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This list showcases the top California based Director operating in the Security space. If you think a Director 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.
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Ashwath Murthy
Senior Director of Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Jen Miller-Osborn
Deputy Director of Threat Intelligence – Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks
Jen Miller-Osborn is the Deputy Director of Threat Intelligence – Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Kyle Sanders
Director, Malware Research of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Sr Director & Product Marketing of Palo Alto Networks
Navneet Singh is the Sr Director & Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Charul Sadwelkar
Director Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Ivan Bojer
Director, Cloud Architecture, R&D: Developer Relations of Palo Alto Networks
Director, Cloud Architecture, R&D: Developer Relations @ Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Ronald Dodge
Senior Director, Security Engineering of Palo Alto Networks
Ronald Dodge is currently the Senior Director for Information Security Engineering at Palo Alto Networks – responsible for building and securing a global security information infrastructure. Ron has a diverse background spanning over 20 years including IT leadership in government, academia, and industry; leading innovation in IT infrastructure/services, security education, and cyber research. Ron served over 28 years in the US Army with military assignments ranging from combat duties in an attack helicopter squadron to the CIO for the United States Military Academy, West Point. Ron received his Ph.D. from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia in Computer Science.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Taylor Ettema
Sr. Director & Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Taylor Ettema is the Sr. Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Patrick Chang
Sr. Director of Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Patrick Chang is a Senior Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks, driving the overall product strategy for container security. He joined Palo Alto Networks via the acquisition of RedLock where he was Head of Products. Prior to RedLock, he’s held product management leadership positions at StackRox, Webroot, VMware and CA/Wily Technology, covering cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure and application/operations management.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Yousuf Hasan
Director, Cyber Security Solutions of Palo Alto Networks
Yousuf has 20 years of experience in the Network and Security industry. Yousuf has held various leadership roles in building Products, Solutions and Services in the Security, Cloud, Data Center and Networking domains.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Gurinder Singh
Director of Network Security Architecture of Palo Alto Networks
Gurinder Singh is the Director of Network Security Architecture at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Moinul Khan
Director, Product Management, Mobility of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Venkat Krishnamoorthi
Director of Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
John Martinez
Director of Cloud R&D / Developer Relations of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
John Martinez
Director of Cloud R&D / Developer Relations of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Don Ho
Managing Director of Quantstamp
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About Pioneer Fund, Quantstamp: Leaders in Blockchain Security
Daniel Kochis
Director of Global Business Development of SmartContract
Energetic self-starter with experience in business development, corporate development, strategic partnerships, account relationship management, and product management. Specialties: Sourcing strategic partnerships and M&A; evaluating partnership and acquisition opportunities; diligence and issue resolution, business case development; partnering with cross-functional teams; negotiating multi-million dollar contracts and partnerships; maintaining and managing multi-million dollar partnerships.
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About SmartContract: Smart Contracts verify an execute themselves by monitoring external data sources.
Arvind Gopalan
Sr. Director of Product Management of Lookout
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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.
Pritam Shah
Director of Platform Engineering of Lookout
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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.
Mark Sherman
Managing Director of Telstra Ventures
Mark joined Telstra Ventures as a Managing Director in 2012. Previously, he was a General Partner at Hidden Lion Partners, an emerging growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled services. Previously, he was a General Partner at Battery Ventures where he led the firm’s enterprise IT and India investment practices with investments in Coupa, Mformation, Neoteris, and Tejas. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Robertson Stephens & Company, where he ran its software investment banking practice working with companies such as BEA, HNC, Informatica, JD Edwards, Quest, and Siebel. Mark received his MBA from Harvard Business School and BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Telstra Ventures: Telstra Ventures invests in technology companies and offers synergy revenues to its portfolio companies.
Wesley Chan
Managing Director, General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Wesley Chan is a Managing Director and General Partner at Felicis Ventures. He founded Google Analytics and Google Voice, built Google’s early advertising system, built Google Venture’s early investment team, and holds 17 US patents for his fundamental contributions in designing many of Google’s most widely-used services. Wesley is an investor and coach to some of the world’s most successful startups. He led investment rounds and holds board or observer seats in Canva, Guild Education, Turvo, CultureAmp, Okera, Hyperscience, Guideline, and Dialpad. He also led investments in Ring (exited for $1B+ to AMZN), Flexport, Carta, Checkr, Gusto, ZipLine, Orca Bio, Whole Biome, Skip the Dishes (exited to Just Eats/JE), and YES (exited to TWTR). Wesley was also one of the earliest General Partners at GV (Google Ventures), where he built the investment team, led many of GV’s investments and held board or observer seats in Angelist, Aptelligent (exited to VMWare), iPerian (exited to BMS), and Dialpad. Wesley was also one of the first checks into Plaid, RobinHood, Gusto, Optimizely, HelloSign (exited to DropBox), DataPad (exited to Cloudera), Freshplum (exited to TWTR), Namo Media (exited to TWTR), and Parse (exited to FB). He is a recipient of Google’s Founders Award–the company’s most prestigious recognition–for leading the development of Google’s early client efforts, which led to the creation of Google Chrome. Wesley worked at HP Labs as a senior software engineer and as a sponsored fellow at Microsoft Research. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT where he completed his graduate thesis at the Media Laboratory. Technology Review magazine featured Wesley as a “Top 35 Under 35” innovator. Wesley’s accomplishments have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Fortune, and his story as a product founder is featured in Steven Levy’s best-selling Google book, “In The Plex.”
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Sundeep Peechu
Managing Director, General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Sundeep Peechu is a Managing Director, General Partner at Felicis. He’s currently excited about re-invention of security and insurance and further developments in crypto and machine learning. Investor in ActiveHours (Earnin), Counsyl, BitPay, Gigster, Ginkgo Bioworks, HealthIQ, Matterport, Plaid, Pindrop, Recursion, Spoke, Troops, Top Hat, Wish and a few others. Prior to joining Felicis in 2010, he held various product roles at Intel within the software division. Sundeep joined Intel through the acquisition of Sarvega, where he was an early employee responsible for the design of the security infrastructure. He also had brief stints at NEA where he focused on mobile and emerging markets and at Simbol Mining where he developed key initiatives around the production of battery materials. Sundeep has a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Earnin, Felicis Ventures, Pindrop, Top Hat: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Victoria Treyger
General Partner and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures
Victoria is passionate about building great brands and scaling revenue through innovative sales and marketing. She joined Kabbage because she loved the opportunity to leverage technology and data to transform how financial services are delivered to customers.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Don Butler
Managing Director of Thomvest Ventures
Don’s 20 year career spans a variety of roles with emerging growth technology companies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Apsalar, Avalanche, Axcient, Kabbage, Milyoni, Netbase, Vungle, and YottaMark. Don’s past investments have included FlashSoft (acquired by SanDisk), GuardianEdge (acquired by Symantec), and Okena (acquired by Cisco). Before joining Thomvest, Don led the Asian business development efforts for several start-up companies in the software and networking industries as part of his work with Asia Pacific Ventures. Previously, Don was an Analyst with Lehman Brothers, where he worked with clients in the software and semiconductor industries. Don received a B.A. in Chinese from UCLA and M.A.s in both East Asian Studies and Political Science from Stanford.
