Leadership, Board, and Advisors
Executive Team
Adam Bixler is a two-time successful tech entrepreneur specializing in cybersecurity startups. He excels at transforming early-stage ideas into scalable products and businesses for enterprise customers. With experience in enterprise product management and security consulting for both commercial and government clients, Adam also served as a Cyberspace Operations Officer in the US Air Force, shaping his strategic approach to tech innovation.
His expertise spans network design, data center management, security analysis, compliance, incident response, and policy development. A results-driven leader, Adam is known for executing growth projects and delivering impactful results in the cybersecurity and tech industries.
Amar serves as General Manager, Assessments, continuing to guide strategic product innovation as part of a broader risk management platform. He was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of HyperComply, the AI-driven platform that revolutionizes how organizations complete security questionnaires and manage compliance. Under his leadership, HyperComply grew into a key player in compliance automation and was acquired by SecurityScorecard.
Amar brings a combination of entrepreneurial vision and deep empathy for customer challenges, focusing on solving some of the most persistent bottlenecks in vendor risk and due diligence. He is commitment to building scalable, impactful technology and he drives teams toward solutions that not only improve operational efficiency but also strengthen trust across the digital ecosystem.
Brian is the General Counsel of SecurityScorecard. In his capacity as GC, Brian is responsible for all legal matters while partnering with the C-Suite to achieve the company’s ambitious goals. He has more than 15 years of experience leading legal teams across law firms and high-growth technology companies.
Most recently, Brian served as General Counsel at Bright Machines, an AI-driven manufacturing robotics company, where he was responsible for all legal matters, led major financing rounds and negotiated multimillion dollar commercial deals with leading technology companies. Prior to Bright Machines, Brian co-founded Evident as CEO and Head of Legal. He began his career at leading international law firms Allen & Overy LLP and Winston & Strawn LLP, representing clients in complex litigation and regulatory matters across multiple jurisdictions.
Brian holds a J.D. magna cum laude from Fordham University School of Law and dual bachelor’s degrees in political science and psychology from The Pennsylvania State University, where he was a Division I varsity golfer.
Chris brings more than 25 years of finance leadership, including 10 years at Tenable (Nasdaq:TENB) where he scaled the business from $80M to over $900M in revenue, led its IPO and executed M&A transactions. Earlier in his career, he spent over a decade in investment banking advising software companies on IPOs, M&A and private capital raises. He began his career at PwC and earned his MBA from Wharton and undergraduate degree with honors from Carnegie Mellon.
Peter is a dynamic and results-driven Chief Revenue Officer with over 25 years of global experience spanning Cybersecurity, Identity Access Management, Network Security, Identity Governance and Administration, Wealth Management, and Telecom. He has been recognized for driving perpetual revenue growth across Enterprise, Mid-Market, and high-velocity Commercial accounts, managing teams of over 100 and revenues exceeding $250M. Peter brings deep expertise in both direct and indirect sales channels, high-performing GTM team development, and forging strategic third-party technology partnerships.
He’s adept at navigating both PE and public company environments, with an authentic, high-energy leadership style and collaborative approach that fosters alignment and accelerates results.
Sam Kassoumeh is the co-founder and Head of Product at SecurityScorecard. With extensive experience as both a cybersecurity practitioner and leader, Kassoumeh’s experience has been pivotal in the growth and development of the company as well as establishing the ecosystem risk management space. Kassoumeh’s passion for internet security started in his teens and propelled him into key cybersecurity roles including as head of security and compliance at Gilt Groupe and worldwide InfoSec lead at Federal-Mogul. Sam holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Matthew McKenna, President of International Sales at SecurityScorecard, has over 15 years of 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 an MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics.
Amy brings more than 20 years of global human resources leadership experience across high-growth organizations and well-known international brands. Most recently, she served as Chief People Officer at DataRobot, where she led people strategy focused on talent development, culture, and employee experience.
Throughout her career, Amy has held senior HR leadership roles in the US, Germany and Hong Kong. Her background spans organizational development, total rewards, talent acquisition, and building strong, inclusive workplace cultures.
As Chief People Officer, Amy will partner closely with our leadership team to continue strengthening our organization, supporting our employees, and driving forward our people and culture priorities as we grow. On a personal note, Amy can be described in three words: athlete, mom, and globetrotter. She is a proud mother of three and has lived and worked around the world — experiences that have shaped her people-first leadership style and global perspective. Outside of work, Amy enjoys staying active through workouts like hot yoga, running, weightlifting, and biking (and she’s currently on a determined recovery journey after tearing her Achilles a few months ago). She also loves traveling and is an avid lifelong learner — often spending time reading, listening to podcasts, and exchanging ideas with colleagues, friends, and her partner.
Claire is a strategic, growth-oriented Chief Marketing Officer and GTM leader with a proven record of accelerating revenue at Oracle, Cisco, Fortinet, and scaling VC-backed startups such as Lastline/VMWare to successful exits. I bring deep expertise in cybersecurity, AI, SaaS, and networking, combining big-tech rigor with startup agility to drive transformational outcomes. I was recognized as a Channel Chief and Women of the Channel honoree and I specialize in category creation, market expansion, and buyer-centric storytelling that cuts through the noise, builds pipeline, and fuels sustained growth.
In his role as CTO, Assessments Cody drives engineering excellence and champions the development of AI-enhanced solutions that help teams automate complex security questionnaires and third-party risk evaluations.
Cody was the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at HyperComply, where he lead the company’s technology vision and product innovation by building scalable platforms that simplify security and compliance for organizations. Prior to HyperComply, he honed his technical expertise through key engineering roles at companies like SeatGeek and Vidyard, contributing to high-performance software systems and collaborative product development.
Cody holds a degree in Economics and Computer Science from Queen’s University, grounding his leadership in both technical depth and strategic thinking. His approach blends visionary product leadership with a commitment to solving real-world enterprise challenges in cybersecurity and risk management. Under his guidance, HyperComply has grown into a respected player in the compliance automation space and has since been integrated into SecurityScorecard’s broader risk platform.
Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SecurityScorecard, is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. Since SecurityScorecard’s inception in 2014, he has led the company with a vision to create a new language for measuring and communicating risk. SecurityScorecard is now one of the world’s most trusted cybersecurity brands, with tens of thousands of customers—including half of the Fortune 100 and nine of the top 10 U.S. banks—and over 600 employees. The company has earned the Gartner Peer Insight Customers’ Choice award and been named a Leader in the Forrester New Wave. In 2021, Yampolskiy was named E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 New York Award winner and Cyber Defense Magazine’s CEO of the Year.
Prior to founding the SecurityScorecard, Yampolskiy was a CTO at BlogTalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast hosting platform, whose technology he scaled to over 30M+ visitors each month. He was also a CISO at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, fraud, secure application development, and PCI compliance. Yampolskiy has led security teams at Goldman Sachs and Oracle, among other companies where he built authentication and entitlement infrastructure for trading.
Alex has published numerous articles, won the Public Key Cryptography Conference Test of Time Award for his verifiable random function invention, holds numerous patents, and is a published book author of The Perfect Scorecard: Getting an ‘A’ in Cybersecurity from Your Board of Directors. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.
Alex also works with organizations and event planners to deliver high impact keynotes and actionable workshops on the future of cybersecurity, and business mentorship.
