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This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Network Security space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jim Dolce
CEO of Lookout
Jim Dolce is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Lookout. He has been the founder of four successful technology companies and has held executive positions at both Juniper Networks, Inc. and Akamai Technologies, Inc. Jim joined Lookout in March 2014 to guide the cybersecurity company into its next stage of growth. That included re-architecting Lookout’s products, leadership, and workforce to serve large businesses and government agencies that seek to embrace the benefits of mobility without sacrificing security. In addition to his responsibilities at Lookout, Jim is a dedicated philanthropist. His Foundation supports education for groups that have historically been underserved in the STEM fields, including woman and students from low income areas, as well as programs providing essential services to veterans and military families. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Rhode Island.
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
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.
Nathaniel Fick
CEO of Endgame
Nate Fick is CEO of Endgame. He has more than a decade of experience in the security community, and is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he focuses on defense and intelligence technologies. Before joining Endgame, Nate was CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a national security research organization. He served as a Marine Corps infantry officer, including combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. His book about that experience, One Bullet Away, was a New York Times bestseller, a Washington Post “Best Book of the Year,” and one of the Military Times’ “Best Military Books of the Decade.” He graduated with high honors in Classics from Dartmouth College and holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and MBA from the Harvard Business School. Nate serves as a Trustee of Dartmouth and a Director of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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About Bessemer Venture Partners, Endgame, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation: Endgame’s endpoint protection platform protects the world’s data from advanced attacks.
Steve Papa
Founder and CEO of Parallel Wireless
Founder and CEO of Endeca building it until it was Oracle’s 6th largest acquisition ever on announcement in 2011. Prior to its acquisition, Endeca had achieved $750M in cumulative worldwide revenue and pioneered Guided Navigation, one of the leading search innovations of the decade and now an industry standard. Before founding Endeca, Steve was part of the original team creating Akamai; a member of the early team at Inktomi in charge of creating the company’s infrastructure caching business; a product manager at Teradata; and a venture associate at Venrock.
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About Andreessen Horowitz, Parallel Wireless, Reflektion: Parallel Wireless designs and maintains cellular networks.
Omri Lavie
CEO of Orchestra Group
Omri Lavie is a Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, focused on technology.
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About CommuniTake Technologies, Founders Group, Kaymera, Orchestra Group: Orchestra have created a broad cyber security platform by acquiring a variety of cyber companies and rolling them up into a unified solution
Kevin Gosschalk
Founder & CEO of Arkose Labs
Kevin Gosschalk is the founder of Arkose Labs.
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About Arkose Labs, Forbes Technology Council: Arkose Labs provides fraud prevention, anti-spam, and abuse analysis for businesses, companies, and industries.
Guy Caspi
CEO & Co-Founder of Deep Instinct
Guy Caspi is a leading mathematician and a data scientist global expert. Guy Caspi has 15 years of extensive experience in applying mathematics and machine learning in a technology elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), financial institutions and intelligence organizations around the world. Guy Caspi led some of the largest government cyber and Big Data projects in Israel and other countries. In addition, Guy Caspi was the president and general manager of a leading division at Comverse/Verint Group. Guy Caspi brings substantial management background in leading innovative technological challenges from R&D through commercialization. Guy Caspi holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and MBA degrees in Mathematics, Machine Learning and Business from leading universities in Israel and the U.S.
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About Deep Instinct, Forbes Technology Council: Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity, offering zero-day attack protection.
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.
Nathan Sportsman
Founder and CEO of Praetorian
As the Founder and CEO of Praetorian, Nathan is responsible for championing the vision, maintaining the culture, and setting the direction of the company. He also holds the additional duties of CTO where he is responsible for overseeing the innovation and development engine of the company keeping the firm well positioned to defeat the ever evolving cybersecurity threat. Prior to bringing in professional management to help run the company, Nathan managed the day-to-day operations of the firm from its 2010 beginnings as a bootstrapped start-up to its current YoY hyper-growth. Since Praetorian’s founding, Nathan has successfully instilled a “customer first” mentality that has become part of the DNA of the company which has led to unprecedented customer satisfaction reviews as reflected in a historical net promoter score of 86%. This reputation for delivering value to the customer has resulted in a three year growth rate of 214%. Under Nathan’s leadership, the company has earned national recognition on the Inc. 5000 list multiple times, the Cybersecurity 500, CIO Top 20, and locally on Austin’s “Fastest 50” growing firms. Prior to founding Praetorian, Nathan worked in various technical roles at industry-leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and McAfee. His experience has cross cut most industry sectors, and customers have ranged from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to government intelligence agencies and renowned educational institutions. Nationally recognized as a leader in the cybersecurity field, Nathan is a frequent public speaker, is a contributing author to the world’s best-selling computer security book, Hacking Exposed, is a U.S. patent holder, and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin (nationally ranked #5 for Computer Science and Engineering). Nathan holds a BS in electrical & computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
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About Praetorian: Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the world safer and more secure.
Karthik Krishnan
Founder and CEO of Concentric AI
Karthik Krishnan is currently Founder/ CEO, Concentric. Prior to Concentric, he was VP, Security Products at Aruba/HPE where he managed their security portfolio that included the Niara acquisition and their network access control product lines. He was part of the founding team and VP, Products at Niara, a security analytics company focused on user and entity behavior analytics. Niara was acquired by Aruba/HPE in 2017. He has more than 15 years of experience in engineering and marketing at various hardware, software and systems such as Intel, Microsoft, Juniper Networks, PGP Corporation and Embrane. He has a Bachelors in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, where was an F.C. Austin Scholar.
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About Concentric AI: Concentric AI delivers data risk assessment, monitoring, and protection for corporate data.
Ofer Israeli
Founder & CEO of Illusive
Ofer Israeli is the founder and CEO of Illusive Networks. His understanding of the advanced attack process played a pivotal role in shaping Illusive’s automated, agentless deception management architecture. Before Illusive, Ofer managed development teams based around the globe for Check Point Software Technologies and worked in the Atom Chip Lab at Ben Gurion University, where he focused on theoretical quantum mechanics. Ofer holds B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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About Illusive: Illusive is a defense to eliminate attacker pathways that uses deception for detection of lateral movement of APTs, ransomware & threats.
