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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
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.
May Wang
CTO of Palo Alto Networks
May Wang is CTO at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Steve Ellis
Chief Technology Officer of SmartContract
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About SmartContract: Smart Contracts verify an execute themselves by monitoring external data sources.
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.
Andy Milenius
CTO of MakerDAO
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
Mitja Simcic
Co-Founder Chief Technology Officer of GlobaliD
Building and empowering people with portable, user controlled identities. Entrepreneur since college. Computer Science and MBA background.
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About GlobaliD, Kupi, Qloud.io: Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
Michael Egorov
Co-founder & CTO of NuCypher
Michael Egorov is the Founder & CEO at Curve Finance.Michael is a physicist and scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad, he studied ultra-cold atoms as a post-doc.
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About Curve Finance, LoanCoin, NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Konstantin Vilk
CTO of QuSecure
Konstantin Vilk has a passion for making a difference using advances in technology. He has over 15 years of experience in cyber security, technology infrastructure, product design and development. He has worked with some of the best-recognized names in Biotechnology, US government, Consumer Goods and Financial Services sectors over the course of his career. Currently he is fueling his passion for developing new practices and approaches to Cyber Security.
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About Gimmel Entrepreneurs Fund, Quantum Thought, QuSecure: QuSecure is bringing vital quantum security and communication products that secure enterprise and government in the quantum computing era.
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.
Palmer Luckey
Founder & CTO of Anduril Industries
Palmer Luckey is the Founder of Anduril Industries. He is also the designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display, and the founder of Oculus VR. Frustrated with the inadequacy and high cost of the existing HMDs on the market, Palmer began experimenting with his own designs in 2009 at the age of 16. In 2012, he formed Oculus VR, which was acquired two years later by Facebook for $2.3b. Palmer began attending Golden West College and Long Beach City College at the age of 14, and studied at California State University, Long Beach before dropping out to found Oculus VR. His deep interest in defense technology was driven by his time at the USC ICT MxR lab, where he built hardware used to research immersive PTSD treatment for US veterans. He continued to support various military applications of VR during his time at Oculus, informing his belief that radical modernization of US military technology is a prerequisite for preserving our way of life.
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About Anduril Industries: Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance.
Jean-Paul Martin
CTO (co-founder) of Alarm.com
Jean-Paul Martin, one of our founders, has served as our Chief Technology Officer since March 2000. Prior to joining us, Mr. Martin served as a Software Architect with MicroStrategy Incorporated. Mr. Martin has also served as Chief Technology Officer of Media Cybernetics Inc., which provided image processing and analysis software used in medical, industrial, forensic and remote sensing applications. Mr. Martin holds a B.Sc/M.Sc in Electrical Engineering and Robotics from the Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III, France).
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Roy Feintuch
Cloud CTO of Check Point Software Technologies
Roy Feintuch is the Cloud CTO @ Check Point.
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About Check Point Software Technologies: Check Point Software Technologies provides and protects customers from cyberattacks.
Manish Mangal
Chief Technology Officer of Tech Mahindra
As the Chief Technology Officer, Manish Mangal is responsible for driving Tech Mahindra’s network services strategy, developing solutions portfolio and establishing strategic alliances & partnerships. In his role, Manish works with CXOs customers and plays a key role in shaping the “Networks of the Future” that will be Software-defined, Cloud & AI/ML-enabled, and Highly Automated. He is passionate about 5G and the pervasive impacts it will have on society. Manish has served the Telecommunications industry for 23 years and worked with global Tier-I operators and OEMs such as Reliance Jio, Sprint, and Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia). During most of his career, he has championed corporate-wide large-scale complex technology initiatives from ideation to deployment. Prior to joining Tech Mahindra, Manish worked with Reliance Jio as a Senior Vice President of Network Development & Engineering and the President of Reliance Jio USA, where he played a key role in designing and deployment of world’s largest mobile network. Manish is a member of the governing board of Linux Foundation Networking (LFN). He is also an inventor of 60 patents.
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About Tech Mahindra: Tech Mahindra is a global systems integrator and is a part of the Mahindra Group.
John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Vic Cekvenich
CTO – COO of Apakau
I am a seasoned tech executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success. I have over thirty years experience combining a strong technical background and business leadership. I believe that technology must be developed solely to achieve business objectives and to satisfy market demands. I believe innovation happens with small and elite teams of superstars rather than with armies of mediocre players. I also believe that creating an environment of high innovation requires a culture of high-output based on merit; a place where people are rewarded for taking good risks.
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About Apakau: Apakau’s Cloud Proxy is an intelligent, edge-based networking solution that stops (DDoS) attacks against dynamic data.
