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This list showcases the top California, United States based Advisor operating in the Cyber Security space. If you think a Advisor is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Steve Westly
Advisor of SentinelOne
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About : SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection that prevents, detects, and responds to attacks across all major vectors.
Dan Kolkowitz
Technology Advisor of Benhamou Global Ventures
Board Member at Stanford Federal Credit Union.
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About MobileAria: Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Peter Wang
Technology Advisor of Benhamou Global Ventures
Peter Wang has over three decades of experience in developing ideas into technologies, standards, products, and companies around the world, with demonstrated executive leadership in strategy formation and execution of new initiatives into major market trends. A serial entrepreneur, Peter lead the founding of Intransa, Inc. in 2000, a pioneer of native IP SAN storage systems and co-founded Retrevo Inc in 2005. a Web 2.0 service focused on consumer electronics and utilizing machine learning technologies. Peter then established and built a joint venture IaaS business in China. Peter has served as President, Chief Technology Officer, Board Director, as well as VP of Marketing, Engineering, and Operations. Peter drove the architecture and product strategies, the engagements with major OEMs in US, China, and India, the set-up of multi-sites and off-shore development centers, and establishment of 24×7 web and cloud services operations. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Wang led the Technology Development Center at 3Com Corp., where he spear-headed wide ranging technology investigations and prototyping efforts, including VoIP, high-speed networks, broadband and wireless access, intelligent infrastructure, and network appliances. Peter identified emerging technologies and markets, drove strategic partnership development for new technologies, both within the commercial industry and with major university research centers, and cross-division technology strategies for insertion into products. Peter was instrumental in a number of IEEE 802, IETF and ANSI standards, including 10 Gb Ethernet, QoS, and iSCSI. He has been awarded over 20 US patents and has published a number of IEEE conferences and other journal papers. Peter holds M.S. degree in Engineering from Stanford University and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley.
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About : Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Ron Morita
Technology Advisor of Benhamou Global Ventures
Ron is an engineering executive, innovator, product strategist and organizational transformer. Ron’s expertise include cloud, virtualization, security, data protection, network management, networking and IT management. With over 30 years of industry experience, Ron has a track record of driving business success in high tech companies large and small. Ron has held VP and senior engineering leadership positions at EMC, VMware, NetApp, BMC, Newbridge Networks, Ungermann-Bass, Hewlett-Packard, ComMira and HiFive. Ron has led the development of market leading products including Data Domain storage, vSphere security, SnapMirror data protection, Remedy IT service management and HP OpenView network management to name a few. Ron is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program and Princeton University.
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About : Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Ariel Oren
Technology Advisor of Benhamou Global Ventures
Oren is the CTO and co-founder of Capriza, an Enterprise Mobility Platform provider. Before founding Capriza, Oren served as VP of Innovation & Design at HP Software, General Manager of HP Labs Israel and enjoyed a decade long career as CTO at Mercury. He has extensive startup experience: NARUS (acquired by Boeing), VDOnet (Citrix), Ubique (AOL) and Optibase (VITEC). Oren is also co-author of several Internet and software application related patents.
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About : Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Ariel Oren
Technology Advisor of Benhamou Global Ventures
Oren is the CTO and co-founder of Capriza, an Enterprise Mobility Platform provider. Before founding Capriza, Oren served as VP of Innovation & Design at HP Software, General Manager of HP Labs Israel and enjoyed a decade long career as CTO at Mercury. He has extensive startup experience: NARUS (acquired by Boeing), VDOnet (Citrix), Ubique (AOL) and Optibase (VITEC). Oren is also co-author of several Internet and software application related patents.