Senior Leadership
Keith brings 12+ years of experience leading high-performing B2B SaaS sales teams, especially in AI and automation. He’s built global GTM orgs from scratch, closed $15M+ in enterprise revenue, and driven 3x ARR growth with strategic sales restructuring.
Known for turning complexity into clarity, Keith excels at building scalable systems, coaching teams to win, and navigating hypergrowth. With deep global experience and a knack for process alchemy, he helps companies unlock focus—and exponential results.
Jeff brings over 25 years of experience in product marketing, go-to-market strategy, and scaling high-growth technology companies in the networking and cybersecurity space.
Jeff is a proven product marketing leader with a track record of transforming companies and driving revenue growth. Jeff has a unique combination of founder experience, product leadership, and go-to-market execution, successfully navigating companies through growth stages from startup to public company. His ability to translate complex technical capabilities into compelling market positioning will be invaluable as we establish SecurityScorecard as the SCDR thought and market leader.
Most recently, Jeff was the SVP of Product Management & Product Marketing at Synack where he and his team refined the company’s vision and go-to-market strategy. Prior to Synack, Jeff’s career spans executive go-to-market, product, sales/pre-sales, and founder roles with Illusive, Firemon, Blue Coat, Packeteer, and other security and networking companies.
Jeff is based in Glen Ellen, California (Sonoma wine country), and when he’s not driving product marketing excellence, you might find him working on his golf game, exploring a new winery, cleaning his dogs after they’ve been in the mud, trying to recapture his fly fishing skills, or working on a home remodel project (just don’t ask him to carry a toilet down the stairs).
Michael Centrella is a distinguished security leader with over 25 years of experience in investigative, cybersecurity, and protective operations. As Assistant Director of the U.S. Secret Service, he oversaw the agency’s largest operational unit—managing 162 domestic and international offices, 2,150 Special Agents, and 850 mission-critical support personnel. His career includes leading protective missions for world leaders, coordinating multi-jurisdictional investigations into cyber-enabled financial crimes, and fostering lasting partnerships across government, military, intelligence, and private sectors.
Renowned for bridging physical and cybersecurity disciplines, Michael has driven initiatives to enhance operational resilience, intelligence sharing, and defenses against evolving threats. His expertise spans financial fraud, ransomware, business email compromise, and securing emerging technologies and digital currencies. Academically, he holds a degree in Sociology and Criminal Justice from Cabrini University, is a graduate of American University’s Key Executive Leadership Program, a certified Senior Executive Service member, and has completed the CISO Executive Education Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
Away from work, Michael is deeply rooted in family life, proud to be a husband, father, and devoted dog lover to his two small companions. He enjoys traveling with his wife, exploring new places together, and embracing experiences that create lasting memories.
Steve Cobb is SecurityScorecard’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) bringing more than 25 years of leadership consulting surrounding IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence. Since joining SecurityScorecard in 2023, Steve has been responsible for providing strategic IT consulting and delivering increased organization efficiency and security for our customers.
Prior to SecurityScorecard, he was a Senior Security Engineer with Verizon Managed Security and a Senior Escalation Engineer with Microsoft. Steve serves on several CISO boards and is a frequent presenter at conferences such as InfoSecCon, Cyber Defense Summit, and others. Steve attended UNC-CH, but left early to start his own IT company, and ultimately received his degree in Business from East Carolina University. Steve and his wife have two daughters and a son.
Michael is a seasoned Sales Management Executive with extensive experience in the high-tech and services industries. With a disciplined, results-driven approach, he excels at leading teams to meet and surpass sales and customer objectives. Michael is known for creating innovative and targeted business solutions that drive success across organizations.
His expertise spans building and managing high-performing sales teams, training sales executives, and implementing effective sales force automation, reporting tools, and compensation plans. Michael’s strong communication, interpersonal, and development skills enable him to foster a collaborative team environment while ensuring the achievement of both short-term goals and long-term strategic growth.
Throughout his career, Michael has demonstrated a keen ability to deliver outstanding results by leveraging his deep industry knowledge and leadership capabilities to continuously improve sales performance and customer satisfaction.
Rand is a proven software engineering leader with a strong track record of excelling in technical strategy, team building, and agile methodologies. With deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, site reliability engineering, and artificial intelligence, Rand has successfully implemented business-critical solutions that drive operational excellence and innovation.
Known for a unique ability to balance technical expertise with high-level strategic vision, Rand stays at the forefront of relevant technologies while maintaining a senior leadership perspective. This combination of hands-on technical know-how and big-picture thinking allows Rand to align engineering efforts with broader business goals, ensuring solutions are both scalable and impactful.
Rand’s leadership is defined by a focus on building and empowering high-performance teams, fostering collaboration, and delivering results in dynamic, fast-paced environments. With a commitment to continuous learning and a passion for tackling complex challenges, Rand is dedicated to advancing the field of software engineering and driving meaningful outcomes for the organizations he supports.
Bob is a visionary cybersecurity sales leader with over 25 years of experience driving high-growth go-to-market strategies across a wide range of technologies, including SaaS transformation and Zero Trust security models. He is adept at scaling high-performance teams, guiding clients through complex digital transformation journeys, and leading enterprise sales organizations across North America and LATAM. Bob is passionate about helping organizations solve their most pressing security challenges, build resilience, and unlock new opportunities for growth in an ever-evolving threat landscape.
Lynn is a powerhouse attorney that brings more than 15 years of legal experience spanning litigation, commercial contracting, and in-house leadership roles across high-growth SaaS and enterprise software companies. Most recently, she served as Senior Counsel-Global Strategic Accounts at Celonis, a top 15 Forbes Cloud 100 tech decacorn. At Celonis Lynn supported complex deals and strategic partnerships with a focus in heavily regulated verticals. Prior to that, she held senior roles at Sisense and TRANZACT. Lynn began her legal career in NYC as a litigator, defending complex high exposure professional liability cases.
Adam Eisenman, Vice President of Public Sector Sales, is responsible for SecurityScorecard’s government business, including all go-to-market functions. Adam has nearly 20 years experience in high-growth venture backed software companies, with a focus on the Public Sector market.
Adam joined SecurityScorecard in March of 2022 from Rave Mobile Safety, where he led a sales and government affairs function, which helped lead to an acquisition by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) and later Motorola.
Flora Felisberto is a growth marketing leader with over 15 years of experience driving revenue at the intersection of demand generation, digital strategy, operations, customer marketing, and business development. She has led high-performing teams across startups and public companies, consistently transforming marketing into a results-driven growth engine.
At SecurityScorecard, Flora leads global revenue marketing and operations, including North America field marketing, global marketing operations, and ROI-driven investment planning. Prior to that, she helped scale OutSystems to over $350M in revenue, leading global growth marketing and operations during its rise to Unicorn status. Earlier in her career, she held marketing leadership roles at Rapid7, Perfecto Mobile, Mendix, and ZoomInfo.
Known for her strategic mindset and bias for action, Flora brings deep expertise in B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, and go-to-market execution. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Northeastern University.