Marshall Jones
Co-Founder & CTO of Very Good Security
Marshall Jones is a co-founder and CTO of Very Good Security. He is a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in FinTech industry. Formerly VP Engineering at Balanced Payments, a payment system for the marketplaces, Marshall knows all ins and outs of setting up engineering processes from ground-up, building a scalable product infrastructure, and growing effective engineering teams. Originally from New Zealand, Marshall lived in Singapore and moved to the USA in 2012. He is an engineering focussed manager with extraordinary technical skills: Marshall codes, liaises between engineers and business and, most importantly, builds product architecture and infrastructure.
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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.
Michael Sprague
CTO & Co-Founder of Rivetz
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About Rivetz: Rivetz is a developer of a hardware-based cyber-security system used to offer a simplified approach to cybersecurity.
Matthias Kadenbach
CTO & Co-founder of Templarbit
CTO & Co-founder at Templarbit Inc.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Mark Jacoub
CTO of Skopenow
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About Skopenow: Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
Vikesh Khanna
CTO & Co-founder of Ambient.ai
CTO & co-founder
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Stan Blanton
Co-Founder and CTO of Gradient Cyber
Stan Blanton is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Avi Turgeman
Founder & CTO of BioCatch
Avi is a founder of BioCatch, and comes with over six years of experience in the Israeli military intelligence (unit 8200) as a researcher and R&D team leader.During his military service Avi became well versed in white-hat hacking, system vulnerability management, network surveillance, data mining and electronic signatures. Avi is also the Co-Founder of VocalZoom, and was the Co-Founder & CEO of Tapingo.
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About BioCatch, Forbes Technology Council, IronVest: BioCatch unlocks the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease co-exist.
Jesse Rothstein
Co-founder & CTO of ExtraHop
Jesse Rothstein is the CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks. Jesse’s technical vision and expertise in enterprise networking provide ExtraHop with a competitive edge in the industry. With a world-class team behind him, Jesse is responsible for the technical architecture of the ExtraHop platform as well as the vision for growing the business. Jesse co-founded ExtraHop after a six-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. Jesse was the architect and project lead for the BIG-IP v9 development effort and the technical lead for frameworks, clustering, and performance. Prior to F5, he worked in product development at Motive Communications and the Trilogy Development Group. Jesse specializes in designing and implementing high-performance networking products. Jesse holds bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Rice University.
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About ExtraHop: ExtraHop helps organizations to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised.
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.
Renaud Deraison
Chief Technology Officer, co-founder of Tenable
Renaud Deraison is known in the global security community as the father of the Nessus® vulnerability scanner. His original creation, Nessus, celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2013 and is considered the de facto standard for vulnerability scanning worldwide. Renaud co-founded Tenable Network Security in 2002. As Chief Product Officer, he drives product strategy and development. Before Tenable, Renaud was the primary author of the Nessus vulnerability scanner – releasing the first version of Nessus when he was 17. He worked for SolSoft and founded his own computing security consulting company, Nessus Consulting S.A.R.L. Renaud continues to contribute to the global security community; he is author of three patents related to network scanning and security, and has published his work in books and magazines. He is a member of the editorial board for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Organization. In 2013, he received the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for defense and security, together with Ron Gula and Jack Huffard.
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About Tenable: Tenable helps organizations to understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk across the full range of modern computing assets.
Satyen Yadav
CTO, Analytics of The Boeing Company
Satyen Yadav is General Manager of IoT Edge & Device Services at Amazon Web Services. He has global responsibility for innovative end-to-end solutions for Internet of Things including device & edge software and associated cloud services such as AWS Greengrass. Prior to joining Amazon, he was General Manager of IoT and Wearable Solutions at Intel Corporation and led a global organization to deliver hardware (SOC) and software solutions for Internet of Things and Wearable devices. Prior to this, he held global leadership positions in engineering and business functions at Intel and helped establish new businesses in wireless and network security areas. He has been granted 20+ US and international patents. Satyen holds a MBA degree from Northwestern University (Kellogg) and a Master’s in Computer Science degree from Iowa State University.
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About The Boeing Company: Boeing Company manufactures and sells aircraft, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites and provides product leasing and support services.
Avik De
CTO of Ghost Robotics
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About Ghost Robotics: Robots that Feel the World™ | Quadrupedal Robots (Q-UGV) for Unstructured, Demanding and Continuous-Use Environments
Tony Cassanego
Co-founder & CTO of Dropbox DocSend
Tony has worked at companies big and small (Intuit, Increo Solutions, Greystripe). Most recently he built and managed Greystripe’s rich media mobile platforms team that was responsible for the iOS, Android, and mobile web SDKs. His technical expertise ranges from web to mobile technologies. Tony received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford.
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About Dropbox DocSend, Greystripe: Dropbox DocSend is a secure document sharing and tracking solution that helps companies share business-critical documents with ease.