Mahmoud Abdelkader
CEO & Co-Founder of Very Good Security
Mahmoud and Marshall started Very Good Security to solve recurring data security and privacy challenges faced by organizations in regulated and/or compliant environments. Today’s modern organizations face ever-changing data security challenges in an evolving landscape and require an adaptive approach to cyber security to augment security infrastructure investments. Mahmoud co-founded and served as the CTO of a a YCominbator W2011 company, Balanced Payments, a leading-edge developer friendly payments processor acquired in 2015. He is also an active angel investor, serves as an advisor to numerous FinTech startups, and is an avid fan of cryptography. Mahmoud holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from University of Maryland: College Park. A fun fact is that actually learned to code by reverse engineering Age of Empires and Warcraft III.
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About Very Good Security: Very Good Security is a fintech & data security enablement platform helping to maximize the value of data without compliance & breach risk.
Randy Chou
Founder and CEO of Nubeva
Randy Chou is the Founder and CEO of Nubeva. Randy’s experience spans 15 years of technical and management leadership in the security, networking, and application acceleration fields. Prior to co-founding Panzura, Randy was a member of the founding software team at Aruba Networks, where he managed the architecture and development of the company’s security software. The combination of his technical expertise and business acumen helped Aruba become the leader in the enterprise Wi-Fi security market. Prior to Aruba Networks, Randy led the development of SSL security and load balancing software at Alteon WebSystems. Randy holds a degree in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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About Nubeva: Nubeva is a cloud security software company that provides decryption solution for real-time, historical or on-demand decryption.
Derek Collison
Founder & CEO of Synadia Communications
Derek Collison is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synadia Communications. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek founded Apcera and has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software. Derek created NATS.io and CloudFoundry as well as TIBCO’s messaging systems. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During Derek’s time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, Derek spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. Derek holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. Derek earned a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Covaxx, Heavybit, NATS, Savonix, Synadia Communications, Vicarious, Xperiel: Powering the secure connective technologies to drive cloud and edge native
Ryan Denehy
Founder and CEO of Electric
Ryan Denehy is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Electric.
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About Electric: Electric is an information technology company that helps businesses manage their IT security, support, and devices in real-time.
Brian Murphy
CEO & Founder of ReliaQuest
Brian Murphy is the founder and chief executive officer at ReliaQuest.
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About ReliaQuest: ReliaQuest provides a SaaS security platform designed to minimize data loss and business disruptions.
Arif Kareem
President/CEO of ExtraHop
Arif Kareem has been the Chief Executive Officer and President at ExtraHop Networks, Inc. since July 26, 2016 and December 15, 2016 respectively. Mr. Kareem served as President of Fluke Networks. During his tenure, he realigned and expanded the Fluke Networks’s product portfolio to provide greater visibility across networks and cloud applications, improve the end-user experience and increase business value. He also oversaw the acquisition and integration of Air Magnet and ClearSight Networks. He joined RadiSys Corporation in July 1997 as Vice President of Telecom Business Unit and served as its Vice President and General Manager of Telecommunications Division since October 1997 and Senior Vice President since October 2000. Since February 2002, Mr. Kareem served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Corporate Marketing at RadiSys Corporation. From 1980 to 1997 Mr. Kareem held various engineering and marketing management positions at Tektronix, Inc. before serving as General Manager of Tektronix’s Telecom Product Line and subsequently General Manager of the Communications Test Business Unit. Mr. Kareem holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon.
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About ExtraHop: ExtraHop helps organizations to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
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.
Mike Wiacek
CEO of Stairwell
Founder and CEO of Stairwell, Inc.
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About Stairwell: Stairwell is a cybersecurity company that offers a platform for threat hunting, detection, and response.
Timothy Eades
CEO of vArmour
With over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and executive management at the CEO level, Tim has deep expertise in driving high growth for computing, security and enterprise software companies. Tim joined vArmour as CEO in October, 2013. Prior to that, he was the CEO at Silver Tail Systems from March, 2010 until the company was acquired by RSA, the security division of EMC in late 2012. Prior to leading Silver Tail Systems, Tim was CEO of Everyone.net, an SMB focused SaaS company that was acquired by Proofpoint. Tim has also held sales and marketing executive leadership positions at BEA Systems, Sana Security, Phoenix Technologies and IBM. Tim holds advanced degrees in business, international marketing, and financial analysis, primarily from Solent University in England.
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About Cyber Mentor Fund, vArmour: VArmour offers data defined perimeter security solutions for mobile, virtual, and cloud platforms.
Chris Young
CEO of McAfee
Chris Young is CEO of McAfee, LLC. He serves as a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and is on the board of directors of American Express and Snap Inc. Chris holds an A.B. from Princeton University.
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About McAfee: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Kevin Mandia
CEO of FireEye
Kevin has served as FireEye Chief Executive Officer since June 2016 and was appointed to the company’s Board of Directors in February 2016. He was previously President of FireEye from February 2015 until June 2016. Kevin joined FireEye as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in December 2013, when FireEye acquired Mandiant, the company he founded in 2004. Before Mandiant, Kevin was the Director of Computer Forensics at Foundstone (acquired by McAfee Corporation) from 2000 to 2003, and the Director of Information Security for Sytex (later acquired by Lockheed Martin) from 1998 to 2000. Kevin also served in the United States Air Force, where he was a computer security officer in the 7th Communications Group at the Pentagon, and a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). He holds a B.S. in computer science from Lafayette College and a M.S. in forensic science from The George Washington University.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Irv Rothman
President & CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Hemen Vimadalal
CEO of 1Kosmos – BlockID
Hemen Vimadalal directs and drives the overall vision and strategy for Simeio with a passion for building high performance teams, driving innovation and focusing on delivering value to customers. Prior to founding Simeio, Hemen worked with Vaau from its inception, where he established the company as the leader in the identity and access management industry. Hemen has led many assessments and end-to-end implementations of role-based access control, user provisioning, identity auditing, identity certification, web services, and directory & password management products. Hemen holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Southern California.