José is Portuguese and lives in Lisbon, but has been working in international markets for a long time, with a special focus on Latin America. He has a degree in sales and business management, with 20 years’ experience in digital transformation and cybersecurity companies. In his current role, his focus is on supporting SecurityScorecard growth in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, which he has been doing for more than 8 years in this industry. José has been with SecurityScorecard since the beginning of 2019, where he started as Regional Director for these markets, where he began to grow SSC from the ground up to what is now the undisputed leader in the region, having also been Area Director for Southern Europe and Latam in 2022.
Daniel Fuchs leads SecurityScorecard’s global insurance and strategic partnerships, shaping go-to-market strategies that integrate cyber risk intelligence into insurance, reinsurance, and risk transfer solutions and supports their clients with our solution. With 14+ years of international experience across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, Daniel has built and scaled global partnerships, driven insurance-led GTM initiatives, and supported M&A and strategic transactions across industries. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard, he held senior leadership roles in global insurance and financial services, focusing on strategy, business development, and market expansion.
Yoram Givon is an accomplished engineering executive with more than 25 years of experience building and scaling high-performing technology teams. As Vice President of Engineering at SecurityScorecard, he leads the development and delivery of scalable solutions that power the company’s cybersecurity platform.
Throughout his career, Yoram has driven innovation across both enterprise and high-growth environments, modernizing platforms, strengthening engineering operations, and aligning technical strategy with business impact. He is passionate about cultivating strong engineering cultures and delivering secure, resilient products that help organizations manage cyber risk with confidence.
Shiho Hashimoto is the Vice President, International Marketing at SecurityScorecard. Shiho is a seasoned leader with 20+ years of experience in marketing in the cybersecurity and technology industry all across EMEA and APAC regions. Shiho has a proven track record of helping organizations get to the next level and further. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard in 2021, she worked for Hatch Entertainment, a subsidiary of Rovio Entertainment, where she led the launch of mobile cloud gaming worldwide together with 5G launch partners including Samsung, Vodafone, Verizon, Sprint, and NTT Docomo. Prior to that, she led the international marketing team at SSH Communications Security, a world leader in identity access management and cryptography. Shiho is a cosmopolitan who was born in Japan, raised in New York and settled down in Finland. She speaks fluent Japanese, English and Finnish. She enjoys working with people from all over the world. Shiho holds a BA in International Business from Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan and an MBA from Aalto University in Finland.
Angela Huettinger is the Vice President of Customer Success at SecurityScorecard, where she leads the global team responsible for customer retention, adoption, support, and professional services. A veteran of the technology space, Angela has spent over a decade building and scaling world-class customer success organizations at companies such as IBM, Box, Cisco AppDynamics, Imperva, and Thales. She is an expert in operationalizing post-sales strategies that drive gross and net retention and customer advocacy.
Eric Milton is a veteran sales leader with over 20 years of experience driving growth and building high-performance teams in the cybersecurity industry. As VP of Sales, West, at SecurityScorecard, he leads the regional strategy to help organizations manage and mitigate third-party risk and improve their overall security posture.
Prior to SecurityScorecard, Eric held senior leadership roles at industry leaders including F5, Shape Security, and Imperva. He has a proven track record of scaling enterprise sales organizations and delivering complex SaaS solutions to Global 2000 companies.
As VP, Chief of Staff, Scott Myslinski leads strategic operations and corporate development at SecurityScorecard, partnering with the executive team to accelerate growth through market expansion, operational excellence, and transformative transactions. He brings over a decade of experience in technology, SaaS, and FinTech, having directed $500M+ acquisition budgets and growth initiatives at Forter, Dutchie, Better.com, Toast, and The Boston Consulting Group.
Muriel Naim is the SVP of Experience Strategy & Product Design at SecurityScorecard. With a career spanning leadership roles at Disney, Walmart, and Exiger, Muriel is an expert in building high-performance design teams and scaling UX operations in both enterprise and startup environments. An award-winning filmmaker and AI-UX strategist, she specializes in transforming complex data into intuitive products through the lens of empathy and human-centric research. Muriel holds an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute and is a recognized thought leader in the global design community.
Mike Sands is the VP of Product & Product Operations at SecurityScorecard, leading the teams responsible for the data and processes that power the global leader in cybersecurity ratings. A seasoned NYC tech veteran and former academic philosopher, Mike has spent his career founding and scaling venture-backed startups, including Emissary and Main Street. He specializes in organizational transformation, AI implementation, and operational efficiency.
Alex is a business-driven, leader with a proven track record of delivering high-impact, execution-focused AI and Data Science solutions that drive measurable results. Throughout his career—most recently at Arrive Logistics and Dun & Bradstreet—he has built and scaled high-performing Data Science and ML Engineering teams, delivering innovations that generated over 30 patents, supported revenue growth from >$800M to >$2.2B, and achieved >200% ROI on productionized LLM and ML solutions.
Alex has a unique ability to align technical innovation with customer and business needs, leading initiatives that have significantly improved automation, decision-making, and cost savings.
Matthew has founded two companies and played a strategic role within 4 others. Matthew has deep knowledge in multiple technology segments including: security/cryptography, high performance computing, data, large distributed systems and machine learning.
Matthew has contributed significant functionality to many open source projects including: Kubernetes, Kops, Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Cascading/Cascalog, and Mono/Xamarin.
Rodney brings over 2 decades of experience in technology and over 13 years of experience in talent building and running talent and technology teams, systems and processes. Rodney is an esteemed Global VP of Talent with a distinguished track record of building and refining teams and systems that drive efficiency and innovation. His hands-on approach and straegic vision have resulted in significant cost savings and improved operational outcomes.
Throughout his career, Rodney has been a thought partner to hiring managers, providing expert insights into talent market and sourcing strategies. He has successfully managed teams, developed cutting-edge recruiting sytems, and implemented effective talent management practices. Rodney is dedicated to delivering high-quality outcomes, fostering a culture of inclusion, and leveraging technology to ensure SecurityScorecard attracts and retains world-class talent.
Jeff is an experienced finance executive with more than a decade of experience driving growth and scaling operations in startup environments. History of raising money from sophisticated investors, with experience guiding an organization though the IPO process and beyond. Expertise in the creation of financial models, and OKRs/KPIs necessary to drive growth, with a proven ability to lead finance, operations, technical, and HR functions.
As VP of Pre-Sales Solutions, Aaron is responsible for SecurityScorecard’s sales engineering and technical cybersecurity consulting practices worldwide. Aaron brings 14+ years of experience spanning IT Audit, GRC, and go-to-market leadership in both Fortune 500 and high-growth SaaS organizations. Aaron joined SecurityScorecard in March 2025 from AuditBoard, where he co-lead a GTM expansion into EMEA prior to a $3B acquisition by HG Capital.
Board of Directors
Dean is a world-renowned entrepreneur and cybersecurity expert, and an AI and systems researcher. He’s been honored with a place on the Forbes Under30 Israel list and is a winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in New York.
Dean is Exec Chair and was CEO for the first 9 years, and Co-Founder of Axonius, which is the world leader in enabling organizations to see and secure their infrastructure and has grown to $2.6B valuation in less than 5 years from founding, and surpassed $100M/ARR in 4.5 years as one of the fastest cybersecurity companies ever.
Dean is also conducting research at the intersection of Systems and AI at Columbia University. As well Dean sits on the boards of Olakai, Lasso Security, and SecurityScorecard, and has invested in early-stage companies to date, with over 20 investments, including three unicorns (Ramp, Next Silicon, Salt Security), with a combined value of over $35B. He is a keynote speaker including RSA, Blackhat, Defcon, and more.
