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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 VP’ operating in the Network Security space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Venkataraman Anand
Vice President Of Engineering of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Larry Link
SVP, Worldwide Sales of Palo Alto Networks
Executive Advisor at Blue Hexagon Inc. President and CEO at Cequence Security.
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About Blue Hexagon, Cequence, Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Kumar Ramachandran
SVP, Product and GTM of Palo Alto Networks
Prior to founding CloudGenix, Kumar was Director of Product Management at Cisco, leading products for the multi-billion dollar branch routing and WAN optimization businesses. Prior to Cisco, Kumar held software and network engineering roles, developing solutions for companies such as Citibank and Providian Financial. Kumar holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Bombay.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Rajiv Batra
VP Engineering of Palo Alto Networks
Rajiv Batra has extensive experience managing engineering teams through times of strong growth. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Peribit, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2005. While at Peribit, Rajiv assembled a strong engineering team developing best-in-class application acceleration platforms. Rajiv also co-founded VitalSigns Software and served as Vice President of Engineering at Bay Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Marc Benoit
Vice President Technical Business Development of Palo Alto Networks
Marc Benoit is currently the Vice President of Technical Business Development at Palo Alto Networks. Mr. Benoit leverages his broad technical experience to analyze emerging technology trends and their impact on Palo Alto Networks strategic vision. He also drives advanced solutions with key technology partners. During his tenure at Palo Alto Networks, Mr. Benoit has delivered advanced prototypes and led cross-functional teams to transform them into marketable products.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Nick Campagna
Vice President Of Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Pradeep Singh
Vice President of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Michael Jacobsen
VP Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Mike Jacobsen is the VP Product Management at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Xu Zou
Vice President of IoT Security of Palo Alto Networks
Xu Zou is the Vice President of Network Security 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.
Erin Cannelli Cresta
VP Digital, and Demand Gen of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Ryan M. Gillis
Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy & Global Policy of Palo Alto Networks
Ryan M. Gillis is the Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy & Global Policy 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.
Scott Stevens
SVP, Worldwide Systems Engineering of Palo Alto Networks
Scott Stevens is the SVP for Worldwide Systems Engineering 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.
Ryan Olson
Vice President, Threat Intelligence of Palo Alto Networks
Ryan Olson is the director of Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team; responsible for collection, analysis and production of intelligence on adversaries targeting organizations around the world. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Olson served as Senior Manager in Verisign’s iDefense Threat Intelligence service. His area of expertise is detecting and identifying actors and groups conducting cyber-crime and cyber-espionage operations. He is a contributing author to the book,”Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures,” and primary author of “Cyber Security Essentials.” He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University, and a Master of Science degree in Security Informatics from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Ryan Olson
Vice President, Threat Intelligence of Palo Alto Networks
Ryan Olson is the director of Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team; responsible for collection, analysis and production of intelligence on adversaries targeting organizations around the world. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Olson served as Senior Manager in Verisign’s iDefense Threat Intelligence service. His area of expertise is detecting and identifying actors and groups conducting cyber-crime and cyber-espionage operations. He is a contributing author to the book,”Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures,” and primary author of “Cyber Security Essentials.” He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University, and a Master of Science degree in Security Informatics from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Jared Phipps
Vice President Worldwide Sales Engineering of SentinelOne
Jared has been involved in cybersecurity professionally since 2001, and is passionate not only about technology, but also with effective use of technology to solve real problems. Jared is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales Engineering at SentinelOne, where he gets to use his passion for technology and experience in cybersecurity daily as he advises various prospects and clients through security projects. He spent the prior 6 years leading the sales engineering, processional services and incident response teams at Fidelis Cybersecurity. Prior to joining Fidelis he worked for MITRE supporting NSA Cryptographic Modernization Programs for the United States Air Force. Jared is a veteran of the United States Air Force where he worked in cyber defense and offensive cyber operations.
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About SentinelOne: SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection that prevents, detects, and responds to attacks across all major vectors.
Eugina Jordan
VP of Marketing of Parallel Wireless
Eugina Jordan is the VP of Marketing at Parallel Wireless.
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About Parallel Wireless: Parallel Wireless designs and maintains cellular networks.
Sriniketh Chakravarthi
SVP and Head of BFSI and Enterprise Alliances, Americas of Tech Mahindra
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About Tech Mahindra: Tech Mahindra is a global systems integrator and is a part of the Mahindra Group.
Krishna Balasubramaniam
SVP and Business Group Head, Aerospace and Automotive of Tech Mahindra
Krishna Balasubramaniam is an Engineering and IT Services Professional and an AI /ML Enthusiast. He has been part of the Tech Mahindra Family for 22 years and is currently SVP and Business Group Head – Aerospace and Automotive in Tech Mahindra Americas Inc. His fields of interest includes Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Deep Learning Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization where he is considered an expert. He completed his B.Tech from Anna University in Electronics · (1994 – 1997).