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.
Mark Herschberg
Chief Technology Officer of Averon
Mark “Hershey” Herschberg is the CTO of Averon. He is a cryptographer, university instructor, and champion ballroom dancer. Hershey chairs the IEEE standards committee on HTTPSi and serves on the board of TechieYouth. After graduating from MIT with degrees in physics and EE/CS, he then continued his graduate work at MIT on cryptography. His master’s thesis, “Secure Electronic Voting over the World Wide Web,” created the first online voting system. He subsequently worked in Fortune 500s and startups to track down cybercriminals, terrorists and extremists on the dark web. Hershey’s range of other work includes big data tools, lead generation, media, enterprise mobile platforms, and he was brought in as the turn-around technical lead on an NBC business unit that was relaunched as Hulu. A part time academic, he has taught at MIT for almost two decades where he helped create MIT’s seminal Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program. He also created the Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School, he annually lectures at NYU, USC and elsewhere, and he enjoys speaking regularly on cybersecurity, technology, and entrepreneurship at conferences around the world. Although now retired from dance competitions, Hershey was a top, nationally-ranked ballroom dancer. He is passionate about helping others improve their personal and professional efficacy and for many years has been an active volunteer with Streetwise Partners, Futures & Options, TapRoot, and has successfully helped run CodeRanch for nearly a decade.
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About Averon, MIT Media Lab: Averon is the developer of the Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA), the first fully automatic, secure mobile identity standard
Steve Grobman
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of McAfee
Steve Grobman is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at McAfee.
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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.
Lior Netzer
VP and CTO IoT of Akamai Technologies
Lior Netzer is the Vice President and General Manager of Emerging Mobile Business at Akamai where he leads the formulation of Akamai’s edge strategy as it relates to cellular networks. Previously, Lior was AVP Corporate Development at Comverse Network Systems focusing on mergers and acquisitions in the mobile application space. Lior has also held various senior operational positions in early stage companies such as Voltaire, and advisory board positions with Metacafe. Lior holds an MBA, magna cum laude, from the Technion Israel.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Charlie Gero
CTO of Akamai Technologies
Charlie Gero is the Advisor at Rafay.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
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.
Aimei Wei
Chief Technology Officer of Stellar Cyber
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About Stellar Cyber: Stellar Cyber is the innovator of Open XDR = Everything Detection & Response
Martin Holste
CTO, Cloud of FireEye
Martin Holste is the CTO for Cloud at FireEye where he is responsible for shaping cloud security offerings, developing the corporate cloud security strategy and passionately working with customers to help secure their cloud workloads. Prior to serving as CTO for Cloud, Holste founded the cloud-native Threat Analytics Platform at FireEye based on his popular open-source Enterprise Log Search and Archive project. Before FireEye, Holste spent most of a decade in penetration testing, incident response and threat hunting while serving as the Incident Response Team Lead for the State of Wisconsin. He has previously presented on serverless Big Data solutions at AWS re:Invent and security investigation cognitive strategies and security analytics frameworks at other conferences.
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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.
John Gromala
Senior Director of Portfolio Strategy, Hybrid IT Office of the CTO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
John Gromala is the senior director of portfolio strategy 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.
Eng Lim Goh
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Eng Lim Goh joined SGI in 1989, becoming a chief engineer in 1998 and then chief technology officer in 2000. He oversees technical computing programs with the goal to develop the next generation computer architecture for the new many-core era. His current research interest is in the progression from data intensive computing to analytics, machine learning, artificial specific to general intelligence and autonomous systems. Since joining SGI, he has continued his studies in human perception for user interfaces and virtual and augmented reality. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, Goh completed his Ph.D. research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics, and holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University in the U.K.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Dave Carlisle
CTO of IT of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Carlisle is the chief technologist for Hewlett Packard Enterprise IT group and an HPE Fellow. He is responsible for leading HPE’s enterprise IT architecture and software development, and overseeing HPE R&D engineering and HPE labs collaboration.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Barry McAuliffe
Advanced Technology Development (Office of CTO) 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.
Milan Shetti
Chief Technology Officer, Data Center Infrastructure Group 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.
Raphael Davison
DIRECTOR, DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PRINCIPAL 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.
Matt Maccaux
Global Field CTO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Matt Maccaux is based in Denver, Colorado and is Dell EMC’s Global Big Data Practice Lead. In his role, he is responsible for defining the direction EMC takes to market for Big Data Services and ensures EMC products and services align to the needs of the marketplace. With a background in Application Development and Modern Data and Application Platforms, Matt brings a well-rounded perspective to help organizations of all sizes assess, pilot, and deploy Big Data solutions.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Tripp Partain
CTO, Converged Servers, Edge, and IoT Systems 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.