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About 1Kosmos – BlockID: Secure online services from password-based attacks with a next generation approach to MFA that delivers a frictionless user experience
Amir Ben-Efraim
Co-Founder & CEO of Menlo Security
Amir Ben-Efraim is co-founder and CEO of Menlo Security. Previously, Amir was VP of cloud security at Juniper Networks where he helped define the company’s strategy to secure the virtualized data center, public and private clouds. He joined Juniper via its acquisition of Altor Networks, which he led as founder and CEO. Prior to Altor, Amir was an executive at Check Point Software, a pioneer in Internet security. He holds an MBA from UCLA, an MSEE from Stanford University and a BSEE from UC Berkeley.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Patrick Peterson
Founder & CEO of Agari
Patrick Peterson is Agari’s visionary Founder and CEO, who has spent more than 15 years securing the email ecosystem. Peterson founded Agari in 2009, when he saw a real need in the industry for a solution that would secure the email channel. Under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, he has developed the company’s industry-changing security platform that now protects many of the world’s largest enterprises from email threats. Prior to Agari, Peterson joined IronPort Systems and invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Amos Stern
Co-Founder & CEO of Siemplify
Amos is the Chief Executive Officer at Siemplify. He brings a unique technical and business background that includes leadership of the Cyber Security department within the IDF Intelligence Corps as well as directing sales and business development for Elbit’s Cyber & Intelligence Division.
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About Siemplify: Siemplify is a SOAR provider focused on security operations for enterprises and MSSPs worldwide.
Syed Ali
CEO, President, & Founder of Cavium
Syed B. Ali is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors since the inception of the company in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Ali was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, a communication chip company of which he was a founding management team member. Malleable Technologies was acquired by PMC Sierra, a communication IC company in 2000. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Ali was an Executive Director at Samsung Electronics where he started the Flash memory and CPU businesses and put together the business plans that drove sales in each line to over a $100M in less than two years. Prior to that, he had various positions at Wafer Scale Integration, a division of SGS-Thompson, Tandem Computer, and American Microsystems. He received a BSEE from Osmania University, in Hyderabad, India and an M.S.E from the University of Michigan.
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About Alif Semiconductor, Cavium: Cavium Networks develops and markets semiconductor processors for intelligent and secure networks.
Gary Fish
Founder / CEO / Chairman of Fishtech Labs
Gary Fish is the Founder / CEO / Chairman of Fishtech.
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About DataLocker, FireMon, Fishtech Labs: Fishtech Labs is a technology accelerator focused on finding
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.
SHAUN MCCONNON
CEO of Q1 Labs
Shaun is an industry veteran who brings extensive executive management experience in operations, sales, and marketing to the company. During his career, Shaun has successfully guided technology companies as CEO through IPOs and acquisition (e.g. Q1 Labs/IBM, Okena/Cisco) and has built over a billion dollars of shareholder value.
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About Q1 Labs: Q1 Labs offers QRadar, a network security management solution that includes log, threat and compliance management.
Dan DeCloss
Founder, President and CEO of PlexTrac
Dan is the Founder and CEO of PlexTrac and has over 14 years of experience in Cybersecurity. Dan started his career in the Department of Defense and then moved on to consulting where he worked for various companies including serving as Principal Consultant for Veracode. Aside from founding and running a security startup, Dan’s background and expertise is in application security and penetration testing, involving hacking networks, websites, and mobile applications for clients. He has also served as a Principal Security Engineer for the Mayo Clinic and a Sr. Security Advisor for Anthem – a Fortune 40 health insurance firm. Prior to PlexTrac, Dan was the Director of Cybersecurity for Scentsy where he and his team built the security program out of its infancy into a best-in-class program. Dan has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School with an emphasis in Information Security. Additionally Dan holds the OSCP and CISSP certifications. Dan has a passion for helping everyone understand cybersecurity at a practical level, ensuring that there is a good understanding of how to reduce their overall risk.
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About PlexTrac: PlexTrac is a cybersecurity platform for security teams of any size.
John Kenning
CEO, North America & Technology of G4S
John joined G4S in November 2014 to lead the diverse range of services the North America businesses provide such as consulting, investigations, security, technology and youth services solutions across multiple private and public sectors. John joined G4S in November 2014 to lead the North America region. John has a proven track record leading global organisations. Prior to joining G4S, John was executive vice president and president, commercial business for OfficeMax where he led the global, business-to-business division. John was formerly president, North America commercial for ADT/Tyco Security Services, where he led the transformation of the business to a technology services leader and also led the separation of the residential and commercial security businesses in North America. John is a board member for Miami University Advisory Athletic Board and past board member of the Make-a-Wish Foundation. John holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Miami University.
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About G4S: G4S is an international security solutions group, focused on BPO sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Aharon Chernin
CEO of Perch Security
Aharon Chernin is the CEO at Perch Security.
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About Perch Security, Rewst: Perch provides everything needed to mount a cyber defense with curated community intelligence and participate with your sharing community.
Omer Schneider
Co-Founder & CEO of CyberX
Omer Schneider is the Co-founder at CyberX.
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About CyberX: CyberX is a robust cybersecurity platform for continuously reducing IoT or OT risks.
Bill Morrow
CEO of Acumera
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About Acumera, Quarri Technologies: Acumera builds and manages PCI compliant networks for multi-location retailers and restauraunts.
James Foster
CEO and Founder of ZeroFOX
James C. Foster is the Founder and CEO of ZeroFOX. Foster is an industry veteran and a world-renowned thought leader on cyber security. He’s published over a dozen books, holds patents, has spoken on Capitol Hill about the increase in international cyber threats, and is a recognized keynote speaker. In 2006, Foster founded the cyber security firm, Ciphent. Ciphent grew to almost 100 employees with 1000 customers by 2010 when it was acquired by Accuvant. With a three year growth rate of 8900+%, Ciphent was recognized as the #16th Fastest Growing Private Company in the US and #1 in Maryland by Inc. Magazine. As Chairman of the Advisory Board and SVP while at Accuvant, Foster led the successful acquisition of V3rity while the company achieved 50% year-over-year growth in 2011 with revenues in excess of $325M. Additionally, Foster has had the privilege of working with several other high growth cyber security organizations such as Booz Allen and Hamilton and Computer Sciences Corporation, and executing on exit strategies for Foundstone (acquired by McAfee for $86M), Guardent (acquired by Verisign $135M), and Information Security Magazine (acquired by Tech Target Media for an unpublicized amount). Foster started his career as a civilian in the United States Navy in Annapolis, Maryland. In 2005, Foster became a Fellow from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and received his Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from Capitol College.
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About ZeroFOX: ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Steven Goldfeder
Co-Founder, CEO of Offchain Labs
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About Offchain Labs: Offchain Labs develops Arbitrum, a solution for scaling Ethereum smart contracts
Jack Wu
Co-Founder & CEO of Nightingale Security
Jack Wu joined Nightingale Security as Co-Founder & CEO in 2014.
