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This list showcases the top California based Founder operating in the Cyber Security space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
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- 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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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.
Nir Zuk
Founder & CTO of Palo Alto Networks
Nir Zuk founded Palo Alto Networks in 2005 and has served on the board since its inception. Nir brings a wealth of network security expertise and industry experience to Palo Alto Networks. Nir is a former EIR at Greylock Partners, a successful serial entrepreneur and a network security expert. Prior to co-founding Palo Alto Networks, Nir was CTO at NetScreen Technologies, acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004. Prior to NetScreen, Nir was co-founder and CTO at OneSecure, a pioneer in intrusion prevention and detection appliances. Nir was also a principal engineer at Check Point Software Technologies and was one of the developers of stateful inspection technology.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Yuming Mao
Founder, Chief Architect of Palo Alto Networks
Mr. Yuming Mao founded of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in 2005 and serves as its Chief Architect. Mr. Mao has an extensive knowledge of platform architecture and a proven track record. He served as Chief Architect and a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks, which he joined through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition. At NetScreen, he served as one of the initial engineering architects. Throughout his time at NetScreen and Juniper, Mr. Mao was actively involved in defining the hardware and software architecture of NetScreen’s industry-leading firewall/VPN platforms. He also served as a senior engineer at SAP Labs.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Kevin Mahaffey
Co-Founder & CTO of Lookout
Kevin Mahaffey began building (and breaking) software at eight years old and it has been a love affair ever since. Currently, he is CTO and Founder of Lookout. Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, Lookout is a cybersecurity company that protects mobile devices for tens of millions of individuals and more than 150 enterprises globally. Kevin was featured as one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and is a frequent presenter at technology and industry events, including: Blackhat, DEFCON, RSA, Web Summit, CeBIT, and the World Economic Forum. An active investor, Kevin has invested in more than 60 startups, focusing on enterprise software and technology-driven transformation of large markets. When he’s not helping build startups, he’s an avid kitesurfer, photographer, and snowboarder.
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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.
John Hering
Founder & Executive Chairman of Lookout
John is Executive Chairman and Founder of Lookout, responsible for driving the company’s long term vision and success together with Jim and the rest of the executive team. He is an entrepreneur with a vision of creating a more secure world in the post-PC era and has grown Lookout’s footprint to tens of millions of users globally across consumer, enterprise, and government sectors. Top publications have recognized John as an industry leader and innovator. BusinessWeek named John a Best Young Tech Entrepreneur, Fortune named him a Smartest Person in Tech, the editors of MIT Tech Review dubbed John a 35 Under 35 entrepreneur and Fortune Magazine included John on its list of 40 Under 40 entrepreneurs. John is a frequent presenter at mobile and technology industry events including: RSA, Mobile World Congress, Black Hat Technical Security Conference, DEFCON, and Fortune Brainstorm. Additionally, John is an investor in dozens of technology startups focused on the areas of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, and transportation technologies. John studied Public Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California.
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About Coalition, Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
Mitchell Hashimoto
Founder of HashiCorp
Mitchell Hashimoto is best known as the creator of Vagrant, Packer, Terraform and Consul. Mitchell is the founder of HashiCorp, a company that builds powerful and elegant DevOps tools. He is also an O’Reilly author. He is one of the top GitHub users by followers, activity, and contributions. “Automation obsessed,” Mitchell solves problems with as much computer automation as possible.
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About HashiCorp, O’Reilly: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Tomer Weingarten
Co-Founder and CEO of SentinelOne
Tomer co-founded SentinelOne in 2013. He is responsible for the company’s direction, products, and services strategy. Before SentinelOne, Tomer led product development and strategy for the Toluna Group as a VP of Products. Prior to that he held several application security and consulting roles at various enterprises, and was CTO at Carambola Media.
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About Forbes Technology Council, SentinelOne: SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection that prevents, detects, and responds to attacks across all major vectors.
Moxie Marlinspike
Founder & CEO of Signal Messenger
Moxie Marlinspike is the founder of Signal and Open Whisper Systems. He is a renowned cyber security expert and cryptographer. Moxie is known for his in-depth research of online privacy and anonymity issues. Moxie is also a member of the Institute for Disruptive Studies, and was formerly the Director of Product Security at Twitter.
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About Signal Messenger: Signal is an encrypted communications application for Android and iOS that focuses on advancing secure communications.
Matt Ocko
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Matt has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matt is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.
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About AngelList, Archimedes Capital, DCVC, Uber: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Zachary Bogue
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Zack has over a decade of experience in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, lawyer, angel investor and advisor for big data startups. Zack is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. Zack also is a cofounder and managing partner of Founders Den, a shared workspace for experienced technology entrepreneurs. He was previously an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a law partner at Virtual Law Partners, where he worked with numerous start-ups and their founders, and developed expertise in technology law and Silicon Valley business practices.