Laurel Krieger
Vice President, Strategy and Operations, Chief of Staff for the CTO 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.
Beena Ammanath
CTO – Artificial Intelligence of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Beena Ammanath is a senior technology executive with over 23 years proven track record of building core big data and data science competencies. Currently associated with GE and her focus is on strategy, execution, and operations for turning data into impactful revenue generating innovative products and solutions. She is successful at building, inspiring and growing high performance global teams. Beena is also a featured speaker on the topics of Data Science, Big Data, Technology Transformation and Women in Leadership, at numerous industry conferences. She is dedicated to supporting diversity in technology.
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About GE Digital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Ravi Balupari
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of CloudVector
Ravi Balupari, Aiguo Fei, and Lebin Cheng founded ArecaBay in 2018, since which Ravi has been serving as its CTO.
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About CloudVector: CloudVector protects an organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them.
Kowsik Guruswamy
Chief Technology Officer of Menlo Security
Kowsik Guruswamy is CTO of Menlo Security. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO at Mu Dynamics, which pioneered a new way to analyze networked products for security vulnerabilities. Prior to Mu, he was a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks. Kowsik joined Juniper via the NetScreen/OneSecure acquisition where he designed and implemented the industry’s first IPS. He has more than 15+ years of experience in diverse technologies like security, cloud, data visualization, and computer graphics. Kowsik has 18 issued patents and holds an MSCS from University of Louisiana.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
John Wilson
Field CTO of Agari
John Wilson is the Field Chief Technology Officer at Agari, responsible for researching and utilizing the company’s advanced data security insights to drive continuous technology innovation. An esteemed security expert, Wilson is often called upon to assist major organizations in fighting cyber crime. During his career, he assisted Microsoft and the FS-ISAC with taking down the B54 Citadel botnet by providing data related to Citadel botnet infections and acting as a declarant in the civil forfeiture action filed in US District Court.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Wesley Dunnington
Field CTO of Ping Identity
Wesley has over 25 years in the software industry and is a 15-year veteran of the identity and security space. Wesley is currently Field CTO for Ping Identity. In his role Wesley helps customers understand both the business value and implications of new technologies, and helps Ping maintain its thought leadership position via blogs, whitepapers, conference presentations, and standards body work. Wesley was previously director of engineering for CA Technologies SiteMinder products and was chief architect for CA’s first IDaaS offering. More recently Wesley was lead platform architect for Sophos’ cloud cybersecurity offerings.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Daniel Marashlian
Co-Founder & CTO of Drata
Daniel has specialized his career in leading & creating the technology for successful startups and enterprises. Currently, Daniel is the Co-Founder & CTO at [Drata](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/drata). Before that, Daniel was the Co-Founder & CTO of [Portfolium](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/portfolium), a student success platform. Prior, Daniel joined up with the Co-Founders of [TweetPhoto](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetphoto)/[Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) to start [RapidEngage](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rapidengage). He was part of the acquisition of [Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) to [Lockerz](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lockerz). Former CTO and creator of [TweetPhoto](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetphoto)/[Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) which supported a giant piece of the photo sharing ecosystem on [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter). He also was the Co-Founder & CTO of [Pelotonics](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pelotonics), a simple online project management system.
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About Drata: Drata is a compliance and security platform that automates the compliance workflow on a company’s security controls.
Nathan Michael
Chief Technology Officer of Shield AI
Nathan is Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer as well as an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Michael is Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab; author of over 140 publications on control, perception, and cognition for resilient intelligent single and multi-robot systems; nominee or recipient of nine best paper awards (ICRA, RSS, DARS, CASE, SSRR); recipient of the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award and Robotics Society of Japan Best Paper Award (of 2014); and PI of past and ongoing research programs supported by ARL, AFRL, DARPA, DOE, DTRA, NASA, NSF, ONR, and industry. Nathan develops resilient intelligent autonomous systems capable of coordination and communication in challenging GPS-Denied environments.
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About Shield AI: Building the world’s best AI pilot.
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.
Blake Brannon
CTO of OneTrust
As Vice President of Product, Blake Brannon oversees all aspects of OneTrust’s product and is responsible for defining the privacy management software market and OneTrust’s product capabilities. Brannon evaluates industry trends and analyst research, while driving product planning, design, customer advisory testing and product launch activities. Prior to OneTrust, Brannon was one of the first employees at AirWatch, where he served as Global Director of Sales Engineering and Vice President of Product Marketing.
