At Threat.Technology we track over 100,000 infosec, cyber security, military and cyber startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California, United States based Product operating in the Network Security space. If you think a Product 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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Kumar Ramachandran
SVP, Product and GTM of Palo Alto Networks
Prior to founding CloudGenix, Kumar was Director of Product Management at Cisco, leading products for the multi-billion dollar branch routing and WAN optimization businesses. Prior to Cisco, Kumar held software and network engineering roles, developing solutions for companies such as Citibank and Providian Financial. Kumar holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Bombay.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Ashwath Murthy
Senior Director of Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Nick Campagna
Vice President Of Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Vairavan Subramanian
Sr Manager Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Vairavan is a Senior Manager Product Management at Palo Alto Networks. His focus areas included securing SaaS and Pubic Cloud applications. At Palo Alto Networks he leads the Aperture product line.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Leonid Burakovsky
Sr Dir, Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Leonid Burakovsky currently serves as the Senior Director of Mobile Security, Service Providers in Product Management at Palo Alto Networks. Prior to this role, he served as F5 Networks’ Senior Director of Strategic Solutions and Juniper Networks’ Alliances CTO. Leonid regularly speaks at industry forums such as NGMN Forum, Mobile World Congress, 4G, CTIA, Futurecom, IEEE, BroadbandForum, LTE NA, LTE World, LTE LATAMÉ to name a few. Leonid also worked at Airslide, Bezeq International, ECI, Alcatel and the Center for Communication Research. Leonid has more than 30 years of industry experience and holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Information Systems Engineering.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Chris Honaker
Principal Product Security Architect of Palo Alto Networks
Chris Honaker is responsible for reducing the attack surface of Palo Alto Networks products and services. Chris has twenty plus years of experience in software engineering and security ranging from hardware security products to global software as a service platforms.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Jaimin Patel
Sr. Product Manager of Palo Alto Networks
Jaimin Patel is the Product Line Manager at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Kelvin Kwan
Senior Product Manager of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Sudeep Padiyar
Senior Product Manager of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Michael Jacobsen
VP Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Mike Jacobsen is the VP Product Management at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Navneet Singh
Sr Director & Product Marketing of Palo Alto Networks
Navneet Singh is the Sr Director & Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Charul Sadwelkar
Director Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Ashwin Dewan
Product Manager of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Taylor Ettema
Sr. Director & Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Taylor Ettema is the Sr. Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Zoltan Deak
Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Palo Alto Networks
Zoltan Deak is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
John Harrison
Sr. Product Manager of Palo Alto Networks
James has been actively engaged at the forefront of security systems solution design and enablement for over thirteen years. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks in 2014, James held security engineering, consultant and architect positions with Fujitsu Services, Integralis, and NTT Security. James has worked on numerous high profile secure infrastructure projects in both public and private sectors, designing and implementing solutions across a wide variety of technology areas and vendor solutions. At Palo Alto Networks, James works with large high-tech and pharmaceutical organisations, having previously worked with energy, utility, retail and manufacturing companies. He is currently engaged in several high profile projects covering secure mobility, data centre segmentation, and public cloud migration. James also runs, snowboards, and has way too many t-shirts.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Patrick Chang
Sr. Director of Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Patrick Chang is a Senior Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks, driving the overall product strategy for container security. He joined Palo Alto Networks via the acquisition of RedLock where he was Head of Products. Prior to RedLock, he’s held product management leadership positions at StackRox, Webroot, VMware and CA/Wily Technology, covering cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure and application/operations management.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Del Rodillas
Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Palo Alto Networks
Del’s experience in industrial automation goes back to his very first job as an electrical engineer at Xilinx Inc, where he was responsible for optimizing and troubleshooting production yields of advanced semiconductor devices. Today as the ICS and SCADA Solution Lead for Palo Alto Networks, he looks at automation systems through the lens of cybersecurity. Del helps asset owners globally and across multiple critical infrastructure sectors understand the importance of cybersecurity in these environments and how best practices and technologies could be applied to balance the goals of preventing cyberincidents while keeping uptime and safety high. His 19 years of technology industry experience spans Cybersecurity, Networking, Aerospace/Defense, and Semiconductors with roles in strategic marketing and engineering. Del holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Sarvesh Rao
Sr. Product Manager of Palo Alto Networks
Sarvesh is a Sr. Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks. As a product manager with many years of experience in building Firewall, VPN, Access control and other security solutions he is passionate in the mission to empower the good guys stay ahead of the game. Prior to Product Management, he has worked as an IT Manager with Ericsson for nearly a decade and believes that being in the customer’s shoes has tremendously helped him in building solutions with strong customer and business focus.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Nithin Varam
Senior Product Manager of Palo Alto Networks
Nithin is Product Manager for User-ID and Authentication at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Anubhav Gupta
