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This list showcases the top California 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ryan Tseng
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Shield AI
Ryan Tseng is Shield AI’s Co-Founder and CEO. Prior to founding Shield AI, Ryan founded and led a series of other successful technology companies, including WiPower, a wireless charging company that was acquired by Qualcomm. The technologies Ryan and his WiPower team created launched the magnetic resonance wireless power industry; technology pioneered by WiPower now forms the cornerstone of the Airfuel (previously, Rezence) wireless charging standard that has been adopted by over 200 companies including market leaders Samsung, Intel, and Verizon. Ryan earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Florida and his MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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About Shield AI: Building the world’s best AI pilot.
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.
Syed Ali
CEO, President, & Founder of Cavium
Syed B. Ali is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors since the inception of the company in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Ali was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, a communication chip company of which he was a founding management team member. Malleable Technologies was acquired by PMC Sierra, a communication IC company in 2000. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Ali was an Executive Director at Samsung Electronics where he started the Flash memory and CPU businesses and put together the business plans that drove sales in each line to over a $100M in less than two years. Prior to that, he had various positions at Wafer Scale Integration, a division of SGS-Thompson, Tandem Computer, and American Microsystems. He received a BSEE from Osmania University, in Hyderabad, India and an M.S.E from the University of Michigan.
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About Alif Semiconductor, Cavium: Cavium Networks develops and markets semiconductor processors for intelligent and secure networks.
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.
Jad Boutros
CEO, Co-Founder of TerraTrue
Jad is the CEO and co-founder at TerraTrue. Previously, he was the Chief Security Officer at Snap Inc where he led security, privacy engineering and spam and abuse. Jad worked at Google for over 9 years conducting application security reviews, developing robust security defenses, and managing security. Jad holds a Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from McGill University and a Master’s in computer science from Stanford University.
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About TerraTrue: TerraTrue is a privacy platform designed to work with product development.
Brad Brooks
President and Chief Executive Officer of OneLogin
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About Censys, OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Francis Dinha
Founder & CEO of OpenVPN
Francis Dinha has been key in orchestrating growth at OpenVPN Technologies, by building a viable business model to assure the Company’s continued success. Before he founded OpenVPN Technologies, Inc., he was the CEO at Iraq Development and Investment projects where he played a principal role in architecting a joint venture to win the mobile communication license in Iraq and syndicated $50 million in equity and debt financing from various entities. He was also the founder and CTO of PacketStream, Inc. where he secured more than $5 million in equity financing. Francis Dinha has a master of science in computer engineering from the University of Linkoping in Sweden.
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About OpenVPN: OpenVPN Technologies provides premier VPN security software and web-scale VPN service based on open source innovation.
Garrett Larsson
Co-founder & CEO of Rhombus Systems
Garrett is currently the co-founder and CEO of Rhombus Systems which provides cloud managed video security to enterprises. Previously, Garrett co-founded Mojave Networks which specialized in web and mobile security and was later acquired by Sophos. Before Asurion, Garrett co-founded Lumitrend which was sold to Asurion and became Asurion Mobile Applications. Garrett has a BS from Stanford University.
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About Rhombus Systems: Rhombus provides cloud managed video security for enterprises that is intelligent and doesn’t require complicated servers or NVR’s.
Jack Wu
Co-Founder & CEO of Nightingale Security
Jack Wu joined Nightingale Security as Co-Founder & CEO in 2014.
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About Nightingale Security: Nightingale Security is a autonomous drone solution in aerial robotic security.
Balaji Parimi
Founder & CEO of CloudKnox Security
Balaji Parimi is Founder and CEO of CloudKnox Security, a Cloud Security company that empowers organizations to manage identity privileges across private and public cloud infrastructure. Prior to founding CloudKnox, Balaji was VP of Engineering and Operations at CloudPhysics, Staff Engineer at VMware, Architect and Technical Lead at 8X8, and Senior Software Engineer at Quality Call Solutions.
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About CloudKnox Security: CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities.
Matthew McRae
Chief Executive Officer of Arlo
Matthew McRae is the CEO of Arlo.
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About Arlo, Cove Fund, Okapi Venture Capital, Unlock Venture Partners: Arlo provides security and video monitoring solutions for homes.
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.
Gabriel Halimi
Co-Founder & CEO of Flo Technologies
Gabriel is a former law partner turned corporate operations executive, with extensive startup experience, including in business development and brand marketing.
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About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
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.
Abhi Sharma
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Relyance AI
Entrepreneur, Advisor, Angel Investor, Enterprise SaaS, Machine Learning, Compilers
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About Relyance AI: Manage privacy, data governance, and compliance operations seamlessly, all on a single, intuitive platform.