He is an alumnus of the Israeli Intelligence Corps, where he served as a Captain in an elite unit and received several commendations, including the highest award for non-combat activity. Dean is a graduate of the special “Etgar” program, where he earned his B.Sc in computer science at the age of 19. In 2005, Dean was part of the gold medal team in the international Robotic Olympics in South Korea.
Upal is a technology investor and former enterprise software entrepreneur. Before becoming an investor he co-founded the first and leading Mobile Device Security and Management platform and helped it grow to over $50M in revenues and a successful exit. He previously worked at McKinsey and RMS (now part of Moody’s).
At NGP Capital, Upal lead the North America office and global enterprise software team. Some of his focus areas on include Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Applied AI.
Upal’s passion is to leverage his experiences to back global and passionate entrepreneurs who want to make a positive difference in this world.
Joe De Pinho is a Partner at Riverwood Capital. Prior to Riverwood, Joe led corporate development at Pixeon, a Riverwood portfolio company, where he focused on M&A and corporate strategy. Joe previously led corporate development at Riverwood portfolio company Pixeon, where he executed an active consolidation strategy. Earlier in his career, Joe worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.
Joe earned an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he received the David L. Dodd scholarship. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University.
Nick Donofrio is an American scientist and engineer and was the Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation until 2008. Upon retirement, he was selected as an honorary IBM Fellow, the company’s highest technical honor. He holds seven technology patents, is a member of numerous technical and science honor societies, and holds several scientific board positions. In 1995, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions in the development of semi-conductor memory and technical leadership in computers.
Nick also serves on the board of the National Commission on the Future of Higher Education and the National Association of Corporate Directors and is a Director at Liberty Mutual Group.
Karim is a Partner at Google Ventures. He brings over a decade of operational, entrepreneurial and investment experience to his role. He initially joined Google’s corporate development team in 2008, the group responsible for the company’s acquisitions and strategic investments. His primary areas of focus are Internet services, mobile and digital media.
Prior to Google, Karim was a venture capitalist at Atlas Venture, where he worked on investments in Internet infrastructure and digital media. Previously, he was Director of New Ventures at Level 3 Communications, responsible for evaluating new business opportunities and has led product development for the company’s voice services. Earlier in his career, Karim held various product and marketing roles at Intel, initially on the i486, and later as product manager for the Pentium Processor. He started his career at Siemens as a software engineer working on the first vehicle navigation system for BMW.
Sam Kassoumeh is the co-founder and Head of Product at SecurityScorecard. With extensive experience as both a cybersecurity practitioner and leader, Kassoumeh’s experience has been pivotal in the growth and development of the company as well as establishing the ecosystem risk management space. Kassoumeh’s passion for internet security started in his teens and propelled him into key cybersecurity roles including as head of security and compliance at Gilt Groupe and worldwide InfoSec lead at Federal-Mogul. Sam holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Richard founded Evolution in 2008 and leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software and data analytics and brings over three decades of investment, operational and entrepreneurial experience to his role. Richard is a member of the firm’s investment committee.
Under his leadership, Evolution has become a premier venture capital firm raising over $ 2 Billion of capital to invest in category-defining software companies including SecurityScorecard, Quantexa, Pentera, Carbon Black, Talon, Arctic Wolf, Aqua Security, AVG Technologies, OpenDNS and ProtectAI, in organizations where Richard serves as a member of the boards of directors. Prior to establishing Evolution, Richard was a Partner at Alpha Associates, a venture capital and private equity firm where he led a multibillion dollar investment platform with investments in software, media and infrastructure companies including as founding investor in NejTV and Sixty-K.
As the CEO of Tanium, Dan leads the company’s mission to deliver Autonomous Endpoint Management through the industry’s only real-time AI-powered platform.
A former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger and Bronze Star recipient, Dan brings a leadership style shaped by service, integrity, and high-performance environments. He previously served as CEO of TIBCO Software and interim CEO of Allvue, with prior leadership roles at BMC, Salesforce, and C3.ai.
Dan is a West Point graduate and holds an MBA from Harvard. A committed community advocate, he supports veterans and underrepresented talent through nonprofit board work. An endurance athlete, he also guides visually impaired competitors in marathons and Ironman races.
Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SecurityScorecard, is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. Since SecurityScorecard’s inception in 2014, he has led the company with a vision to create a new language for measuring and communicating risk. SecurityScorecard is now one of the world’s most trusted cybersecurity brands, with tens of thousands of customers—including half of the Fortune 100 and nine of the top 10 U.S. banks—and over 600 employees. The company has earned the Gartner Peer Insight Customers’ Choice award and been named a Leader in the Forrester New Wave. In 2021, Yampolskiy was named E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 New York Award winner and Cyber Defense Magazine’s CEO of the Year.
Prior to founding the SecurityScorecard, Yampolskiy was a CTO at BlogTalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast hosting platform, whose technology he scaled to over 30M+ visitors each month. He was also a CISO at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, fraud, secure application development, and PCI compliance. Yampolskiy has led security teams at Goldman Sachs and Oracle, among other companies where he built authentication and entitlement infrastructure for trading.
Alex has published numerous articles, won the Public Key Cryptography Conference Test of Time Award for his verifiable random function invention, holds numerous patents, and is a published book author of The Perfect Scorecard: Getting an ‘A’ in Cybersecurity from Your Board of Directors. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.
Alex also works with organizations and event planners to deliver high impact keynotes and actionable workshops on the future of cybersecurity, and business mentorship.
Advisors
Andres Andreu, the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Hearst and a renowned cybersecurity leader, holds prestigious credentials including CISSP and ISSAP, and is a Boardroom Certified Qualified Technology Expert (QTE). With a diverse career traversing federal government, corporate sectors, and entrepreneurial ventures in cybersecurity, he is a mentor, startup advisor, and acclaimed author.
From his government tenure he transitioned to the corporate realm. Andres made a mark at Ogilvy and Mather as a partner and Chief Application Architect, later consulting for high-profile entities like the United Nations. As a founding member and key executive at Bayshore Networks (acquired by Opswat in 2021), and former CISO at 2U, Inc./edX, his expertise has been pivotal in shaping cybersecurity landscapes.
Author of “The CISO Playbook”, “Professional Pen Testing Web Applications”, contributor to “97 Things Every Application Security Professional Should Know”, and articles with various magazines, his work extends beyond writing to inventing, with patents in cybersecurity innovations. He advises the Forgepoint Capital Cybersecurity Advisory Council and serves on multiple advisory boards.
A Cuban immigrant and proud American citizen, Andres balances his professional achievements with a happy marriage and four wonderful kids. He is an international-level certified Judo coach with USA Judo and an artist. Andreu’s multifaceted career and personal achievements highlight his profound impact on the cybersecurity field and beyond.
Sachin previously held the role of President at SecurityScorecard for several years before transitioning to a Senior Advisor. While President, he helped build and scale the company’s legal department and created a new government business line (including government relations). He had twice served as the interim head of HR, and was the interim chief of staff for 2022. Sachin has played a key role in the company’s recent transactions including SecurityScorecard’s first M&A in 2022 of a Professional Services business, and its $180 million Series E round in 2021.