Product Manager of Palo Alto Networks
Anubhav is a Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks. His focus areas are logging, reporting and visibility on PAN-OS.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Sam Rastogi
Product Marketing Leader of Palo Alto Networks
Sam Rastogi is a veteran of the security industry with 15+ years experience in marketing leading security solutions at Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Systems, HP Enterprise/3Com, McAfee, Juniper Networks, and iPolicy. He is leading GTM and marketing for Network Security, Zero Trust, Data Center, and Hybrid Cloud.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Tomas Hertus
Product Manager, WildFire of Palo Alto Networks
Tomas Hertus is a Senior Product Manager with the Palo Alto Networks Product Management Team. He is responsible for WildFire infrastructure, integrations and cloud adoption.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Moinul Khan
Director, Product Management, Mobility of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Venkat Krishnamoorthi
Director of Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Arun Kumar
Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Arun Kumar is a Product Manager focusing on Decryption and PKI at Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Brian Tokuyoshi
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Palo Alto Networks
Brian Tokuyoshi is a Senior Solutions Analyst for Palo Alto Networks, where he researches the mobility and wireless network security landscape. Brian has an extensive career in computer security, with domain expertise in encryption, data protection, and identity. Previously, Brian worked for PGP Corporation, Symantec and ActivIdentity, and served as senior market analyst for identity & cryptography at The Radicati Group.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Arvind Gopalan
Sr. Director of Product Management of Lookout
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
David Klebanov
Head of Product Marketing of Alkira
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Sumit Agarwal
Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Management of Shape Security
Sumit Agarwal is a Co-Founder of Shape Security, Inc. and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and later advised on cyber policy. He led mobile product management for Google. He is a former US Air Force Reserve Officer. Sumit Agarwal also co-founded Quova.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Kevin Flynn
Sr. Manager, Product Marketing of Tenable
Kevin Flynn is Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Tenable. With over 25 years of experience in high tech, he has been involved in cyber security technologies for nearly 20 of those years. His high tech experience started at Apple Computer where he was a product manager in Apple’s Advanced Technology Group. Flynn then spent over a dozen years at Cisco as a product manager and marketing manager in their security technology organization. Since leaving Cisco, he has held product marketing roles at Fortinet, Blue Coat and Skybox Security. Flynn is a frequent speaker on cyber security topics at conferences worldwide and has authored numerous articles on cyber security issues.
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About Tenable: Tenable helps organizations to understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk across the full range of modern computing assets.
Senthil Ganesan
Technical Product Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Senthil Ganesan is the Technical Product Manager for the HPE Small and Medium Business Solutions handling Hyperconverged, Hybrid-IT and Software-Defined-Storage portfolios. He has been with HPE for 23 years playing the roles of Product Manager, Systems Architect and Developer. He has spent most of his years developing and launching Hyperconverged systems and Management and Automation products for Servers, Storage and Network devices.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Dheeraj Konidena
Product Management Leader of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Satish Iyer
Vice President, Products & Strategy, Hybrid Cloud of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Frances Guida
Manager, Product Management of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Alex Brar
Senior Product Manager, Hyperconverged of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Ka Wai Leung
Solutions Product Management of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Bob Fraser
Product Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Phill Gilbert
3PAR Product Line Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Phill Gilbert
3PAR Product Line Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Poornima DeBolle
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Menlo Security
Poornima DeBolle is co-founder and chief product officer of Menlo Security. Previously, as a product management executive at Juniper Networks, she was responsible for cloud security, security management, and security analytics. Poornima joined Juniper via its acquisition of Altor Networks where she was the VP of product management and business development. Prior to Altor, she was head of business development at Check Point where she also held product management and engineering roles. Poornima holds an MSCS from Arizona State University.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Mike Jones
Senior Director of Product Management of Agari
Mike’s mandate is creating great products and growing the Agari Email Trust Network. Prior to Agari, Mike managed AOL’s Network Operations Center from 1997–2004. In 2005, Jones took responsibility for directing AOL’s Anti-Spam Operations and Postmaster. From 2005–2010, he helped drive the adoption of email authentication and reputation technologies at AOL and across the industry. Jones has represented AOL as a member of the Board of Directors for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and other cross industry initiatives.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Asaf Shen
VP Products of Sansa Security
Mr. Shen joined Discretix in 2005 and has accumulated extensive engineering and marketing experience in security related IP products. Previously, he served as Director of Product Management and Product Marketing for the company’s IP product portfolio. Prior to that he served as Discretix’ VLSI team manager and IP projects manager. Before joining Discretix, Mr. Shen was a VLSI team manager at Tioga Technologies, a spinoff of its parent company, Orckit Communications. Mr. Shen holds a BSc (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
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About Sansa Security, Tioga Technologies: Sansa Security is the only comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) security platform securing everything from chipsets to the cloud.