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About aWhere, Cask, Citus Data, Cotendo, DCVC, Founders Den, Montara Capital Partners, Square, The World Economic Forum, Uber: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Aydin Senkut
Founder & Managing Partner of Felicis Ventures
Aydin Senkut is the Founder and Managing Partner of Felicis Ventures. An original super angel turned multi-stage investor, he has been named on the Forbes Midas List for the past seven years (2014-2020) as well as the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists list for the past four years (2016-2019). His recent focus areas include consumerization of enterprise, security, cloud optimization, and longevity. He is well-known as an early backer of a number of iconic companies including Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Rovio (HEL:ROVIO), Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Credit Karma (acquired by Intuit), SoundHound & Vicarious. Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google’s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products, and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals. Before joining Google, Aydin was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet at SGI. He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an avid pilot, loves playing tennis, and speaks five languages: English, German, French, Portuguese, and Turkish.
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About Felicis Ventures, Guideline, Paravision: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Dasha Maggio
Partner & Head of Founder Success of Felicis Ventures
Dasha Maggio is the Partner and Head of Founder Success at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
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.
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.
Steven Bragonier
CFO and Co-Founder of Neotribe Ventures
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About Gainspeed, Neotribe Ventures: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
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.
Eli David
CSO & Co-Founder of Deep Instinct
Eli David CTO Deep Instinct is the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity. Existing solutions are limited in their protection: identifying only known threats or covering specific platforms, while exhibiting detection capabilities that are time consuming and far from optimal. As a result, there is a critical need for a new solution that can protect against brand new (zero-day) threats and sophisticated APT attacks in real-time. By applying deep learning, Deep Instinct brings a completely new approach to cybersecurity, offering the same level of groundbreaking results that are exhibited when deep learning is applied to other domains such as computer vision. Dr. Eli David is one of the leading global experts in the field of computational intelligence, specializing in deep learning (neural networks) and evolutionary computation. He has published more than thirty papers in leading artificial intelligence journals and conferences, mostly focusing on applications of deep learning and genetic algorithms in various real-world domains. For the past ten years, he has been teaching courses on deep learning and evolutionary computation at Bar-Ilan University, in addition to supervising the research of graduate students in these fields. Dr. David has also served in numerous capacities successfully designing, implementing, and leading deep learning based projects in real-world environments. Dr. David is the developer of Falcon, a grandmaster-level chess playing program, which automatically learns by processing datasets of chess games. The program reached the second place in World Computer Speed Chess Championship 2008 relying solely on machine learning for its performance. Dr. David received the Best Paper Award in 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, the Gold Award in the prestigious “Humies” Awards for Human-Competitive Results in 2014, and recently the Best Paper Award in 2016 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.
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About Deep Instinct, DeepCube, Nano Dimension: Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity, offering zero-day attack protection.
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.
Yves Sisteron
Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Upfront Ventures
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About Upfront Ventures: Upfront Ventures is the venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology companies.
Eric Benhamou
Founder & General Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures
Eric Benhamou is the CEO and founder of Benhamou Global Ventures, LLC. Benhamou Global Ventures, started in 2003, invests and plays an active role in innovative high tech firms throughout the world. He is an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD. He is also a visiting professor at IDC Herzliya’s Arison School of Business. He served as chairman of the board of directors of Palm, Inc. from 1999 until 2007 and as chief executive officer of Palm from 2001 until 2003. Benhamou served as chief executive officer of 3Com Corporation from 1990 until 2000 and as chairman of the board of directors until its sale to HP in April 2010. Previously, he held a variety of senior management positions at 3Com. In 1981, Mr. Benhamou co-founded Bridge Communications, an early networking pioneer, and was vice president of engineering until its merger with 3Com in 1987. In 2003, Eric Benhamou was appointed to the Joint High Level Advisory Panel of the U.S.- Israel Science and Technology Commission by U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans. He currently serves as chairman of the board of Cypress Semiconductor and as a member of the board of RealNetworks, Inc and of Silicon Valley Bancshares. He serves on the board of directors of several privately held companies. He is the chairman of the Israel Venture Network, a venture philanthropy organization for a stronger Israeli society. Eric Benhamou received a Masters degree from Stanford University’s School of Engineering. He also holds a Diplome d’Ingénieur and a doctorate from Arts et Metiers ParisTech.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, IDC Herzliya: Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
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
Stepan Ilyin
Co-Founder & COO of Wallarm
Stepan is a co-founder of Wallarm, Y Combinator-backed company, which provides AI-driven security for modern applications and APIs.
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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.
Jakob Ehrensvard
CTO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Built his first computer at the age of 15, self-employed software and hardware engineer since 19, designed the security system for Sweden’s largest nuclear plant at 25. Leading inventor of the YubiKey and FIDO/WebAuthn standards.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication 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.
