Management Team

Sachin Bansal is the General Counsel at SecurityScorecard, leads the company’s legal function, and is responsible for all legal, contract, and regulatory matters. He brings over 11 years of both in-house and top law firm experience with a successful track record as a business partner who manages risk while enabling scale and growth. Prior to joining the company, Sachin was director and senior in-house counsel with RBC Capital Markets (the U.S. investment bank of Royal Bank of Canada) and was previously associated with several of the world’s leading law firms, including Davis Polk & Wardwell and Paul Hastings. He also frequently speaks publicly on a range of topics, such as artificial intelligence, legal practice, and diversity & inclusion-matters. Sachin graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law.

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.

Paul Gagliardi is the Head of Threat Intelligence & CISO at SecurityScorecard. He is responsible for overseeing a team of malware researchers and vulnerability analysts conducting research and maintaining indicators of compromise at scale across the internet such as SecurityScorecard’s massive malware sinkhole. Additionally he provides domain expertise within the company and leads corporate security strategy from a defensive perspective.

Prior to SecurityScorecard, Paul has 10 years of contracting experience for a US Intelligence Agency developing cyber security tools with extensive reverse engineering expertise. In that time Paul owned and operated a government contracting company, Arma Consulting. Paul has focused on both Windows and Industrial Control Systems (ICS/SCADA) security.

Paul has been cited in Wired, CNet, DarkReading, CyberScoop, Security Ledger and more. He has spoken at both Black Hat 2018 and 2019 as well as being a subject matter expert in the Shared Assessments SIG group developing the next third party risk assessment involving Industrial Control Systems.

He has an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Colorado State University. Paul lives in Washington DC.

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.

Dolly J. Krishnaswamy is the Chief of Staff at SecurityScorecard and is responsible for supporting the COO in executing innovation projects and other key strategic endeavors. Prior to SecurityScorecard, she was founder of Scrybersecurity, a cybersecurity consulting company focused on helping financial services clients better communicate on and understand cybersecurity requirements. Previously, she worked as Global IP Strategist of a NYC-based managed service provider,-serving as the primary point of contact for a new client-facing security offering and helping the company secure their SOC certification.

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.

Jonathan Pollack is the Vice President of Inside Sales at SecurityScorecard. Pollack is a global sales leader and senior executive with expertise in technology sales, business development, change management and long-term global relationships; that drive top-line growth, while managing expenses to deliver margin expansion. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard Pollack was VP, Americas at Shibumi where he led the North and South American Sales and Service/Customer Success functions as a member of the Executive Operating Committee. Pollack also serves on the Board of Advisors at Fincura, a SaaS cloud computing services for banks.

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.

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.

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.