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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 Founder operating in the Network Security space. If you think a Founder 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.
Yuming Mao
Founder, Chief Architect of Palo Alto Networks
Mr. Yuming Mao founded of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in 2005 and serves as its Chief Architect. Mr. Mao has an extensive knowledge of platform architecture and a proven track record. He served as Chief Architect and a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks, which he joined through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition. At NetScreen, he served as one of the initial engineering architects. Throughout his time at NetScreen and Juniper, Mr. Mao was actively involved in defining the hardware and software architecture of NetScreen’s industry-leading firewall/VPN platforms. He also served as a senior engineer at SAP Labs.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Kevin Mahaffey
Co-Founder & CTO of Lookout
Kevin Mahaffey began building (and breaking) software at eight years old and it has been a love affair ever since. Currently, he is CTO and Founder of Lookout. Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, Lookout is a cybersecurity company that protects mobile devices for tens of millions of individuals and more than 150 enterprises globally. Kevin was featured as one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and is a frequent presenter at technology and industry events, including: Blackhat, DEFCON, RSA, Web Summit, CeBIT, and the World Economic Forum. An active investor, Kevin has invested in more than 60 startups, focusing on enterprise software and technology-driven transformation of large markets. When he’s not helping build startups, he’s an avid kitesurfer, photographer, and snowboarder.
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
John Hering
Founder & Executive Chairman of Lookout
John is Executive Chairman and Founder of Lookout, responsible for driving the company’s long term vision and success together with Jim and the rest of the executive team. He is an entrepreneur with a vision of creating a more secure world in the post-PC era and has grown Lookout’s footprint to tens of millions of users globally across consumer, enterprise, and government sectors. Top publications have recognized John as an industry leader and innovator. BusinessWeek named John a Best Young Tech Entrepreneur, Fortune named him a Smartest Person in Tech, the editors of MIT Tech Review dubbed John a 35 Under 35 entrepreneur and Fortune Magazine included John on its list of 40 Under 40 entrepreneurs. John is a frequent presenter at mobile and technology industry events including: RSA, Mobile World Congress, Black Hat Technical Security Conference, DEFCON, and Fortune Brainstorm. Additionally, John is an investor in dozens of technology startups focused on the areas of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, and transportation technologies. John studied Public Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California.
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About Coalition, Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
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.
Kevin Gosschalk
Founder & CEO of Arkose Labs
Kevin Gosschalk is the founder of Arkose Labs.
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About Arkose Labs, Forbes Technology Council: Arkose Labs provides fraud prevention, anti-spam, and abuse analysis for businesses, companies, and industries.
Eli David
CSO & Co-Founder of Deep Instinct
Eli David CTO Deep Instinct is the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity. Existing solutions are limited in their protection: identifying only known threats or covering specific platforms, while exhibiting detection capabilities that are time consuming and far from optimal. As a result, there is a critical need for a new solution that can protect against brand new (zero-day) threats and sophisticated APT attacks in real-time. By applying deep learning, Deep Instinct brings a completely new approach to cybersecurity, offering the same level of groundbreaking results that are exhibited when deep learning is applied to other domains such as computer vision. Dr. Eli David is one of the leading global experts in the field of computational intelligence, specializing in deep learning (neural networks) and evolutionary computation. He has published more than thirty papers in leading artificial intelligence journals and conferences, mostly focusing on applications of deep learning and genetic algorithms in various real-world domains. For the past ten years, he has been teaching courses on deep learning and evolutionary computation at Bar-Ilan University, in addition to supervising the research of graduate students in these fields. Dr. David has also served in numerous capacities successfully designing, implementing, and leading deep learning based projects in real-world environments. Dr. David is the developer of Falcon, a grandmaster-level chess playing program, which automatically learns by processing datasets of chess games. The program reached the second place in World Computer Speed Chess Championship 2008 relying solely on machine learning for its performance. Dr. David received the Best Paper Award in 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, the Gold Award in the prestigious “Humies” Awards for Human-Competitive Results in 2014, and recently the Best Paper Award in 2016 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.
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About Deep Instinct, DeepCube, Nano Dimension: Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity, offering zero-day attack protection.