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About Thomvest Ventures: Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.
Kittu Kolluri
Co-founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.
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About Neotribe Ventures: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Aditya Singh
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Adit is a hands-on early stage company builder having helped build three startups with an operating career spanning 15 years before entering venture capital. From 2013 to 2017, he led the b2b/enterprise practice at Foundation Capital as a Partner investing across the stack from enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, analytics and cybersecurity. Adit graduated from University of Illinois (BS/MS in Computer Engineering) and from the University of Chicago (MBA). He started his career as an engineer at Growth Networks (a NEA/Lightspeed company) which was acquired by Cisco for $355m. At Cisco, he led the datacenter infrastructure team as a senior technical leader and delivered several products (converged servers, switches and edge routers) for data center infrastructure. He co-founded a networking appliance company, Bitsplay Systems that streamed video from data centers, out of the EIR program at Foundation Capital. In 2008, he joined Enphase Energy (networked solar microinverters), a Series A startup as their first product manager through IPO on the NASDAQ in 2012. When Enphase went public, Adit was Senior Director of Product Management and responsible for the main microinverter business. He is extremely connected in the the deeply technical circles of silicon valley and has the reputation of building companies from the bottom up by working hand in hand with founders.
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About Bloomreach, Cockroach Labs, Neotribe Ventures, Phantom: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Andrew Fenselau
Senior Director Of Product Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Matt Cowger
Senior Director, Global Solutions Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Matt Cowger
Senior Director, Global Solutions Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Wendell Wierenga
Member of Board of Directors of SRI International
Wendell Wierenga, Ph.D., joined SRI’s Board of Directors in 2014. Previously, he was executive vice president of research and development (R&D) of Santarus, Inc. from 2011 to 2014, executive vice president of R&D at Ambit Biosciences from 2007-2011, and executive vice president at Neurocrine Biosciences, which he joined in 2003. From 2000 to 2003, Wierenga was chief executive officer of Syrrx, Inc., a private biotech company specializing in high-throughput, structure-based drug design (sold to Takeda in 2004/5). Prior to joining Syrrx, from 1997 to 2000, he was senior vice president of worldwide pharmaceutical sciences, technologies, and development at Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert (now Pfizer). From 1991-1997, Wierenga was senior vice president of drug discovery and preclinical development at Parke Davis. Concurrent with his tenure there, he was vice president of Medtech Ventures, a Warner Lambert investment fund. Prior to Parke-Davis, Wierenga was at Upjohn Pharmaceuticals for 16 years, where his last position was executive director of discovery research. Wierenga led and/or participated in the R&D of more than 70 Investigational New Drug (IND) disclosures, more than 15 New Drug Applications (NDAs), and 16 marketed products, including Lipitor®, Neurontin®, Lyrica®, and Uceris®. Wierenga serves on the following public company boards: Xenoport, Inc., Cytokinetics, Inc., Apricus Biosiences, Inc., Concert Pharmaceuticals, and Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. He also serves on the scientific advisory boards of Ferring Research Institute, aTyr Pharma, and Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, and is an ongoing advisor to WibiWorks Pharmaceuticals and the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University.
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About : SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Karen Myers
Lab Director Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International
Karen Myers is Director of SRI International’s Artificial Intelligence Center and an SRI Fellow. Dr. Myers’ research interests include autonomy, multi-agent systems, automated planning and scheduling, intelligent assistants, and privacy. She has led the development of several AI technologies that have been successfully transitioned into operational use in areas that span robotics, text understanding, collaboration tools, task management, and end-user automation. Myers has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford, a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the University of Toronto, and a degree in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Paul Chang
Director of Design of SRI International
Paul Chang, Ph.D., is Director of Design at SRI International and has over two decades of experience in the areas of product management, design strategy and user-experience design. At SRI, Paul provides user experience guidance to startups and large corporations for technology-intensive products. Previously, Paul served as Chief Product Officer at Otto Radio, a personalized (AI and human-curated) podcast and news service, recently acquired by Ximalaya FM of China. Prior to joining SRI, he consulted for corporate and startup clients including DataRobot, Immuta, Medidata, SolarWinds and Volkswagen.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Reenita Hora
Director, Marketing & Communications of SRI International
Reenita Malhotra Hora is SRI International’s Director of Marketing & Communications. She works directly with the SRI executives to communicate SRI’s strategic goals and objectives to drive storytelling around next generation technologies. Before joining SRI, Reenita was VP of Content for Otto Radio/Ximalaya FM, and prior to that she was an anchor, editor and producer for Bloomberg Radio. She was an award-winning producer for RTHK Radio 3 in Hong Kong and has also produced several broadcasts for the BBC. Over the course of her career, she has contributed to CNN, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the South China Morning Post, the Hindu and has authored seven books (fiction and non-fiction). She is a regular speaker on content, marketing and communications strategies for tech, health care and financial companies, and also for digital literary platforms. Her background as an Ayurveda Clinician and coach has led her to teach clinical programs at the University of California schools, California Pacific Medical Center and Hong Kong University’s Li Ka Shing School of Medicine. An entrepreneur at heart, she founded, built and subsequently sold Ayoma, an Ayurvedic self-care product line and the Ayoma LifeSpa, a premier Ayurvedic wellness spa. Reenita holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Economy from Williams College and a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Hong Kong.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Nick Sturiale
Managing Director of Ignition Partners
Nick Sturiale joined Ignition as managing partner in 2013, after more than 25 years of experience developing startups, both as venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Prior to Ignition, Nick spent three years at JAFCO Ventures as a general partner, where he invested in companies such as Reputation.com, Bill.com and Delphix. Prior to JAFCO, Nick spent eight years at Sevin Rosen Funds, where he incubated and led first investments in companies such as XenSource, which was acquired by Citrix Systems (CTXS) for $500 million; Splunk (SPLK), the leading public company in “big data”; and Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), a leading SaaS vendor in file collaboration. Nick also worked at The Carlyle Group as a managing director and co-head of its Silicon Valley office. Prior to venture capital, Nick spent twelve years as a software entrepreneur. He was founding CEO of Timbre Technologies, a manufacturing-analytics software company, which won the 1999 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition and was acquired by Tokyo Electron for $138 million in 2001. Currently he serves on the board of directors of Splunk, Hightail, Vuclip, StrongLoop and BlueData. Nick holds a BS degree in economics from California State University, Chico, and an MBA with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a frequent guest lecturer.