Bjoern Zinssmeister
CEO & Founder of Templarbit
Bjoern is the Co-Founder and CTO of Design Inc. He is best known for his work with building community platforms like Match and Synack. Bjoern has spent more than a decade as a software engineer and built two venture backed startups from the ground up. Prior to Design Inc. Bjoern worked as a mobile lead for Match Group (Match, Tinder, OKCupid) and was instrumental in helping Match establish their labs office in San Francisco prior to their IPO and acquisition of OK Cupid. Bjoern went on to lead engineering at YCombinator backed Userfox, which was later acquired by Adroll. In September of 2013 Bjoern joined Synack as their Director of Engineering and helped to build up their engineering team from the ground up, helping the company to grow and raise successful A and B rounds. Originally from Germany, Bjoern graduated from the Trier University of Applied Sciences with a degree in Computer Science before moving out to San Francisco to pursue his work with startups.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Elias Manousos
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RiskIQ
Elias is a recognized expert in Internet security and fraud prevention. He has been developing and delivering enterprise protection technologies for more than 15 years. As CEO of RiskIQ, he has spearheaded a new approach that helps Internet, financial services, healthcare, media and consumer packaged goods companies protect their brands from online fraud. Elias is also co-chair of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Anti-Malvertising Working Group and is responsible for Malvertisements.com, the first and only public database documenting malvertising incidents on a continuous basis. Prior to RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), which pioneered identity and access management for web applications. At Securant, he was instrumental in creating now-commonplace technologies for single sign-on (SSO) security.
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
David Pon
Founder & Developer of RiskIQ
David has been developing service provider-scale web applications for more than 15 years. He is responsible for the development and delivery of new innovations at RiskIQ. Previously, David held key application development positions with some of the Internet’s leading employment, digital marketing and hosting platforms including Monster, iCrossing.com and Bigstep.
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About iCrossing, RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Gidi Cohen
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Skybox Security
Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies, Gidi Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Gidi Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Gidi Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
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About Skybox Security: Skybox Security is a global leader in security analytics for cybersecurity management.
Sumit Agarwal
Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Management of Shape Security
Sumit Agarwal is a Co-Founder of Shape Security, Inc. and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and later advised on cyber policy. He led mobile product management for Google. He is a former US Air Force Reserve Officer. Sumit Agarwal also co-founded Quova.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Justin Call
Co-Founder of Shape Security
Justin Call is co-founder of Shape Security. Prior to Shape Security, Justin was VP of Engineering at Oakley Networks.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Tomer Schwartz
Co-Founder of Armis Security
Tomer Schwartz Co-Founder and CTO at Dazz
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About Armis Security, Dazz: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Nadir Izrael
Co-Founder and CTO of Armis Security
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically in unit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
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About Armis Security, Cyberstarts: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Alex Doll
Founder and Managing General Partner of TenEleven Ventures
Alex Doll is the Co-Founder and Managing General Partner at Ten Eleven Ventures.
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About Cado Security Ltd, CyberGRX, Darktrace, Digital Shadows, Drizly, GoSecure, Immuta, Ionic Security, KnowBe4, Offensive Security, Optiv, Ordr, Revelock, TenEleven Ventures, Vulcan Cyber: TenEleven Ventures is a venture capital company that focuses on cybersecurity startups.
Charles Yeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Persona
Charles Yeh is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology 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.
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.
Matt Kraning
Co-Founder & CTO of Expanse
Matt is an expert in large-scale optimization, distributed sensing, and machine learning algorithms run on massively parallel systems. Prior to co-founding Qadium, Matt worked for DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Matt holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, all from Stanford 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.
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.
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.
Poornima DeBolle
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Menlo Security
Poornima DeBolle is co-founder and chief product officer of Menlo Security. Previously, as a product management executive at Juniper Networks, she was responsible for cloud security, security management, and security analytics. Poornima joined Juniper via its acquisition of Altor Networks where she was the VP of product management and business development. Prior to Altor, she was head of business development at Check Point where she also held product management and engineering roles. Poornima holds an MSCS from Arizona State University.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Gautam Altekar
Co-Founder & Chief Architect of Menlo Security
Gautam Altekar is co-founder and chief architect at Menlo Security. Previously, he was the chief architect at Safely Inc., a Berkeley spin-off that he started with Professor Dawn Song to develop and commercialize isolation security technology that is now at the heart of Menlo Security’s offering. Prior to Safely, Gautam was a graduate student at UC Berkeley where he got his PhD in deterministic replay systems and published several papers at the intersection of cloud computing, operating systems, and program analysis.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Patrick Peterson
Founder & CEO of Agari
Patrick Peterson is Agari’s visionary Founder and CEO, who has spent more than 15 years securing the email ecosystem. Peterson founded Agari in 2009, when he saw a real need in the industry for a solution that would secure the email channel. Under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, he has developed the company’s industry-changing security platform that now protects many of the world’s largest enterprises from email threats. Prior to Agari, Peterson joined IronPort Systems and invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Jayanth Gummaraju
CEO & Co-Founder of Banyan Security
Jayanth Gummaraju has over a decade of experience in inventing, designing and building complex computer systems. Prior to founding Banyan, Jayanth worked at VMware where, along with a couple of colleagues, he started VMFork (Instant Clone) and Serengeti (Big Data) projects, and invented some of the key technologies powering vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) and vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE). He holds many patents and has published several papers in top tier conferences in the areas of distributed systems, virtualization, and security. He is also a recipient of several awards related to innovation throughout his academic and professional career. Jayanth received his PhD from the Computer Systems Lab. at Stanford University, MS from Univ. of Maryland, College Park, and BE from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Banyan Security: Banyan Security provides a zero trust network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Yoshio Turner
CTO & Co-Founder of Banyan Security
Yoshio Turner has deep experience in architecting and building reliable, scalable, and secure systems. Prior to founding Banyan, Yoshio was a Principal Research Scientist at HP Labs in the Networking and Mobility Laboratory. Over 15 years at HP Labs, he led projects in the areas of software-defined networking, virtualization, and data center system architecture, resulting in business unit tech transfers, several peer-reviewed publications and presentations at top venues, and over 30 granted patents. Yoshio received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, and B.S. summa cum laude in Computer Science & Engineering, all from UCLA.