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About Tech Mahindra: Tech Mahindra is a global systems integrator and is a part of the Mahindra Group.
Chad Walters
Vice President of Engineering of Praetorian
Chad brings his enthusiasm and experience for creating, growing, mentoring, and leading engineering teams. He has held prior leadership roles at IBM, Lombardi Software, Amazon, and Marsh.
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About Praetorian: Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the world safer and more secure.
Ryan Macia
Vice President, Finance of Praetorian
Finance professional with expertise developing scalable, data-driven financial operating models and reporting to support executive level planning and decision-making.
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About Praetorian: Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the world safer and more secure.
Peter Berg
VP of Business Development and Strategy of Very Good Security
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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.
Jeannie Cho
Vice President, Finance of BlueCat
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About BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
Kevin Donovan
Vice President of Sales Americas of BioCatch
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About BioCatch: BioCatch unlocks the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease co-exist.
Jamie Coakley
VP of People of Electric
Jamie Coakley serves as VP of people at Electric AI. She is a proven leader with nearly a decade of success at companies in NY and SF. Prior to Electric, Jamie led the expansion of TwentyPine, focused exclusively on Salesforce and Sales Ops hiring. Prior to TwentyPine, she was East Coast managing director of a high-growth recruiting firm, where she scaled the company from 14 to 150 team members, with over $20M in annual revenue globally. Jamie holds a degree in art history from Santa Clara University.
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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.
John Burger
Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Infrastructure of ReliaQuest
John Burge is the chief information security officer at ReliaQuest.
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About ReliaQuest: ReliaQuest provides a SaaS security platform designed to minimize data loss and business disruptions.
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.
Michael Stokes
VP Federal Sales of Shape Security
Michael Stokes is the vice president of federal programs at [Shape Security](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shape-security#/entity). Previously, he was the vice president of global operations at Cyber Security Strategies. Stokes holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from American InterContinental University. He is based in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Ben Seri
Vice President of Research of Armis Security
Ben Seri is the Head of Research at Armis, responsible for vulnerability research and reverse engineering. His main interest is exploring the uncharted territories of a variety of wireless protocols to detect unknown anomalies. Prior to Armis, Seri spent almost a decade in the IDF Intelligence as a Researcher and Security Engineer. In his free time, Seri enjoys composing and playing as many instruments as the wireless protocols he’s researching.
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About Armis Security: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Will Briggs
VP of Americas Channels and Program of Arctic Wolf
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About Arctic Wolf: Arctic Wolf helps companies end cyber risk by providing security operations as a concierge service.
Shailaja Shankar
Senior Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise Core, EPP, EDR & Data Center Security of McAfee
Shailaja K. Shankar is the Senior Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise Core, EPP, EDR & Data Center Security 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.
Ashutosh Kulkarni
EVP and CPO Enterprise of McAfee
Ashutosh (Ash) Kulkarni is executive vice president and chief product officer of the enterprise business group at McAfee. He is responsible for product strategy and execution and for delivering leading-edge cybersecurity offerings that protect McAfee customers from threats to their applications, networks, data, devices, and other critical assets. Kulkarni is a passionate advocate of customer-centric design and of the use of data and analytics to create compelling offerings that thrill customers. Most recently, he was the senior vice president and general manager of the web security and web performance businesses at Akamai Technologies. During his tenure at Akamai, he led the teams that delivered the leading web application firewall, bot management, and DDoS mitigation solutions in the industry.
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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.
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.
Vincent Weafer
Vice President of Engineering, McAfee Labs of McAfee
Vincent Weafer is the Senior Vice President & Cyber Engineering at Capital One.
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About Capital One, McAfee, TriagingX: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Paul Jespersen
SVP Global Business Development of Stellar Cyber
As Senior Vice President Global Business Development, Paul has global responsibility for key strategic partners and accounts, as well as developing new and emerging markets for the company. Paul joined Stellar Cyber as the first field hire prior to the commercial launch of the product and built the initial sales and international teams for Stellar Cyber. His recent career experience includes VP Business Development at Lastline (acquired by VMware) and VP Business Development and Emerging Product Strategy at Comodo Enterprise. Previously he was an early member at several other successful startups including Advanced Switching Communications (IPO as ASCX), Ocular Networks (acquired by Tellabs), Timetra Networks (acquired by Alcatel), Symbol Technologies (acquired by Motorola), Montego Networks, and Zscaler, as well as Global Account roles at USRobotics and Cisco Systems earlier in his career. Paul earned his Bachelor’s degree as well as his Master of Science in Technology Commercialization (MSTC) from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Stellar Cyber: Stellar Cyber is the innovator of Open XDR = Everything Detection & Response
Jeff Margolies
SVP, Strategy & Strategic Partnership of FireEye
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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.
