand
Co-Founder & CEO of Signifyd
Rajesh Ramanand is the Founder and CEO of Signifyd, a payments validation company based out of Palo Alto, California. Most recently, Raj led Emerging Markets Risk at PayPal, responsible for managing fraud and credit risk in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to PayPal, Raj was with FedEx for eight years, beginning at the FedEx Innovation Labs as an engineer. In addition to building Fedex’s package intercept system, Raj founded, built, and led their Risk Management Division for Payments and Shipping.
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About Signifyd: Signifyd is a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
Duncan Greatwood
Chief Executive Officer of Xage Security
Most recently, Duncan was an executive at Apple, leading search-technology projects and products. Prior to Apple, Duncan was C.E.O. of Topsy, the pioneer in social media search and analytics acquired by Apple in 2013. Prior to Topsy, he was founder and C.E.O. of PostPath, the email and security company acquired by Cisco in 2008. Previously, Duncan held sales and marketing Vice President roles at Virata/Globespan/Conexant, as well as earlier engineering and marketing positions at Madge Networks. Duncan holds a B.A. (Mathematics) and M.Sc. (Computer Science) from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from London Business School.
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About Xage Security: Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT.
Dan Wendlandt
Co-Founder & CEO of Isovalent
Dan Wendlandt is the Co-Founder and CEO of Isovalent.
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About Isovalent: Isovalent builds open-source cloud-native networking software that solves networking, security, and observability for modern infrastructure
David W. Sanders
Chairman & CEO of CyberCSI
David Sanders has been a successful tech entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley for over 20 years. Mr. Sanders’ career as a serial entrepreneur began at an early age with disk jockey and database consulting businesses. After serving as a consultant to distinguished high-tech companies, including Apple and Hewlett Packard, Mr. Sanders founded cyberCSI. He currently serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Since its founding in 1993, cyberCSI has been providing IT outsourcing services and most recently proprietary cloud software to medium to large-size companies. In the past several years, Mr. Sanders’ business interests have expanded to angel investing and the founding of successful websites including GottaBeMobile.com, MoneyNation.com, MotorReview.com and Notebooks.com. Beyond his business interests, Mr. Sanders supports numerous philanthropic causes and organizations. He sits on the board of Goodwill Silicon Valley and is an active global member of Gen Next, a nonprofit comprised of executives and entrepreneurs dedicated to helping the next generation pursue economic growth, education and international security. In addition, Mr. Sanders directed the raising of $4.0+M for outreach to disadvantaged individuals and families struggling with alcohol and drug addiction and is a volunteer at Veterans of Foreign War events.
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About CyberCSI: cyberCSI provides the most cost effective IT life cycle management services utilizing proprietary cloud software. Cyber security for SMB’s.
Edgard Capdevielle
President & CEO of Nozomi Networks
Edgard brings an extensive background in successfully managing and expanding markets for both start-ups and established technology companies to his role as CEO. Previously he was Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Imperva, where he led teams that made the company’s web and data security products leaders in their space. Prior to that he was a key executive at storage companies Data Domain and EMC. Focused on developing Nozomi Networks’ global business, Edgard’s tremendous passion, energy, vision and drive-to-win is being brought to bear on guiding Nozomi Networks to its next stage of development. Edgard has a MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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About Nozomi Networks: Nozomi Networks offers cybersecurity and operational visibility solutions for industrial control systems.
Siddhartha Gavirneni
CEO & Co-Founder of Zeguro
Sidd Gavirneni is the CEO & Co-Founder at Zeguro.
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About Zeguro: Zeguro is a cyber insurance startup focusing on helping small businesses mitigate their cyber risks.
John De Santis
Chairman & CEO of HyTrust
John De Santis is the CEO & Board Chairman of HyTrust Inc. He has operated at the bleeding edge of innovation and business transformation for over 30 years – with international and US based experience at venture-backed technology start-ups as well as large global public companies. Most recently, Mr. De Santis was VP, Cloud Services for VMware. He joined VMware after being Chairman and CEO of TriCipher, a software security infrastructure company acquired by VMware in 2010. He led TriCipher’s transformation from a specialized niche provider of secure authentication solutions to the leading innovator in cloud based identity services for web application and SaaS access management. Convergys Corporation) where he was Vice President, European Operations, responsible for delivering operational support systems and business process re-engineering to newly deregulated European telecommunication service providers. When he was 28 years old, he co-founded an optical fiber networking start up which built the first commercial application of optical channel networking for IBM mainframes. Prior to TriCipher, Mr. De Santis served as CEO of enterprise security software company, Sygate Technologies, from 2000 until its acquisition by Symantec in 2005. Sygate’s innovations continue to provide the foundational technology for Symantec’s Endpoint Protection business. Prior to joining Sygate, he was SVP for Network Computing Devices (a leading thin client manufacturer), where he was responsible for all Worldwide Sales, Marketing, and Service operations. Prior to NCD, he was with Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (now Mr. De Santis earned an AB in Philosophy from Fairfield University and completed the Stanford University Executive Institute Program for Management of High-Tech Companies. De Santis is currently on the Board of Neohapsis, the premier provider of security, governance, risk and compliance services to highly regulated enterprises and government agencies. Previously, he was on the Boards of Tablus (data leakage protection software – acquired by RSA), Applied Identity (identity based access control software – acquired by Citrix).