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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.
Jason Hoenich
Founder and Chief Product Officer of Habitu8
Jason is a recognized leader in the security awareness industry, having built and run the awareness training programs for some of the world’s largest media companies including Disney and Sony Pictures.
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About Habitu8, Habitu8: Habitu8 mission is to educate and empower every enterprise worker to protect themselves and their company from cyber security threats.
Brian Fox
Technology Co-Founder of Orchid Labs
Brian is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, consultant, author, and free software advocate. He’s the creator of the GNU Bash shell, which he wrote while working for the Free Software Foundation (FSF). In addition to GNU Bash, Brian also created GNU Makeinfo, GNU Info, GNU Finger, GNU Echo, and the readline and history libraries during his time at the FSF. Brian also built the first interactive online banking software in the U.S. for Wells Fargo in 1995, and is known for his work creating an open source election system in 2008.
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About Cocoon, Orchid Labs: Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet.
Shankar Somasundaram
CEO & Founder of Asimily
Shankar Somasundaram is currently the CEO of Asimily. Asimily is a data driven, non-invasive medical device monitoring solution for healthcare providers and medical device manufacturers solving for asset management, risk, cybersecurity and operational use cases. Previously Shankar led the Internet of Things business unit at Symantec. In this role, he oversaw the Enterprise Internet of Things business unit that focused for multiple verticals, including Healthcare, Industrial Control Systems (manufacturing, utilities, etc.) and Facilities (buildings) . Before that Shankar was part of the business and corporate development teams driving deals in the enterprise storage and security space. Prior to joining Symantec, Shankar held engineering, strategy and product management roles at companies like Qualcomm, InterDigital and British Telecom. Shankar also established and operated startups in enterprise software and security arenas and holds 50+ granted patents across networking and security.
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About Asimily: Asimily’s IoMT risk remediation platform holistically secures the mission-critical healthcare devices that deliver safe and reliable care.
Rishi Bhargava
Co Founder of Demisto
Rishi Bhargava is the Co Founder of Demisto.
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About Demisto, Palo Alto Networks: Demisto Enterprise is a security operations platform that combines intelligent automation and collaboration into a single ChatOps interface.
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.
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.
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.
David Hindawi
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Tanium
David Hindawi is CEO and Chairman of the Board of Tanium Inc., a Berkeley-based enterprise software company. An accomplished entrepreneur and inventor, Hindawi holds a number of software patents. In 1997 he founded a leading systems management company, BigFix, Inc., with the mission of making enterprise desktops, laptops and servers run more securely and efficiently. BigFix was acquired by IBM in 2010. Prior to founding BigFix, Hindawi held several executive management roles, including serving as CEO of Software Ventures, a market leader in telecommunications software. Hindawi founded Software Ventures and led the company to its acquisition. Hindawi holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial and Management Engineering from the Technion, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Tanium: Tanium is a security and systems management platform allowing real-time data collection at an enterprise scale.
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.
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.
Lior Rozner
Co-Founder & CTO of Twingate
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About Twingate: Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
Alex Marshall
Co-Founder & CPO of Twingate
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About Quartzy, Twingate: Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
Ray Kruck
Founder and CEO of Tugboat Logic
Ray Kruck cofounded Nexgate in 2011 with a breakthrough platform to help brands discover, monitor, and secure their social presence. Nexgate was acquired by Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT) as their largest acquisition in 2014. Prior to Nexgate, Ray held executive and leadership positions in corporate development, strategy, and sales at Check Point Software, Websense, and Voltage Security (acquired by HP). Since Nexgate, Ray cofounded Pointgrey Partners, an early-stage venture investment firm focused on deep technology plays that drive competitive disruption in enterprise and life science markets. Ray is passionate about helping founders build go-to market ecosystems that enable leveraged sales models with strategic partners. Ray is a University of Toronto B.Comm graduate and holds an MBA from University of British Columbia.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Tugboat Logic: Tugboat Logic address the skills and expertise gap in the security and compliance industry.