He routinely briefs senior government leaders (including at the White House), is a frequent speaker (such as in Davos, as part of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting), writer, and media commentator, having been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, and more. He has been named a “20 Under 40: Influential Leaders to Watch.”
Sachin graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law.
Tim is an experienced senior executive and architect specializing in the development and strategic direction of cutting-edge technology solutions. With a strong background in security, data management, and enterprise architecture, Tim has led numerous initiatives across industries including finance, healthcare, and government. His expertise spans areas such as cloud security, identity management, encryption, and vulnerability management, and he has been instrumental in driving both product innovation and business growth.
As a trusted advisor to executive teams and a thought leader in his field, Tim has spoken at major industry events, including engagements with government agencies and private sector leaders. He has worked closely with global partners and system integrators to deliver impactful solutions that drive faster time-to-market and competitive differentiation.
With a track record of successful collaborations and strategic leadership, Tim is committed to shaping the future of technology through innovation, partnerships, and market influence.
As an active Investor and CEO of Christian and Timbers, 4Xs Forbes Midas list, Jeff Christian has advised and placed many of the top CEOs in Cybersecurity. For over 30 years Jeff has helped investors, BoDs, and leadership to build companies that strengthen our National Security and Cyber readiness.
Sandy Climan is CEO of Entertainment Media Ventures. Sandy has held senior executive roles across the entertainment industry, including the senior management team at CAA, Corporate Executive Vice President and President of Worldwide Business Development for Universal Studios, and executive positions in production and distribution for MGM. His productions include “U2 3D,” the first digital live-action 3D film, and “The Aviator,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese, for which he was awarded a Golden Globe and a British Academy Award. His production involvement includes the cybersecurity-related films “War Games” and “Sneakers”.
He has been an active venture investor and advisor, and has served as a bridge between Hollywood, Silicon Valley, the financial industry, and global corporations. In the world of cybersecurity, he serves as Chairman of THG Ventures, which is focused on the promotion of and training in ethical hacking. He serves on several charitable boards, including the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the American Cinematheque.
Jay DePaul currently serves as the Chief Cybersecurity & Technology Risk Officer at Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), where he leads a business-aligned security and risk strategy. Prior to this, Jay held roles as the Platform CISO, leading the secure digital cloud transformation, as well as the Global Head of Security Operations. Before joining D&B, Jay held multiple leadership roles at BNP Paribas, including Head of Security Operations and Deputy CISO (Americas) and Chief Technology Officer for BNP Paribas Financial Services (U.S.).
Additionally, Jay serves on the Board of Governors for the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
Tom Doughty served as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Prudential, retiring from the
role in June of 2023. As CISO since 2006, Tom oversaw Prudential’s global information and cybersecurity
program, including infrastructure level protections, security-related Policies and Standards, and security
operations in a highly regulated, cloud-enabled business environment.
Within Prudential, he led efforts in business-focused security support, including a constantly evolving threat
and vulnerability management program protecting the operating environment. Tom interfaced directly with
Prudential’s Board and senior team, aligning management focus with emerging exposures. Externally, he
spearheaded relationships representing Prudential’s Information Security Program as a cross-industry leader,
collaborating with peer companies, government, law enforcement, and intelligence sources to assimilate best
practices and improve the collective security climate. Tom provided primary oversight and management of
Information Technology related regulatory liaison and response during a period when Prudential operated as
the only designated non-bank Systemically Important Financial Institution (SIFI).
Prior to Prudential, from 1993 to 1998, Tom served as a Military Intelligence Officer in the United States Army,
achieving the rank of Captain. During this time, he specialized in Electronic and Information Warfare, including
emerging intelligence processing technology platforms.
Tom is currently Chief Information Security Officer at Generate Biomedicines, overseeing the Cybersecurity
and Enterprise IT programs for the emerging growth biotech firm advancing fundamental shifts in therapeutic
development driven by machine intelligence.
Tom received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point
(1993), and an MBA with dual focus in Finance and Information Technology from New York University’s Stern
School of Business (2003). He maintains a current Top Secret / SCI security clearance.
Joan Feigenbaum is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, where she also holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of Economics. She received a BA in Mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. Between finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and starting at Yale in 2000, she was with AT&T, where she participated broadly in the company’s Information-Sciences research agenda, e.g., by creating a research group in Algorithms and Distributed Data, of which she was the manager in 1998-99.
Professor Feigenbaum’s research interests include security, privacy, anonymity, and accountability; Internet algorithmics; and computational complexity. While at Yale, she has been a principal in several high-profile activities, including the DHS-funded Pri-Fi Project, the DARPA-funded DISSENT project, and the NSF-funded PORTIA project. Her many service contributions to the research community include Program Chair of Crypto ’91, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology (1997-2002), Program Co-Chair of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (2004), Program Chair of the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (2013), Department Chair of the Yale Computer Science Department (July 2014 through June 2017), General Chair of the inaugural ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law (2019), and ACM Vice President (July 2020 through June 2022).
Professor Feigenbaum is an Amazon Scholar, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the AAAS, a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and a Connecticut Technology Council Woman of Innovation. In 1998, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. In May 2020, she won the Test-of-Time Award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for her 1996 paper (with Matt Blaze and Jack Lacy) entitled “Decentralized Trust Management.”
Ross Freeman is the founder of 680 Partners LLC, where he has dedicated over three decades to specializing in executive search and recruitment within the software industry.
Under his leadership, 680 Partners has become a trusted partner to venture capital firms, private equity groups, and growth equity funds, focusing on building senior management teams for software companies at every stage, from seed to growth equity. The firm is renowned for its ability to identify and recruit transformational executives, including CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CTOs, CIOs, and VPs of Sales.
Before founding 680 Partners, Mr. Freeman served as Vice President of Results Staffing’s Strategic Technology Practice. There, he launched a technology division that achieved an impressive 200% revenue growth. He has also provided strategic consultancy services to leading companies, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he played a critical role in developing infrastructure and core technology capabilities.
A pioneer in the digital space, Mr. Freeman served as Director of Internet Technology at Adler Consulting, where he led the development of Demstore.com, one of the first e-commerce platforms.
Mr. Freeman holds a BA in Psychology from Hobart College and completed graduate-level computer studies at the New School for Social Research. He is also certified by Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
Specialties: Executive Search, Software Industry, Venture Capital, Seed Stage, Growth Equity, Private Equity, LBO
Grant Geyer has had a successful career as an operator in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years. Currently, he oversees Claroty’s product management, engineering, and research organizations, and is responsible for the company’s product strategy and development. Prior to this, he worked as an Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners, where he assisted the firm in analyzing cybersecurity markets and ventures. Geyer held the role of Senior Vice President of Products for RSA, responsible for both traditional and SaaS product offerings. Before RSA, Geyer served as Vice President at Symantec, which he joined through its acquisition of Riptech. Earlier in his career, Geyer served as a Military Intelligence officer for the U.S. Army. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Susan M. Gordon is the former principal deputy director of National Intelligence, a longstanding and respected leader within the nation’s Intelligence Community. Well-versed in issues of global risk, technology, and cybersecurity, Gordon has spent more than 30 years in public service roles. She served from 2017-2019 as principal deputy director of National Intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she advised the President on intelligence matters and provided operational leadership of the agencies and organizations composing the U.S. Intelligence Community. She focused on advancing intelligence integration, expanding outreach and partnerships, and driving innovation.