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About Nightingale Security: Nightingale Security is a autonomous drone solution in aerial robotic security.
Robert M. Lee
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Dragos
Robert is a recognized pioneer in the industrial security incident response and threat intelligence community. He gained his start in security as a U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations Officer tasked to the National Security Agency where he built a first-of-its-kind mission identifying and analyzing national threats to industrial infrastructure. He went on to build the industrial community’s first dedicated monitoring and incident response class at the SANS Institute (ICS515) and the industry recognized cyber threat intelligence course (FOR578). Forbes named Robert to its 30 under 30 (2016) list as one of the “brightest entrepreneurs, breakout talents, and change agents” in Enterprise Technology. He is a business leader but also technical practitioner. Robert helped lead the investigation into the 2015 cyber attack on Ukraine’s power grid, he and his team at Dragos helped identify and analyze the CRASHOVERRIDE malware that attacked Ukraine’s grid in 2016 and the TRISIS malware deployed against an industrial safety system in the Middle East in 2017. Robert is routinely sought after for his advice and input into industrial threat detection and response. He has presented at major security conferences such as SANS, BlackHat, DefCon, and RSA and has testified to the Senate’s Energy and National Resources Committee. As a non-resident national security fellow at New America, Robert works to inform policy related to critical infrastructure cyber security and is regularly asked by various governments to brief to national level leaders.
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About Dragos: Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company that detects and responds to threats in industrial controls systems.
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.
Ram Varadarajan
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
Douglas Logan
CEO and Principal Consultant of Cyber Ninjas
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About Cyber Ninjas: Cyber Ninjas is a provider of a a software security consulting services.
Evan Reiser
CEO & Co-founder of Abnormal Security
Evan is the CEO and co-founder of Abnormal Security. He most recently led product and machine learning teams at Twitter after co-founding successful companies including Bloomspot (acquired by JPM Chase) and AdStack (acquired by TellApart).
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
John Higginbotham
Chairman and CEO of Blue Ridge Networks
John Higginbotham brings over three decades of high technology executive leadership to Blue Ridge. He was formerly the senior partner at SpaceVest Capital, a co-founder and senior executive of International Technology Underwriters (Intec), and the Product Manager for HP’s first microcomputers. He has significant public and private Board of Directors experience and has supported professional and community service organizations throughout his career.Higginbotham holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Blue Ridge Networks, SpaceVest: Blue Ridge Networks provides high-security outsourced Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions.
Gary Steele
CEO of Proofpoint
Gary Steele is the Chief Executive Officer at Proofpoint since November 2002. Gary brings a broad range of enterprise software experience to the company. Before joining Proofpoint, Gary served as the Chief Executive Officer at Portera, an applications company delivering solutions for the professional services industry. Under Gary’s leadership, Portera raised more than $100M in capital from some of the leading venture capitalists including Kleiner Perkins, IVP, and American Express and grew the business from its initial concept to $20M in revenue. Prior to Portera, Gary served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Middleware and Data Warehousing Product Group at Sybase, Inc., an organization of more than 350 people, spanning four geographies and generating $150M in revenue. In this capacity, Gary initiated and spearheaded all new Internet projects targeted at the enterprise. Gary’s prior experience includes business development, marketing and engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Gary holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington State University.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
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.
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.
Liam Randall
CEO and Co-Founder Critical Stack LLC of Critical Stack
Liam Randall is the Founder of Cosmonic.
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About Cosmonic, Critical Stack: Critical Stack is revolutionizing the way organizations select, acquire, deploy, and operate visibility and security tools.
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.
Michael W. Wellman
CEO & Founder of Virgil Security
Michael W. Wellman is CEO &Founder at Virgil Security.
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About Bloomberg Beta, MACH37, NextGen Venture Partners, SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain, Virgil Security: Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users.
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.
Zuk Avraham
Founder, CEO of zecOps
Zuk Avraham is a world-renowned white-hat security researcher, 2X entrepreneur, angel investor, the founder and Chairman of mobile security company Zimperium, Inc. and the founder and CEO of ZecOps, Inc. An innate hacker with a passion for detecting code vulnerabilities, Zuk started his career as a security researcher in the IDF before being recruited by Samsung Electronics, where he published the first return-oriented programming technique for ARM architecture at DEFCON 18 and Blackhat. His security work has been the subject of academic research and is often quoted in leading publications such as Forbes, MIT Technology Review, TIMES and Engadget. Founded in 2010, Zimperium have already earned innovation awards for their cutting-edge enterprise Mobile IPS and considered the leader in Mobile Threat Defense. Since its foundation, Zimperium raised more than $70m in capital from top-tier investors, helped many Fortune 500 companies to secure their mobile fleet and has more than 100 employees globally. Zuk and his team have pioneered many new security approaches, including signature-independent protection. In July 2017, Zuk founded ZecOps, Inc. Stealth mode cyber security firm.
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About zecOps, Zimperium: ZecOps is a cybersecurity automation company that finds attackers’ mistakes.
John Moss
Founder and CEO of S2 Security Corporation
John has been an innovative force in security systems technology for more than 30 years. Before founding S2 Security in 2002, in 1981 he created Software House (now owned by Tyco International). He has led the creation of two successful companies and over a dozen major commercial products in the industry.
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About LenelS2, S2 Security Corporation: S2 Security Corporation, develop a unique line of open architecture, scalable, IP network-ready products.
Maggie Louie
Founder and CEO of otto by DEVCON
Maggie Louie is the founder and CEO at Devcon Detect. She has a proven experience in developing startups within corporations. Maggie has spent more than a decade as a digital leader in the publishing industry, developing products for The E.W. Scripps Company, The Los Angeles Times, American Public Media Group and Morris Communications, where she also served as the Vice President of Audience and corporate intrapreneur. She enjoys composing music with DEVCON co-founder Josh Summitt.
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About otto by DEVCON, SpoonWest: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Matthew Arbesfeld
CEO and Co-Founder of LogRocket
Matthew Arbesfeld is the CEO and co-founder of LogRocket.
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About LogRocket: LogRocket records videos of user sessions with logs and network data, identifying UX problems and revealing the root cause of every bug.