Michael Tedesco
Founder & Managing Partner of Momentum Cyber
Michael Tedesco is one of the top technology dealmakers of his generation, with over 20 years experience advising CEOs and boards of companies both large and small at all stages of their lifecycle. He has advised on 100+ completed M&A transactions with aggregate value in excess of $125 billion. Before founding Wellspring, Michael was the Head of US M&A and Global Technology M&A at Jefferies. He held a similar role at Citi Global Markets until 2010 in addition to serving as co-head of Americas Technology Banking. Michael has experience particularly in special situations advisory assignments, with complex Founder / Board / Investor dynamics. Such advisory roles were recognized five times for the IDD Technology Deal of the Year. Through Wellspring Growth Partners, he is an active direct investor in and advisor to disruptive companies across the technology and consumer products spectrum. Investments include FIGS, Westward Leaning, WriteLab, EnerAllies, The Influential Network, Duckworth Wool Co, Peep, Geoscale and MoxTV. Before earning his MBA Michael was a Project Engineer at Conoco and played a major role inthe Polar Lights joint venture, the first oilfield development project in Russia involving an American firm. Harvard MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar and John Loeb Finance Fellow) and BSci Industrial Engineering Montana State University
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About Momentum Cyber, Wellspring Growth Partners: Momentum Cyber is a financial advisory firm that provides mergers and acquisitions and strategic advice to the cybersecurity industry.
Eric McAlpine
Founder & Managing Partner of Momentum Cyber
Eric McAlpine has spent over 20 years in the Technology industry as a strategic advisor to Boards, Founders & CEOs, a two-time founder, and award-winning engineer. He is a highly sought out speaker on the Cybersecurity market at major industry conferences, private events, and corporate gatherings sharing insights into M&A, capital markets, and industry trends. Eric is a Founder & Managing Partner at Momentum Cyber a firm he co-founded in 2018 along with Dave DeWalt and Michael Tedesco. 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. Eric is one of the top dealmakers in the Cybersecurity industry with a prolific M&A track record advising on and orchestrating deals with industry leaders such as ADT, Symantec, McAfee, Proofpoint, Mimecast, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Amazon, CenturyLink, Google, Intel, and many more. Prior to co-founding Momentum Cyber, Eric was Founder & Managing Partner of Momentum Partners, the precursor to Momentum Cyber. Earlier in his career, Eric served as a Managing Director with Blackstone where co-founded Blackstone’s Silicon Valley office and led the firm’s Cybersecurity advisory practice. In 2010, Eric was recognized by Steve Schwarzman with the CEO Star Award and featured along with a profile on one of his transactions in Blackstone’s 25th anniversary Annual Report for extraordinary contributions to the firm. Eric began his Wall Street career at Salomon Smith Barney and Citi where he served as a senior member of the Enterprise Software Investment Banking team leading sector coverage in Security. Prior to a career on Wall Street, Eric served his country as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force where he was honored as the Military Engineer of the Year in 2000 for his engineering contributions to the Joint Strike Fighter Program, which included saving taxpayers $80 Million through an innovative stealth recoating design. Eric earned an MBA with Distinction from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management where he was a 2-year Wade Fetzer Scholar. He also earned a BS Civil Engineering from Purdue University on an Air Force ROTC Scholarship as well as his MS in Engineering Management from the University of Dayton where he was a Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute scholar – both full ride scholarships. Eric lives in Ross, California with his family and is an avid world traveler, die hard Cubs fan, collects vintage vinyl records, and loves art, music, wine and fine food.
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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.
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.
Alex Vovk
CEO & Co-Founder of Action1 RMM
Alex co-founded Action1 together with Mike Fimin after spending more than 10 years in Co-CEO & Co-Founder role at Netwrix Corporation, where he was responsible for product strategy, technology alliances and operations. At Netwrix Alex and Mike built a very successful cybersecurity business and then they both left Netwrix after transition to a new CEO. Well known for its visibility and user behavior analytics platform, Netwrix became a leader with more than 10,000 customers worldwide. As the CEO of Action1, Alex brings more than 20 years of business and technology experience and has a PhD in information security. Alex lives in Laguna Niguel, CA with his wife and two kids.
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About Action1 RMM: Cloud-based remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution for enterprise IT professionals and MSPs.
Sanjay Jeyakumar
CTO & Co-Founder of Abnormal Security
Sanjay Jeyakumar is CTO and co-founder of Abnormal Security. He was a founding engineer at TellApart (acquired by Twitter for $500M+) and a lead engineer at Google working on search technology and the launch of Android.