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About Ignition Partners: Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
Christian Rohrer
Senior Director of Design of McAfee
Christian Rohrer is the Senior Director of Design at McAfee.
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About McAfee, Nielsen Norman Group, XDStrategy: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Sreenu Pillutla
Sr. Director, Software Engineering of McAfee
Sreenu is a Sr. Director of Software Engineering at McAfee, LLC. In this role, he leads Mobile and IoT security and mobile threat research. Prior to this, he managed different groups at McAfee that include Consumer SaaS, core products, data warehouse, product integrations and partner delivery. He holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from India and MBA from Santa Clara 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.
Kimberly Alexy
Member of the Board of Directors of FireEye
Kimberly has served as a member of the board of directors since January 2015. She has served as the principal of Alexy Capital Management, a private investment management firm that she founded, since June 2005. Kimberly has served on the board of directors of CalAmp Corp. since May 2008 and the board of directors of Five9, Inc. since October 2013. She previously served on the board of directors of SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc. from September 2009 to August 2011, the board of directors of SouthWest Water Company from August 2009 to September 2010, the board of directors of Dot Hill Systems Corp. from December 2005 to May 2010, and the board of directors of Maxtor Corporation from June 2005 to May 2006. From 2012 to 2014, Kimberly served as an adjunct lecturer at San Diego State University in the Graduate School of Business. From 1998 to 2003, she served as senior vice president and managing director of equity research for Prudential Securities, where she served as principal technology hardware analyst for the firm. Prior to joining Prudential, Kimberly served as vice president of equity research at Lehman Brothers, where she covered the computer hardware sector, and assistant vice president of corporate finance at Wachovia Bank. Kimberly is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and holds a B.A. in psychology from Emory University and an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance and accounting from the College of William and Mary.
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About Alexy Capital Management: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Barry Vengerik
Technical Director of FireEye
Barry Vengerik is a Principal Threat Analyst with FireEye iSight Intelligence. With over a decade of experience investigating nation-state sponsored advanced persistent threat activity, as well as some of the most advanced financial motivated threats encountered by Mandiant incident responders. Barry has contributed to research on FIN4, a threat group targeting non-public financial information for insider trading advantage, FIN5, attackers targeting the hospitality industry using the RawPOS malware suite to steal over 200,000 credit cards, and now FIN7 – one of the most advanced and successful financially motivated attackers identified by Mandiant and FireEye iSight Intelligence. He is based in California.
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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.
Sunil James
Senior Director, Security Engineering of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Abhishek Shukla
Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Abhishek Shukla leads the team currently focused on finding investment and acquisition opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Enterprises, Big Data Analytics, Cloud and other technologies associated with GE Current portfolio. Prior to joining GE Ventures, Abhishek was a member of Cisco’s Corporate Development & Ventures Investments team leading Security and Services portfolio and was involved in multiple acquisitions & investments. In his earlier career, Abhishek has held leadership positions in M&A, Strategy and Sales in Agilent, Sony and SAP while living and working in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India and the US. Abhishek holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communications engineering from Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) and a MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Alan Ni
Director, Smart Spaces & IoT at Aruba of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Alan Ni is the Director of Smart Spaces & IoT for Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, with over 15 years of technology and financial expertise with mobile computing. Alan’s team is responsible for developing Aruba’s Smart Spaces and digital workplace strategy. He joined Aruba in 2014 from Goldman Sachs where he was Vice President of Technology Infrastructure for the firm’s mobile app development initiatives and worldwide mobility infrastructure.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Garry Orsolini
Director of Technology – HP Education Services of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Kunal Agarwal
Sr Director & Product Management of Forcepoint
Kunal Agarwal is a Senior Director of Product Management at Forcepoint since 2020.
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About Dope Security, Forcepoint, NortonLifeLock: Forcepoint empowers organizations to concentrate on what’s most important to them while automating routine security tasks.
Mike Jones
Senior Director of Product Management of Agari
Mike’s mandate is creating great products and growing the Agari Email Trust Network. Prior to Agari, Mike managed AOL’s Network Operations Center from 1997–2004. In 2005, Jones took responsibility for directing AOL’s Anti-Spam Operations and Postmaster. From 2005–2010, he helped drive the adoption of email authentication and reputation technologies at AOL and across the industry. Jones has represented AOL as a member of the Board of Directors for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and other cross industry initiatives.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Patrick Dietzen
Director of Operations of Orchid Labs
Patrick Dietzen brings many years of early stage tech venture executive experience and expertise. He is passionate about building businesses that apply cutting edge technology and innovation to create positive social impact. Patrick has played founder and executive roles in a variety of technology companies including founding and serving as President of advanced materials company Sirigen, which successfully commercialized flagship technology developed at the University of California Santa Barbara that applied novel conducting polymer materials for fluorescent biomarker detection in healthcare diagnostics and was subsequently acquired by Becton, Dickinson & Co. The inventors of Sirigen’s technology included Alan J. Heeger, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of conductive polymers. Sirigen serves as a notable success story for commercialization of a materials innovation out of a university lab. In addition to other roles he has led business development at SaurikIT, a software company that grew from a start to $10MM in revenues and 30+ million users of its mobile app store in just a few years. Patrick specializes in launching and building new enterprises involving the commercialization of cutting edge science and technology.
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About Orchid Labs, SaurikIT LLC: Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet.
Alex Craig
Director Of Engineering of OneTrust
Alex Craig is Founder @ App Advice.
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About OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
John Offenhartz
Senior Director, Integrations of OneLogin
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About OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Konrad Augustin
Investment Director and Head of ECI US of Future Energy Ventures
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About Future Energy Ventures: Future Energy Ventures is a Venture capital and collaboration platform that brings together corporate partners and start-ups.