Kelly Ahuja
President & CEO of Versa Networks
Kelly Ahuja is President & CEO of Versa Networks. Kelly is a seasoned industry veteran with 25 years of experience in networking and telecommunications. He also advises several companies, entrepreneurs and serves on the board of directors for several startups. He spent 18 years at Cisco building and leading multiple businesses, most recently as SVP of Service Provider Business, Products & Solutions and several other roles leading large businesses prior to that. In his career Kelly has partnered with Service Providers globally to design, deploy and operate large scale Frame Relay, ATM, IP and Mobile (3G,4G,Wifi) networks. Earlier in his career, he worked for Service Providers designing, building and operating large scale networks. Today, he is in the midst of the largest transformation in the industry with Software Defined Networking (SDN). He is leading Versa, a leader in software defined networking and security, enabling digital transformation with a highly reliable, automated and cost-effective corporate network. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary
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About Versa Networks: Versa is the SASE leader
Kumar Mehta
Co-Founder/CDO/Chief Soul Officer and Former CEO of Versa Networks
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About Versa Networks: Versa is the SASE leader
Douglas Murray
CEO of Valtix
Douglas Murray is the chief executive officer of Valtix. Previously, he was as the CEO of Big Switch Networks as well as SVP & GM at Juniper Networks. Murray holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Colgate University and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
Harish Prasanna
CEO & Founder of DefenseArk
Entrepreneur & Cybersecurity Expert
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About DefenseArk, MetaSquare Inc: Decentralized Realtime Endpoint Protection & Cyber Threat Intelligence
Jeff Hussey
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Tempered
Jeff Hussey serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at Tempered Networks.
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About Tempered: Tempered reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation.
Wael Mohamed
Chief Executive Officer of ForeScout Technologies
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Dave Merkel
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Expel
Dave Merkel has been involved in the information security field for nearly 20 years, first as a Federal agent pursuing cyber-criminals in the era of floppy disks and 2400 baud modems through his most recent experience as the Global Chief Technology Officer of FireEye, a leading cyber-security solutions provider. Dave is now the CEO of Expel.
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About Expel, Mandiant: Expel is a SOC-as-a-service platform that provides security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk
President, CEO, and Co-Founder of SPARQ
Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk is a President, CEO, and CO-Founder of SPARQ. He is also the President & CEO | Founder at Decision Point Global and serves as a Board Of Directors at Syngin Technology. Mr. Wojszczyk was the SVP & Chief Innovation Officer at MERALCO (First Pacific Company in Hong Kong). Dr. Bartosz graduated from the Wroclaw University of Technology with an MS an Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Power Systems.
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About SPARQ: SPARQ is a computer security service company specializing in building and integrating hardware systems and providing managed services.
Catherine (Kitty) Parry
Founder and CEO of DeepView
Catherine Parry is a serial entrepreneur with deep experience in the regulatory technology and finance. In 2014, Catherine was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for her entrepreneurial success. She is now Founder and CEO of DeepView, an enterprise cyber security software solution using AI to alert photo and video data leaks. The privacy-forward archiving solution allows regulated employees to safely and compliantly use encrypted chat channels e.g. WhatsApp for work chats. Prior to founding DeepView, Catherine worked at WPP as part of a team designed to help listed clients boost share prices. She then started Templars Communications, a strategic communications firm specialising in financial services. This was successful sold to New York based PR firm, Vested in 2017. Many of Catherine’s clients were London’s best-known investment boutique firms. In 2013, she founded the Social Media Charter, an organisation that provides firms and regulators social media compliance guidance. Catherine regularly speaks about regulation, digital and social media, and has spoken on World Economic Forum panels at Davos as well as on the BBC, Radio 4 and CNBC. She is one of only 17 Brits to ever be nominated as a World Economic Forum YGL. Catherine has committed to Founders Pledge, a global community of entrepreneurs finding and funding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems
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About DeepView, Templars Communications: A privacy-focused platform to monitor and archive business communications
Jay Kaplan
CEO and Co-Founder of Synack
Jay co-founded Synack after serving in several security-related capacities at the Department of Defense, including the DoD’s Incident Response and Red Team. Prior to founding Synack, Jay was a Senior Cyber Analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA), where his focus was supporting counterterrorism-related intelligence operations. Jay received a BS in Computer Science with a focus in Information Assurance and a MS in Engineering Management from George Washington University studying under a DoD/NSA-sponsored fellowship. Jay holds a number of security certifications from ISC(2) and GIAC.
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About Synack: Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that utilizes augmented intelligence to discover and secure vulnerable applications.
Aviram Jenik
Founder & CEO of Beyond Security
Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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About 408 Ventures, Appvance.ai, ArcusTeam, Beyond Security, Chartmetric, Eclypsium, FROGED, Metadata, MixerBox, Primer Sazze Partners, VisualCamp: Beyond Security is developing automated security testing technologies.
Varun Badhwar
Founder & CEO of RedLock
Varun Badhwar is the cofounder of CipherCloud where he is responsible for product strategy, product marketing, evangelism, and sales enablement. As a subject matter expert on cloud security, he is regularly invited to speak at a number of global industry conferences. Prior to joining CipherCloud, Varun was responsible for ensuring the security of the Force.com ecosystem at salesforce.com, which included over 1,500 partner applications. Prior to salesforce.com, he was a Consultant within the Risk Advisory Services group at KPMG, where he advised Fortune 500 Clients on managing IT security and privacy, operational risks, and alignment with overall business strategy. Varun earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT).
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About RedLock: RedLock develops an infrastructure security platform designed to provide deep security visibility for dynamic environments.
Robert Fly
Co Founder & CEO of Elevate Security
Robert Fly is an advisor at Qualia.
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About Elevate Security: Proactive Defense Against Insider Risk
Hitesh Sheth
President and CEO of Vectra
Hitesh Sheth is the president and CEO of Vectra. Previously, he held the position of chief operating officer at Aruba Networks. Hitesh joined Aruba from Juniper Networks, where he was EVP/GM of its switching business and before that, SVP for the Service Layer Technologies group, which included security. Prior to Juniper, he held a number of senior management positions in the switching organization at Cisco Systems, including running its metro Ethernet business. Before Cisco, he held executive and engineering management positions at Liberate Technologies and Oracle Corporation. He started his career as a Unix programmer at The Santa Cruz Operation. Hitesh holds a bachelor of arts degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Vectra: Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive incident investigations.
Cliff Gregory
CEO US of SecurityMatters
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About SecurityMatters: SecurityMatters is a security company that develops and sells network monitoring, intelligence, and protection technology.