Barbara Massa
Executive Vice President & Chief of Business Operations of FireEye
Barbara is Senior Vice President of Human Resources and oversees the global human resource organization at FireEye. Before FireEye, Barbara was Vice President of Global Talent and Diversity at McAfee. She brings over 22 years of experience in high tech from roles at EMC, Documentum, and Cadence Design Systems. Barbara has led teams that delivered record numbers attracting and hiring top talent in high growth organizations. She is a recognized thought leader on global talent strategy and expansion. During her tenure at McAfee, Barbara helped found the first Women in Security affinity group. Barbara is also the recipient of YWCA’s Silicon Valley TWIN award for outstanding executive leadership.
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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.
Jason Martin
EVP, Research & Engineering of FireEye
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About FireEye, Permiso Security: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Bill Robbins
EVP, Worldwide Sales of FireEye
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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.
Peter Bailey
Executive Vice President of FireEye
Executive Vice President at FireEye, Inc.
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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.
Sandra Joyce
Senior Vice President, Head of FireEye Mandiant Intelligence of FireEye
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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.
Alexa King
EVP, General Counsel and Secretary of FireEye
Heading up the FireEye legal team, Alexa is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary. Before FireEye, Alexa was Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Aruba Networks, Inc., a provider of enterprise wireless networks. Her early career included working at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop) and Fenwick & West. Additionally, Alexa served as founding director of Pathbrite, Inc. (formerly known as RippleSend, Inc.) from 2008 to 2009 and as advisor from 2009 to 2011. Alexa graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Eastern European Studies and received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where she was named to the Order of the Coif.
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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.
Tim Crothers
SVP, Chief Security Officer of FireEye
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Archana Deskus
CIO & SVP of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Archana (Archie) Deskus is Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Baker Hughes Incorporated. She previously served as Vice President and CIO for Ingersoll-Rand and has more than two decades of experience in the aerospace, industrials and consumer products industries. Throughout her career, she has been credited with building and developing high-performing teams and partnering with business leaders to successfully implement large-scale transformational projects. Deskus worked at United Technologies for 19 years with positions of increasing responsibility, including Executive Director, Infrastructure and E-Business at Pratt & Whitney; and Vice President and CIO at Carrier North America. She worked as Senior Vice President and CIO for Timex Corporation. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in business administration/management information systems from Boston University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Sergio Letelier
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel – Corporate, Securities and M&A of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sergio is Vice President of the HPE Office of the General Counsel’s Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Ventures group. In this capacity, Sergio and his team are responsible for global M&A, Corporate Compliance and Governance matters, and support to HPE’s worldwide Tax Department around corporate restructurings. Sergio has held this position since May 2013. Prior to this, he led the International Operations team of HP’s Corporate Securities and M&A legal section, ensuring oversight and management of M&A transactions in EMEA, governance matters across HP’s subsidiary structure and support to HP Tax. Sergio joined HP France’s legal department in 2002 as corporate lawyer. He subsequently joined HP’s Corporate, Securities and M&A EMEA section in 2004 and worked on a variety of M&A transactions, integrations, restructurings and governance matters before assuming the role of Corporate, Securities and M&A International Operations Director in 2008. Sergio started his career as a tax lawyer in Paris, France and founded an advisory firm specializing in tax advice to small and medium-sized businesses. He earned a Master’s and a Postgraduate degree in Law from the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne, a Master of Laws from the University of Cologne in Germany, and a Postgraduate degree in taxes and international financial strategy from HEC Paris. Sergio is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish. He is happily married to his wife Laure and has two children, Alice and Martin.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ie University: 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.
Hedley Potts
Vice President, Strategic Customer Engagement of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hedley Potts is the Vice President leading Strategic Customer Engagement at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He is charged with leading a pan-HPE effort to drive the executive dialogue and mutual value creation between HPE, its clients and partners, and ensure that HPE’s vast offerings are strongly positioned in the market. Prior to this position, he worked for two years in HP’s Office of the CEO, leading the transformation of the Strategic Customer Engagement program. He has worked closely with a number of startups and incubators, introducing HPE’s clients to the broader ecosystem and innovation engine found in Silicon Valley. Hedley joined HP in 2008 as part of their Strategic Business Development. He focused on expanding HP’s business in EMEA and created a multi-billion dollar pipeline, which has delivered some of HP’s largest client partnerships. Previously, Hedley served as Lead Technology Consultant for NM Financial Management, spearheading a number of technology and business workstreams throughout the acquisition of NM by Friends Provident. Prior to that, Hedley worked at Lloyds Bank for 16 years, holding a number of technology leadership roles including Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer. During this time, Hedley led the implementation of the bank’s first cloud service and worked to strengthen ties between the business and IT leaders. Hedley studied Geology at Portsmouth University before transitioning into Financial Services.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Satish Iyer
Vice President, Products & Strategy, Hybrid Cloud 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.