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Eric Manlunas
Managing Partner and Founder (US & SE Asia) of Wavemaker Partners
Eric is a co-Founder and Managing Partner with Wavemaker Partners, a cross border early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore. He is a two-time start-up entrepreneur turned venture capitalist with a strong passion for early-stage investing. Eric co-founded Wavemaker following its merger with Frontera Group, a prior early-stage boutique venture capital firm he founded in 2003. Eric has a proven track record as an early investor in over 230 early-stage ventures, of which half remain active and growing. Those companies have collectively received over $1B in growth capital. Eric also served in a concurrent capacity as a Partner of a Los Angeles-based value hedge fund from late-2002 until its sale to a San Francisco-based commercial bank in mid-2006. Prior to Frontera, Eric founded Sitestar in mid-1999. Sitestar is an Internet service provider in the rural markets of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Upon helping steer Sitestar in becoming one of the largest independent ISPs in the region, Eric successfully divested his remaining ownership stake in December 2002. Prior to that, Eric’s first startup was Interfoods, an online specialty foods venture he founded in early 1997. Within 3 years, Interfoods grew to become a mid-sized specialty foods provider in its market and was successfully acquired in late 1999. Eric began his career as a consulting associate with Arthur Andersen’s retail management consulting division from 1991-1995. He earned a B.S. in Communications from Florida International University and an M.B.A from Pepperdine University. Eric is currently a member of the board of a number of emerging companies. He is also a Trustee of the Philippine Development Foundation, an organization committed to social development initiatives in the Philippines, Eric’s country of origin.
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About Wavemaker 360, Wavemaker Partners: Wavemaker is a crossborder early-stage VC firm that focuses on early-stage tech startup opportunities.
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.
Maxwell Blumenfeld
Co-Founder & COO of SentiLink
Maxwell Blumenfeld is a Co-Founder at SentiLink. He was a Data Scientist, Fraud Strategy Lead at Affirm, Inc., and Lead Associate at Novantas. Mr. Blumenfeld graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor of arts in Mathematics and Economics.
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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
Casey Ellis
Founder, Chairman & CTO of Bugcrowd
Casey is the Chairman, Founder and CTO of Bugcrowd. He is an 18 year veteran of information security, servicing clients ranging from startups to multinational corporations as a pentester, security and risk consultant and solutions architect, then most recently as a career entrepreneur. Casey pioneered the Crowdsourced Security as a Service model launching the first bug bounty programs on the Bugcrowd platform in 2012, and co-founded the disclose.io vulnerability disclosure standardization project in 2016. A proud ex-pat of Sydney, Australia, Casey lives with his wife and two kids in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is happy as long as he is pursuing potential.
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About Bugcrowd: Bugcrowd harnesses the power of a global community of security researchers to surface critical software vulnerabilities.
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder & CEO of Horizon3.ai
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About Horizon3.ai: Horizon3.ai leverages autonomous Pentesting to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.
Andrew Peterson
Founder & CEO of Signal Sciences
Andrew Peterson is the founder and CEO of Signal Sciences, a Software-as-a-Service platform that provides security monitoring and defense solutions for web applications. He was previously the group product manager of international growth at Etsy. Prior to Etsy, Peterson was a health information management officer at the Clinton Foundation before which he was a senior product specialist at Google. Peterson holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.
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About Signal Sciences: Signal Sciences is a software as a service platform providing security monitoring and defense for your web applications.
Nick Galbreath
CTO/Founder of Signal Sciences
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About Fastly, Signal Sciences: Signal Sciences is a software as a service platform providing security monitoring and defense for your web applications.
Rotem Iram
Founder and CEO of At-Bay
Rotem Iram is the Founder and CEO of cyber insurance company At-Bay. With nearly two decades of security and engineering experience, Rotem previously served as a Managing Director and COO in the Cyber Security practice of K2 Intelligence, a leading global risk management firm, focusing on cyber intelligence, cyber defense strategy and incident response. Rotem began his career as a Captain in Israel’s elite Intelligence Unit 8200, and also served as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Rotem holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About At-Bay: At-Bay is a cybersecurity insurance company that helps businesses meet digital risk head-on.
Ryan Noon
Co-Founder & CEO of Material Security
Ryan Noon currently works as the CEO for Material Security. He previously worked at Dropbox as the Engineering Manager.
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About Material Security: Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization’s users and data.
Abhishek Agrawal
Co-Founder & CTO of Material Security
Abhishek Agrawal currently works as the Co-Founder and CTO for Material Security. He previously worked at Dropbox as the Senior Product Manager.
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About Material Security: Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization’s users and data.
Julio Casal
Founder & CTO of 4iQ
Julio Casal is the Founder & CTO at Constella Intelligence.
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About 4iQ, AT&T CyberSecurity, Constella Intelligence, Survela: 4iQ is a Cyber Intelligence company that protects digital identities and investigating threats, adversaries, and fraud.
Kunal Anand
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Imperva
Kunal Anand is Co-founder and CTO of Prevoty, a next-generation application security platform. Prior to that, he was the Director of Technology at the BBC Worldwide, overseeing engineering and operations across the company’s global Digital Entertainment and Gaming initiatives. Kunal also has several years of experience leading security, data and engineering at Gravity, MySpace and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His work has been featured in Wired Magazine and Fast Company. He continues to develop the patented security technologies that power Prevoty’s core products. Kunal received a B.S. from Babson College.