Guy Caspi
CEO & Co-Founder of Deep Instinct
Guy Caspi is a leading mathematician and a data scientist global expert. Guy Caspi has 15 years of extensive experience in applying mathematics and machine learning in a technology elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), financial institutions and intelligence organizations around the world. Guy Caspi led some of the largest government cyber and Big Data projects in Israel and other countries. In addition, Guy Caspi was the president and general manager of a leading division at Comverse/Verint Group. Guy Caspi brings substantial management background in leading innovative technological challenges from R&D through commercialization. Guy Caspi holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and MBA degrees in Mathematics, Machine Learning and Business from leading universities in Israel and the U.S.
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About Deep Instinct, Forbes Technology Council: Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity, offering zero-day attack protection.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Raja Mukerji
Co-Founder/Chief Customer Officer of ExtraHop
Raja Mukerji is the President and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where he is responsible for Customer Services, Systems Engineering, and Solutions Architecture. Raja ensures customer success, leveraging his background in the financial-services industry. Raja co-founded ExtraHop after a seven-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. He was one of the lead developers behind the BIG-IP v9 product and the major-accounts liaison for critical issues within Product Development. Prior to F5, Raja worked as a Technology Architect at Strong Capital Management. Raja is a renowned expert in application delivery and network protocols. He was involved in the FreeBSD project and contributed several enhancements to its TCP stack. Raja holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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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.
Jay Bavisi
President & Co-Founder of EC – Council
Jay Bavisi is the award-winning founder and President of the EC-Council Group, a global leader in cybersecurity consultancy, training, education, publishing, events, and certification. EC-Council was formed following the 9/11 incident and addresses issues of cybersecurity and cyber terrorism which is at the forefront of security of nations at large. EC-Council is the owner and developer of the world famous Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (C|HFI), Certified Security Analyst (ECSA), Certified Blockchain Professional (C|BP) and Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT) (Master) programs. He is a multi disciplinary cyber security expert that has helped executives of global institutions like the International Telecommunications Union, United Nations, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, Dow Jones, Lloyd’s, Merrill Lynch, Microsoti Shell, HSBC, Hewleti Packard, IBM, Standard Chartered, American Express, MCIS –Zurich, KPMG, Deloitie Consulting, EY, Trend Micro, IDC, Royal Australian Air Force, China Mobile and AT&T think through their cyber security strategy.
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About EC – Council: EC-Council Offers Online Education
Sumit Agarwal
Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Management of Shape Security
Sumit Agarwal is a Co-Founder of Shape Security, Inc. and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and later advised on cyber policy. He led mobile product management for Google. He is a former US Air Force Reserve Officer. Sumit Agarwal also co-founded Quova.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Justin Call
Co-Founder of Shape Security
Justin Call is co-founder of Shape Security. Prior to Shape Security, Justin was VP of Engineering at Oakley Networks.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Tomer Schwartz
Co-Founder of Armis Security
Tomer Schwartz Co-Founder and CTO at Dazz
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About Armis Security, Dazz: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Nadir Izrael
Co-Founder and CTO of Armis Security
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically in unit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
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About Armis Security, Cyberstarts: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Roger Lian
Co-Founder of vArmour
Roger has been working in leadership roles within network and security industry for more than 20 years. Roger co-founded vArmour in January, 2011 with Michael Shieh and served as CEO until October, 2013. Previously to vArmour, Roger was active Vice President of Engineering at Anchiva Systems, a high performance content security solution provider. Prior to that, he was the founding member in NetScreen where he led the software team to develop high performance Internet firewall/VPN security appliances. After NetScreen was acquired by Juniper in 2004, Roger served as Senior Director and was responsible for multiple security product development. His prior experience includes founding engineer at Netcom Online Services which went public in 1994 and senior developer at the Wollongong Group. Roger received his Master of Science in Software Engineering from Seattle University and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
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About vArmour: VArmour offers data defined perimeter security solutions for mobile, virtual, and cloud platforms.