Elad Horn
Vice President, Product Management of Proofpoint
Elad has 20 years of experience managing products and leading teams, and is currently VP of product management for Proofpoint’s CASB and Unified DLP. Before joining Proofpoint, he was enSilo’s VP of products. Prior to enSilo, Elad was a Principal Product Manager at EMC, responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap and requirements of several products. Before that, Elad managed Imperva’s leading enterprise security product. Elad has also held engineering roles and led software teams at Intel and Marvell. Elad holds an MBA in finance from IDC Herzliya, Israel, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. In his spare time, you’ll find Elad competing in Ironman triathlons.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Peter Lai
Founder & Head of Card Products of Emburse
Peter Lai is a second-time entrepreneur who, prior to founding Emburse, co-founded Crocodoc, a document embedding service that was acquired by Box in 2013. Peter holds three degrees from MIT (B.S. in EECS, B.S. in Cognitive Science, M.Eng. in EECS) and is the author of two patents, one granted to PARC for methods of searching annotated collections of documents and one filed by Box for web rendering technology.
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About Emburse: Emburse is a provider of expense management and accounts payable automation solutions.
Dogu Narin
Head Of Product Management of Versa Networks
Dogu is a seasoned product management leader with 20+ years of experience with various technology and product management leadership roles. Prior to Versa Networks, Dogu served as the overall Product Mgmt leader for various areas for Juniper Networks; most recently for the NFV, vCPE/uCPE and Cloud domains and associated products, and prior to that for Data Center, Routing Services, Application and Subscription Aware Services for wireline and wireless technologies and products. His background also includes Nortel Networks and several international companies. Dogu holds B.Sc degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and MBA Degree from Santa Clara University
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About Versa Networks: Versa is the SASE leader
Jigar Shah
VP, Products of Valtix
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
Masha Sedova
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Elevate Security
Masha Sedova is the co-founder of Elevate Security. Prior to co-founding Elevate Security, Masha served as a senior director of Trust Engagement at Salesforce. She holds a BS degree in computer security from the University of Tulsa.
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About Elevate Security: Proactive Defense Against Insider Risk
Roman Arutyunov
Co-Founder & VP Products of Xage Security
Prior to Xage, Roman held Vice President of Product and Engineering roles at ABB, Tropos Networks, and Mimosa Networks solving networking, security, and data analytics challenges for industrial and commercial enterprises enabling millions of IoT devices in production today. Earlier in his career, Roman developed the first generation of Content Distribution Networks (CDN) and secure proxy servers at Blue Coat Systems (Symantec). Roman holds a Bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics with an emphasis in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.
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About Xage Security: Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT.
Ameya Talwalkar
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer of Cequence
Over the last 10 years, Ameya Talwalkar has built strong engineering teams specializing in enterprise and consumer security in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Madrid, Pune, and Chengdu. Before co-founding Stealth Security, he was Director of Engineering at Symantec. He was responsible for its anti-malware software stack that leverages network Intrusion prevention and behavior and reputation technologies, and anti-virus engines. Under his leadership, Symantec developed an advanced version of network intrusion prevention technology that blocks more than two billion threats a year. Prior to Symantec, Ameya worked in various engineering roles at Valicert, focused on PKI-based security solutions for finance and government. He led the first commercial implementation of RFC 5055 and contributed to its progress at IETF. Ameya holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai’s Sardar Patel College of Engineering (SPCE).
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About Cequence: Cequence is an end-to-end API security software company that designs a platform to protect customers from malicious bot attacks.