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About Imperva, Imperva: Imperva provides activity monitoring, real-time protection, and risk management solutions for critical business data and applications.
Paul Martini
CEO, CTO and Co-Founder of iboss
As CEO, CTO, and co-founder of iboss Cybersecurity,Paul Martini pioneered the award-winning iboss Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and has furthered iboss’ position as a leading security innovator with the introduction of FireSphere™ Advanced APT Defense. Prior to founding iboss, Paul was with an electrical engineering firm where he developed proprietary security solutions for clients such as Phogenix, the U.S. Navy and Hewlett Packard, leading the design and implementation efforts for HP’s e-tester used in their TIJ print heads. He was also a key contributor at Copper Mountain Networks and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), both of which, launched successful IPO’s. Paul holds a computer science degree from the University of California, San Diego and has had his work published in prestigious scientific journals including, the Journal of Foundations in Computer Science, and Journal of Analytical Biochemistry. As a recognized security expert, he has been featured in a wide range of publications such as USA Today, Forbes, and CSO magazine. Paul has been recognized for his leadership and innovation, receiving the Ernst Young 2014 Entrepreneur Of The Year™ award in the technology category for San Diego, and one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2014. He is committed to the advancement of San Diego as a cyber-security hub, and is a member of the Cyber Security Sub Committee for CAL OES (California Office of Emergency Services) and also serves on the board of the San Diego Economic Development Committee.
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About iboss: iboss is a cloud security company that provides network security as a service, delivered in the cloud, and as a complete SaaS offering.
Guy Bejerano
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SafeBreach
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About SafeBreach: SafeBreach executes active breach scenarios and performs continuous validation to find holes in an environment before an attacker does.
Itzik Kotler
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of SafeBreach
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About SafeBreach: SafeBreach executes active breach scenarios and performs continuous validation to find holes in an environment before an attacker does.
James Donelan
Founder, CEO of Trace Data
James brings more than 20+ years of technology and software engineering leadership experience across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, big data, machine learning, web and mobile. He’s lead technology and engineering at a number of successful hyper growth technology companies, ranging from early stage startups to IPO companies such as MuleSoft, Amplitude, Lithium, Epiphany, Charles Schwab and Compaq. An engineer by heart he loves building stellar product engineering teams and creating innovative and disruptive products.
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About Trace Data: Data observability for a connected world. Trace Data helps companies understand, monitor and secure their data.
Victor Fang
Founder and CEO of AnChain.ai
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About AnChain.ai: AnChain.AI : Next Generation AI-powered Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering
Ameesh Divatia
Co-Founder & CEO of Baffle
Ameesh Divatia is CEO & co-founder of Baffle, Inc., which provides an advanced data protection solution for databases. He has a proven track record of turning technologies that are difficult to build into successful businesses, selling three companies for more than $425 million combined in the service provider and enterprise data center infrastructure market. Baffle is Ameesh’s third startup dealing with how data is stored and used in IT. Prior to starting Baffle, he led a premier CMOS photonics innovator (Lightwire Inc.) from technology development into product development leading up to an acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc. for $271M within a timespan of 29 months. He has also founded two venture-funded startups: Aarohi Communications (Storage Virtualization, acquired by Emulex Corporation for $39M) and PipeLinks Inc. (Optical Networking, acquired by Cisco Systems for $126M).
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About Baffle: Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Priyadarshan Kolte
Co-Founder & CTO of Baffle
Priyadarshan Kolte is the CTO at Baffle
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About Baffle: Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Barrett Lyon
Chief Architect and Co-Founder of Netography
Barrett Lyon is the Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Netography.
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About 3Crowd Technologies, Netography: Netography provides organizations with network detection and response capabilities for the atomized network.
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.
Belsasar Lepe
CEO & Co-Founder of Cerby
Belsasar (Bel) is co-founder and CEO of Cerby. He previously was Head of Product at Impira, where he led the company’s Product Life Cycle, helping drive a 4x increase in revenue. Prior to his role at Impira, Bel was co-founder and CTO at Ooyala where he led a global product, design, and engineering team of 300+ Ooyalans spanning five countries and seven offices. Ooyala achieved two successful exits totaling over $440M. Bel began his career as an engineer at Google working on Enterprise Collaboration products and studied Computer Science at Stanford University. He is an active advisor and investor in start ups, with a specific focus in Latin America.
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About Cerby: Cerby is a cybersecurity company focused on helping enterprises harness Shadow IT.