George Hope
Vice President, WW Distribution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
As the Vice President of Global Channels, George is responsible for building a loyal, motivated and self-sufficient ecosystems of partners to increase Simplivity’s market reach. George joined Simplivity from EMC, where he spent the last 17 years in a number of Sales and Channel Management roles. Most recently, he was the Sr. Director of Global Channels for EMC’s Isilon Division. Prior to that, he led the US Field Channel team for all product lines. George holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Simplivity: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Jeff Kyle
Vice President, Mission Critical Solutions of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Phillip Cutrone
Vice President & General Manager, Worldwide OEM, Hybrid IT, Data Center Infrastructure Group of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Phil Cutrone is the Vice President and General Manager for the Worldwide OEM business within HPE Hybrid IT.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Daryl Ganas
Vice President, Global Information Technology of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Daryl Ganas is Vice President for Enterprise Group Information Technology for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role he is responsible for all IT customer engagement and solutions for the Enterprise Group.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
McLeod Glass
VP & General Manager, SimpliVity and Composable Software of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Patrick Osborne
VP & GM, Big Data and Secondary Storage of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Erik Vogel
Global Vice President, Customer Experience of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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David Larson
VP and GM Data Center Networking of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Dave Larson, Chief Operating Officer, is responsible for directing the Corero technology strategy as the company continues to invest in its next phase of growth, providing next generation DDoS attack and cyber threat defense solutions. Larson brings over 20 years of experience in the network security, data communication and data center infrastructure industries. Most recently, Larson served as Chief Technology Officer for HP Networking and Vice President of the HP Networking Advanced Technology Group. Larson was instrumental in establishing HP’s leadership in SDN, including driving the creation of the OpenDaylight open-source SDN controller initiative as one of the founding executive sponsors of that consortium.
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Saadat Malik
Vice President, IoT and Intelligent Edge Services of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Randy Meyer
Vice President and General Manager, Mission Critical Systems of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Jesse Chavez
Vice President, WW Channels Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jesse Chavez is vice president of Worldwide Partner Programs and Operations with the charter to develop and enhance the Partner Ready program and aligning all partner programs under the Partner Ready umbrella. Jesse is responsible for overall channel strategy and driving the operational framework for key channel initiatives. Jesse is also responsible to drive growth in the channel by partnering closely with GEO channel leaders, the business units, and channel marketing. Jesse comes to HPE with more than 25 years of experience in sales and management, new market and channel development, and strategic planning. Prior to joining HP, Jesse was vice president of Worldwide Systems Channel at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for overseeing the Oracle/Sun channel integration. Before the Oracle/Sun merger, Jesse held various sales and executive positions during his tenure at Sun Microsystems. Jesse was vice president of Global Partner Sales, where he executed the Partner strategy for a $7.2B Sun channel and vice president of the Global Systems Integrator organization, where he drove the worldwide strategy, created go-to-market solutions, and strengthened strategic alliances. Jesse has also held various sales positions, from regional and district management roles to a sales representative in the field. Jesse holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
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Tom Lattin
VP & GM, Mass Market Platforms, Options and Software of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Jim O’Grady
Vice President HPEFS Global Asset Management of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Gerald Kleyn
VP and General Manager, Moonshot, Edge and IoT Systems of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Laurel Krieger
Vice President, Strategy and Operations, Chief of Staff for the CTO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Chris Ogburn
Vice President, Global Marketing of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Donna Grothjan
Vice President of WW Distribution, Enterprise Group of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Kirk Bresniker
Hewlett Packard Labs Chief Architect and VP of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Kirk Bresniker is Chief Architect of Hewlett Packard Labs and an Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow and Vice President. He joined Labs in 2014 to drive The Machine Research and Advanced Development program, leading teams across Labs and across HPE business units with the goal of demonstating and evangelizing the benefits of Memory-Driven Computing. His current focus is accelerating the transfer of technologies from The Machine research program in order to drive differentiating value into existing product categories as well as disruptive new offeings. Prior to joining Labs, Kirk was Vice President and Chief Technologist in the HP Servers Global Business Unit representing 25 years of innovation leadership. Joining HP as a PA-RISC system hardware engineer in 1989, he has always been a part of the Business Critical Systems team. In 1993, he was the design lead for the first HP entry-level multi-processor system which broke new ground in terms of low-cost, high performance design. Following that, he was the design lead for the entire D-class PA-RISC product family, one of the highest volume BCS product families ever introduced. Starting in 1997, Kirk began a decade-long research and development effort to develop novel new modular system architectures which would eventually become a new category of integrated hardware and software offerings known as Blade Servers. This early work was eventually refined and blended with the contributions of the combined HP-Compaq merger lead to become HP BladeSystem c-Class, the undisputed leader in Blade Server platforms. In 1999, he was the key architect for all PA-RISC and Itanium entry and mid-range servers and oversaw a complete re-vamp of the product line and prepared for the PA-RISC to Itanium transition. From 2000 onwards, Kirk oversaw the transformation of the HP-UX UNIX and fault tolerant NonStop to blades to extend BladeSystem to the misison critical market, culminating in the Superdome X mission critical X86 blade platform, the highest performing HPE Mission Critical ProLiant system ever created. It was also during this period that he lead the earliest investigations into what would become The Machine Research program. Kirk current holds 28 US and 10 foreign patents in areas of modular platforms and blade systems, integrated circuits, and power and environmental control. He graduated in 1989 Cum Laude from Santa Clara University with a BSEE and was also a member of the Humanities Honors program.
