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Meet our leaders.
We’re led by a talented team of cybersecurity veterans and B2B-tech superstars who have a proven track record of bringing transformative, industry-leading products to market.
Leadership Team
Board of Directors
Advisory Board
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Robert Freeman
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
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Robert Freeman
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Robert Freeman heads SafeBreach Worldwide Sales, Channels and Pre-Sales. For over 25 years, he has been working in technology, leading high performing teams at other notable companies such as Imperva, Distil Networks and FireEye. Robert speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese and is the author of a number of white papers on different security topics.
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Raman Kumar
Chief Customer Officer
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Raman Kumar
Chief Customer Officer
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Edo Yahav
GM and VP Research and Development
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Edo Yahav
GM and VP Research and Development
Edo joins SafeBreach from Mintigo (acquired by Anaplan) where he served as VP of R&D leading the development of the company’s engineering and research groups. Prior to Mintigo, Edo was an engineering manager in Microsoft working on several areas such as Telecom, Windows security, and Azure, and has also spent time in his career leading teams at several start-ups. Edo holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Bar-Ilan.
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James Graham
Vice President of Marketing
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James Graham
Vice President of Marketing
James Graham leads the SafeBreach marketing team, responsible for full-spectrum go-to-market strategy and execution in support of the company’s brand, demand, public relations, content, partner marketing, events, and sales enablement functions. Prior to joining SafeBreach, James served in marketing leadership roles in the cybersecurity space, including roles at RiskLens, Verisign, RSA and Mandiant. James is a veteran of the U.S. Army and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from George Mason University. He resides in Northern Virginia with his wife and four children.
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Lance Matthews
General Partner, DTCP
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Lance Matthews
General Partner, DTCP
Lance is a Managing Director in the growth equity team. Lance investment interests are primarily on cybersecurity and cloud networking and infrastructure. He lead DTCP’s investment in Arctic Wolf Networks, and is a Board Observer at Anomali. He joined from Touchdown Ventures, a SF based Corporate Venture firm, where he worked on company sourcing, investment analysis and diligence, and portfolio management. Prior to that, he spent time at Illuminate Ventures, a seed stage Enterprise Saas firm and at Twitter holding a position in the finance department. Lance holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, a Master’s degree in History from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from CSU Fresno.
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Gili Ra’anan
Partner, Sequoia Capital
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Gili Ra’anan
Partner, Sequoia Capital
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Moshe Lichtman
General Partner, IGP
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Moshe Lichtman
General Partner, IGP
Moshe Lichtman has spent the last 40+ years creating software products and running large global consumer and media related businesses. Until 2011 he was a Microsoft Corporate VP and founder and President of its strategic R&D center in Israel. He is currently investing in and helping Israeli startups become the next game changers. He’s also the co-founder and general partner of IGP Capital, a private equity fund focused on growth and public tech companies in Israel. He holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion and a MBA from MIT
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Eduardo Piedade
CEO & Managing Partner at Bright Pixel Capital
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Eduardo Piedade
CEO & Managing Partner at Bright Pixel Capital
Eduardo has over 10 years of experience as an investor in tech-based fast-growing companies. He holds an MBA from London Business School and has a solid background in Strategy, M&A and Finance in several industries. As CEO & Managing Partner at Bright Pixel Capital, he serves at the Board of several portfolio companies, and his investment focus lies on three main areas: Cybersecurity, Digital Infrastructures and Retail Technologies.
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Jeff Williams
Operating Partner, Bain Capital
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Jeff Williams
Operating Partner, Bain Capital
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Hemi Zucker
General Partner, OCV Partners
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Hemi Zucker
General Partner, OCV Partners
Hemi Zucker is General Partner and Managing Principal at OCV Partners. Hemi has deep experience growing technology companies. He formerly served as the CEO of cloud services and publishing company J2 Global (NASDAQ:JCOM), where he grew the company from founding to a $4.5 billion market capitalization.
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Garet Stroup
Associate VP of Threat Management and Response at Humana
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Garet Stroup
Associate VP of Threat Management and Response at Humana
Garet Stroup is the Assoc. VP of Threat Management and Response at Humana where he leads the Response, Hunt, Intelligence, and Insider Threat programs. With over 20 years of experience, he has built and managed a variety of services and organizations in cyber security across multiple industries. Most recently Garet was the Head of Offensive Security at Humana where he focused on breaking the very thing he is now protecting. Prior to joining Humana, Garet held leadership roles at Cigna, Express Scripts, and Boeing.
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Richard A. Holmes, Jr.
Assistant Vice President Information Assurance & Chief Information Security Officer for Union Pacific Railroad
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Richard A. Holmes, Jr.
Assistant Vice President Information Assurance & Chief Information Security Officer for Union Pacific Railroad
Richard A. Holmes is the Assistant Vice President Information Assurance and serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for Union Pacific Railroad. In his position, Holmes is responsible the Company’s information security and disaster recovery programs.
Holmes began his career with Union Pacific in 1986 as a member of the Corporate Audit Staff where he spent 12 years performing financial, operational, and information systems audits of Union Pacific Corporation’s railroad, trucking, oil and gas, mining, hazardous waste, and logistics companies.
Holmes transferred to Union Pacific Railroad’s Information Technologies in 1999 as the Director of Security. Over the next 10 years he developed the Company’s information assurance, disaster recovery, business resumption and change management programs. During this period he also managed the Company’s client computing systems and data network. While retaining information security responsibilities, Holmes spent five years managing the development and maintenance the Company’s back-office applications. He subsequently spent four years managing the Company’s computing infrastructure. Prior to his current position, he was the CEO of PS Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Pacific Railroad that provides commercial software to the transportation industry.