Amir Ben-Efraim
Co-Founder & CEO of Menlo Security
Amir Ben-Efraim is co-founder and CEO of Menlo Security. Previously, Amir was VP of cloud security at Juniper Networks where he helped define the company’s strategy to secure the virtualized data center, public and private clouds. He joined Juniper via its acquisition of Altor Networks, which he led as founder and CEO. Prior to Altor, Amir was an executive at Check Point Software, a pioneer in Internet security. He holds an MBA from UCLA, an MSEE from Stanford University and a BSEE from UC Berkeley.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Poornima DeBolle
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Menlo Security
Poornima DeBolle is co-founder and chief product officer of Menlo Security. Previously, as a product management executive at Juniper Networks, she was responsible for cloud security, security management, and security analytics. Poornima joined Juniper via its acquisition of Altor Networks where she was the VP of product management and business development. Prior to Altor, she was head of business development at Check Point where she also held product management and engineering roles. Poornima holds an MSCS from Arizona State University.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Gautam Altekar
Co-Founder & Chief Architect of Menlo Security
Gautam Altekar is co-founder and chief architect at Menlo Security. Previously, he was the chief architect at Safely Inc., a Berkeley spin-off that he started with Professor Dawn Song to develop and commercialize isolation security technology that is now at the heart of Menlo Security’s offering. Prior to Safely, Gautam was a graduate student at UC Berkeley where he got his PhD in deterministic replay systems and published several papers at the intersection of cloud computing, operating systems, and program analysis.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Patrick Peterson
Founder & CEO of Agari
Patrick Peterson is Agari’s visionary Founder and CEO, who has spent more than 15 years securing the email ecosystem. Peterson founded Agari in 2009, when he saw a real need in the industry for a solution that would secure the email channel. Under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, he has developed the company’s industry-changing security platform that now protects many of the world’s largest enterprises from email threats. Prior to Agari, Peterson joined IronPort Systems and invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
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.
Garry Fatakhov
COO & Co-Founder of Siemplify
Garry is a seasoned entrepreneur with rich and diverse experience spanning both business and technology, His experience ranges from algorithmic research in algorithmic trading, cyber security and intelligence, to driving revenue and penetrating new markets.
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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
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
Charles Crawford
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Fishtech Labs
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About 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.
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.
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.
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.
Wes Spencer
Co-Founder & Chief Information Security Officer of Perch Security
Wes Spencer is the Co-Founder & Chief Information Security Officer at Perch Security.
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About Murray State University, Perch Security: Perch provides everything needed to mount a cyber defense with curated community intelligence and participate with your sharing community.
Jeremy Hitchcock
Founder / Exec Chair of Minim
Operator/tech/investor, 2x founder/CEO, Bookery MHT.
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About Bookery Manchester, Minim, New North Ventures, Orbit Group: Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Nicole Zheng
Founder and President of Minim
Nicole Zheng is the Co- founder and CMO of Minim (OTCQB: MINM), the creator of innovative internet access products under the globally-recognized Motorola brand. While at Minim, she has been recognized by Entrepreneur as a Top Female Founder in the United States (2020). Prior to Minim, Nicole held the position of Chief Marketing Officer at cloud software companies Antidote Technologies and OnSIP (ACQ: Intrado). She has served as a board member of Alliance of Channel Women, a nonprofit on a mission to advance careers for women in the communications technology sector through education, community, and advocacy. Nicole holds a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering and B.S. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as business certifications from The Wharton School. She currently resides in Southampton, NY.
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About Minim, Zoom Telephonics (now Minim): Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
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.
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.
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
Hillary Herlehy
Co-Founder & Chief People Officer of ZeroFOX
Hillary Herlehy is a Co-Founder and the Chief People Officer at ZeroFOX, where she aligns their workforce plan with its mission, goals and performance objectives. As CPO, Hillary is responsible for all aspects of attraction, retention, engagement, reward, benefits, compliance, culture, team building, and performance management. She has worked in the cyber security industry for over 7 years, previously having led Human Capital teams at two rapid growth cyber security firms as the Director of Talent Acquisition and Chief Human Capital Officer. She specializes in establishing and maturing high caliber Talent Acquisition programs, creating cultures of engagement, and building close-knit, highly effective teams. Hillary graduated from Sweet Briar College with a double major in Spanish for Business and Philosophy.