Gordon also served as deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). She helped lead the NGA through a transformation to adapt to emergent challenges, spearheading agile decision-making, modernization of the information environment, and the expansion of geospatial intelligence services to the open marketplace.
Gordon served for 29 years at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), rising to senior executive positions and serving as a champion for the LGBTQ community. She also led the establishment of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture arm.
Igor has worked as Global Enterprise Technology Architect and then Information Security Architect in March & McLennan ( 1997-2006) along with the following positions:
CISO of New York Law Department – (2006-2016)
CISO of New York City Retirement System ( NYCERS) – (2019-2019)
CISO of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University – (2019 – Present)
Certifications: RHIA, CISSP, CISA, CDPSE. ITIL, RIMS-CRMP.
Brian currently serves as the Vice President and Chief Security Officer (CSO) for a large energy company with assets and operations in 25 states. He is responsible for the company’s physical and cybersecurity, privacy, intelligence, and business continuity units. In 2018, Brian was appointed by the President of the United States to serve as the sixth Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, at the Department of Homeland Security. Brian also served as the first Executive Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Brian has spent time during his career in the US Marine Corps and various private sector agencies with the goal of protecting the United States from security threats.
Governor Hogan exemplified leadership by achieving bipartisan, common sense solutions during his time in office with an overwhelming majority of all Republicans, Democrats and Independents—nearly 80% of all Marylanders—approving of the job he did. Recognizing the urgency of fostering cyber resilience, Governor Hogan made it a priority during his tenure.
He created the role of State Chief Information Security Officer through executive order. In 2021, Governor Hogan organized the Annapolis Cybersecurity Summit, bringing together senior officials from the White House, Congress, NSA, and FBI, as well as academic leaders and private sector experts. The Governor also pushed for cybersecurity grant funding to be included in the IJAA. In 2022, Governor Hogan created the Maryland Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MD-ISAC). This initiative facilitates the sharing of Cyber Threat Intelligence among Maryland governmental bodies, including State agencies, counties, municipalities, school systems, universities, and political subdivisions. Governor Hogan’s dedication to cybersecurity is evident through the appointment of the state’s first-ever Director of State Cybersecurity and Director of Local Cybersecurity. These leadership roles are crucial for achieving a comprehensive statewide cybersecurity approach, known as “Whole of State Cybersecurity.” As Governor Hogan left office, he had the highest approval rating of any governor in Maryland history and one of the highest of any governor in the nation.
Aaron Hughes is Senior Vice President and CISO at Albertsons Companies. In this role he is responsible for enabling the business and securing the infrastructure, digital assets, and payments for a network of over 2200 supermarkets operating under 20 brands across the United States serving 30 million customers per week and driving $60B in annual revenue. Previously he was Vice President for Information Security and Deputy CISO at Capital One where he led the team providing security services across all of the Capital One lines of business to include Card, Financial Services, Commercial and Retail Banking as well Enterprise IT, Digital Products, and Data Initiatives.
Mr. Hughes is also the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy where, as the Senior DoD cyber official, he was the primary interface with the broader USG, Congress, the public, and foreign governments for all defense related cyber policy matters. His office was responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of cyber policies, strategies, operations, and plans for the Department of Defense.
In addition to his full-time employment, Mr. Hughes is a Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve currently serving as a Senior Advisor to the Commander USCYBERCOM and on the board of directors of two highly successful companies, SentinelOne and Advanced Technology International. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia, MS in Telecommunications and Computers from George Washington University, and MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Melanie Hughes is a transformational leader who has held a variety of C-suite roles over the last 20 years. She is a seasoned operational and human capital executive with experience across Technology, Financial Services, Media, and Retail. She is also a global citizen, having lived in six countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Latin America.
Most recently Ms. Hughes was CHRO for Moody’s Corporation, overseeing the entire Human Capital function and driving culture and organizational realignment to support a firm-wide strategic change initiative. She oversaw a successful CEO transition, helped lead the company successfully through the pandemic, and evolved the culture to a standard that achieved “Most Loved Companies” award by Newsweek.
Earlier in her career Ms. Hughes joined Gilt Groupe in its infancy and supported its growth to a $1 billion valuation; she was responsible for operations including sales operations, offshoring, creative/studios, real estate, facilities, and building the executive team. In a prior role at Tribune she was responsible for Human Capital, driving culture change as the company emerged from bankruptcy; restructuring the company through a spinoff of the publishing business; doubling the size of the broadcast business through acquisition; and building the digital arm of the media organization. Ms. Hughes joined DoubleClick at the height of the dot- com boom, building the talent infrastructure, managing through the restructuring in response to the technology crash, and changing the culture to facilitate the success and regrowth of the of the company—resulting in the initial sale to Hellman & Friedman and eventually Google.
Over the last 20 years Ms. Hughes has managed the Governance & HR committees of her company’s boards, setting the agenda through times of growth, change, and disruption. She is highly experienced in the boardroom and has been a trusted advisor to Committee Chairs. Until recently, she served on the Moody’s Foundation board, and she currently sits on the advisory board of Security Scorecard, Mattermost and Contemporary Leadership Advisors. Her executive coaching practice focuses on CEOs and CPOs and incorporates strategy and team-building for the C-suite. Ms. Hughes has also worked on philanthropic initiatives in Nicaragua (where she has a residence), setting up educational and dental programs for the community.
Ms. Hughes holds an BSc. (Hons.) degree in Psychology from Brunel (London) and an MBA from INSEAD (France). She enjoys playing competitive backgammon and sailing, which is a passion.
Jacquet is responsible for enterprise information security, establishing and maintaining a corporate-wide information security program to protect Unisys information assets and ensure compliance. He and his team identify, evaluate and report on information security risks to meet compliance and regulatory requirements. Jacquet also leads enterprise security programs including security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, identity management, network security, disaster recovery and risk policies. He also ensures the products and services Unisys’ customers use are secured from a cyber standpoint.
Prior to Joining Unisys, Jacquet was the global CISO for Hertz where he led the rebuilding of the security organization post IPO.
Previously, Jacquet was the global CISO for Hitachi Vantara as well as the Information Security Expert for the 70+ Hitachi companies in the America’s region. Before this, his roles included senior director of global IT Security, compliance, risk management and governance at Symantec, and multiple leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard during his 26-year tenure there.
Jacquet holds a marketing certificate from UC Berkeley and an engineering degree in computer science from Institut National des Sciences Appliqués (Lyon, France). He is fluent in French and conversational in German.
He holds a private pilot’s certificate and is an active member pilot of Angel Flight, a volunteer organization that arranges free air travel for children and adults who have serious medical conditions and need transportation to treatment facilities.
Andrew Jaquith is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Scotiabank US Technology. Andrew’s 25-year career as a CISO, CTO, executive, and cyber practitioner spans startups (with two successful exits), Fortune 100s, and global financial services firms. Prior to Scotiabank, he was the CISO of Covington & Burling LLP. He has served as a Managing Director in technology risk and cybersecurity for Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase, respectively. He serves as an Board Advisor to SecurityScorecard and as a member of the Technical Advisory Board of Panaseer. Andrew graduated from Yale University.
John Katko is an accomplished leader who served Central New York in Congress from 2015 until his retirement in 2022.