Holmes is the founding chairman of the Railroad Information Security Committee for the Association of American Railroads. In this position, he led industry efforts to: 1) create the Surface Transportation ISAC; 2) perform industry-wide security assessments; and 3) develop the industry’s Risk Analysis and Security Management plan. He was also very active in the establishment of public and private sector initiatives to improve the security of the nation’s critical infrastructure through his involvement with the National Infrastructure Advisory Council and the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security.
Holmes has a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and a master’s degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Assaf Keren
CISO & VP at Qualtrics
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Assaf Keren
CISO & VP at Qualtrics
Assaf serves as Chief Information Security Officer & VP at Qualtrics where he oversees all aspects of Qualtrics’s security product and service delivery organization globally. Assaf provides strategic leadership for Qualtrics security teams, which build security products, manage security infrastructure, and provide security services for the company’s customer base.
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Malcolm Harkins
Chief Security and Trust Officer at Epiphany Systems
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Malcolm Harkins
Chief Security and Trust Officer at Epiphany Systems
Malcolm Harkins is the Chief Security and Trust Officer at Epiphany Systems. Malcolm reports to the CEO and is responsible for enabling business growth through trusted infrastructure, systems, and business processes. He has direct organizational responsibility for information risk, security, and privacy policy.
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Christine Herman
Chief Technology & Security Officer at Finance of America
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Christine Herman
Chief Technology & Security Officer at Finance of America
Christine is CISO and CTO of Finance of America. Prior to this role she was Global Head of Morgan Stanley’s Operational Assurance Team. Before that she was Technical Director for the U.S. Department of Defense. A Distinguished Cyber Visiting Fellow of the U.K. government, she holds a degree from SUNY at Buffalo.
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Timothy Byrd
Chief Information Security Officer PROG Holdings, Inc.
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Timothy Byrd
Chief Information Security Officer PROG Holdings, Inc.
Tim is the former CISO of TIAA where he was responsible for the information security strategy and governance, technologies, security engineering, and cyber defense and monitoring. He is a seasoned cybersecurity executive with a proven track record of transforming cybersecurity organizations into sustained highly effective organizations. He is a recognized leader in security with broad knowledge of business needs, deep understanding of technology and industry trends. His passion is in developing high performing teams by building a culture that embraces the power of finding the best in each team member and building creative recruiting pipelines into organizations. Tim has spent most of his career working at large financial institutions including Wells Fargo and Bank of America with extensive industry experience.
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Niall Browne
SVP, CISO at Palo Alto Networks
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Niall Browne
SVP, CISO at Palo Alto Networks
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Sherry Ryan
Vice President and CISO of Juniper Networks
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Sherry Ryan
Vice President and CISO of Juniper Networks
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Tal Arad
CISO at Carlsberg Group
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Tal Arad
CISO at Carlsberg Group
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Tim Bengson
Sherwin Williams Company
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Tim Bengson
Sherwin Williams Company
Tim is VP and Global Chief Information Security Officer at the Sherwin Williams Company with global responsibility for information and cybersecurity. Before joining Sherwin Williams Company Tim held IT security leadership roles at Kellogg’s and MasterCard for 13 years, including Senior Director of Global Information Security and Enterprise Security Solutions.
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Jody Len
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at GuidePoint Security
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Jody Len
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at GuidePoint Security
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David Hahn
Chief Information Security Officer at CDK
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David Hahn
Chief Information Security Officer at CDK
David is a CISO, Advisor and a trusted business partner. His career includes Financial Services like Silicon Valley Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank, Software Product and Services with Intuit, and large diversified Media/Data company with Hearst Corporation with large stakes in TV, Newspapers, Magazines, Healthcare, Transportation and Financial (Fitch Ratings). He is an Advisor to various companies and Venture firms in Security and Technology.
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Yaron Levi
CISO at Dolby Laboratories
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Yaron Levi
CISO at Dolby Laboratories
Yaron Levi is CISO for Dolby. He was previously CISO for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, InfoSec Director for Cerner, Security Architect for eBay; and Director of Cloud Security for ANX. Yaron is a Research Fellow for the Cloud Security Alliance, holds a B.A in Social Sciences and Management and graduated from the FBI CISO Academy.
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Rajiv Sinha
Chief Revenue Officer, Boost Security
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Rajiv Sinha
Chief Revenue Officer, Boost Security
With 20+ years of field cyber experience, Rajiv has held CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) positions at Acceptto USA (acquired by SecureAuth, 2022), Solebit.io Israel (acquired by Mimecast, 2018), Immun.io Canada (acquired by Trend Micro, 2017), and at Cigital USA (acquired by Synopsys, 2016). Prior, Rajiv held management positions at PwC and Oracle in software engineering, product management and security operations. He is currently cofounder of iCISO.org (non-profit), angel investor and advisor to a select group of VCs. Rajiv holds BE/MS degrees in computer science & engineering, social sciences and mathematics, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Resident in Silicon Valley, he is also a sommelier, cyclist, fitness enthusiast, and enjoys sports with his son, metal concerts with his daughter, and gourmet cooking with his wife.
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Kris Harms
Cylance / Mandiant
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Kris Harms
Cylance / Mandiant
Kris is a security startup veteran who built successful teams in product management, UX/Design, sales engineering, product evangelism/marketing, education/training, consulting services, and incident response for Mandiant (acquired by FEYE 1.05B) and Cylance (acquired by BB 1.5B). He is an active industry advisor, published author, speaker, trainer, and inventor.