Management Team

Ofer Elzam is the Vice President of Product at SecurityScorecard. Elzam has worked in senior security product positions for over 20 years and managed products in a broad range of security categories, including FW/NGFW, IPS/IDS, endpoint protection, IaaS/SaaS security, email & web security and more. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard Elzam was the Vice President and General Manager of GPC at FireMon where he was responsible for FireMon's Global Security Policy product and business. Before joining FireMon, Elzam was VP of product at Dome9 Security. Under his leadership, Dome9 became the leader in securing multi-cloud deployments, which led to its acquisition by Check Point Software. Prior to Dome9, Elzam was the director of Sophos’ network security product line, where he led the company’s transition to the next-generation XG Firewall platform. Earlier, Elzam worked at Cisco serving as both a strategic architect of security technologies and executive director of product management, where he led ScanSafe, which was acquired by Cisco in 2009. Elzam also spent over 10 years serving in a variety of product leadership positions, including as CTO at Gemalto.

Heather Fleming is the VP of Program Management at SecurityScorecard and is responsible for executing our strategic roadmap and implementing methodologies and processes to help accelerate team velocity. With more than 10 years in the technology industry focused on vision articulation and strategy execution, Heather focuses on agile principles and methodologies to enable teams to work smarter and more efficiently. Formerly featured in a Harvard Business Review study on Agile as a competitive advantage, she is an active speaker at many national conferences including Agile Alliance, Atlassian Summit, ADC East, Agile NYC, and Big Apple Scrum Day. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard, she held the role of VP of Product Delivery at Grubhub and VP of People Operations & Product Delivery for HBC Digital.

Kevin Haggard is the VP of Engineering at SecurityScorecard. Prior to SecurityScorecard, Kevin was the Vice President of Engineering at RetailMeNot and Vice President of Quality Engineering at Gilt Groupe. Early in his career, he was a consultant for Deloitte Consulting, helping companies establish globally distributed engineering teams. Kevin holds a degree in Management Information Systems from Texas Tech University.

Alexander Heid serves as Chief Research & Development Officer at SecurityScorecard. Heid joined the company in June 2014 and has been instrumental in developing the company’s threat reconnaissance capabilities and building its security-centric platform. A recognized expert in the field, he frequently presents at industry conferences and is sought out by the media and analysts to discuss cybersecurity issues. Prior to joining the company, Heid held senior security roles within the financial industry, and was a senior analyst at Prolexic Technologies during the #OpAbabil DDoS campaigns. In addition, he is co­-founder and President/CEO of HackMiami and served as chapter chair for South Florida OWASP.

Matthew McKenna has over 15 years experience commercializing emerging technologies in the supply chain management and cybersecurity space. Prior to SecurityScorecard, Matthew functioned as the Chief Operating Officer of SSH Communications Security, where he led large scale Fintech deployments in the areas of access control and cryptographic services. Matthew holds a BA in German Language and Literature and MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics.

Pia McSharry is the VP of Sales Engineering at SecurityScorecard, responsible for leading the global sales engineering team supporting the revenue organization on technical solutions consulting for our customers and prospects. Pia has spent the last thirteen years working in cybersecurity start-ups, focused on hiring, developing, and scaling global teams. Pia spent many years as a technical solutions consultant, acquiring experience and knowledge in multiple security domains including vulnerability management, incident response, SIEM, penetration testing, compliance, and vendor risk management.

Paul Salamanca is the Vice President of Global Accounts at SecurityScorecard. Paul Salamanca has over 16 years of sales and sales management experience. Paul has successfully scaled sales teams for some of the fastest growing startups. He was previously the Vice President of Enterprise Sales for vArmour, a hybrid-cloud security company in Silicon Valley where he was overseeing Sales Development, Commercial and Enterprise Sales teams across North America. Prior to that, he was at BitSight, where he was consistently among the top 1% globally in annual sales working with the company’s largest Fortune 500 customers and prospects.

Wade is the VP of User Experience at SecurityScorecard. Wade is a product and innovation leader, community organizer, and mentor. As VP, User Experience at Workfront, he led a large team of product designers and researchers in overhauling the entire experience of the world’s most robust enterprise work management platform. Prior, he built a customer success management platform that helps companies retain and grow their existing customer base, as VP, Product & Design, at ClientSuccess. He also lead product design and development of innovative home security, automation, and energy products as Director of User Experience at Vivint Smart Home. Wade cofounded Front, an annual conference and workshop series for Product Managers and Product Designers (UX). He also cofounded Product Hive, a volunteer-led community with over 7,000 members across 7 major US cities.