John Maddison
CMO & EVP Products of Fortinet
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About Fortinet, Fortinet, Fortinet: Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances that include firewalls, security gateways, and complementary products.
Hemant Jain
VP and Product Engineering of Fortinet
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About Fortinet: Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances that include firewalls, security gateways, and complementary products.
Melissa Lintinger
Senior Vice President, Production Finance of Comcast NBCUniversal
Melissa Lintinger is a dynamic, collaborative finance and operations leader with a history of successfully guiding organizations through periods of growth and transition. She has the ability to bring out the best in teams, combining exemplary interpersonal skills with a relentless drive for continuous improvement and change management based on sound strategic analysis. Melissa is currently the SVP of Production Finance for NBCUniversal’s TV Studios where she champions technology initiatives to align the production finance processes within NBCU with the rapidly transforming industry. Prior to joining NBCU, Melissa held various leadership positions in media including Vice President of Production Finance at Viacom/BET Networks, leading teams in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta, CFO of Bombo Sports & Entertainment, a production company with offices in the US and UK, and head of Production Finance at Oxygen Media during its start up phase. Melissa earned a BS in Marketing and International Business with an Art History minor, and an MBA in Finance, from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Melissa lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, daughter and French bulldog. A recent emigrant from downtown Manhattan, she is acclimating to the clear and open skies of her hillside home. She is a member of Women in Cable Television (WICT), the New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT) and Advancing Women Executives (AWE).
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About Chief, Comcast NBCUniversal: A media and entertainment company.
Prasidh Srikanth
Director of Product Management of Bitglass
Prasidh is the Director of Product Management in Bitglass where he leads the strategy and execution for delivering best in class solutions for data protection and behavior analytics. Prior to joining Bitglass, Prasidh was a PM at Microsoft where he focused on reducing the costs of translating Windows by leveraging neural and statistical machine translations and enabling a gig economy for translating content. Prior to Microsoft he was a software engineer in the advanced research group at Fusion IO. Prasidh received an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and BE in Computer Science from Anna University.
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About Bitglass: Bitglass is an information technology company that helps enterprises move to SaaS-based and mobile deployments securely.
Audrey Duet
Chief Product Officer of BlastWave
Audrey Duet is the chief product officer of BlastWave. For over 5 years Audrey has focused on bringing new practical application of AI to market. These conversational apps such as Bots and Virtual Assistants are dedicated to augment all actors of the corporate world in the Automobile, Customer Service, Fintech, Retail, Health, Robotics and IoT industries. She is a member of the XBrain leadership and technical team who has created an easy to use artificial intelligence cloud-based platform. The XBrain platform supports natural communication between any object or device enabling applications to model human communication and intelligence.
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About BlastWave: BlastWave creates the next phase of cybersecurity solutions, built on proprietary hardware, software, and a social layer.
Jaime Blasco
AVP Product Development of AT&T CyberSecurity
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About AT&T CyberSecurity, AT&T CyberSecurity: AT&T CyberSecurity provides threat intelligence, collaborative defense, and security solutions for businesses.
Michael Jack
Senior Manager of Product Marketing of Spirent Communications, Security Business Unit of Spirent Communications
Michael Jack is senior manager of Product Marketing of Spirent Communications’ applications and security solutions portfolio. With 20 years of working in the data communications industry and over 15 years working for networking test and measurement organizations. At Spirent Communications Michael works with the Product Management team to define, produce and deliver cutting edge Applications and Security testing solutions for Network Equipment Manufactures, Enterprises, and Services Providers. His deep market knowledge, collaborative design, and adaptive development processes experiences have proven results in the creation and release of a myriad of Internet and other data communications solutions, high tech hardware, and data networking software solutions. Michael has been an integral member of the Product Management and Marketing team, and has overseen the evolution of our level 4 to level 7 products and services testing team. In addition, he has also presented at numerous industry events and has worked in Product Marketing and Management capacities at a diverse number of networking companies including Thomas-Conrad, UB Networks, Newbridge Networks, Compaq, and Antara.
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About Spirent Communications: Spirent Communications is a telecommunications company offering lab test solutions to evaluate the performance of the latest technologies.