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About OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
Dan Thormodsgaard
CTO and Co-Founder of Fishtech Labs
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About Fishtech Labs: Fishtech Labs is a technology accelerator focused on finding
Oleg Melnikov
Chief Technology Officer of Acronis
As Chief Technology Officer, Oleg is responsible for leading Acronis’ scientific and technological vision, including strategy development, innovation policies and alignment between teams. Before coming to Acronis, Oleg co-founded Parallels (aka Odin, SWsoft), where he spent more than 20 years leading cross-cultural teams in designing, architecting, building and supporting Odin Automation, a complete Cloud Service Provider platform. After IngramMicro acquired Odin, Oleg served as Chief Development Officer, where he led a team of more than 300 product and program managers, developers, developers-in-test, and technical writers. Since 2010, he has also served as CTO for Runa Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups. In this role, Oleg ensures a thorough due-diligence of companies being considered for investment, and mentors companies in the portfolio regarding product management, software engineering, and product delivery.
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About Acronis, Runa Capital: Acronis is a cybersecurity company that solves safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security challenges.
Barry Shteiman
Co-founder and CTO of BlastRadius
Co-founder of BlastRadius, ex Exabeam and Imperva
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About BlastRadius: BlastRadius is a stealth-mode startup based in the Silicon Valley / Bay Area.
Thomas B. Pedersen
CTO & founder of OneLogin
Thomas has more than 15 years of experience in building and selling carrier-grade billing systems for phone companies, initially at Cisco-backed Digiquant in Denmark and later at Intec Telecom Systems in the US. After having helped Zendesk grow to 5,000 customers as VP Business Development, he is now laser-focused on making OneLogin the most widely deployed identity management solution in the cloud.
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About OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
David Crawshaw
CTO and Co-Founder of Tailscale
David Crawshaw is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tailscale.
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About Tailscale: Tailscale is a developer of a corporate VPN alternative, aiming to make private networks easier to build and maintain.
Alec Rooney
CTO and Co-Founder of Minim
Alec Rooney is the Co-founder and CTO at Minim.
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About Minim: Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
James Yonan
Founder & CTO of OpenVPN
James Yonan founded the OpenVPN project in 2002, and has since then established OpenVPN as an award-winning offering in the Open Source security space. Prior to founding the OpenVPN project, he played a key role at Northfield Trading LP as the architect of TSE, a platform for rigorously evaluating the statistical fitness of financial trading models. James Yonan was a lead developer at Mark Williams Company, an early pioneer in the effort to create C language and Unix tools for the original IBM PC. James Yonan studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
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About OpenVPN: OpenVPN Technologies provides premier VPN security software and web-scale VPN service based on open source innovation.
Hector Hoyos
Founder, Chairman, CEO & CTO of Hoyos Corporation
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About Hoyos Corporation: Hoyos is an identity management technology solution company focused on developing systems for access control and the identity market.
Mike Price
Chief Technology Officer of ZeroFOX
Michael Price is currently Chief Technology Officer at the social media & digital protection startup ZeroFOX. He wrote his first line of BASIC on his mom’s Commodore64 in the 80s and became involved with information security in the early 90s. He entered the information security field as a NASA contractor in 1999. He has otherwise worked professionally in the information security field for over 20 years. He has held major roles at several successful startups including Foundstone (acquired by McAfee), Appthority (acquired by Symantec), Vulnr (acquired by ZeroFOX) and ZeroFOX. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Security and Risk Analysis from The Pennsylvania State University, and is additionally a published author, a frequent speaker as well as co-founder of the first and only technical security conference in Chile – the 8.8 Computer Security Conference.
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About ZeroFOX: ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Michael Price
Chief Technology Officer of ZeroFOX
Mike is CTO at ZeroFOX. He is responsible for leading and setting the vision for all technology. He oversees all aspects of product management, engineering, research, development and threat operations. Prior to ZeroFOX, he founded the mobile security company Vulnr. Prior to Vulnr, Mike was Vice President of Engineering at Appthority. In this role, Mike collaborated with the engineering team to build industry-leading products, with a focus on mobile operating system and application security. Previously, Mike was Senior Operations Manager for McAfee Labs, having joined through McAfee’s acquisition of Foundstone.
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About ZeroFOX: ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Harry Kalodner
Co-Founder, CTO of Offchain Labs
Harry Kalodner is a PhD candidate at Princeton University working under professor Arvind Narayanan. His research explores economics, anonymity, and incentive compatibility of cryptocurrencies. He developed BlockSci, a tool for cryptocurrency analysis as well as a Bitcoin mining strategy simulator.
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About Offchain Labs: Offchain Labs develops Arbitrum, a solution for scaling Ethereum smart contracts
Jon Lavender
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of Dragos
Jon Lavender is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Dragos Security where he helped to design, build and deploy the company’s flagship product—CyberLens. He is responsible for all aspects of the technology and focuses specifically on the user experience while helping to build relationship with customers throughout the critical infrastructure community. Previously, Lavender was a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community where he led diverse teams in challenging environments experiencing both red and blue team type operations. He managed and built relationships with key partners. Lavender received his bachelor’s in management information systems from Wake Forest School of Business and later his master’s in cybersecurity from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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About : Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company that detects and responds to threats in industrial controls systems.