Early in his career in Congress, John became a strong voice on the House Homeland Security Committee. In 2020, he was selected to lead House Homeland Security Committee Republicans. As Ranking Member, John led efforts to secure the border and prioritized a robust focus on cybersecurity, as well as transportation and airport security. Additionally, John served eight years as a member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee.
While serving New York’s 24th Congressional District, John achieved significant legislative success, with 98 bills passed the House and 45 signed into law. Through his advocacy, John delivered millions of dollars to his district in Central New York.
John has strong relationships in New York and Washington across the political spectrum. He is well-respected for his work across the aisle and was consistently ranked among the most bipartisan members of Congress by the nonpartisan Lugar Center. As Chair of the Republican Governance Group, John was responsible for expanding political engagement with results-oriented Members of Congress.
Prior to serving in Congress, John spent nearly twenty years as a federal organized crime prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, prosecuting hundreds of complex criminal cases including organized crime, drug and human trafficking, murder, and political corruption. He has extensive experience on the U.S. Northern, Southern, and Maritime borders. Additionally, he served as a litigator with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and as an anti-trust and commercial litigation attorney in private practice.
John and his wife Robin live in Camillus, New York and enjoy spending time with their three adult sons.
Julie Liegl has spent over 20 years marketing in the technology industry. Most recently, she was the Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for all aspects of Slack’s marketing, including product marketing, customer acquisition, demand generation, brand, brand design, events, and content marketing.
Prior to Slack, Julie spent 13 years at Salesforce, most recently as the Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, where she and her teams were responsible for the success of Dreamforce, driving demand generation and the market positioning of Salesforce’s cloud products.
Julie received her BA and MA in English from Stanford University and her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Marshall Lux has been a financial services consultant and practitioner for 30 years. He began his career at McKinsey where he served all manner of financial service firms across a variety of subsectors and functional areas. Lux led McKinsey’s and Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) private equity practice. He has extensive relationships across private equity firms. He left McKinsey after approximately 25 years to become the Chief Risk Officer for Chase (all consumer products globally) during the 2008 financial crisis. He then joined BCG, where he was a Senior Partner for 5 years, and in particular, helped build a private equity practice.
Lux continues to be an active advisor to BCG. He sits on several private equity boards and advises companies ranging from consumer credit, wealth, insurance, and cybersecurity. Lux has a broad network of financial services C-suite executives with whom he has worked on some of their most important issues. He has also diligenced many of the largest private equity deals that have been done. Along with his client work, he has also done 35 probono assignments and has served on a number of not-for-profit boards, including the Harlem Children’s Zone, the New York Historical Society’s Chairman’s Council, the New York Tenement Museum, Junior Achievement, and Reading is Fundamental.
Lux is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is active at the New York Historical Society. He was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and he continues to do research there. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and a Senior Fellow to the Program on International Financial Systems, both at Harvard Law School. His overall writings have concerned the unintended consequences of Dodd-Frank on financial services. He has written papers entitled: “The State and Fate of Community Banking,” “What’s Behind the Non-Bank Mortgage Boom?” and “Out of Reach: Regressive Trends in Credit Card Access.” All papers have been cited in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, among others. In late 2017 he released a paper entitled: “When Markets Quake: The Past, Present, and Future of Online Lending.”
Lux also teaches private equity at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School. He has spoken broadly, including at the House Small Business Committee, the Federal Reserve, and various universities and trade groups. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Online Lending Policy Institute. Lux’s board, advisory, and academic work consume most of his time.
Lux attended the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and graduated Summa Cum Laude. He also attended Harvard Business School where he was a Baker and Ford Scholar. He was the first person in his family to attend college.
Ray Mabus served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2017, the longest tenure as leader of the Navy and Marine Corps since World War I. As Secretary he revolutionized the Navy and Marine Corps, opening all jobs to women, aggressively moving to alternative energy as a warfighting measure, building more than twice as many ships during his term than in the preceding eight years and developing the Gulf Coast Restoration Plan after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was during his watch that Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. Among many awards, he received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Responsibility Award and was chosen as one of the top fifty CEOs in America by GlassDoor, the only government person picked. From 1988 to 1992, Mabus served as Governor of Mississippi, the youngest elected to that office in more than 150 years. Mississippi experienced record growth in jobs, education, tourism and exports.
Mabus was United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 1994- 1996. Today, Mabus is on the board of two public companies as well as a public benefit education company and is the founder of a consulting organization. He also serves on the boards of the Environmental Defense Fund and Jose Andreas’ World Central Kitchen and the advisory board for the National Medal of Honor Museum. Secretary Mabus is a native of Ackerman, Mississippi, and received a Bachelor’s Degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Mississippi, a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a Law Degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Mabus served in the Navy as an officer aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock.
Kevin is a global information security executive, currently with Cigna as the CISO, US Healthcare and Managing Director of Assurance. Prior to Cigna, Kevin was the Vice President of Information Security at Marriott International. He has extensive leadership experience with information technology service providers such as Sungard, AT&T, and Verizon. He has led global organizations responsible for cyber security, business continuity, and business operations.
Harry D. Moseley is a (Senior) Advisor to the Deutsche Börse, DRATA, Replicant, Schelllman, Security Scorecard, Stripes and Journey, a Board Advisor to Arrangr, Bite Investments and Roam, a Board Member of Rewards Network, and, a member of Baypine’s Digital Advisory Board.
He has almost five decades of experience in technology, having held several senior leadership positions: Global CIO for Zoom Video Communications; CIO for KPMG US; CIO and Partner at Blackstone; CIO of Global Investment Banking/Co-CIO for Credit Suisse First Boston, and CTO for UBS Americas.
Harry was inducted into CIO Magazine’s Hall of Fame, recognized as one of the world’s top 100 CIOs by Computerworld, twice honored by Irish Magazine as one of its Annual Wall Street 50, awarded the 2020 Leadership CIO of the Year by InspireCIO, the 2022 CIO and IT Leader of the Year for the Private Sector, was a 2022 Irish America Business 100 Honoree and awarded the HMG Global Leadership award in 2023. Additionally, Harry has given numerous presentations including a TEDx talk about working and living in the virtual world.
He is originally from Dublin, Ireland, and is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin with degrees in Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics. He lives in New York with his wife Rachel, their dog Hershey (Goldendoodle) and has three children in three time zones (San Diego, Baltimore and Zurich).
Six-time CTO and three-time CSO, Gunter perpetually operates at the forefront of offensive security consultancy and AI/ML powered threat detection and incident response technology development. As an expert in penetration testing and vulnerability research, he has built and led industry leading security consulting and R&D organizations for ISS, IBM, NCC Group, and IOActive. On the flipside, he has incubated and trailblazed new approaches in TDIR at Microsoft, IBM, Devo Inc., Vectra.AI, and Damballa – bringing to market leading AI and cloud solutions in the realm of SIEM, SOAR, IDPS, XDR, and threat intelligence.
Today, Gunter serves as CTO for Cobalt.io – harnessing a global community of hundreds of accomplished offensive security experts and bug hunters, and fusing them with the latest advancements in AI augmentation and automation to deliver the next generation of penetration testing-as-a-service (PTaaS).