Elfredy Cadapan
Managing/Manager of Engineering, Director of Product Development of OpenVPN
Elfredy Cadapan is Managing/Manager of Engineering at OpenVPN
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About OpenVPN: OpenVPN Technologies provides premier VPN security software and web-scale VPN service based on open source innovation.
Andrew Proctor
Director of IT Operations of OpenVPN
Andrew Proctor is Group Leader of Operations at OpenVPN
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About OpenVPN: OpenVPN Technologies provides premier VPN security software and web-scale VPN service based on open source innovation.
Robert Stefanski
Co-Founder and Managing Director of eLab Ventures
Robert Stefanski is an entrepreneur with deep operational and board experience in the software, mobile and Internet markets. He was on the founding management team of TIBCO Software, where he served as the Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, General Counsel and Secretary. As a member of TIBCO’s executive management team, Bob had broad responsibility for day to day business operations from its founding in 1997 to its emergence in the early 2000s as one of the leading enterprise infrastructure software companies in the world. TIBCO remains a world leader today in enterprise infrastructure software, with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion. Bob left TIBCO in 2008 to more actively pursue his passion as an advisor and board member for Silicon Valley early stage startups. He began his career as an attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City, where he represented technology, media and entertainment companies in a broad range of matters. He joined Reuters 1996 as Director of Intellectual Property. He has also been involved with the UM Center for Entrepreneurship since its inception in 2007 and currently serves on its Board of Directors as well as being a mentor at the student startup incubator, TechArb. In addition to his work with Michigan eLab, he is a partner with the international law firm Reed Smith in its Silicon Valley office. Bob is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Graduate School of Engineering. He has an undergraduate degree in computer science/mathematics from Northern Michigan
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About eLab Ventures: eLab Ventures is an early stage technology venture capital fund.
Rick Bolander
Co-Founder and Managing Director of eLab Ventures
Rick Bolander is a General Partner at Michigan eLab Venture Fund. Rick has been a private investor since 1988 launching Blue Sky Ventures, a real estate investment firm, and entering the venture capital industry in 1994 at Apex Venture Partners where he was general partner. In 1999, he co-founded Gabriel Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in and assists information technology startups. Rick identifies the smartest entrepreneurs and works side-by-side with them to build highly successful companies from the ground up. Rick has been involved in more than 50 venture deals, and has led over $100 million in early-stage financings and has had over $200 million in realizations. Rick has served on the boards of AccessLine Communications (acquired by Telanetix), Arula Systems (acquired by Raritan), Concord Communications (IPO – NASDAQ: CCRD), Exodus Communications (IPO – NASDAQ: EXDS, then acquired by Savvis), IPWireless (acquired by Nextwave), Jacked (acquired by Roundbox), Neopath (acquired by Cisco), NetScaler (acquired by Citrix Systems), Persistent Systems (IPO – BSE India: PER EQ), Placeware (acquired by Microsoft) Tut Systems (IPO – NASDAQ: TUTS), and Chegg (IPO – NYSE:CHGG). Education MBA – Harvard Business School MS – Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan (full fellowship) BS – Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan (with honors)
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About eLab Ventures: eLab Ventures is an early stage technology venture capital fund.
Jonathan Penn
Director of Strategy of Avast
Jonathan is Director of Strategy at Avast Software, with responsibilities spanning corporate strategy, M&A, business development, and market research. Jonathan joined Avast from Forrester Research, where he served as Vice President and Research Director for Security & Risk Management. Jonathan received his M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and his B.A. in Mathematics from University of Pennsylvania.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Jonathan Penn
Director of Strategy of Avast
Jonathan is Director of Strategy at Avast Software, with responsibilities spanning corporate strategy, M&A, business development, and market research. Jonathan joined Avast from Forrester Research, where he served as Vice President and Research Director for Security & Risk Management. Jonathan received his M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and his B.A. in Mathematics from University of Pennsylvania.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Filip Chytry
Technical Sales Director of Avast
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About Avast, ENISA: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Filip Chytry
Technical Sales Director of Avast
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About Avast, ENISA: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Alex Marquez
Global Managing Director, Experian Ventures of Experian
Alex launched Experian Ventures in 2016 and is currently the Global Managing Director and a member of Experians Investment Committee. As a leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to our clients around the world, we invest in data/analytics, information security, healthcare, automotive and the broader financial services ecosystem. The Experian Ventures portfolio of investments includes AireLabs, AxiaMed (acq), BankBazaar, Hyphen, Bonify, C88, Canopy, Cazana, Grab, InfoSum, Madaket Health, Finicity (acq), Grab (GRAB), Jirnexu, Infosum, Machinify, Nav, PlaceIQ, RecargaPay, Salary Finance, Stackin, TrueData, and TrueAccord. We have invested more than $225m across the globe since inception in 2016. Previously, Alex served as Executive Vice President at Nantmobile, part of the Nantworks family of companies, building novel consumer mobile applications in health, wellness, and computer vision. Alex was Managing Director with USAA’s Corporate Development Group and a member of USAA’s Executive Management team and built USAA Ventures into one of the most active FinTech CVC after his first year. Alex created USAA’s Blockchain Working Group and investment thesis in blockchain [according to CBInsights, USAA was recognized as the first bank/insurance company to invest in blockchain technologies] and was responsible for the groups investments in Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Saffron (acq by Intel), and CafeX, ExpectLabs (acq by Cisco), while establishing USAA’s venture brand in Silicon Valley. Alex was a Director with Intel Capital, the world’s largest corporate venture group having invested over $14B globally. During his tenure with Intel Capital, Alex managed or co-managed investments in Atom Entertainment (acquired by Viacom), BlackArrow (acquired by Cross Mediaworks), ChannelM (acquired by PlayNetwork), Gametrust (acquired by Real Networks), Gaikai (acquired by Sony), Envivio (Nasdaq: ENVI), Kabam (acquired by Netmarble), K2 Network (acquired by RHI), Trymedia (acquired by Macrovision), The Generations Network (Nasdaq: ACOM), SixApart (acquired by SayMedia), and Synacor (Nasdaq: SYNC). In addition, Alex was co-founder and CEO of AppScotch, which brought transparency to paid mobile advertising. AppScotch was acquired by AppAnnie in 2016. Alex has served as a mentor to Plug&Play Silicon Valley and numerous other startups and accelerators/incubators. Alex has served as an advisor to ProSieben – the second largest media company in Germany; supports Purdue University mentorship program (SV BIG); and was a member of UNLV’s Engineering Advisory Board. Alex has served as an advisor to Gamestop Corporation, Playspan (acquired by Visa), and he has also served as an advisor and mentor to dozens of early stage companies and global corporate venture groups. Alex was previously an advisor to the NVCA’s Corporate Venture working group.
