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 Georgia, United States based CTO’ operating in the Cyber Security space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Blake Brannon
CTO of OneTrust
As Vice President of Product, Blake Brannon oversees all aspects of OneTrust’s product and is responsible for defining the privacy management software market and OneTrust’s product capabilities. Brannon evaluates industry trends and analyst research, while driving product planning, design, customer advisory testing and product launch activities. Prior to OneTrust, Brannon was one of the first employees at AirWatch, where he served as Global Director of Sales Engineering and Vice President of Product Marketing.
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About OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
Adam Ghetti
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Ionic Security
Adam Ghetti, technologist and entrepreneur, founded Ionic Security in 2011 to address the problem of trust in a cloud and mobile enabled world.He has over 15 years of experience building large-scale systems in multiple Internet-related markets. He is an expert in complex systems and task automation and has in depth applied knowledge of application security, network security, data security, and artificial neural networks.Most recently, he was recognized by Forbes as a 30 under 30-thought leader in technology and by the World Economic Forum as a 2015 technology pioneer.
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About Ionic Security: Ionic Security, a data security platform, provides access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management.
Damian Starosielsky
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Evident
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About Evident: Evident offers a secure solution for businesses and individuals to share verified personal information.
Bob Baxley
Chief Technology Officer of Bastille Networks Internet Security
Dr. Bob Baxley joined Bastille Networks in 2014, after spending more than six years as a research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) where he most recently served as the Director of the Software Defined Radio Lab (SDRL). From 2012 to 2014, Dr. Baxley served as an Associate Editor for Digital Signal Processing. He has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers and is the inventor of 5 issued patents. Dr. Baxley received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees all in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. His master’s thesis, entitled Analyzing Selected Mapping for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in OFDM, won the Georgia Tech university-wide Sigma Xi Award for best MS thesis in 2005. While completing his MS degree, Dr. Baxley received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award, which provided full funding for his PhD studies. As a PhD candidate, his research focused on signal processing for communications applications. He was awarded the Grand Prize in the SAIC student paper competition for his work in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform optimization in 2007. Dr. Baxley was also recognized for his PhD research in 2008 with the Georgia Tech Center for Signal & Image Processing Outstanding Research Award. Dr. Baxley is a member of the Association of Old Crows and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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About Bastille Networks Internet Security: Bastille Networks Internet Security provides threat detection and security for the internet of things.
David Meltzer
Chief Technology Officer of Tripwire
David began building commercial security products in 1996, in the middle of the eight years it took him to get a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He has a strong entrepreneurial focus, having founded two venture-funded technology companies, and served as Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer at both those firms. This included Cambia Security, where he built the software that became Tripwire’s CCM. Cambia was acquired by nCircle, where he continued as Vice President of Engineering and CTO, and he has continued to hold senior leadership positions at Tripwire since its acquisition of nCircle in 2013. David is laser-focused on innovation. He enjoys taking an idea and working through the entire process required to take it from concept to a commercial product. At Tripwire he has focused his unique talent for building products from soup to nuts on solutions that address the most sophisticated cybersecurity challenges facing the company’s diverse customer base. David is a home theater nut who admits to researching and buying many new electronic devices that he loses interest in soon after he owns them. His local UPS driver has ranked his house the #1 Amazon delivery destination in his neighborhood. He is a huge Atlanta Hawks fan, but because he spends most of the season going to visit Tripwire customers and speaking at industry events, he misses most of the home games. David’s early start in programming – he started writing software at age 10 – did come at a cost. He is the least handy person you will ever meet. He once broke a light fixture attempting to change the bulb, and the first and last time he attempted to power wash something, he stripped away all of the wood from his deck.
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About Tripwire: Tripwire provides risk-based security and compliance management solutions, enabling enterprises to connect security to their businesses.
Jon R. Ramsey
CTO of SecureWorks
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About SecureWorks: SecureWorks is a security service provider offering network, IT and managed security solutions.
Derek Atkins
Chief Technology Officer of Veridify Security
Atkins is the Chief Technology Officer of SecureRF Corporation. He specializes in architecting, designing, developing, and deploying network and systems security applications. Atkins serves on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), ETSI, ISO, and SAE. He was instrumental in the design and standardization of several major Internet protocols, including OpenPGP and Instant Messaging.
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About IHTFP Consulting, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Veridify Security: Veridify Security delivers fast, small footprint and quantum-resistant public-key security tools for low-resource processors powering IoT.
Taiye Lambo
Founder & CTO of CloudeAssurance
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About CloudeAssurance: First and Most comprehensive Cyber Security Rating Services (SRS) platform focused on cloud security assessments, scoring & benchmarking.
Robert Wysocki
Chief Technology Officer of Microland
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About Microland: Making digital happen. Microland’s delivery of digital is all about making technology do more and intrude less.
Charles Wright
CEO / CTO of ATADATA
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About ATADATA: ATADATA Accelerates Enterprise IT & Cloud Transformation through Any-To-Any Automation Technology