Christopher Ciabarra
CTO and Co Founder of Athena Security
Co-founder, CTO at Athena Security
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About : Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
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.
Don Bosco Durai
Cofounder, CTO and Chief Security Architect of Privacera
Bosco is a seasoned entrepreneur and a thought leader in enterprise security. Bosco built one of the first real-time user and entity behavioral based fraud detection product and his company Bharosa was acquired by Oracle. After his stunt in Oracle, Bosco’s founded XA Secure, which reinvented security at scale for Big Data paradigm. After XA Secure’s acquisition by Open Source focussed Hortonworks, Inc. XA Secure product was donated to Apache Software Foundation and now it is called Apache Ranger. Bosco is still an active member of the open source community. Bosco through his current startup, Privacera, is trying to tackle the new challenges caused by data explosion and liberal sharing of sensitive data within enterprises. Privacera approach is data centric, which “follows the data” and protects them from malicious users and accidental data policy violations. In the process, Privacera is also bridging the chasm between the security team, data owners, and compliance officers to provide a more effective and frictionless end-to-end security for sensitive and personal data.
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About Privacera: Privacera is a SaaS-based data security and governance platform that offers data sharing without compromising regulatory compliance.
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.
Tom Gilbert
Founder, CTO & SVP Engineering of Blue Ridge Networks
Tom Gilbert has supported the sale of security and VPN products and services for more than 10 years. His extensive security experience and technical background have been strong assets in bringing Blue Ridge Networks products and services to market quickly and successfully. Like many members of the Blue Ridge team, Gilbert has seen his share of “firsts” in the technology industry. He was on the first team to provide commercial delivery of high-speed multimedia over satellite while working at Satellite Business Systems, a one billion dollar company. He was also on the team that developed and launched the first V-LAN during his tenure at Network Systems Corporation, where he served as director of business development, marketing director, technical sales consultant, and a national account sales manager, leading the IBM and AT&T accounts.Gilbert also managed the worldwide development and support of programming tools at IBM. He received a Bachelor of Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
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About Blue Ridge Networks: Blue Ridge Networks provides high-security outsourced Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions.
Mark Reed
CTO of Syxsense
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About Syxsense: IT management and security solution that combines Vulnerability Scanning, Patch Management and EDR capabilities
Michael Jannain
CTO of Pei
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About Pei: Unlock automatic cashback in Bitcoin or USD on your debit or credit cards!
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.
Anthony Pillitiere
Co-Founder & CTO of Horizon3.ai
Father, Husband, Nerd.
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About Horizon3.ai: Horizon3.ai leverages autonomous Pentesting to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.
Dan Tentler
CTO of Carbon Dynamics
Dan Tentler (@Viss) has been working in the field of computer security since 2008. Having begun his own consultancy, he was contracted to assist with both the attack and the defense of software companies, financial organizations, electrical utilities and social media companies. Dan has trained himself in the ways of the skilled attacker, and keeps abreast of the current threat landscape in an effort to bring only the most precise, most refined tradecraft to his clientele. Now, as the CTO of Carbon Dynamics, Dan routinely conducts security engagements for a wide variety of industries and businesses.
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About Carbon Dynamics: A computer and network security company
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.
Denis Mandich
Co-Founder & CTO of Qrypt
Denis Mandich is the Co-Founder & CTO of Qrypt.He attend to the Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
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About Forbes Technology Council, Qrypt: Quantum Secure Encryption. Everlasting Security.
Randy De Meno
VP/CTO: Microsoft Practice & Solutions of Commvault
Randy De Meno joined Commvault as VP/CTO: Microsoft Practice & Solutions in 2020.Randy De Meno joined Commvault in 1994 and initiated Commvault’s direction into the heterogeneous Data Management segment of the industry. Randy holds dozens patents on a number of CommVault’s technologies including the Granular Application Integration and E-Discovery capabilities. Randy led Commvault’s direction towards what is today’s Commvault’s Windows Centric Simpana solution and spearheaded the partnership with Microsoft in 1999. Randy continues to manage the overall strategic relationship with Microsoft. Randy leads Commvault’s application efforts for their Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Lync, SQL, Azure as well as other Windows based solutions. On a personal note, Randy is married with three children and leads the Commvault Ice Hockey team which has enabled Commvault and partners to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for various children’s charities over the years.
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About Commvault, Commvault: Commvault provides a data and enterprise backup software.
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.
Sunil Kayiti
CTO of Emburse
Sunil Kayiti Chief Technology Officer at Emburse. Before that, he was the CTO at Chrome River Technologies.