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About Experian, Experian Ventures: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Karim Chehade
Investment Director, Experian Ventures of Experian
Karim Chehadé is an Investment Director at Experian Ventures, where he is responsible for identifying, sourcing, and investing in companies developing innovative consumer and business solutions for data creation, analytics and machine learning and information security. Prior to his role on the venture team, Karim was the Director of Small Business and Transactional Services for Experian’s Business Information Services unit, where he held responsibility over Experian BIS’ small business platforms, products, and services, and managed products and partnerships involving user-permissioned data. Prior to joining Experian, Karim held product management, strategy, and management consulting roles at Disneyland.com, Google, and Accenture, respectively. He has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and degrees in Economics and Spanish from Cal State University, Northridge.
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About Experian, Experian Ventures: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Steve Wagner
Managing Director, Experian Decision Analytics of Experian
Steve Wagner is Global Managing Director, Experian Decision Analytics. Steve joined Experian in 2005 and has led a wide range of businesses including Consumer Information Services in North America, Credit Services, Marketing Services, and Consumer Services in Brazil and the now divested global Cross Channel Marketing business. Steve represents Experian on the board of the US Data and Marketing Association, and serves as Chairman of the Experian social innovation fund. Prior to joining Experian, Steve was General Counsel of ERisk, a risk and capital management software company owned by JP Morgan Partners. Before that, Steve was a corporate transactional lawyer in New York and London with the global firm of Clifford Chance. Steve has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts and a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Aaron Suplizio
Director, Online Lending & Fintech of Experian
Aaron is responsible for leading go-to-market strategy and operations for Experian’s Fintech and Insurance verticals. He works closely with online lending startups, the venture capital community and Experian’s sales, product and marketing teams to fuel innovation and growth for companies building exciting new businesses within Financial Services. Before joining Experian, Aaron spent 5 years at Line 6, a venture-backed music technology firm where he held various leadership positions in product and marketing. Prior to that, Aaron worked at Analysis Group, one of the largest privately-held economic consulting firms where he supported top academic experts in the areas of intellectual property, securities fraud, and antitrust litigation in the software and pharmaceutical industries.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Michael Delgado
Director of Social Media & Community Engagement of Experian
Michael is the senior manager of social media and public relations at Experian, North America, and teaches social media courses at the University of California Irvine extension school. He leads content strategy and community building efforts on Experian social channels and loves using live-streaming social platforms (Periscope, G+ Hangouts) to help consumers and businesses.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Jennifer Johnson
Director of Global Marketing Programs of Informatica
Jennifer P. Johnson is the Director of Global Marketing Programs at Informatic.
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About Informatica, San Jose State University: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Dino Boukouris
Director & Founding Member of Momentum Cyber
Dino Boukouris has spent almost 14 years in the technology industry with expertise in cybersecurity, finance, strategy, operations, entrepreneurship, venture capital and engineering. Dino has been a speaker at Cybersecurity conferences across the country including Structure Security, Global Cyberspace Coop Summit, IoT Security Panel, M&A East 2017, as well as at numerous private events and corporate gatherings. Dino is a Founding Member & Director at Momentum Cyber, alongside Founders Dave DeWalt, Michael Tedesco and Eric McAlpine. Momentum Cyber is the premier trusted strategic advisor to the Cybersecurity industry, providing bespoke high-impact advice combined with tailored senior-level access from incubation to exit. Prior to Momentum Cyber, Dino was a Founding Member & Director of Momentum Partners, the precursor to Momentum Cyber, alongside Founders Eric McAlpine and Michael Tedesco. Prior to Momentum Partners, Dino spent much of his career working with and advising venture-backed and bootstrapped start-ups, including Cameron Health a medical device start-up which created the world’s first subcutaneous implantable defibrillator and was ultimately acquired by Boston Scientific for $1.35B. Prior to Cameron Health, Dino began his career with GKN, a multinational aerospace and automotive company, where he was one of ten graduates selected from across the United States for their International Leadership Development Program. Additionally, Dino is currently a top rated Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business. Since 2013 Dino has been a lecturer, GS instructor and mentor for the MBA, EWMBA and Executive MBA program for Venture Capital and Private Equity, Business Model Innovation, Entrepreneurial Strategy, and Managerial Economics. Dino has also served as an Advisor to a number of Bay Area accelerators such as the Alchemist Accelerator, Intel Technology to Market Accelerator, National Science Foundation Innovation Corps, and Lean Launchpad. In his “spare” time, Dino received his MBA with Honors from UC Berkeley, where he was President of his MBA program, a Haas Venture Fellow, a Turner Fellow, a Dean’s Scholar and chair of Venture Capital Connect. Dino also graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he entered the Honors Program and was a Lawrence D. Corlett Scholar, an Engelbrecht Scholar and a David Aspland Scholar. Dino lives in San Francisco, and when he is not busy working on or advising entrepreneurial ventures, he spends much of his time either in the kitchen or traveling the globe with his better half.
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Endeavor, Momentum Cyber, Momentum Partners, RSA Conference, UC Berkeley, Haas Business School: Momentum Cyber is a financial advisory firm that provides mergers and acquisitions and strategic advice to the cybersecurity industry.
Keith Skirbe
Director & Founding Member of Momentum Cyber
Keith Skirbe is a seasoned M&A, strategy and operations professional with over 15 years experience in investment banking and 3 years experience as entrepreneur and Chief Operating Officer. Keith is highly passionate about Cybersecurity, having spent the past 10 years working with and advising founders, CEOs and Boards across the Cybersecurity industry. Keith is a Founding Member and Director at Momentum Cyber, alongside Founders Dave DeWalt, Michael Tedesco and Eric McAlpine. Momentum Cyber is the premier trusted strategic advisor to the Cybersecurity industry providing bespoke high-impact advice combined with tailored senior-level access from incubation to exit. Keith has extensive M&A transaction experience advising on and executing transactions with ADT, Fortinet, Gigamon, Proofpoint, Mimecast, Juniper Networks, CenturyLink, AVG Technologies and many more. Prior to Momentum Cyber, Keith was a Founding Member and Director of Momentum Partners, the precursor firm to Momentum Cyber. Prior to Momentum Partners, Keith was a founding member of Bridge Street Advisors, a boutique M&A and strategic advisory firm focused on the Software sector, alongside his former colleagues from Bear Stearns’ Software Investment Banking Group. At Bridge Street, Keith advised and worked with private and public companies on corporate development and M&A initiatives, including corporate / M&A strategy development, M&A transaction execution and pre / post merger integration. Earlier in his career, Keith held investment banking positions at Bear Stearns, FT Partners and SG Cowen. Keith started his career on Wall Street at NationsBank/BofA in the Asset-Backed Securitizations and Global Debt Private Placement Groups. Keith was an entrepreneur and served as Chief Operating Officer of Orbis Payment Services, a merchant services startup. At Orbis, Keith led the company through a significant restructuring, managed an outside salesforce and was responsible for new business development efforts.