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About ZeroFOX: ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Evan Blair
Co-Founder & Global Vice President of ZeroFOX
Evan Blair is a Co-Founder and the Chief Operating Officer at ZeroFOX. Prior to that, Evan was a member of the Accuvant Leadership Team where he led the multi-million dollar Partner Solutions practice. At the time of his departure, Accuvant was the 2nd largest privately held cyber security solutions provider, had recognized over $1 billion in revenue since inception, and had capabilities with over 175 global partners. In 2008, Evan joined Foster at Baltimore-based cyber start-up Ciphent, where he was responsible for executing the marketing and sales strategy for the organization. Charged with the ultimate goals of increasing sales, profitability, and revenue, Evan’s department supported the company’s three-year revenue growth rate of nearly 1000%. Previously, Evan held financial and business development roles at Application Security Inc. He began his career as a financial analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort in Manhattan, NY and holds a BA in Economics from Wake Forest University.
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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
Ed Felten
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Offchain Labs
Edward W. Felten is a Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and is the founding Director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. His research interests include computer security and privacy, especially relating to media and consumer products; and technology law and policy. He has published about eighty papers in the research literature, and two books. His research on topics such as web security, copyright and copy protection, and electronic voting has been covered extensively in the popular press. Dr. Felten testified twice as an expert witness for the government in the U.S. v. Microsoft antitrust case. In 2004, Scientific American magazine named him to its list of fifty worldwide science and technology leaders.
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About Offchain Labs, Princeton University: Offchain Labs develops Arbitrum, a solution for scaling Ethereum smart contracts
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
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.
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.
Justin Cavinee
Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Dragos
Justin Cavinee is the Chief Data Scientist and Founder of the critical infrastructure cyber security company Dragos, Inc. He is one of the lead developers of the Dragos Data Pipeline as well as the technologies that enable the Dragos Threat Operations Center. Justin specializes in incident response and developing analytics to detect advanced threats both pre- and postincident. His experience in ICS environments range a number of industries including nuclear power, water distribution, manufacturing facilities, and oil and gas pipelines. Previous to his role at Dragos, Inc. he was a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community where he was in charge of developing advanced analytics to detect threats targeting ICS/SCADA networks. There, he also performed intrusion analysis and incident response against national level adversaries and generated threat intelligence on adversary operations to inform both tactical level defenders and strategic positions such as heads of government. In his time serving in the U.S. government, Justin worked in various red team and blue team roles and was routinely recognized for his exemplary service
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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.
Lior Rozner
Co-Founder & CTO of Twingate
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About Twingate: Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
Alex Marshall
Co-Founder & CPO of Twingate
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About Quartzy, Twingate: Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
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.
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.
Naftali Harris
Co-Founder & CEO of SentiLink
Naftali Harris is co-founder and CEO of SentiLink, which is ending synthetic fraud. He previously was the first data scientist hired at Affirm, and later grew and managed the Risk Decisioning team, which was responsible for all production risk systems including the credit and fraud models.
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About SentiLink: SentiLink is an identity verification technology company that helps in detecting and blocking synthetic identities.
Maxwell Blumenfeld
Co-Founder & COO of SentiLink
Maxwell Blumenfeld is a Co-Founder at SentiLink. He was a Data Scientist, Fraud Strategy Lead at Affirm, Inc., and Lead Associate at Novantas. Mr. Blumenfeld graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor of arts in Mathematics and Economics.
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About SentiLink: SentiLink is an identity verification technology company that helps in detecting and blocking synthetic identities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dmitry Dain
Co-Founder of Virgil Security
Dmitry Dain is the Co-Founder at Virgil Security, Inc.
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About NextGen Venture Partners, Virgil Security: Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users.
Peter Lai
Founder & Head of Card Products of Emburse
Peter Lai is a second-time entrepreneur who, prior to founding Emburse, co-founded Crocodoc, a document embedding service that was acquired by Box in 2013. Peter holds three degrees from MIT (B.S. in EECS, B.S. in Cognitive Science, M.Eng. in EECS) and is the author of two patents, one granted to PARC for methods of searching annotated collections of documents and one filed by Box for web rendering technology.
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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.