Russell Reeder
CEO of Infrascale
Russ is a 25+ year hi-tech, sales, product, and branding exec that has an outstanding track record of building organizational cultures that scale. Russ has managed high-growth, multi-billion-dollar global organizations that transform industries by consistently developing and leading diverse teams that revitalize organizations and deliver growth while increasing employee and customer satisfaction. His hi-tech background ranges from start-up ventures to Fortune 500 giants like Oracle and his first programming job at Mobil Oil. Leveraging his 20+ years of executive leadership and technical experience combined with his successful sales and cloud industry knowledge, Russ has the unique ability to drive global growth while maintaining a diverse, fun, and healthy work culture. Before Infrascale, Russ led OVHcloud’s growth into the US, the rebranding of OVH to OVHcloud, acquired vCloud Air from VMware, and built two additional data centers bring the total to 30 data centers globally. Russ also led the premium cloud hosting company, MediaTemple (mt), where he was responsible for its global sales growth, brand, strategic direction, culture, and operational execution. Russ helped lead the sale of MediaTemple (mt) to GoDaddy, where he stayed on the GoDaddy executive leadership team to help transform GoDaddy’s multi-billion cloud and hosting business, build a culture of growth, and prepare for their IPO. Before Media Temple (mt), Russ led the growth of LibreDigital, the digital publishing leader, and helped run the process to sell to RR Donnelley. Russ also led NxTV to the forefront of the direct to consumer Internet TV and Internet video-on-demand. In 1997 Russ started his management career in Redwood City, CA, at Oracle, where he ran the West Coast Enterprise Application Sales team focused on companies with over $1 billion in revenue. Throughout his career and life beyond business, Russ has been an attentive student of innovation that drives change. He continues to hone and apply a leadership philosophy inspired by his grandfather and professional mentors. Read about his leadership philosophy on his blog, https://russreeder.com/h-e-a-r-leadership/ In January 2019, Russ was the closing ceremony speaker at the nine-year HBS President’s Program in Leadership (PPL), Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Even 26 years ago with Senator John Warner… Russ was the graduate commencement address speaker, James Madison University (JMU) https://russreeder.com/speaking/
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About Infrascale, Netrix: Infrascale provides comprehensive, cloud-based data protection by delivering industry-leading backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Brad Miller
CEO & Founder of InterGuard Software
Brad Miller joined Awareness Technologies in March 2010 as CEO and Chairman. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Perimeter eSecurity where he pioneered Security-in-the-Cloud. Brad grew Perimeter from under $1MM to $60MM in revenues for a compound annual growth rate of over 600%. This outstanding growth rate earned Perimeter numerous awards including Deloitte Fast 50 and 500 5 years in a row. Leveraging these accomplishments Brad secured over $100MM in capital for Perimeter from Goldman Sachs, Bessemer Venture Partners and others. Prior to his time at Perimeter, Brad was COO of Production Resource Group, which he grew from $30mm to $350mm in 2 years via the acquisition of 24 companies. During that time, Brad raised over $275mm in capital for PRG. Brad has won several personal awards including Innovator of the Year and was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. Finally, he and his business accomplishments have been featured in several books including The Business of Software by renowned MIT Sloane Business School professor Michael Cusumano. Brad started his career at Schroders, an international investment bank, where he focused on Mergers and Acquisitions and founded the Financial Sponsors Group. Prior to that, he received his MBA from Columbia University where he is now a Mentor in the Entrepreneurship Institute helping current students advance their business plans. Brad has served or currently serves on the Boards of Palomar Technologies, Production Resource Group, Perimeter eSecurity and Awareness Technologies.
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About InterGuard Software: InterGuard is a full-featured employee monitoring software; offering recording, alerts, reports, app/program blocking and web filtering.
Pratik Roychowdhury
Co-Founder & CPO / Founding CEO of Mesh7
Pratik is a co-founder and CPO at Mesh7 (pka Kavach). He was the Founding CEO. He brings in two decades of experience in Applications, Networking and Security. Previously, he was Head of Product Management at Juniper in the Cloud Software (Contrail) business unit. Prior to that he was Head of Products at MediaMelon, an online video company. He was also an Investment Banker at UBS, and an early engineer at NetScaler (Citrix). He has an MBA from Ross School of Business at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in India.
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About Mesh7: Mesh7 provides run-time cloud application security observability to detect and mitigate all blind spot risks of modern applications.
Duncan Greatwood
Chief Executive Officer of Xage Security
Most recently, Duncan was an executive at Apple, leading search-technology projects and products. Prior to Apple, Duncan was C.E.O. of Topsy, the pioneer in social media search and analytics acquired by Apple in 2013. Prior to Topsy, he was founder and C.E.O. of PostPath, the email and security company acquired by Cisco in 2008. Previously, Duncan held sales and marketing Vice President roles at Virata/Globespan/Conexant, as well as earlier engineering and marketing positions at Madge Networks. Duncan holds a B.A. (Mathematics) and M.Sc. (Computer Science) from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from London Business School.
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About Xage Security: Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT.
Dan Wendlandt
Co-Founder & CEO of Isovalent
Dan Wendlandt is the Co-Founder and CEO of Isovalent.
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About Isovalent: Isovalent builds open-source cloud-native networking software that solves networking, security, and observability for modern infrastructure
Edgard Capdevielle
President & CEO of Nozomi Networks
Edgard brings an extensive background in successfully managing and expanding markets for both start-ups and established technology companies to his role as CEO. Previously he was Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Imperva, where he led teams that made the company’s web and data security products leaders in their space. Prior to that he was a key executive at storage companies Data Domain and EMC. Focused on developing Nozomi Networks’ global business, Edgard’s tremendous passion, energy, vision and drive-to-win is being brought to bear on guiding Nozomi Networks to its next stage of development. Edgard has a MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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About Nozomi Networks: Nozomi Networks offers cybersecurity and operational visibility solutions for industrial control systems.