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About Momentum Cyber: Momentum Cyber is a financial advisory firm that provides mergers and acquisitions and strategic advice to the cybersecurity industry.
Nandini Dutt Javagal
Director Of Engineering of Proofpoint
Nandini Javagal is the director of engineering at Proofpoint.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Matt Vlasach
Director of Product of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Veerender Kaul
Director of Frost & Sullivan
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About Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Farah Saeed
Research Director, Digital Grids of Frost & Sullivan
Farah Saeed is an industry expert with nearly 20 years of consulting, project management and fulfillment expertise focused on power and energy equipment and services. Saeed currently serves as Research Director Digital Grid. In her current role, Saeed works closely with OEMs to validate market opportunities and assess risks, providing a deep understanding of business issues facing mature as well as emerging energy markets and technologies. She also specializes in forecasting models and customer survey designs centered on regional and geographic trends, while keeping a pulse on disruptive trends and technologies that are influencing the competitive environment. Saeed’s industry expertise includes extensive experience in high-growth and emerging power and energy devices, such as transmission and distribution equipment. This includes IT/OT, power distribution equipment, demand side management, home automation, smart meters, related network infrastructure, and distributed generation.
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About Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Mahendra Ramsinghani
Managing Director of Secure Octane
Investor / advisor in leading security startups such as Icebrg (backed by Madrona, Formation8) Kryptnostic (backed by Index Ventures, Harrison Metal, Felicis Ventures) and Attivo Networks (backed by Bain Capital). As seed investor, invested in over fifty seed startups. Led the efforts for development of Fund-of-Funds legislation which deployed $200 million in VC Funds. Author of two books: (1) “The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies” (Wiley Finance, 2011) (2) Co-author of “Startup Boards” with VC Brad Feld. (Wiley, 2014). Co-founder of 3D Biomatrix, a life sciences tools startup. Recognized by Wall Street Journal Technology 2012 Innovation Awards (chosen among 536 entries).
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About Accurics, CloudKnox Security, Cobalt, CyberGRX, CYRUS, DataDistillr, DeepSee.ai, Intrigue Corporation, NeuraLegion, PolyScale, Query.AI, Section, Secure Octane, Sevco Security, Strike Graph, Tigera: Secure Octane is a cybersecurity seed fund that introduces investors, security architects, and thought leaders to improve businesses.
Howard A. Bain III
Member of the Board of Directors of Norse
Howard has served on our board of directors since October 2012. Since 2004, Mr. Bain has been an independent consultant in all aspects of corporate finance. Mr. Bain has served as Chief Financial Officer at several public companies including: Portal Software, Inc. from 2001 to 2004, Vicinity Corporation in 2000, Informix Corporation from 1999 to 2000, and Symantec Corporation from 1991 to 1999. Prior to that, he served as a Senior Audit Supervisor at Arthur Andersen LLP, where he was a certified public accountant. He is also a Governance Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors. Mr. Bain has served on the board of directors of Nanometrics, Inc. since April 2008, Learning Tree International, Inc. since 2001, as well as Nok Nok Labs, Inc. a private venture capital financed company. Mr. Bain holds a B.S. in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University. Mr. Bain’s significant Board, financial and operational expertise, including his experience as Chief Financial Officer at several public companies, as well as his experience in various technology companies in the areas of semiconductor devices and manufacturing equipment, laser-based large screen projection systems, and computer disk drives is directly relevant to Violin’s business and his responsibilities to the Board.
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About Learning Tree International: Norse provides internet security intelligence solutions to e-commerce and enterprise clients.
Diane Domeyer
Managing Director of Robert Half International
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About Robert Half International: Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Frederick Richman
Board of Director of Robert Half International
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About : Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Andrew Berwick
Board of Director of Robert Half International
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About : Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Marc Morial
Board of Director of Robert Half International
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About : Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Barbara Novogradac
Board of Director of Robert Half International
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About : Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Robert Pace
Board of Director of Robert Half International
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About : Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Keith Berwick
Founding Executive Director, Henry Crown Fellowship Program of The Aspen Institute
Keith Berwick is founding Executive Director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program and the inaugural recipient of the Keith Berwick Chair on Leadership at the Aspen Institute. In this capacity, he serves as a consultant to the Henry Crown Fellowship, the Aspen Global Leadership Network and other programs of the Aspen Institute. Keith is also an Emmy Award-winning television broadcaster, and principal of Berwick Communications, Inc., a newspaper and communication consulting company. Keith has taught at various universities, including UCLA and the Claremont Graduate School. He has been associate editor of Pacific Historical Review and editor of New Management magazine. Among his published works are The American Revolutionary Experience, 1776-1976 and The Federal Age, 1789-1829: America in the Process of Becoming. He is currently at work on The Search for an American Hero, a book on the American presidency.
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About The Aspen Institute: The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC.
Alan Paller
Founder & Director of Research of SANS Institute
Alan Paller founded SANS, a college and training school that has trained more than 145,000 cybersecurity technologists in 72 countries. Paller oversees a global program that celebrates people responsible for remarkable improvement in cyber-risk reduction. He has testified before the Senate and House and was a charter member of the President’s National Infrastructure Assurance Council. In 2010, the Washington Post named Paller as one of seven people “worth knowing in cyber security.” He serves on the NASA Advisory Council, chaired the DHS 2012 Task Force on Cyber Skills and headed the FCC Task Force on Best Practices in Cybersecurity. Earlier, Paller helped build one of the first large software companies, took it public and merged it into a larger company listed on the NY Stock Exchange.
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About SANS Institute: SANS Institute is a research and education organization that provides education related to information security.