Ram Varadarajan
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
Anand Prahlad
Founder and CEO of Parablu
Anand is Founder & CEO at Parablu Inc. Anand has over 25 years of experience building Enterprise software solutions and has a unique mix of security and storage DNA. He was previously Head of McAfee’s R&D Center in India and served there as Managing Director while also leading Engineering for all of McAfee’s Data Center product engineering teams as Vice President. Previously, as Sr Vice President of Worldwide Product Development at Commvault, he was part of the management team that led Commvault to a successful public offering in 2006. Anand claims several patents relating to storage and data management.
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About Parablu: Parablu is a Secure Data Management solution for enterprises – with a focus on Data Privacy.
Ayal Yogev
CEO and co-founder of Anjuna
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About Anjuna: Anjuna enables organizations to securely embrace the cloud by leveraging confidential computing technologies without changing applications.
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 Walters 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 Irvine, CA with his wife and three 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.
Gary Steele
CEO of Proofpoint
Gary Steele is the Chief Executive Officer at Proofpoint since November 2002. Gary brings a broad range of enterprise software experience to the company. Before joining Proofpoint, Gary served as the Chief Executive Officer at Portera, an applications company delivering solutions for the professional services industry. Under Gary’s leadership, Portera raised more than $100M in capital from some of the leading venture capitalists including Kleiner Perkins, IVP, and American Express and grew the business from its initial concept to $20M in revenue. Prior to Portera, Gary served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Middleware and Data Warehousing Product Group at Sybase, Inc., an organization of more than 350 people, spanning four geographies and generating $150M in revenue. In this capacity, Gary initiated and spearheaded all new Internet projects targeted at the enterprise. Gary’s prior experience includes business development, marketing and engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Gary holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington State University.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Liam McCarty
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Unum ID
Liam McCarty is the Co-Founder of Unum ID, a startup backed by Samsung and selected as a TechCrunch Top Pick. I’m a Stanford Physics alum and a scientist at heart. The sociopolitical context of technology fascinates (and worries) me; I wrote about it in my book Data and Power. I love to write music in my free time.
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About Be Heard, Unum ID: Unum ID is the ID card network.
Aidan McCarty
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Unum ID
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About Be Heard, Unum ID: Unum ID is the ID card network.
Ashley Leonard
President/CEO of Syxsense
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About Syxsense: IT management and security solution that combines Vulnerability Scanning, Patch Management and EDR capabilities
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
Tom Bachar
Founder & CEO of Pei
Tom Bachar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pei, an app for automatic retailer cash back, in bitcoin or cash, on existing credit and debit cards. Originally from Los Angeles, Tom moved his startup to Austin to participate in the Sputnik ATX accelerator during the January 2018 batch. Tom met his co-founder, Michael Jannain, in college while the two studied Finance and Computer Science and worked together to trade derivatives based on data set strategies. This passion ultimately led them to explore solutions for making finance work for people in convenient ways. Prior to Pei, Tom led Financial DevOps at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and was pivotal in merging the Global Delivery Department with Computer Science Company into what is now DXC, a Fortune 500 enterprise IT company. Six months since moving their startup to Austin, Pei has the largest merchant support for cashback rewards and the team has been growing exponentially with expertise from Anaconda, Uber, and JP Morgan. Having currently raised their Seed round, Pei has disintermediated the card rewards market and is on track to innovate an archaic industry.
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About Pei: Unlock automatic cashback in Bitcoin or USD on your debit or credit cards!
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.
Himanshu Dwivedi
CEO/Founder of Data Theorem
Himanshu Dwivedi is the CEO/Founder at Data Theorem, Inc.
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About Data Theorem: Data Theorem was built on 18 years of experience in the information security & privacy industry.
Micah Winkelspecht
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Gem
Micah Winkelspecht is the CEO and Founder of Gem, a simple and secure platform for blockchain developers. Gem’s mission is to empower individuals to be in control of their digital assets, starting with bitcoin. An active Bitcoin community organizer and thought leader, Micah regularly speaks, moderates, and hosts at Bitcoin and startup events, and is co-organizer of the Los Angeles Bitcoin meetup group of over 1,000 members. Micah is also a significant contributor to the Bitcoin developer community as the author of MoneyTree, a popular open-source library used to create Bitcoin wallets and the first Ruby implementation of a Bitcoin HD wallet. Prior to his contributions to the Bitcoin world, Micah spent 10+ years developing software for companies including AT&T Interactive, Guide Financial and Pose.
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About Gem: Gem is one of the most trusted cryptocurrency and blockchain brands in the world.
Christina Cacioppo
CEO of Vanta
Christina Cacioppo is the chief executive officer of Vanta.
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About Vanta: Vanta is an automated security monitoring platform that helps companies get SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 certified quickly.