Ang Cui
Founder and CEO of Red Balloon Security
Cui is the founder, CEO and chief scientist of Red Balloon Security, a leading developer of embedded device security solutions. Prior to launching Red Balloon Security, Cui was a prominent security researcher at Columbia University’s Intrusion Detection Systems Lab where he exposed serious vulnerabilities in many widely used commercial products, including IP phones, laser jet printers, routers and networked appliances. His research culminated in the development of Symbiote, an OS agnostic intrusion defense technology which protects embedded devices at the firmware level by blocking unauthorized code and commands from being executed. This patented technology is currently deployed in HP LaserJet printers. Cui’s company has also secured multiple U.S. government contracts to study Symbiote’s effectiveness in military, national security and industrial applications. In 2017, Symbiote for Automotive Defense was announced at the ESCAR Conference. In addition to Symbiote, Cui has developed several other security technologies, including FRAK (firmware vulnerability analysis), Funtenna (covert data exfiltration) and Badfet (secure boot bypass using a targeted electromagnetic pulse). Cui’s research has earned numerous awards and distinctions, including the 2011 Kaspersky Labs American Cup Winner, 2012 Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship, 2015 DARPA Riser and 2017 U.S. Department of Homeland Security “Crossing the Valley of Death” award. Cui holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University, as well as a Master of Philosophy and a Master of Science in computer science from the same university.
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About Red Balloon Security: Red Balloon Security is an embedded device security research and development firm.
Dug Song
CEO & Co-Founder of Duo Security
Dug Song is Co-founder and General Manager of Duo Security, one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity providers in the world. In 2018, Duo was acquired by Cisco for $2.35 billion, making it the largest exit ever for a Michigan-based software company. Founded in 2010, Duo protects more than 15,000 organizations against data breach with its simple and easy two-factor authentication and Zero Trust security products. Dug has a history of leading successful products and companies to solve pressing security problems, and is a renowned hacker and leading voice in the information security industry. Prior to launching Duo, Dug spent seven years as founding Chief Security Architect at Arbor Networks, protecting 80 percent of the world’s Internet service providers. He also built the first commercial network anomaly detection system, acquired by Check Point Software Technologies.
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About Duo Security, Techstars: Duo Security provides security software products and services.
Carson Sweet
Co-Founder & CEO of CloudPassage
Carson Sweet is co-founder and chief strategy officer for CloudPassage. As founding CEO, Carson led the team that created Halo, the patented security platform that changes the way enterprises achieve infrastructure protection and compliance. Carson’s information security career spans three decades and includes a broad range of entrepreneurial, management and hands-on technology experience. Carson and his teams have created groundbreaking security solutions across a range of industries and public sectors, with heavy focus on financial services, federal government, and high-tech. Carson focuses on long-term product, technology, and business strategy as CloudPassage expands market share through existing and emerging cloud security solutions. He also serves as chairman of the CloudPassage board of directors.
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About CloudPassage: CloudPassage offers a server security and compliance platform that works seamlessly across data centers and elastic infrastructure.
Alex Santos
CEO and Co-Founder of Fortress Information Security, LLC
Alex Santos is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fortress Information Security, a cybersecurity firm with a mission to secure critical infrastructure. Fortress has 45 employees and is based in Orlando FL, with locations in Columbus OH, Reston VA, and Boise ID. Fortress currently secures over 10% of the US power grid and critical assets. Prior to founding Fortress, Mr. Santos was the President and Co-founder of Digital Risk LLC . Mr. Santos was responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s operations as well as executing the company’s growth strategies. In 2013, Mr. Santos sold Digital Risk to Mphasis, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, for $202 million. Prior to Digital Risk, Mr. Santos was the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Operations for Connextions Inc. At Connextions Inc., Mr. Santos was responsible for all aspects of the company’s supply chain business unit (manufacturing, distribution, and contract packaging), including information technology, operations, client service, and purchasing functions for major clients such as Mercedes Benz, Olympus, and Harcourt, among others. Prior to Connextions Inc., Mr. Santos was a member of Ernst & Young’s Mergers and Acquisition practice serving Fortune 500 clients and major private equity firms. He worked on 60 transactions with a total value of $12 billion. Mr. Santos began his career as a financial auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. In 2012, Mr. Santos was named a “Top 40 Under 40” by Orlando Business Journal. Additionally, Mr. Santos serves as an officer of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Mr. Santos earned advanced degrees in Law and Accounting from the University of Florida and is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Florida Bar.
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About Fortress Information Security, LLC: Fortress Information Security is an information security and cyber risk mitigation company redefining traditional risk management.
Adi Ruppin
Founder & CEO of Ananda Networks
Adi brings over twenty years of experience in information security to his role establishing the technological direction for the WatchDox platform. He has a track record of leading innovative security companies to market success. Prior to joining WatchDox, Adi served as vice president of marketing and business development at BeInSync, leading to its acquisition by Phoenix Technologies. Before that, he founded and served as CEO of SofaWare Technologies, a pioneer in the Unified Threat Management (UTM) space, which was acquired by Check Point. Adi has also worked as a consultant to many venture capital firms in the information security and Internet spaces. Adi holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science and an MSc in Computers Science (Summa Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University.
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About 8e14 Networks, Ananda Networks: Ananda Networks is a cloud-managed service that enables organizations to create their own private networks.
Ian Roncoroni
Co-Founder & CEO of Next Caller
Ian Roncoroni is Cofounder of Next Caller, an Advanced Caller ID platform. Ian is responsible for business development and strategy. Prior to Next Caller, Ian founded Soho Energy Corp, an energy derivatives brokerage in New York. He graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a degree in Philosophy, and was a member of the varsity wrestling team.
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About Next Caller: Next Caller develops and offers a real time call verification technology solution that provides phone fraud detection services.
Christopher Kenessey
Chief Executive Officer of NetMotion Software
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About Forbes Technology Council, NetMotion Software, YPO: NetMotion Software is a tech company that provides security solutions, device management, and monitoring of remote devices.
Ron Victor
CEO and Founder of IoTium
Ron Victor is a Silicon-Valley based entrepreneur with 20 years of experience and expertise in both Fortune 100 companies and launching new ventures and start-ups. To-date, he has enabled raising more than $30 million in capital for multiple start-ups. He has founded and led three companies to successful exits. His latest venture, IoTium Inc., provides a secure, cloud-managed, easy-to-deploy Networking as a Service infrastructure for all IoT verticals. IoTium is the first secure network infrastructure company for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), allowing mission-critical environments to safely realize the promise of Industry 4.0. Prior to IoTium, Ron served as VP of Marketing and Business Development of Wireless Industrial Technologies, an Industrial IoT company providing IoT solutions for heavy industry such as aluminum smelters, copper tank houses, and more.