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Scott Farrand
VP Platform Software 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.
Tom Bradicich
VP & Fellow, Global Head of Edge and IoT CoE & Labs of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Tom Bradicich is GM and VP at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), leading the global business unit dense scalable servers and IoT Systems, with P&L, worldwide product development, and customer experience ownership. He directs the HPE Discovery Labs and IoT Innovation Labs in the US, Europe, and Asia, for partner and customer collaborations. Tom and his teams are noted for beating sales quotas, and developing and launching innovative and first-of-a-kind products. Prior to his current role, Tom was an HP Vice President, Server Engineering, responsible for global R&D and delivery of HP’s workload optimized, converged server product line. Tom and his staff directed several worldwide engineering teams, releasing over 20 products and integrated solutions stacks. They pioneered the first Intel Xeon™ server with on-chip graphics, and the first 64 bit enterprise ARM server. Tom holds several U.S. patents in PC, server, and converged systems design, the BSEE, MSEE, and PhD degrees, serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the College of Engineering, University of Florida. He is a sought after guest lecturer on Leadership, Business Innovation, and Technology Trends and Directions, and served on the adjunct faculty at several universities, teaching courses in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineer and Management of Information Systems.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Tom Bradicich
VP & Fellow, Global Head of Edge and IoT CoE & Labs of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Tom Bradicich is GM and VP at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), leading the global business unit dense scalable servers and IoT Systems, with P&L, worldwide product development, and customer experience ownership. He directs the HPE Discovery Labs and IoT Innovation Labs in the US, Europe, and Asia, for partner and customer collaborations. Tom and his teams are noted for beating sales quotas, and developing and launching innovative and first-of-a-kind products. Prior to his current role, Tom was an HP Vice President, Server Engineering, responsible for global R&D and delivery of HP’s workload optimized, converged server product line. Tom and his staff directed several worldwide engineering teams, releasing over 20 products and integrated solutions stacks. They pioneered the first Intel Xeon™ server with on-chip graphics, and the first 64 bit enterprise ARM server. Tom holds several U.S. patents in PC, server, and converged systems design, the BSEE, MSEE, and PhD degrees, serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the College of Engineering, University of Florida. He is a sought after guest lecturer on Leadership, Business Innovation, and Technology Trends and Directions, and served on the adjunct faculty at several universities, teaching courses in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineer and Management of Information Systems.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Chuck Lukaszewski
Vice President, Wireless Strategy & Standards 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.
Todd Vender
VP Engineering & Operations of Menlo Security
Todd Vender is VP of engineering at Menlo Security, responsible for both product development and operations. Todd brings more than 20 years of experience leading, innovating, and driving both cloud and on premise product development across multiple areas including web portals, data integration, content management, search, and collaboration. Prior to Menlo Security, Todd was vice president of engineering at Oracle where he was responsible for the WebCenter and Portal platform suites consisting of several industry-leading products including Oracle WebCenter, Weblogic Portal and Oracle Portal.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Lennart van den Ende
VP Sales Engineering of Menlo Security
Lennart van den Ende, VP of Worldwide Sales Engineering is a cyber security veteran with extensive security technology and sales engineering experience, who builds and leads high performing global sales engineering teams. Lennart joins Menlo Security from FireEye, where he built the worldwide SE organization leading to FireEye’s IPO and led the sales engineering transition of IronPort into the Cisco Security portfolio. Lennart is a graduate of UC Berkeley and emigrated to the US from the Netherlands.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Trevor Pagliara
VP of North America Sales of Agari
Trevor Pagliara is VP of North America Sales at Agari. With twenty years of experience executing rapid revenue growth for companies, Pagliara has previously worked FireEye and Dell EMC.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Michael Cichon
VP Digital & Content Marketing of Agari
Michael Cichon is a Silicon Valley-based marketing exec with specialties in brand strategy, digital marketing, content marketing and product marketing. He currently serves as CMO for 1Kosmos. Previously he has served as VP of Digital and Content Marketing at Agari and at ThreatMetrix and has held director-level roles with responsibilities for demand generation, sales enablement, event management, press relations and branding at companies including VMWare, KANA Software (Verint), Arena Solutions, Ketera (Deem), Aspect Development (I2) and Oracle. Combined he has over 20 years of experience helping b2b technology companies in various aspects of go-to-market strategy, planning and execution. Mike is a graduate of Purdue University, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Math / Computer Science.