SINET accelerates investments and innovation of early-stage, emerging growth, and publicly traded Cybersecurity companies into global marketplaces by connecting them to industry and government Risk Executives and Chief Information Security Officers, venture capital, and private equity firms. SINET brings together the world’s highest level of executive Cybersecurity professionals during workshops, conferences, and Public Private Partnership dinners, and on SINETConnect, their invitation–only, highly curated virtual platform that connects buyers, sellers, and investors, and is changing the way trusted business dealings operate today and into the near future.
SYN Ventures invests in disruptive, transformational early-stage Cybersecurity solutions whose objectives are to reduce technology risk to protect our nation’s critical infrastructures. Our primary investments are at the “A” and “Seed” rounds.
Previously, Mr. Rodriguez served 22 years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service where he held numerous executive leadership positions within the Presidential Protection Detail, Protective Intelligence, Inspection, Criminal Investigation Division, and the Counter Assault Team (CAT). His executive protection experience spanned 10 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald W. Reagan, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton, and numerous Heads of State. He serves on several Cybersecurity Advisory Boards and has been called upon to advise private industry and federal governments as they build private sector outreach initiatives with corporations and the entrepreneurial and venture capital communities.
Ken is the SVP of User Growth and Embedded Analytics at ThoughtSpot. Previously, he led the centralized User Growth and Analysis team at Google, where he’s focused on increasing user acquisition, engagement, and retention across all Google products and services. His team works with product teams across Google, providing analysis, best practices, tools, and services to optimize products and marketing campaigns for growth.
Prior to Google, Ken built the Analytics organization at Facebook, which included both the data scientist teams and the data engineering teams. He led the organization to deliver high-impact analyses across all Facebook products to optimize Facebook’s products and overall business.
Before Facebook, Ken was the VP of Analytics and Platform Technologies at Zynga, helping Zynga to become known for excellence in analytics, and helping to build the foundation for one of the world’s largest social gaming
A research fellow with MIT Sloan School’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, Michael Schrage’s research, writing, and advisory work focuses on the ‘behavioral economics’ of models, prototypes, and metrics as strategic resources for managing ‘innovation risk’ and opportunity. He is the author of award-winning ’The Innovator’s Hypothesis’ [MIT Press 2014], ‘Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become?’ [Harvard Business Review Press 2012] and ‘Serious Play’ [Harvard Business Review Press 2000]. His next book, ‘Recommender Systems,’ will be published this year by MIT Press as part of its ‘Essential Knowledge’ series. He’s run design workshops and executive education programs on innovation, experimentation, and ’strategic measurement’ for organizations all over the world.
His pioneering work in ‘selvesware’ technologies – he coined the word – designed to augment aspects, attributes, and talents of productive individuals. Current research efforts examine the interplay of ’network effects’-driven innovation, such as recommender systems, and human capital creation for the enterprise. His work exploring the ‘future of KPIs,’ digital ‘performance management’ dashboards and machine learning – in collaboration with Google, McKinsey, and the Sloan Management Review – builds on that theme, i.e. what happens when ‘essential metrics’ become ’software agents.’ This research – part of a global ‘Strategic Measurement’ initiative – is widely cited. These efforts have led to ‘future of workforce capability and design’ research in collaboration and co-sponsorship with Deloitte. He is particularly interested in the future co-evolution of ‘expertise,’ ‘advice’ and human ‘agency’ as technologies become ‘smarter’ than the people using them.
Consulting and innovation/experimentation/KPI clients have included Prudential, Pfizer, Microsoft, PwC, BASF, SNCF, ZF, Amazon, Mars, BT, Google, Raytheon, Edmunds, Embraer, among others. He’s conducted non-classified research for the U.S. Department of Defense [Office of Net Assessment] and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on cyber-conflict, complex systems procurement, and ‘other’ issues.
Previously, a Merrill Lynch Forum Innovation Fellow, he founded and was executive director of its Merrill Lynch Innovation Grants Competition for doctoral students worldwide. An angel investor in several digital media and machine learning start-ups, he’s been a featured and top trafficked blogger on the Harvard Business Review site. His work has been published in the Sloan Management Review, Fortune magazine (where he was a columnist), the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Nikkei Asian Review, the CACM as well as other peer-reviewed publications.
Joe is the CEO of Ukraine Friends, a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian aid to children trying to learn and grow in a war zone. He also advises several startups, does security consulting projects, and mentors security leaders. Joe was the first federal prosecutor based in Silicon Valley dedicated full time to prosecuting cybercrime, and worked on safety and security at eBay and PayPal before becoming the Chief Security Officer at Facebook (2008-2015), Uber (2015-2017), and Cloudflare (2018-2022). Furthermore, Joe has advised companies over the years ranging from AirBnB to DoorDash, and in 2016 he accepted and served an appointment from President Obama to his independent, bipartisan Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.
Mark Weatherford is the Chief Cybersecurity Strategist at Coalfire and the Founding Partner at Aspen Chartered Consulting where he focuses on national cybersecurity policy issues and cybersecurity thought leadership.
Mark has held a variety of executive level cybersecurity roles including Chief Strategy Officer at the National Cybersecurity Center, VP & Global Information Security Strategist at Booking Holdings, SVP & Chief Cybersecurity Strategist at vArmour, Principal at The Chertoff Group, VP & Chief Security Officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and the first Chief Information Security Officer for the state of Colorado. He was also appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2008 to serve as California’s first Chief Information Security Officer and in 2011 he was appointed in the Obama Administration as the nation’s first Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Mark is a former U.S. Naval Officer where he served as the Director of Navy Computer Network Defense Operations, Director of the Navy Computer Incident Response Team (NAVCIRT), and established the Navy’s first operational red team.
Mark is an investor in cybersecurity start-ups, a Board Director, and on the Advisory Board of several cybersecurity technology companies where he has a successful track record in helping startups from founding to acquisition. Among his many professional awards, he is an inductee into the 2023 Global Cyber Security Hall of Fame, the 2021 International CSO Hall of Fame, and the 2018 Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Hall of Fame.
Rus Yusupov is an American product designer and entrepreneur whose businesses include Vine and HQ Trivia. Rus began his career as a digital product designer at various digital firms including Razorfish and R/GA, before founding his own design and engineering consultancy, Big Human, in 2008. Based in NYC, Big Human’s clients include Google, Facebook, TDAmeritrade, Compass, Time Warner, OKCupid, Urban Dictionary, among others. In 2012, Rus incubated Vine out of the Big Human offices and within months sold the looping, short-form video service to Twitter. Vine turned people into stars. It transformed the world of comedy, the music industry and cultivated popular memes. It was imitated by larger competitors and was the first app to launch a generation of short-form video apps. After three years of overseeing Product for Vine at Twitter, Rus teamed up with his Vine co-founder to create HQ Trivia – and almost overnight, the show began drawing millions of concurrent players, generating significant excitement around its fun, novel concept and simple design. HQ’s pioneering format and massive audience has drawn large advertisers including Nike, Warner Bros., Amazon, Wendy’s, Target, Chevrolet among others. Rus has received several industry recognitions, including a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, Variety Magazine Breakthrough of the Year Award, UJA Lydia Vareljan Leadership Award, PGA Digital VIP Award 2014, multiple Webby Awards and an Emmy Nomination. He is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and The School of Visual Arts, where he earned a BFA in Design. Rus lives in New York with his wife and daughter.