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About Emburse: Emburse is a provider of expense management and accounts payable automation solutions.
Anand Purusothaman
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of AppViewX
Anand has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, specifically in product design and development. Prior to founding AppViewX, he was a key technologist in various startups, notably the online trading platform Tradeweb, where he spearheaded product development of trading and post-trade systems. The platform saw a total trade volume that surpassed $100 trillion, and later Tradeweb was acquired by Thomson Financials. Beyond product engineering experience, Anand is a visionary leader and has mentored and groomed various teams in multiple business practice areas. He travels globally and builds relationships, promoting the business and conducting socioeconomic reforms. He actively engages in corporate social responsibility initiatives, adopts villages, and drives the villages toward a self-sufficiency model. Anand holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering – Human Factors from Clemson University.
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About AppViewX, Payoda Technologies: AppViewX is a Certificate Lifecycle Management and Network Automation Company.
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.
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.
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.
Dan Murphy
Co-Founder & CTO of Netography
Dan Murphy is the Co-Founder and CTO at Netography.
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About Netography: Netography provides organizations with network detection and response capabilities for the atomized network.
James Penney
Chief Technology Officer of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
Ken Schroder
Chief Technology Officer of S2 Security Corporation
Ken is an accomplished engineering professional whose background in IP network device development, hardware engineering, and education software makes a solid foundation for leading their diverse engineering teams.
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About S2 Security Corporation: S2 Security Corporation, develop a unique line of open architecture, scalable, IP network-ready products.
Trevor Pennypacker
CTO of Paladin Drones
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About Paladin Drones: Paladin Drones is a simple system to give first responders instant situational awareness
Josh Summitt
Co-Founder and CTO of otto by DEVCON
Josh has spent over 12 years in Information Security specializing in finding, exploiting, and patching software vulnerabilities for fortune 500 companies. He has developed several open source tools for the hacker community and has presented these tools in the 2016 and 2017 Black Hat Conferences. Josh is a proven technologist, polyglot software engineer, and creative problem solver. “I had the pleasure of working with Josh Summitt for over 5 years in the security space. This work included web application penetration testing, external network and wireless penetration testing, and development of tools for authorized Phishing campaigns. Josh also developed hacking demos (showing how bad-actors practice their tradecraft) which has been used to raise security awareness for audiences globally. Josh is a very skilled security analyst and would be an asset to any organization that needs to mature its security program.” (Kevin Mitnick, Mitnick Security)
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About otto by DEVCON: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Praveen Jain
CTO of Cavirin Systems
Praveen Jain is a seasoned executive bringing to Cavirin over 25 years of engineering leadership in innovation, strategy, and execution of products in Data Centers and Cloud businesses. He was the co-founder of several successful startups including Insieme Networks, which was acquired by Cisco for $863 million. While at Cisco, Praveen, as a Senior Vice President, led the engineering team in developing a massively scalable and revolutionary SDN product, the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), helping customers build hybrid cloud (IaaS) solutions. ACI is now deployed in enterprise datacenters worldwide, generating revenues in the billions. Prior to Insieme Networks, Praveen also led UCS server engineering at start-up Nuova Systems, while prior to Nuova Systems, he was a Director of Engineering at Andiamo Systems, also acquired by Cisco. Praveen has secured 10+ patents in the areas of networking, automated policies, and data center infrastructure. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Delhi Institute of Technology.
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About Cavirin Systems: Cavirin is the company providing cybersecurity risk posture – CyberPosture – and compliance for the enterprise hybrid cloud.
Anand Kashyap
CTO of Fortanix
Anand is the co-founder and CTO at Fortanix, and leads engineering and product development. He also leads the customer acquisition and customer success process at Fortanix, working closely with customers and partners in enabling technical sales. Previously, Anand worked at VMware through the acquisition of Arkin. He developed the core engine for netflow analysis in VMware NSX environments, which is now part of the VMware vRealize Network Insight product. Before VMware, he worked for several years as a lead researcher at the Symantec Research Labs. At Symantec, he developed foundational technologies used in several products, such as the Norton Mobile Security suite, Norton Core Router, Symantec Risk Insight, and Symantec Deepsight Intellgence. He filed over 25 patents and presented in conferences such as Financial Cryptography and BlackHat. Anand holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. He has published 20 papers in top conferences and journals and his work has received over 1100 citations.
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About Fortanix: Fortanix solves cloud security and privacy using Runtime Encryption(R) technology build upon Intel SGX.