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About 1Kosmos – BlockID, Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sheryl Hawk
VP of Customer Success of Agari
Sheryl Hawk is Agari’s VP of Customer Success and is responsible for driving a customer centric strategy and initiatives across the company, Sheryl’s organization is responsible for managing renewal and upsell revenue for Agari as well as all customer health, adoption activities, and advocacy initiatives. She has over 25 years of experience in leading teams responsible for the customer journey both pre and post sales. Most recently, Sheryl led Customer Success at WhiteHat Security where she transformed the Customer Success team, bringing all post sales customer facing functions under the customer success umbrella. Prior to her role at WhiteHat, Sheryl spent 4 years as SVP Customer Success at Conversica, an AI sales enablement company where she built and grew the customer success function. Prior to Conversica she held VP Sales and Success roles at various ecommerce technology companies. Sheryl has a degree in Marketing from CSU Fresno, enjoys mentoring CSMs and trying new recipes.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Jacob Rideout
VP of Product Management of Agari
Jacob Rideout is the VP of Product Management at Agari, where he leads new product development and applied research. Previously, Jacob has led efforts in retail analytics, marketing optimization, and email security at Return Path. He is a regular collaborator in industry initiatives at M³AAWG and ETIS that foster data-sharing and define industry best practices.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sabina Knotter-Finney
VP of Business Operations of Agari
Sabina Knotter-Finney is VP of Business Operations at Agari, where she is responsible for leading sales operations and building the system infrastructure for all business units. Prior to Agari, Knotter-Finney worked in business operations at MongoDB and in product management at Oracle.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Seth Knox
Vice President of Marketing of Agari
Seth helps customers around the world to understand new, internet scale, data driven security solutions that eliminate email as a channel for cyber attacks. He keeps tabs on the emails threat landscape and shares that with the industry analysts, press and IT Security professionals.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Syed Zaheer
Vice President Operations of Cavium
Syed A. Zaheer has served as our Vice President of Operations since 2001. Prior to joining us, from 2000 to August 2001, Mr. Zaheer served as Director of Product and Test Engineering for the Internetworking Products Division of Integrated Device Technology, an integrated circuit supplier, where he brought several high volume processor and PHY products to production. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Product Engineering manager for Centuar Technology, a subsidiary of IDT. He received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India and an MSEE degree from Arizona State University.
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About Cavium: Cavium Networks develops and markets semiconductor processors for intelligent and secure networks.
Phil Neray
VP of IoT & Industrial Cybersecurity of CyberX
Phil Neray has a deep passion for well-executed products, and has a strong track record of successfully introducing innovative technologies to enterprise users and organizations. He comes to Intigua from IBM, which he joined after IBM’s acquisition of Guardium, where he was VP of Marketing. Guardium (enterprise security) was recognized by Forrester as “a Leader across the board” with “dominance and momentum on its side.” Phil previously worked for Symantec, which he joined after Symantec’s acquisition of ON Technology (software configuration & lifecycle management), where he was VP of Marketing. He has also held senior product marketing roles in 3D software (Alias, acquired by Silicon Graphics), parallel supercomputing and graphics workstations. Phil started his career as a field operations engineer with Schlumberger Ltd., where he worked on remote oil rigs in South America. Phil has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Honors) from McGill University with additional coursework from the Boston University Graduate School of Management; is certified in cloud security (CCSK) by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA); is a Certified Industry Analyst Relations Professional (CIARP); and holds a brown belt in American Jiu-Jitsu.
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About CyberX: CyberX is a robust cybersecurity platform for continuously reducing IoT or OT risks.
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
Sergio Caltagirone
Vice President, Threat Intelligence of Dragos
Sergio Caltagirone hunts evil. He spends days hunting hackers and evenings hunting human traffickers. During nine years with the US Department of Defense as a senior threat intelligence analyst and technical director, he hunted the most sophisticated cyber threats in the world. During over three years as Director of Threat Intelligence at Microsoft, he developed and implemented their threat intelligence program protecting billions of customers worldwide. Now as Director of Threat Intelligence and Analytics at Dragos, Sergio safeguards civilization through the protection of critical infrastructure and industrial control systems. He created the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis proudly helping thousands of others bring more pain to adversaries by strengthening hunters and intelligence analysts. He also proudly serves as the Technical Director of the Global Emancipation Network, a non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO), leading a world-class all-volunteer team hunting human traffickers and finding their victims through data science and analytics working towards saving tens of millions of lives.