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About : Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Shelton Waggener
Technology Advisor of Benhamou Global Ventures
Shelton Waggener is the Senior Vice President of Internet2 responsible for the NET+ portfolio of services including commercial and community cloud services, middleware development and Trusted Identity in Education initiatives. Shelton leads Internet2’s pursuit of emerging cloud and advanced services above the network involving demand aggregation and brokering with campus and commercial providers, and distributed offerings among its members. Internet2 NET+ includes compute, storage, platform and software services, the integration of identity management and federation with key applications for the research and education community, deployment of collaboration infrastructure among members, including video, coordination and sharing tools, content management, and domain applications. The program is delivering over $200M in value to member universities annually. In addition to core technical activities, Shelton has been very active in supporting higher educations transition to accessible, interactive digital content. He has sponsored numerous projects and evaluation activities with platforms and publishers designed to create opportunities for institutions eager to provide faculty and students enhanced learning environments. Prior to joining Internet2 Waggener served as Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer at the University of California, Berkeley where he also served as Chair of the University of California CIO Leadership Council. Previously he spent more than fifteen years in senior positions in the private sector at leading technology firms including as CIO of InterNetworking Systems, an $8B division of Lucent Technologies; Director of IT for Octel Communications; and Senior Director of IT Infrastructure for Sybase. He is a founding member of several Kuali community source projects including Kuali Student and Kuali Ready and served for five years on the Board of Directors of the Kuali Foundation, a non-profit organization representing 18 Carnegie Class higher education institutions from around the world investing more than $70M in community source developed software for higher education.
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About : Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Ruthann Quindlen
Member of the Venture Advisory Board of SRI International
Ruthann Quindlen has served as a Venture Advisor to SRI (Stanford Research Institute) since April 2014. Ruthann has served as a Managing Member in Fund VIII of IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), an early stage Silicon Valley venture capital firm, from April 1998 to January 2011. Prior to joining IVP, Ruthann served as a Managing Director at Alex Brown & Sons, and led the IPOs of many prominent software companies including Microsoft and Electronic Arts as well as leading data analytics companies such as Epsilon. Ruthann holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About : SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Jeff Klaben
Executive Advisor of SRI International
Jeff Klaben is an executive advisor and former Chief Information Security Officer for SRI International—a nonprofit independent research and innovation center. He co-authored The Computer Incident Response Planning Handbook, chaired the San Francisco Bay Area InfraGard (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and public/private partnership dedicated to information sharing for critical infrastructure protection), and was recognized by the US Department of Justice with awards for Exceptional Service in the Public Interest. He previously served as a Principal with Neohapsis, IT Group Director at SanDisk, CISO at Life Technologies, Engineering Group Director with Cadence Design Systems, and led Enterprise Architecture and IT Security at Applied Materials.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Doug Jones
Board Advisor of Agari
Doug joined Alloy Ventures as a Venture Partner in 2012. He focuses on investments in SaaS and Enterprise Software solutions for both Consumer and Business applications. Doug is currently serving as an advisor and board observer to Agari. Doug joins Alloy with over 20 years of operational experience as an executive for high-growth companies. Most recently, he served as interim VP of Corporate and Business Development for Badgeville. Doug prior experience includes SVP of Corporate and Business Development at Lithium Technologies, Entrepreneur-in-Residence for BridgeScale Partners, and several positions including Senior Vice President of Corporate Development with Interwoven, Inc., where he was also employee number 10. Doug holds an MBA from IESE in Spain and a BA from the University of Colorado. Additionally, Doug has been an active angel investor in companies such as DemandForce, Egnyte, Tealeaf Technologies and Experience Project.
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About : Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Bob Kruse
Investor, Advisor of Cyber Mentor Fund
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About Cyber Mentor Fund, Obsidian Security: Cyber Mentor Fund is a venture fund focusing on cybersecurity companies.
Greg Oslan
Board Advisor of Anomali
Greg Oslan is currently Founder and Managing Partner at OSG Consulting where he provides strategic business and operations guidance to companies in the analytics, telecommunications, and cyber security markets. Work includes business planning, product/service strategies, go to market strategies and plans, organizational design, employee mentoring and Board work, with specific emphasis on early to mid-stage companies. Prior to founding OSG, Greg Oslan was a Boeing Executive and President and Chief Executive Officer of Narus Inc. which he sold to Boeing (NYSE BA) in 2010. He has also served as Executive Chairman of Fixmo, Inc.; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Wireless Online; as the President and Chief Operating Officer of CNET Inc; and was a founding partner in an early stage venture capital fund. He began his career with AT&T in software development and networking and went on to hold management positions within Ameritech in their strategy, consulting and wireless organizations. Greg currently serves as Chairman of the Board of RiskSense, Inc., serves on the Advisory Boards of Raytheon Corporation (NYSE RTN), ThreatStream, RedOwl Analytics, and the Indiana University Kelley School of Entrepreneurship and as a Partner at Paladin Capital, a Senior Advisor to the Chertoff Group, and an advisor on several U.S. Government cyber initiatives. Greg Oslan holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Business Analysis from Indiana University.