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About IoTium: IoTium simplifies establishing and managing secure network infrastructure for Industrial IoT.
Sreenath Kurupati
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Cyberfend
Sreenath Kurupati is the Chief Data Scientist, Security BU of Akamai Technologies.
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About Akamai Technologies, Cyberfend: Cyberfend offers a robust security solution to protect your web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks.
Glenn Chisholm
Co-Founder and CEO of Obsidian Security
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About Obsidian Security, Vulcan Cyber: Obsidian provides a security platform that ensures unified visibility and monitoring across SaaS applications.
Hasan Imam
CEO of Obsidian Security
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About Obsidian Security: Obsidian provides a security platform that ensures unified visibility and monitoring across SaaS applications.
Domas Povilauskas
Co-Founder and CEO of Syntropy
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About Syntropy: Syntropy is transforming the public internet into a secure and user-centric internet through a unifying layer.
Kingsley Idehen
Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software
Kingsley Uyi Idehen is Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software, a privately held company he started in 1992. Born in Manchester, England in 1965, Idehen was raised in both Great Britain and Nigeria. In the mid 1990s, he relocated to the USA, and OpenLink now has headquarters in both the US and UK. Under Kingsley’s leadership, OpenLink has been on the vanguard of data access, integration, and management, shipping a number of industry acclaimed products including: * OpenLink Virtuoso — a Universal Server for heterogeneous data virtualization, integration, and management, Virtuoso is the database behind DBpedia, the Linked Open Data cache, Sindice, and may other Linked Open Data Cloud oriented Data Spaces * OpenLink Universal Data Access Drivers — a suite of high-performance ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE-DB drivers for all major DBMS engines * OpenLink Data Spaces — a powerful platform for Personal Data Spaces (enterprise and InterWeb scales) * URIBurner — a publicly available service for generating 5-Star Linked Open Data from existing data sources (including HTML pages and various “Web 2.0” & Social Media APIs) *
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About OpenLink Software, W3C: Provides a modern platform for exploiting power of AI, Semantic Web, Cognitive Data Virtualization, and Multi-Model Data Management
Vincent Liu
CEO & Co-Founder of Bishop Fox
Vincent Liu (CISSP) is the co-founder and CEO of Bishop Fox. He is an expert in security strategy, red teaming, and product security; and at Bishop Fox, he oversees firm strategy and client relationships.
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About Bishop Fox: The leader in offensive security, providing continuous pen testing, red teaming, attack surface management, & security assessments.
David Schiffer
CEO of RevBits
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About RevBits: RevBits is a leading developer of next-generation endpoint security, privileged access management (PAM), and phishing detection solutions.
Nat Kausik
CEO of Bitglass
Nat was president and CEO of Bitglass from founding in Jan 2013 to retirement in June 2017. Prior to Bitglass, Nat was CEO of Asterpix, Trubates, FineGround and Arcot Systems, as well as positions in research and academia. Nat earned a B.Tech from IIT, Madras, an M.S. from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University.
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About Bitglass: Bitglass is an information technology company that helps enterprises move to SaaS-based and mobile deployments securely.
Evan Baehr
Founder & CEO of Teneno
Evan is the Cofounder/President of Able, an Austin tech company that funds the Fortune 5,000,000. He is the author of Get Backed, the #1 selling book from Harvard Business Press. He’s an honors graduate Princeton, Yale, and Harvard Business School.
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About Teneno: Teneno is a leading provider of simple, secure and affordable networking-on-demand solutions for Small and Medium Sized Businesses.
Mischel Kwon
CEO & Founder of MKACyber
Mischel Kwon is a recognized IT security leader with over 30 years of experience in technical security operations, incident response and information assurance as well as building and managing organizational and national level SOC, CERT and IR Teams. Kwon currently serves as the President and CEO of MKACyber, a security consulting firm specializing in Technical Defensive Security, Security Operations and Information Assurance. Kwon has held senior roles in the U.S. Government, including Director of US-CERT where she coordinated national-level IR activities and at the U.S. Department of Justice where she established and managed the Justice Security Operations Center (JSOC). Kwon holds an M.S. degree in computer science and a graduate certificate in Computer Security and Information Assurance.
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About MKACyber: A rapidly expanding Managed Security Operations Services Provider with elite SOC expertise.
Tom Sego
Co-Founder & CEO of BlastWave
Tom Sego Prior to Co-Founding BlastWave, Tom has been the co-founder of solar storage, wine importing, and software security companies. Earlier in his career he spent 9 years with Apple, reporting to Tim Cook and leading 6 different divisions including Premium Reseller Program stores outside of the US. Before Apple, he worked at Alta Vista in business analysis and product management. He also performed merger and acquisition work in business development at Emerson Electric. Before business school, he held various engineering positions at Eli Lilly and Caterpillar. Tom resides in Palo Alto, CA and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School.
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About BlastWave: BlastWave creates the next phase of cybersecurity solutions, built on proprietary hardware, software, and a social layer.
Matthew Gregory
Founder & CEO of Ockam
Matthew Gregory is the founder and CEO of Ockam and has a passion for building high performance teams. Matthew has a diverse background from Azure Open Source, Heroku, he built the Weather API that your favorite weather app probably uses, and is a former America’s Cup sailor.
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About Ockam: Ockam is how applications trust data-in-motion.
Mark Quinlivan
CEO and Founder of Confer Technologies
Mark Quinlivan founded Confer Technologies, Inc. and also served as its Chief Executive Officer. Mark Quinlivan is a Principal of REBIScan, Inc. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Carrier IQ, Inc. He has over 25 years of domestic and international management experience, both in start-up environments and multi-billion dollar companies. He served as the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Sales & Services and Self-Service & e-Billing of edocs, Inc. He led sales, professional services, customer service and client services organizations at eDocs. He has rich background of professional services, systems integration, sales, information services, manufacturing and other key operational executive roles. Mark Quinlivan served as Senior Vice President of Lucent Technologies responsible for Lucent NetCares Consulting & Integration Business, which was the Solutions and Systems Integration business of the Lucent NetCare family. He served as Vice President of Lucent’s Complex Solutions business. He held senior management positions at Ascend Communications and Stratus Computer. He served as a Director of Carrier IQ, Inc. Mark Quinlivan holds an undergraduate degree in Management and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from WPI and completed the PMD program from the Harvard University School of Business.
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About Confer Technologies: Confer Technologies is a developer of a cyberthreat security network.