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About Dragos, Global Emancipation Network, Threat Intelligence Academy: Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company that detects and responds to threats in industrial controls systems.
Ben Miller
VP, Services and R&D of Dragos
Ben Miller is Vice President, Threat Operations Center at the industrial cyber security company Dragos, Inc. where he leads a team of analysts in performing active defense inside of ICS/SCADA networks. In this capacity he is responsible for performing a threat hunting, incident response, and malware analysis mission for the industrial community. Previous to his role at Dragos, Inc. Ben was the Associate Director, Electricity Information Sharing & Analysis Center (Electricity ISAC) and led cyber analysis for the sector. He and his team focused on leading edge cyber activities as they relate to the North American bulk electric system. Ben was recognized as instrumental in building new capabilities surrounding information sharing and analytics in his five years at the E-ISAC. Prior to joining the E-ISAC, Ben built and led a team of 9 focused on Network Security Monitoring, forensics, and incident response at a Fortune 150 energy firm. His team received numerous accolades from industry and law enforcement. During this time he also served in a CIP implementation project and various enterprise-wide mitigation programs. Ben has over 18 years’ experience and currently holds the CISSP and GIAC GREM certifications. Ben has served in various roles including both planner and player roles in GridEx I, II, and III. He served as a member of the NERC Cyber Attack Task Force, an acknowledged contributor to NIST SP 800-150, a panel member of the NBISE Advanced Defender panel, and adviser on CI Advanced Defender Training program. Ben is an accomplished speaker in various venues including SANS, ICSWJG, ShmooCon and others. Ben also helps run Charmsec; an informal ‘citysec-style meet up’ located in Baltimore.
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About Dragos: Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company that detects and responds to threats in industrial controls systems.
Rajarshi Gupta
VP and Head of AI of Avast
Rajarshi Gupta is the Head of AI at Avast Software, one of the largest consumer security companies in the world. He has a PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley and has built a unique expertise at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and networking. Prior to joining Avast, Rajarshi worked for many years at Qualcomm Research, where he created ‘Snapdragon Smart Protect’, the first ever product to achieve On-Device Machine Learning for Security. Rajarshi has authored over 200 issued U.S. Patents, and is featured on the Wikipedia page for most prolific inventors in history.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Rajarshi Gupta
VP and Head of AI of Avast
Rajarshi Gupta is the Head of AI at Avast Software, one of the largest consumer security companies in the world. He has a PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley and has built a unique expertise at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and networking. Prior to joining Avast, Rajarshi worked for many years at Qualcomm Research, where he created ‘Snapdragon Smart Protect’, the first ever product to achieve On-Device Machine Learning for Security. Rajarshi has authored over 200 issued U.S. Patents, and is featured on the Wikipedia page for most prolific inventors in history.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Sreenivas Gukal
Co-founder & VP Engineering 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.
Mark Beebe
Vice President, Global Customer Success of Abnormal Security
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Ken Liao
Vice President of Marketing of Abnormal Security
Ken Liao is the VP of Marketing, bringing in over 13 years of information security experience. Ken spent nearly eight years leading product marketing efforts at Proofpoint, followed by executive roles at Malwarebytes and JASK.
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About Abnormal Security, Sevco Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Asaf Shen
VP Products of Sansa Security
Mr. Shen joined Discretix in 2005 and has accumulated extensive engineering and marketing experience in security related IP products. Previously, he served as Director of Product Management and Product Marketing for the company’s IP product portfolio. Prior to that he served as Discretix’ VLSI team manager and IP projects manager. Before joining Discretix, Mr. Shen was a VLSI team manager at Tioga Technologies, a spinoff of its parent company, Orckit Communications. Mr. Shen holds a BSc (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
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About Sansa Security, Tioga Technologies: Sansa Security is the only comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) security platform securing everything from chipsets to the cloud.
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.