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About HyTrust: HyTrust specializes in security, compliance and control software for private, hybrid and public cloud infrastructure.
Aanand Krishnan
Founder & CEO of Tala Security
Aanand Krishnan is the CEO and co-founder of Tala Security.Prior to Tala, Aanand was most recently a senior director of product management at Symantec. Aanand spent several years in investment banking at and mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley and Dolby Labs. He holds an MBA from Berkeley, a masters in photonics and optoelectronics from UC Santa Barbara, and a bachelors in electrical engineering with honors from BITS, Pilani.
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About Tala Security: Tala provides security solutions to protect enterprise websites against formjacking, magecart, and advanced attacks.
Jack Naglieri
CEO, Founder of Panther Labs
Jack Naglieri is a professional with a passion for information security, cloud infrastructure, and security software. His exposure in security began as an incident responder for Verisign. After graduation from George Mason University, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and spent two years at Yahoo as an incident responder. He later transitioned into a security engineering role, with the challenge of deploying security monitoring tools at massive scale. In 2016, he joined Airbnb, and open sourced a framework that enables real-time data analysis and alerting at scale called StreamAlert. He managed a team of engineers further developing detection and response infrastructure at Airbnb. Now, he has left to start his own company, Panther Labs, to help companies stay secure in the cloud-first world.
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About Panther Labs: Panther Labs is a cloud-scale security analytics company that develops infrastructure security and compliance platform.
Carson Sweet
Co-Founder & CEO of CloudPassage
Carson Sweet is co-founder and chief strategy officer for CloudPassage. As founding CEO, Carson led the team that created Halo, the patented security platform that changes the way enterprises achieve infrastructure protection and compliance. Carson’s information security career spans three decades and includes a broad range of entrepreneurial, management and hands-on technology experience. Carson and his teams have created groundbreaking security solutions across a range of industries and public sectors, with heavy focus on financial services, federal government, and high-tech. Carson focuses on long-term product, technology, and business strategy as CloudPassage expands market share through existing and emerging cloud security solutions. He also serves as chairman of the CloudPassage board of directors.
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About CloudPassage: CloudPassage offers a server security and compliance platform that works seamlessly across data centers and elastic infrastructure.
Rehan Jalil
Founder, President and CEO of Securiti
Rehan Jalil is an Entrepreneur, Investor and Limited Partner in technology venture funds. Currently, he is the President, Founder and CEO of SECURITI.ai, the Cloud Services Security Company. He has been Venture Advisor at Mayfield Fund. Rehan Jalil is currently the CEO of SECURITI.ai. He was the SVP and GM for Cloud Security at Symantec, leading research and development for Cloud Security and helping to extend the reach of Symantec enterprise security products to cloud. Rehan came into Symantec with $4.7B acquisition of Bluecoat, where he ran cloud security. He came into BlueCoat via the $280M acquisition of Elastica, that he founded and ran as CEO. Elastica innovated CASB and drove it to become an important security category. Prior to that he was the founder and chief executive officer of WiChours, an innovator in deep packet inspection centered packet core, which was used to deploy some of the earliest 4G networks. WiChorus was acquired by Tellabs for $180M. Previously, he was Chief Architect at Aperto and helped innovate multicore processors at Sun Microsystems. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur finalist in 2010 and Top 25 Disruptor in 2015. He holds an AMP from Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Purdue University and a BS from NED University.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Patrick Coughlin
Co-Founder & CEO of TruSTAR
Patrick is a co-founder of ARTtwo50 where he focuses on community outreach and business operations. He is an MBA candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In his past life, he worked as a counterterrorism and security consultant for the US and allied governments in Washington DC, Afghanistan, the Middle East.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton, Global Security and Intelligence Strategies, Good Harbor Security Risk Management, LLC, Splunk, TruSTAR, Vango: TruSTAR is a cloud native Intelligence Management platform that transforms and automates data for security operations.