Justin Keller
Director of Advanced Programs & Military Space of Lockheed Martin
Justin Keller is Director of Advanced Programs & Military Space at Lockheed Martin.
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About Lockheed Martin: Lockheed Martin is a security company engaged in the research, development, and manufacture of advanced technology systems and products.
Josh Pederson
Global Product Marketing Director of Malwarebytes
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About Malwarebytes: Cybersecurity solution that protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware, and exploits
Thomas Reed
Director of Mac & Mobile of Malwarebytes
Thomas Reed has been a Mac user since 1984, and is a self-taught developer and security researcher. He is the founder of The Safe Mac and creator of the AdwareMedic adware removal tool for Macs. He is currently Director of Mac & Mobile at Malwarebytes, where he directs product development and Mac security research. His hobbies include hiking and photography, and he is happily married with four children.
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About Malwarebytes: Cybersecurity solution that protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware, and exploits
Robert Ackerman
Founder & Managing Director of AllegisCyber
Robert Ackerman is the Founder of Allegis Capital and currently sits on the Boards of Apprion, PureWave Networks and DriverSide. His prior investments include LGC Wireless, IronPort Systems (CSCO), iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ), Comparnet (MSFT), StepUp Commerce (INTU) and Classroom Connect (ENL). Mr. Ackerman uses his fifteen plus years of general management, venture capital and strategic mergers and acquisition advisory experience to support the firm’s technology start-up companies. Prior to Allegis Capital, his operating experience includes the CEO of UniSoft Systems (a world leading UNIX systems house operating in the U.S., Europe and Asia) and the founder and Chairman of InfoGear Technology Corporation (the first internet appliance company; acquired by CISCO in 2000). Mr. Ackerman has been named as one of the Top 100 technology investors by both Forbes Magazine and AlwaysOn. He is a leading advocate and authority on matters related to collaboration between start-up companies, venture capital firms and strategic corporate investors. Mr. Ackerman chairs the annual Corporate Venturing and Innovation conference, and he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributor to publications on matters related to venture capital, innovation, security and public policy related to economic development. Mr. Ackerman is a member of the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco-based Asian Art Museum. He is also an instructor on subjects related to venture capital and new venture finance at the University of California’s Haas Graduate School of Business at Berkeley and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.
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About AllegisCyber, DataTribe, Founders Equity Partners, Global Cyber Innovation Summit, Media Technology Ventures: AllegisCyber invests in early stage companies developing technology and software to serve emerging markets.
Spencer Tall
Managing Director of AllegisCyber
Spencer joined Allegis Capital in 2004 as Managing Director. Previously, Spencer was a co-founder and General Partner with APV Technology Partners for three funds over 10 years. In addition, Spencer is a co-founder of Asia Pacific Ventures, a consulting and advisory service firm where, over a 13-year period, he assisted more than 50 technology companies in their Asia expansion plans. This included technology licensing, fundraising, and distribution arrangements. Spencer has acted as a strategic advisor to global companies including Motorola, Sony, Fujitsu, Samsung, Canon, TDK and Dacom. Prior to founding APV, Spencer, a fluent Japanese speaker, oversaw US sales operations for Marubun Corporation, a Japan-based billion-dollar components trading company. He also worked as a sales manager with GRE America, Inc., a Japanese contract manufacturer, serving U.S. corporations’ outsourcing efforts. Spencer serves on the boards of IMVU, Allegiance, Symplified, and AvaLAN Wireless. Spencer earned a B.S. in Political Science and Japanese from Brigham Young University.
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About AllegisCyber: AllegisCyber invests in early stage companies developing technology and software to serve emerging markets.
Pete Bodine
Managing Director of AllegisCyber
Peter Bodine is a Managing Director at Allegis Capital. Prior to Allegis he was a co-founder with APV Technology Partners. Mr. Bodine’s key area of focus is growing early-stage technology companies, and using the Allegis Capital network of corporate contacts to help leverage marketing channels and accelerate revenues for the portfolio. Prior to Allegis, Mr. Bodine worked at Asia Pacific Ventures, a consulting and advisory service firm. Through Asia Pacific Ventures, Mr. Bodine advised large Asian companies including Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, and NTT. Mr. Bodine sits on the Boards of AdventureLink, Axcient, and iBAHN. Prior investments include Ribbit, BUYandHOLD, Fatbrain.com, Dynamic Pictures, ShareWave, and Versata. Mr. Bodine also has broad experience helping start-up and established companies develop business plans, recruiting senior personnel, and procuring and structuring debt and equity funding via strategic alliances with corporate partners. Given his excellence in venture investing, Mr. Bodine was a member of the Forbes Midas list in 2006 and 2007, a ranking of the world’s top-tier venture and technology investors. Mr. Bodine holds an MBA from the University of Utah and a BS degree from Brigham Young University.
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About AllegisCyber: AllegisCyber invests in early stage companies developing technology and software to serve emerging markets.
Kirk Hall
Director Policy and Compliance – SSL of Entrust Datacard
Kirk Hall is operations director for Trust Services at Trend Micro, a global leader in cloud security which creates Internet content security and threat management solutions that make the world safe for businesses and consumers to exchange digital information. With more than 20 years of experience, Trend Micro is recognized as the market leader in server security for delivering top-ranked client, server, and cloud-based security solutions that stop threats faster and protect data in physical, virtualized, and cloud environments. Hall’s responsibilities include Trend Micro’s SSL digital certificate authentication operations, as well as regulatory and audit matters. He previously served in similar roles at GeoTrust and was a co-founder of certification authority AffirmTrust, which was acquired by Trend Micro in 2011. Hall has also practiced as a business attorney in Oregon and served as CEO of a professional liability insurance company for many years. Hall has been a frequent speaker at RSA and other conferences on SSL and related security matters. He holds an A.B. degree from Harvard College, a Master’s degree in economics and resource use from Yale University, and a J.D. degree from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College.
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About CA Security Council, Entrust Datacard: Entrust Datacard provides technologies to establish trusted identities and conduct highly secure transactions.
Shobie Ramakrishnan
Member, Board of Directors of Remediant
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About : Remediant provides enterprises with Privileged Access Management (PAM) software to help them protect their accounts from misuse and abuse.
Christopher Jones
Member, Board of Directors of Remediant
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About : Remediant provides enterprises with Privileged Access Management (PAM) software to help them protect their accounts from misuse and abuse.