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About : Anomali is the leader in intelligence-driven extended detection (XDR) and response cybersecurity solutions.
Dave Cullinane
Co-Founder & Advisor of TruSTAR
Prior to TruSTAR, Dave served for more than five years as the Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Global Fraud, Risk and Security for eBay and its many global businesses (StubHub, InternetAuction.co, GSI Commerce). He has more than 30 years of professional security experience building and managing cyber security and incident response teams. He was the founder and president of the IT-ISAC and a founding member of the FS-ISAC, both organizations devoted to sharing cyber information among private companies in the information technology and financial services sectors respectively. He is currently the Chairman of the Cloud Security Alliance and continues to advise Fortune 500 companies on their cyber security posture.
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About ASIS, Cloud Security Alliance, Global Security Risk Management Alliance: GSRMA, Information Systems Security Association, TruSTAR: TruSTAR is a cloud native Intelligence Management platform that transforms and automates data for security operations.
Tim Callan
Marketing Advisor of Valimail
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About Digital Bridge Partners, Santa Clara University, Sectigo, Sectigo: Valimail is an email security company that offers zero-trust, authentication-based solutions for organizations.
Bob Williams
Investor and Advisor of Apisec.ai
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About Apisec.ai, Canaan Partners: Apisec.ai is an enterprise-class API security management platform that delivers instant and continuous API security coverage and compliance
Alain Mayer
VP of Product & Advisor of Graphistry
Alain Mayer is a 20-year veteran in computer security and product development, with a focus on machine learning. He grew up in Switzerland and lived in New York City for a decade, which makes him super polite and in your face, clean and messy, eating chocolate and bagels all at once. Alain earned a PhD in computer science from Columbia University and an MS in computer science from Brown University.
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About Bolster Inc., Graphistry: Help every analyst investigate like 10 analysts.
Hassan El-Sallabi
Chief Advisor of Cyberkov Information Technology W.L.L
Hassan El-Sallabi is a Radio frequency communications Scientist with a D.Sc in Radio frequency engineering from Helsinki University of Technology and a PostDoc from Stanford University under the supervision of Dr. Arogyaswami Paulraj (The pioneer of 4G and high speed WiFi). He is an Associate Research Scientist at Texas A&M University and a Chief Advisor for Cyberkov Co. Ltd. He has written over 100 scientific publications ranging from patents to Scientific journals and Conference papers.
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About Aalto University School of Science, Cyberkov Information Technology W.L.L, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Stanford University, Texas A&M University: Cyberkov is a professional IT security firm, providing highly targeted set of security services.
Elias Terman
Marketing Advisor of Solidify Security
Elias started his career as an entrepreneur and has a strong background in category creation for new and growing markets. Prior to Orca, Elias was VP of Global Marketing at Integris Software, a data discovery and privacy automation company. He led marketing at Distil Networks, where he drove the creation of the Bot Mitigation category, leading to their acquisition by Imperva. He also built out the marketing and business development organizations at OneLogin and helped establish SnapLogic as the leading independent integration company.
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About Orca Security: Automated Security / Security as a Service (SecaaS)
Manju Nishshanka
Advisor of 0Chain
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About : 0Chain is a blockchain-secure data protection platform – near-impossible to breach, reduces liability, audit, and dispute resolution costs.
W. William Diotte
Advisor of Mocana
William (Bill) Diotte is a technology entrepreneur, CEO and Board Member with over 20 years of experience in working with tech-driven companies from startup stage to Fortune 500. Prior to joining Mocana as Chief Executive, he was the co-founder and CEO of software defined networking pioneer BroadHop Inc., acquired by Cisco. Starting off his career as a manufacturing engineer, he became an executive and managing director with both Gemini and SRI Consulting serving high tech companies in the software and telecom markets. Bill has also served as a Board Member to LiveAction, Inc., and is an investor and advisor to several companies in the software infrastructure and security space.
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About : Mocana is a developer of cybersecurity software solutions that protect Internet of Things devices and industrial infrastructure.