Sandy Fliderman
Chief Technology Officer of VerifyMe
Sandy Fliderman is the Chief Technology Officer, responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of all the digital and physical solutions at VerifyMe.Fliderman was previously the Chief Information Officer at VEEDIMS, LLC. VEEDIMS is an Internet of Things technology company that has revolutionized the way power and data is distributed and data collected in the aerospace and marine markets. In the first 8 months with the company, Sandy lead the charge to attain the AS9100 and ISO9001:2008 certifications needed to do business in the aerospace markets.Prior to that Sandy was the co-founder and CTO of Zaah.com.Zaah is a full service digital media company that creates big brand websites, mobile apps, games, and develops social media content and strategy. As CTO, Sandy directed a team of over 200 personnel and oversaw the company’s strategy and development teams. Offices were spread out through NYC, Long Island, NY, Tampa, FL and Chennai, India.Notable clients of Zaah which Sandy successfully oversaw include Maxim Magazine, Disney, Vistaprint, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, Kodak, Fuji, 1800flowers, Target Portraits and J.C. Penny. Also Sandy wrote the patents and created the technology behind VerifyMe. A software management veteran with over 22 years of experience, Sandy began his business career at J.P. Morgan & Co. on the bank’s IT team. He spent his first 5 years in IT on the trading floor on Wall Street. While getting his B.S. in telecommunications and computer science from St. Johns University, Sandy co-founded Shop4Cash.com in 1999. As CTO he oversaw the organization’s development team. In 2001, Sandy then went on and founded eMerchant Services, applying IP technology to the merchant services industry. eMerchant Services was the first company to offer a free internet gateway product, as well as a 100% IP-based processing platform. With a proven record of success, Sandy started consulting for DataTreasury Corporation and Infinity Payment Systems where he oversaw the development of the first-ever IP-based credit card terminal that ran over the Ethernet with encryption.
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About Industry FinTech, Rastegar Property Company, VerifyMe: In today’s world, counterfeiting and identity theft have become a global epidemic.
Adam Ghetti
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Ionic Security
Adam Ghetti, technologist and entrepreneur, founded Ionic Security in 2011 to address the problem of trust in a cloud and mobile enabled world.He has over 15 years of experience building large-scale systems in multiple Internet-related markets. He is an expert in complex systems and task automation and has in depth applied knowledge of application security, network security, data security, and artificial neural networks.Most recently, he was recognized by Forbes as a 30 under 30-thought leader in technology and by the World Economic Forum as a 2015 technology pioneer.
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About Ionic Security: Ionic Security, a data security platform, provides access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management.
Apurva Mehta
Founder & CTO of Versa Networks
Apurva brings technical leadership with over two decades of experience leading complex development products creating billion dollar revenue streams. Prior to Versa, he was CTO and Chief Architect for Juniper Networks Mobility Business Unit where he led and delivered the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) product line. Apurva was also the Chief Architect for the MX series, one of the most successful products in Juniper’s history and establishing the company as the market leader in Metro and Carrier Ethernet solutions. For his contributions, Apurva was awarded Juniper Network’s prestigious Founder’s Award for technical leadership. Before Juniper, Apurva was the Chief Architect and Director of Software at Riverstone Networks and YAGO Systems. Prior to YAGO, Apurva was Architect for all ATM software at Centillion Networks. Apurva has a Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.
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About Versa Networks: Versa is the SASE leader
Brian Jones
CTO & Co-Founder of Latch
Brian is a full stack hardware engineer with experience building remote data acquisition systems that have been deployed in some of the world’s most challenging environments. From smart grid monitoring in Haiti to remote soil sensing in rural Mexico, Brian has built products that capture, synthesize, and present data to enterprise customers of all sorts. Brian holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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About Latch: Latch specializes in keyless entry security systems to open and manage every door in an apartment building from a smartphone.
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.
Taylor Dondich
CTO of SecurityTrails
Previously with great companies like Yahoo, Splunk and MaxCDN, Taylor now serves as the CTO of ProcessMaker, building software to orchestrate complex processes inside organizations of all sizes. Taylor is a strong advocate of leveraging open source tooling while building enterprise solutions to build amazing things to empower the sole developer and the complex engineering teams. Taylor is also a LEGO fanatic.
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About SecurityTrails: SecurityTrails is a total inventory that curates comprehensive domain and IP address data for users and applications that demand clarity.
Jake Reynolds
CTO of Depth Security
Jake Reynolds is the CTO at Depth Security. Jake brings over 15 years of industry experience in various aspects of security. He currently leads the security assessment practice. Jake and team deliver expert web and mobile application security assessments, penetration testing and enterprise risk assessments for customers ranging in size from SMBs to Fortune 100s. Jake and his team have also been responsible for several vulnerability disclosures within enterprise and consumer software. In previous roles, Jake excelled in network engineering, VOIP and application development. Jake currently holds his CCIE (R&S #11224) as well as many other industry certifications.
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About Depth Security: Depth Security is a different type of information security company.