Melissa Ho
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Office, Science & Technology Directorate of U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Melissa Ho is the Managing Director for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley operations. She is responsible for engaging entrepreneurs and innovators to help them better understand DHS’s mission and widen the pipeline of technologies addressing our most difficult homeland security challenges. Ms. Ho has been at S&T since September 2004 serving in several positions, including as the S&T Cyber Security Division Business Operations Manager, S&T Borders & Maritime Security Division Business and Finance Manager, Program Manager for several cargo security projects, and Program Support Contractor. Prior to joining S&T, Ms. Ho served as a project engineer in the Research, Development & Evaluation Branch of the DHS Customs & Border Protection’s Applied Technology Division. Ms. Ho holds a B.S. in Cognitive Science, specializing in Neuroscience, from the University of California at San Diego and a M.S. in Systems Engineering from George Washington University.
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About U.S. Department of Homeland Security: U.S. Department of Homeland Security is a Cabinet department of the United States federal government that focuses on homeland security.
Parimal Kopardekar
Director of NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI) of NASA
Parimal Kopardekar (PK) manages NASA’s Safe Autonomous System Operations project, which is focused on autonomy/autonomicity in civil aviation, as part of the Airspace System Program (www.aeronautics.nasa.gov). He directs air traffic management related research, and manages R&D portfolio. He serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Aerospace Operations. Journal covers operations from the perspective of airlines, airports, airspace, and aircraft manufacturers.
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About NASA: NASA is responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
Julia Yrani
Director, Global Strategic Alliances of Synack
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About Synack: Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that utilizes augmented intelligence to discover and secure vulnerable applications.
Ken Gonzalez
Managing Director of NightDragon Security
Ken Gonzalez is the Managing Director at NightDragon.
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About Momentum Cyber, NightDragon Security: NightDragon Security is a cybersecurity-focused VC firm investing in innovative growth and late stage companies.
Oshri Kaplan
Investment Director of Munich Re Ventures
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About Munich Re Ventures: Munich Re Ventures is the strategic venture capital arm of Munich Re.
Jacqueline LeSage Krause
Managing Director of Munich Re Ventures
Jacqueline LeSage Krause is the founder and Managing Director of Munich Re Ventures. Jacqueline has 20+ years of experience creating the future in companies large and small. Most recently, she led the Innovation Management practice at Jump Associates, a 15 year old boutique growth strategy & innovation consulting firm. Prior to that, as VP of Innovation & Corporate Venture Capital at The Hartford, she founded the team that invested in start-ups and incubated new businesses, including launching The Hartford’s first vehicle telematics offerings for consumers and commercial fleets and IoT efforts in the cold chain and other B2B areas. In 2011, her team received Global Corporate Venturing’s award for Best Practices in Financial Services for their unique approach to combining investing and incubation. Jacqueline is an inventor on a number of patents related to new technologies and business models in insurance. She previously served on the advisory board for the National Venture Capital Association’s Corporate Venture Group.
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About Munich Re Ventures: Munich Re Ventures is the strategic venture capital arm of Munich Re.
Matt McElhattan
Investment Director of Munich Re Ventures
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About Munich Re Ventures: Munich Re Ventures is the strategic venture capital arm of Munich Re.
Brian Proctor
Director of SecurityMatters
Brian has spent most of his career (13+ years) as an ICS/SCADA cybersecurity engineer and cybersecurity team lead working for two progressive California Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs). He holds a variety of technical certifications, including the Global Industrial Control System Professional (GICSP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), and is certified in project management from University of California at Irvine. In 2013, Brian was presented with the Critical Infrastructure Private Sector award from Securing our eCity, a San Diego based cybersecurity non-profit organization. In 2016, Brian was a co-inventor of a R&D magazine top 100 award winner for one of the top inventions of the year relating to a GPS anti-spoofing mitigation technology.
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About ForeScout Technologies, SecurityMatters: SecurityMatters is a security company that develops and sells network monitoring, intelligence, and protection technology.
Louis Taddeo
Director Of Business Development of Thales Group
Louis M. Taddeo is the Director of Business Development for Thales Visionix, Inc. (TVI), a leader in providing Helmet Mounted Display (HMD) solutions for the defense and commercial marketplaces . Mr. Taddeo has a highly accomplished career leading both business development and program management disciplines for commercial aircraft, propulsion systems, missile systems and advanced avionic cockpit displays. While TVI provides precision tracking solutions to support our HMD business we also provide tracking solutions covering many facets of the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) industries including enabling technologies such as MEMs based IMUs and hybrid inertial/optical tracking systems.
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About Thales Group: Thales is a technology in the aerospace, transportation and defense and security markets.
Joseph L Baggio
CTO / Founder & Director of DirectRM
As an entrepreneur, Baggio has built and managed highly effective sales and marketing organizations, created strategic alliances, launched new products, services, and marketing campaigns in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Canada and Latin America. Joe developed “Direct Authenticator” Secured Remote Access SSL/VPN, helping Banks Manage and Create NPN Toxic Asset Portfolios. Intrusion Detection, Vulnerability Assessment, Denial of Service, File & Folder Protection, Port Scanning, Web Page Scanning and Network Scanning for protection against internal and external intruders are just some other applications developed by Baggio. He has designed numerous secure networks in the internal corporate world and in e-commerce environments. Baggio has a BA from Boston University; he is certified Computer Forensics Professionals in California and has studied Criminal Law at Harvard School of Law. Mr. Baggio also holds an MBA in Business Management from the University of Southern California
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About DirectRM: Direct Risk Management is a Software Development company whose purpose is to address one of the most pressing computer security .
Tamir Greenberg
Sr. Director of Sales of SecureCircle
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About SecureCircle: SecureCircle delivers Zero Trust DLP for Endpoints
Dan Berte
Director, IoT of Bitdefender
Dan accelerates Bitdefender’s recognition as leader and innovator in the Internet of Things with Bitdefender BOX and its revolutionary IoT security technologies. Bitdefender helps coin the industry definitions of IoT and IoT security in this fragmented space. He previously lead the design and product experience at Bitdefender. His team designed, built and shipped Bitdefender BOX, a revolutionary device that protects all devices in the smart home. Prior to Bitdefender Dan had a key role in developing Vodafone Romania’s online assets and founded the first free WiFi hotspot network in Europe. Dan holds a B.Sc. degree in economics from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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About Bitdefender, Bitdefender: Bitdefender is a global security technology company that provides advanced threat protection to both business and consumer customers.
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Director of Sales Operations of Anomali
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Director of Vehicle Security of Cylance
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