Michael Jack
Senior Manager of Product Marketing of Spirent Communications, Security Business Unit of Spirent Communications
Michael Jack is senior manager of Product Marketing of Spirent Communications’ applications and security solutions portfolio. With 20 years of working in the data communications industry and over 15 years working for networking test and measurement organizations. At Spirent Communications Michael works with the Product Management team to define, produce and deliver cutting edge Applications and Security testing solutions for Network Equipment Manufactures, Enterprises, and Services Providers. His deep market knowledge, collaborative design, and adaptive development processes experiences have proven results in the creation and release of a myriad of Internet and other data communications solutions, high tech hardware, and data networking software solutions. Michael has been an integral member of the Product Management and Marketing team, and has overseen the evolution of our level 4 to level 7 products and services testing team. In addition, he has also presented at numerous industry events and has worked in Product Marketing and Management capacities at a diverse number of networking companies including Thomas-Conrad, UB Networks, Newbridge Networks, Compaq, and Antara.
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About Spirent Communications: Spirent Communications is a telecommunications company offering lab test solutions to evaluate the performance of the latest technologies.
Elad Amit
Director of Product Management of PerimeterX
I’ve been a part of the IT industry since 1998, making the shift to product development in 2001 when I formed my own software development shop specializing in e-commerce solutions along with several of my closest friends. Since then, I’ve served as an R&D Team Leader, Program Manager, Director of Product Development, and Agile Development Consultant. Over the past 6 years I’ve led several architecture and operations teams in high growth and large scale environments.
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About PerimeterX: PerimeterX offers a web security service, protecting web sites from modern security threats.
Pandian Gnanaprakasam
Co-Founder/Chief Product Officer of Ordr
Pandian has more than 20 years of product and engineering leadership experience and is also a serial entrepreneur. Before founding CloudPost, he was the Chief Development Officer at Aruba, responsible for all of engineering and product management functions. Aruba, an enterprise mobile wireless company, was acquired by HPE for $3 Billion in March 2015. Before Aruba, Pandian served as the head of engineering for Cisco’s multi-billion dollar WiFi business unit and before that as VP of engineering for low-end switching product lines. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Chennai, India and holds several patents to his credit in various networking technologies.
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About Ordr, Ordr: Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine for the hyper-connected enterprise.
Vincent Stoffer
Senior Director of Product Management of Corelight
Vincent Stoffer is the senior director of product management at Corelight.
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About Corelight: Corelight offers network traffic analysis solutions for cybersecurity.
Amitabh Sinha
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Avocado Systems
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About Avocado Systems, InfraGard: Next-generation Agentless Application Security & Monitoring for Enterprise
Jeevan Patil
Head, Product Marketing of Meraki
Jeevan Patil is the Head of Product Marketing at Meraki.
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About Meraki: Meraki provides Cisco-based, cloud-controlled Wi-Fi and routing and security products for distributed wired and wireless networks.
David van Schravendijk
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Meraki
David is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Meraki’s MX Security & SD-WAN Appliances. The Meraki MX team focuses on effectively and elegantly delivering market-leading threat intelligence to companies like Audi, InterContinental Hotels, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Penn Mutual, and many more.
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About Meraki: Meraki provides Cisco-based, cloud-controlled Wi-Fi and routing and security products for distributed wired and wireless networks.
Rami Shalom
VP Product Management of DB CyberTech
Rami Shalom is a visionary and a seasoned business leader with years of experience in defining, and bringing to market new technologies. Prior to DB Networks Mr. shalom managed the Data Encryption and Control Division for SafeNet, focusing on commercial data protection and previously managed the Enterprise Content Security Division. Prior to SafeNet, Mr. Shalom founded Concealium, a startup company dealing with data centric protection, gaining experience as an entrepreneur. As the Director of Product Management for Imperva, he oversaw database, web application security and compliance and he also managed the security business for Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary. Mr. Shalom was the VPN-1 Project Manager for Check Point Software technologies, and was a product manager and a senior development engineer with network security and encryption systems for Radguard LTD, a VPN startup company. Rami holds a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University and a B. A. in Psychology from Tel-Aviv University. He graduated Cum Laude with both degrees.
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About DB CyberTech, Google, Minute Lab: DB Networks provide insights into your database infrastruture including database discovery, insider threats and database attacks.
Setumadhav Kulkarni
Vice President, Product Management of WhiteHat Security
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About WhiteHat Security: WhiteHat Security is the leading application security provider committed to securing digital business.
Chris Leffel
Chief Product Officer of WhiteHat Security
Chris Leffel is the Chief Product Officer at WhiteHat Security.