Ryan is the VP of Cyber Threat Research & Intelligence where he oversees the threat research, collections, and intelligence teams. Prior to SecurityScorecard Ryan was at McAfee Corp where he led and contributed to nation state threat research and analysis. He is also the former Chief Corporate Evangelist at Panda Security, where he managed the US strategic response for new and emerging threats. Ryan is widely recognized as a security, intelligence expert throughout the country.

A former astrophysicist, Bob spent most of his career in the medical imaging sector where he served in executive leadership roles ranging from R&D Manager to CEO in a number of private and public companies. He has led R&D teams developing state-of-the-art CT, digital x-ray, and breast imaging systems, and a host of other imaging modalities. Confronting challenges in image analysis, pattern recognition and classification exposed him to machine learning techniques and led to his migration into Data Science. Bob holds a BS and PhD in physics from MIT and 11 US patents.

Randy Streu is the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at SecurityScorecard. Randy has over 20 years of experience leading strategic partnerships in both public and private companies. Most recently, Randy ran Strategic Alliances and Corporate Development for Sauce Labs, the leading provider of continuous digital testing solutions. Prior to Sauce Labs, he ran business development and channels for Cloud Academy, Sumo Logic, HPE Converged Infrastructure, and several other public and private companies. Randy focuses on creating transformative partnerships that increase customer value and drive growth for our partners.

Heidi Thompson is the VP of Revenue Operations and is responsible for the performance, strategy, and alignment of revenue operations at SecurityScorecard. Heidi oversees the operations of Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success departments, and ensures that the interaction between those departments is aligned with the larger company-wide strategy. For the last 13 years, she has specialized in scaling out systems, teams, and processes within hypergrowth companies. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard, Heidi worked at RapidMiner, Confer Technologies, Acquia, and Rapid7 in various operations leadership positions.

Susan Warner brings more than 25 years of experience in driving marketing strategy in all types of high-tech and security environments, private and public, big and small. Prior to joining the corporate marketing team at SecurityScorecard, Susan held leadership roles at several cybersecurity start-ups including Cofense, Swimlane, iSight Partners, and ThreatTrack Security. With experience across phishing, threat intelligence, advanced threat protection, SOC tools, and DDoS mitigation, Susan brings a broad base of knowledge in security in addition to her deep well of marketing experience to the SecurityScorecard management team

Mike Wilkes is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at SecurityScorecard. Wilkes is responsible for developing enterprise-wide security programs to protect corporate systems as well as growing and extending the SecurityScorecard platform to customers, executives, and boards of directors.Wilkes is a technology evangelist with experience reaching back to the earliest days of the internet and the birth of ecommerce (he and his team built, launched, and supported starbucks.com in 1998), Mike has been leading the digital transformation of globally renowned brands such as Sony Playstation, Macy’s, nVidia, KLM, and many others. Before joining SecurityScorecard, he was the VP, Information Security at ASCAP and the Director of Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and DevOps teams for Marvel Entertainment.Mike has held leadership roles in financial services with hedge fund AQR Capital as Vice President in the Information Technology Group and prior to that as Manager of the Enterprise Server Platform for the CME Group. Earlier roles performed while living abroad in Europe saw him designing and hardening critical energy sector infrastructure for Nuon and RWE, authoring Rabobank’s first global trading technology vision document, creating the world’s first bank MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) as well as delivering a security audit of the euro printing facilities for Royal Johan Enschedé (founded in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1703) to renew their accreditation with the European Central Bank.Mike received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a Master’s degree from Stanford University. He is the author of Cisco Internet Applications and Solutions (Cisco Press, 2002) and joined NYU as an Adjunct Professor Teaching infosec to graduate students for the Computer Science and Engineering department.

Drew Wilkinson is the VP of Services and Customer Success at SecurityScorecard and is responsible for the company’s professional services and ensuring elite customer support. With more than seventeen years experience, he has deep experience in vendor risk management, procurement, process improvement, and cost reduction across the pharmaceutical, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing verticals. After beginning his career as a chief mechanical designer for General Electric, he pivoted to vendor management where he worked for Booz & Company, MetroHealth Medical Center, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Prevalent, Inc., aligning operating performance with corporate business objectives.