Peter Fitzgerald
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Triventures
Peter Fitzgerald is the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology and Director of the Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL) at Stanford University Medical School. He is an Interventional Cardiologist and has a PhD in Engineering. He is Professor in both the Departments of Medicine and Engineering at Stanford. Presently, Peter Fitzgerald’s laboratory includes 17 postdoctoral fellows and graduate engineering students focusing on state-of-the-art technologies in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has led or participated in over 150 clinical trials, published over 450 manuscripts/chapters, and lectures worldwide. He has trained over 150 post-docs in Engineering and Medicine in the past decade. In addition, he heads the Stanford/Asia MedTech innovation program Peter has been principle/founder of eighteen medical device companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has transitioned twelve of these start-ups to large medical device companies.
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About Triventures: Triventures is a venture capital fund focused on investing in data driven healthcare solutions and disruptive medical devices
Chase Perkins
Founder & CEO of Impervious.ai
Founder & CEO of Impervious.ai
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About Impervious.ai, Thoughtly: Impervious is building Layer 3 of Bitcoin via IMP API – A programmatic layer for developing censorship-resistant, P2P streaming services.
Vijay Chander
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Valtix
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
Vishal Jain
CTO and Co-Founder of Valtix
Vishal Jain is the co-founder and CTO at Valtix.
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
Praveen Patnala
Co-Founder, Chief Architect of Valtix
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
Barry Weinman
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of AllegisCyber
Barry Weinman has been making venture capital investments, principally in Silicon Valley, since 1980. He is Co-Founder and former Managing Director of Allegis Capital and AVI Capital. Barry and his partners in Allegis and prior funds have helped over 70 private companies go public. Barry has led and participated in investments resulting in over $25 billion in market value, including: Palm (NASDAQ), Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE), Caere (NASDAQ), Cadnetix (NASDAQ), Columbia/HCA (NYSE), Women.com (NASDAQ), Medscape (NASDAQ), Liveworld (NASDAQ), InfoGear (CSCO), Be Inc (NASDAQ), Quokka (NASDAQ), and XOMA (NASDAQ). Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Barry held management positions with AT&T, IBM, and Fairchild Semiconductor. He co-founded Interactive Applications Inc., the first on-line manufacturing software and services company, merged it with Boole & Babbage which went on to have an Initial Public Offering. In 2005 he became Chairman of DragonBridge Capital a Merchant Bank and Venture Fund in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Barry holds a B.S. from Clarkson College of Technology, and an M.A. from the London School of Economics / University of Southern California.
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About AllegisCyber, Secondaries Venture Fund, University of Hawaii Foundation: AllegisCyber invests in early stage companies developing technology and software to serve emerging markets.
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.
Tim Keeler
Founder & CEO of Remediant
Timothy Keeler is the co-founder and CEO of Remediant.
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About Remediant: Remediant provides enterprises with Privileged Access Management (PAM) software to help them protect their accounts from misuse and abuse.
Paul Lanzi
Co-Founder & COO of Remediant
Paul Lanzi is the co-founder and COO of Remediant.
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About Remediant: Remediant provides enterprises with Privileged Access Management (PAM) software to help them protect their accounts from misuse and abuse.
Catherine (Kitty) Parry
Founder and CEO of DeepView
Catherine Parry is a serial entrepreneur with deep experience in the regulatory technology and finance. In 2014, Catherine was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for her entrepreneurial success. She is now Founder and CEO of DeepView, an enterprise cyber security software solution using AI to alert photo and video data leaks. The privacy-forward archiving solution allows regulated employees to safely and compliantly use encrypted chat channels e.g. WhatsApp for work chats. Prior to founding DeepView, Catherine worked at WPP as part of a team designed to help listed clients boost share prices. She then started Templars Communications, a strategic communications firm specialising in financial services. This was successful sold to New York based PR firm, Vested in 2017. Many of Catherine’s clients were London’s best-known investment boutique firms. In 2013, she founded the Social Media Charter, an organisation that provides firms and regulators social media compliance guidance. Catherine regularly speaks about regulation, digital and social media, and has spoken on World Economic Forum panels at Davos as well as on the BBC, Radio 4 and CNBC. She is one of only 17 Brits to ever be nominated as a World Economic Forum YGL. Catherine has committed to Founders Pledge, a global community of entrepreneurs finding and funding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems
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About DeepView, Templars Communications: A privacy-focused platform to monitor and archive business communications
Kelly Perdew
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner of Moonshots Capital
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner at Moonshots Capital.
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About Moonshots Capital, TargetClose: Seed stage venture capital firm that invests in extraordinary leadership.
Jay Kaplan
CEO and Co-Founder of Synack
Jay co-founded Synack after serving in several security-related capacities at the Department of Defense, including the DoD’s Incident Response and Red Team. Prior to founding Synack, Jay was a Senior Cyber Analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA), where his focus was supporting counterterrorism-related intelligence operations. Jay received a BS in Computer Science with a focus in Information Assurance and a MS in Engineering Management from George Washington University studying under a DoD/NSA-sponsored fellowship. Jay holds a number of security certifications from ISC(2) and GIAC.
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About Synack: Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that utilizes augmented intelligence to discover and secure vulnerable applications.