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.

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.

Susanne Gurman is the VP of Revenue Marketing at SecurityScorecard and is responsible for  driving revenue growth for the company across markets and for creating a scalable marketing strategy and driving the successful execution of the plan across the customer lifecycle to achieve revenue targets. With more than eighteen years developing and driving field marketing and marketing programs for high-tech companies, Susanne is a results-oriented, global leader in executing projects with strategy and vision. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard, she spent ten years at Digital Guardian, a network security leader in helping data-rich organizations protect endpoints. She has a proven record for assisting in the development, restructuring, and launch of partner programs and online partner portals as well as generating sales pipeline revenue.

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.

Christos Kalantzis is the SVP of Engineering at SecurityScorecard. He is an experienced leader, technologist, blogger and geek. He's interested in big distributed systems, and how to build teams to implement and maintain them.

Christos grew up in Montreal, Canada, where he started his career as a DBA for companies such as Matrox, CGI, Sync and InterTrade. He moved to Silicon Valley where he built and lead engineering teams for FireEye, Tenable, Netflix, and YouSendIt. He's worked on Cloud storage solutions, for YouSendIt, before the term "Cloud" was popular. He's also focused on solving at scale run-time databases using sharded RDBMS and NoSQL products. He is an Apache Cassandra MVP.

Fouad Khalil is the VP of Compliance at SecurityScorecard and is responsible for internal and external compliance programs, auditor education, alignment with industry best practices and global sales support. Fouad has extensive experience in the technology space and brings more than 25 years of experience spanning disciplines in software development, IT support, program and project management and, most recently, IT security and compliance management. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Marquette University and CISA and ITIL Foundations certifications.

Dennis Kilcullen is the VP of Sales for the Eastern United States, Federal and Canada. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard, Dennis was at Fortinet leading their South East enterprise business. Before that he was VP Sales at Zendesk managing their US East sales teams. From 2007-2015 Kilcullen led VMware's Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley and Southeast business units. Dennis started his career at EMC where he spent 14 years in a variety of sales and sales leadership roles in Canada, Asia, EMEA & the US.

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.

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.

Jeffrey Webb is the Vice President of Sales for the West at SecurityScorecard. He has over 20 years of experience with sales, business and corporate development with organizations ranging from start ups to large organizations. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard, he was was VP of West for Cliqr Technologies which was subsequently acquired by Cisco Systems. Webb spent 3 years at Cisco in various roles as part of their emerging technologies group.  

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.