Vishal Bajpai
Co-Founder and CEO of SecureThings
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About SecureThings: SecureThings provides a real-time cyber security solution for the connected vehicles.
Karim Toubba
CEO of Kenna Security
Karim Toubba is an experienced security technology executive who is passionate about innovation, leadership and solving complex problems that matter. Before joining Kenna, he was Vice President of Global Security Channels at Juniper Networks. Karim also served as Vice President of Products and Strategy for SBU at Juniper, a billion dollar security business, where he led product management, strategy, and technical marketing. Karim has led products, strategy and marketing in security for both large companies and startups. At Ingrian Networks he drove the company to over $22M in annual revenue in a 30 month window that led to the successful sale to SafeNet Inc. Prior to that he ran the $850M global products and services group at Digital Island which was acquired by Cable and Wireless. Karim brings proven leadership and innovation to the security market with a focus on creating products that solve real world challenges yet form the foundation for lasting change. He is inspired by a fast moving entrepreneurial culture built on the pillars of innovation and focus. Karim is a frequent speaker on panels, events and media outlets including Fox Business Network and Bloomberg TV.
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About Kenna Security: Kenna is a SaaS risk and vulnerability intelligence platform that accurately measures risk and prioritizes remediation efforts.
Sundar Krish
CEO & co-Founder of Sken.ai
Sundar Krish is a Serial Tech Entrepreneuer. He is currrenlty the CEO and co-Founder of sken.ai. He was previously the CEO and Founder of a venture funded startup waygum.io
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About Sken.ai, Waygum, Inc.: Sken.ai, offers a “DevOps first AppSec”.
Michael Coates
Co-Founder & CEO of Altitude Networks
Michael is the former Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter. Previous roles include head of security for Mozilla, creator of Firefox web browser, and director of product security at Shape Security, a VC backed silicon valley startup that defends web applications against automated and bot attacks. Prior to these roles Michael spent many years providing security expertise to financial, enterprise, and telecommunications companies to analyze and strengthen their architecture and software applications. Michael also serves on the board of two nonprofit security organizations. Michael is the former chairman and a current member of the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) board of global directors, an international non-profit organization represented in over 100 countries focusing on advancing techniques, tools, and practices for securing critical applications. Michael also serves on the board for the Vendor Security Alliance, a coalition of companies committed to improving Internet security. Michael has been frequently sought out for security commentary from organizations such as Bloomberg West, Wall Street Journal, and Venturebeat. Michael has also been featured as one of SC Magazine’s Influential IT security minds. In addition to his work at Twitter and nonprofit organizations, Michael is a strategic advisor for several technology startups. Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer, Information and Network Security from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael resides in San Francisco with his wonderful wife, two children, and two dogs.
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About Altitude Networks, August Equity: Altitude Networks provides a cloud native DLP to protect Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace data from accidental loss or malicious theft.
Chris Logan
CEO of 3GO
Chris has more than 30-years of experience building and scaling communication and cloud data services. Most recently, he held executive positions with JustAnswer, providing on-demand professional services. Chris also served in Senior Executive positions in Health Technology, SweetSpot Diabetes Care (purchased by NASDAQ: DXCM), LiveOps, and Avaya (NYSE: AVYA). Chris received his B.S. Degree in Engineering with an emphasis in Control Systems from the University of California, Davis.
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About 3GO, Hoist Fund LLC, justanswer.com: 3GO is a personalized security service that protects members from fraud, helping them maintain their online safety.
Ani Chaudhuri
Cofounder & CEO of Dasera
At work: Ani’s professional journey started 17 years ago. Since then, he has worked at Fortune 500 companies (steel, food & technology). He has also founded a couple of technology startups: eCircle was acquired by Reliance, Opelin by Hewlett-Packard and most recently Whodini. The products that his teams have built have been used by nearly 5M users in 22 languages in 25 countries. Along the way, he has coauthored 7 patents; his undergrad work in Literature helped. He is also an MBA, a member of Sand Hill Angels and a charter member of TiE. At play: Ani has hiked the Grand Canyon rim to rim in summer, twice. Exhilarating madness. Someday, he plans to write a historical novel on the Indigo Movement of 1858.
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About Dasera, Foundation Capital: Dasera’s data security platform combines collaboration and automation to ensure data is protected from creation to deletion.