Newell Crane
Founder & Vice President of Emergynt
Newell Crane (Founder/Vice President) is a business-building veteran with a 40-year record of success in guiding businesses through the growth lifecycle. He is co-inventor of dry ice blasting technology in conjunction with Neil Armstrong and aerospace engineer David Moore, creator of the Cold Jet Company—a current worldwide leader in dry ice solutions, production technology, and industrial and environmental improvement operations—and founder of Del Crane Medical—medical equipment supplier and electronic medical record provider for the nursing home industry. Dr. Crane is a retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff and Pepperdine University graduate with a BS in Science, an MBA and PhD in Pharmacy Economics.
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About : Emergynt’s Instinct Engin allows companies to see around the corner by predicting tomorrow’s digital risks.
Guy Bejerano
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SafeBreach
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About SafeBreach: SafeBreach executes active breach scenarios and performs continuous validation to find holes in an environment before an attacker does.
Itzik Kotler
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of SafeBreach
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About SafeBreach: SafeBreach executes active breach scenarios and performs continuous validation to find holes in an environment before an attacker does.
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.
Taly Slachevsky
Co-Founder, COO of zecOps
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About zecOps: ZecOps is a cybersecurity automation company that finds attackers’ mistakes.
Barrett Lyon
Chief Architect and Co-Founder of Netography
Barrett Lyon is the Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Netography.
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About 3Crowd Technologies, Netography: Netography provides organizations with network detection and response capabilities for the atomized network.
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.
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.
Alan Paller
Founder & Director of Research of SANS Institute
Alan Paller founded SANS, a college and training school that has trained more than 145,000 cybersecurity technologists in 72 countries. Paller oversees a global program that celebrates people responsible for remarkable improvement in cyber-risk reduction. He has testified before the Senate and House and was a charter member of the President’s National Infrastructure Assurance Council. In 2010, the Washington Post named Paller as one of seven people “worth knowing in cyber security.” He serves on the NASA Advisory Council, chaired the DHS 2012 Task Force on Cyber Skills and headed the FCC Task Force on Best Practices in Cybersecurity. Earlier, Paller helped build one of the first large software companies, took it public and merged it into a larger company listed on the NY Stock Exchange.
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About SANS Institute: SANS Institute is a research and education organization that provides education related to information security.
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.
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.
Casey Hester
Co-Founder and COO of otto by DEVCON
Casey comes to DEVCON with a publishing career spanning nearly two decades, managing operations and creating new digital products. Her current obsessions are kombucha, tom ka soup and turning her house into a botanist’s greenhouse.
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About otto by DEVCON: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Ben Edelstein
Co-Founder of LogRocket
Ben Edelstein is the 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.
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.
Frank Heidt
C.E.O & Co-Founder of Leviathan Security Group
Frank Heidt leads Leviathan’s executive management team. As the creator of Leviathan’s innovative business structure, he is responsible for designing Leviathan and bringing together security professionals with diverse backgrounds from premier consultancies, industries, and government agencies. Mr. Heidt is a recognized expert in the fields of Information Assurance, Network Security, and Systems Penetration. Prior to forming Leviathan Mr. Heidt was a Managing Security Architect for @stake and headed up their Pacific Northwest practice. He also engaged in various computer security related work for the Department of Defense. In his capacity as one of the DOD’s civilian Information Systems Security Officers (ISSO), he was responsible for securing several large networks for the Department of the Navy. Frank Heidt has been a Visiting Lecturer at the United States Army War College, United States Navy War College, and the Naval Post Graduate School Monterey on the subject of defensive information warfare and military computer systems security. Mr. Heidt was a General Partner and Founding Member of Five by Five LLC, a security partnership that subsequently joined @stake as part of their corporate growth strategy.
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About Leviathan Security Group: Leviathan Security Group is an internationally respected risk management and information security consulting, training, research company.
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
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
Vijay Chander
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Valtix
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
Vishal Jain
CTO and Co-Founder of Valtix
Vishal Jain is the co-founder and CTO at Valtix.
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
Praveen Patnala
Co-Founder, Chief Architect of Valtix
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
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.
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.
Jon Rappaport
COO and Co-Founder of SPARQ
Jon Rappaport is the COO and Co-Founder of SPARQ Global and also the Chairman & Co-founder at CIRPLE. Prior to SPARQ, He is a former Chief Technology Officer at AGL Energy and Chief Strategy Officer & Co-founder at Zome Energy Networks.
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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