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About WhiteHat Security: WhiteHat Security is the leading application security provider committed to securing digital business.
Prateek Temkar
Director of Product Management of Symantec
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About Symantec, Webex: Symantec is a security software suite consisting of anti-malware, anti-intrusion, and firewall features for server and desktop computers.
Glen Kosaka
VP Marketing & Product Management of NeuVector
Glen Kosaka is VP Marketing & Product Management at NeuVector.
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About NeuVector: NeuVector delivers full lifecycle container security for global enterprises.
Mike Ichiriu
VP of Marketing & Product of Zentera Systems
Mike Ichiriu is the VP of Marketing & Product at Zentera Systems, Inc.
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About Zentera Systems: Zentera Systems specializes in Zero Trust Network Access and micro-segmentation for the digitally-transformed enterprise.
Stephen Helm
Senior Product Marketing Manager of WatchGuard
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About WatchGuard: WatchGuard Technologies provides cutting-edge cyber security technology including network security, secure wi-fi, & MFA.
Prashant Gandhi
Chief Product Officer of Big Switch Networks
As Chief Product Officer, Prashant is responsible for Big Switch’s Cloud-First Networking portfolio and strategy, including product management, product marketing, technology partnerships/solutions, and technical marketing. Prashant has been instrumental in the product strategy and development of Big Cloud Fabric and Big Monitoring Fabric products. Additionally, Prashant is responsible for Big Switch-led open-source initiative, Open Network Linux (ONL), to accelerate the adoption of open networking and HW vendor choice. Prior to Big Switch, Prashant was at Cisco where he was responsible for driving product strategy and management of the Cisco ONE Controller, Nexus 1000V virtual switch, VXLAN-based network virtualization, Catalyst 6500 VSS, and Nexus 7K as well as Cisco’s SDN and cloud network services, product and go-to-market strategy. Prashant was CEO and co-founder of Rohati Systems, a Data Center security startup acquired by Cisco. Earlier in his career, he was in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty at Villanova University. Prashant holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, has published 60 papers, authored 20 patents, and co-branded VXLAN.
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About Big Switch Networks: Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, offering a reimagined networking experience for hybrid IT
Jeff Gaines
Chief Product Officer of Interlaced
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About Interlaced: Information Technology Services, Software
Tom Corn
Chief Product Officer of Open Systems
Tom Corn is the Senior Vice President, Security Business Unit at VMware
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About Open Systems: Open Systems is the preeminent cybersecurity and connectivity provider for the enterprise cloud.
Jerry Miille
Founding Member & Vice President, Product Management of Militus
Over 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, business development, and general management experience. His experience bridges various solutions for carrier, enterprise, and government network and back-office applications. Held a key product management role at Narus (Boeing), responsible for Intercept/Surveillance and much of the Network Security solution. BS – University of California, Davis, MS – Santa Clara University.
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About Militus: Militus is a cyber security company that provides an advanced cyber and network security solutions for government and commercial sectors.
Bharath Rangarajan
VP Product of Pertino
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About Pertino: Pertino enables enterprises to build private cloud networks that overlay the public internet and workloads everywhere.
Bharath Rangarajan
VP Product of Pertino
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About Pertino: Pertino enables enterprises to build private cloud networks that overlay the public internet and workloads everywhere.
Hari Krishnan
Sr. Director, Product Management of Nuage Networks
Hari Krishnan is currently Sr. Director of Product Management for Security at Nuage Networks, a SDN venture from Nokia / Alcatel-Lucent. Hari brings over 18 years of experience leading product management, strategy and marketing for network security, virtualization, networking and management software products for Enterprise and Service Provider customers. Prior to his current role at Nuage, Hari was Director of Product Management for ACI at Cisco Insieme Business unit. Prior to Cisco, Hari held a variety of product leadership roles at market leading companies such as VMware, F5 Networks and Nominum. Hari has an MBA from University of California, Berkeley, Masters in Computer Science from UCLA and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.
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About Nuage Networks: Nuage Networks Fundamentals: Software Defined Networking for the Datacenter and Beyond.
Taciana Doria
Chief Product Officer of Owl Docs
Taciana Doria is the Chief Product Officer at Owl Docs.
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About Owl Docs: Owl Docs focuses on helping companies achieve productivity in the management of work related documents within the cloud.