Michael Yang
Senior VP, General Counsel and Secretary of Proofpoint
Michael Yang is responsible for Proofpoint’s worldwide legal affairs including licensing, intellectual property protection, compliance and corporate governance. Mr. Yang brings to Proofpoint more than 15 years of international business and legal experience at both public and privately-held companies. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Mr. Yang developed and led the corporate legal function and later the products and technology group as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of VMware, Inc., as that company grew from $200 million to over $2 billion in annual revenues. Mr. Yang has also held executive and senior management roles as an attorney for Medialive International and Openwave (as well as its predecessor, Software.com, where he contributed to that company’s successful IPO and subsequent merger with Phone.com). He began his practice as an intellectual property attorney in the Los Angeles offices of Baker Hostetler. He holds an A.B. in government from Cornell University and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in the State of California.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Kevin Epstein
SVP & GM, Premium Security Services Group of Proofpoint
Kevin Epstein is a Silicon Valley marketing executive with a Stanford MBA, a degree in high-energy nuclear physics, several technology patents in his name, founding experience at three successful small-business retail ventures, and more than fifteen subsequent years of experience in guerrilla marketing tactics at companies including Netscape, RealNetworks, Inktomi, VMware, and Scalent Systems. He has spoken at seminars addressing top executives from the Fortune 500, has been a popular guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and School of Engineering, and has received various awards for his impact on sales and lead generation. Kevin also serves as an outside adviser to various venture-backed and individual entrepreneurial start-up companies. Prior such associations include CDnow (now an Amazon.com brand), Devicescape (funded by Kleiner Perkins, venture backers of Netscape), Skyrider, and YouSendIt. Kevin also moderates the VMwareAlumni.org and SVBrownAlums.org communities.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Elad Horn
Vice President, Product Management of Proofpoint
Elad has 20 years of experience managing products and leading teams, and is currently VP of product management for Proofpoint’s CASB and Unified DLP. Before joining Proofpoint, he was enSilo’s VP of products. Prior to enSilo, Elad was a Principal Product Manager at EMC, responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap and requirements of several products. Before that, Elad managed Imperva’s leading enterprise security product. Elad has also held engineering roles and led software teams at Intel and Marvell. Elad holds an MBA in finance from IDC Herzliya, Israel, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. In his spare time, you’ll find Elad competing in Ironman triathlons.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
David Knight
EVP/GM Cloud Security of Proofpoint
David Knight leads Proofpoint’s global product management and marketing initiatives. He brings a wealth of large enterprise SaaS experience to Proofpoint, having previously served as CTO of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group, where he was responsible for product and technical vision and strategy, product management and user experience. Mr. Knight was previously vice president of product management for leading cloud-based conferencing and collaboration vendor WebEx Communications, where he played a central role in the company’s rapid growth and eventual $3.2 billion acquisition by Cisco. Earlier he was vice president of marketing and product management for SaaS pioneer Portera Systems and an entrepreneur in residence at Institutional Venture Partners. Mr. Knight has also held executive positions at Sybase and Oracle. He holds an M.S. in industrial administration and a B.S. in information systems and industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Bhagwat Swaroop
EVP and GM, Email Security of Proofpoint
om the Delhi Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Arizona State University and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School.
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About One Identity, Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Chris Park
Co-founder & VP, Engineering of Material Security
Chris Park currently works as the Co-founder and VP of Engineering 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.
Jock Breitwieser
Vice President, Global MarCom and Brand of Arcserve
Jock Breitwieser is Vice President of Global Marketing Communications (MarCom) & Brand at Arcserve. Previously, Jock was senior director MarCom and PR at StorageCraft, a company that provides award-winning backup, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions. Before that, Jock was director of corporate communications at TriNet, a strategic partner to small businesses for HR, benefits, payroll, employment law compliance, and risk reduction. Prior, he was head of global PR at Dell SonicWALL, where he directed strategy and execution for the company’s entire global PR, customer reference program, social media, speakers bureau and product reviews. At Dell, he managed a global, multi-million-dollar PR budget, 17 PR teams, and multiple contractors. He restructured and consolidated the global communications program, replaced all global agencies; developed positioning, messaging architecture, and communication strategy; drives awareness, SEO, and social media. With 20+ years of international communications expertise in agencies and in-house, Jock Breitwieser is an expert in MarCom and Public Relations, Analyst Relations, Social Media and Social Selling, Crisis Communications Corporate Communications, Messaging and Positioning. Since 2013, Jock has been very involved in social selling, digital media, and social media marketing. He helps individuals and businesses recognize and leverage the power of social media for business. In 2017, he was named one of the Top 100 social selling influencers. He holds an M.A. in contemporary history, law, and political sciences from the University of Bochum, Germany, and studied in Tours/France with a scholarship of the European Union. In his spare time, Jock enjoys international travel and competes in Triathlons.
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About Arcserve: Arcserve is a provider of data protection and recovery software that provides organizations with the assurance.
Josh Halickman
SVP, Product Development of Emburse
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About Emburse: Emburse is a provider of expense management and accounts payable automation solutions.
May Mitchell
Senior Vice President Marketing of iboss
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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.
Simon Naldoza
VP Strategic Alliances and Business Development of SafeBreach
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About BehavioSec, SafeBreach: SafeBreach executes active breach scenarios and performs continuous validation to find holes in an environment before an attacker does.
David Moreno
Vice President of Product Development of S2 Security Corporation
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About S2 Security Corporation: S2 Security Corporation, develop a unique line of open architecture, scalable, IP network-ready products.
