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 CEO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Chrissa McFarlane
Founder and CEO of Patientory
Chrissa McFarlane is the CEO of Patientory, a global currency and population health management service that regulates and secures patient data, Named as one of the top women “leaving their mark on the medtech field” by Becker’s Hospital Review, Chrissa launched Patientory in December 2015 after seeing the need in the market for a more personalized and secure population health management solution. She resides in Atlanta and Tweets at @ChrissaTanelia. Chrissa exudes creativity and is a high-performing strategic thinker and excellent team-builder. She’s an entrepreneur with a passion for creating cutting-edge healthcare products that transform the face of healthcare delivery in the US and abroad. She brings over 10 years in the healthcare industry conducting research and managing teams. She holds notable international published research in healthcare and has helped create breakthrough digital health companies that have provided services to companies such as Tumblr, Blue Apron, Casper and Meetup. Her passion for health care began as early as high school, where she conducted microbiology research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and won top honors at the Otto Burgdorf Research Competition. Later at Cornell University, Chrissa worked with organizations such as the United States Department of Agriculture-Robert Holey Center for Agriculture and Health and Cayuga Medical Center. After teaching Math and Science for a year in an underserved community inside the Atlanta Public School system, Chrissa decided to pursue business school. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude from Cornell, and a Masters in Management from the Wake Forest University School of Business. Chrissa resides in Atlanta and Tweets at @ChrissaTanelia.
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About Forbes Magazine, Patientory, StartUp Health: Patientory is a global population health management software that gives users access to their health data.
Asif Ramji
President & CEO of Paymetric
Asif Ramji, Paymetric’s President and Chief Executive Officer, is a seasoned payments executive, with over 15 years experience directing companies within the software and payment transaction processing industries. Most recently, Ramji served as Chief Revenue Officer for Paymetric and led ten consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth. Ramji joined Paymetric in 2009 and was responsible for sales, marketing, business development and product strategy. Prior to joining Paymetric, Ramji was Senior Vice President and GM for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s RBS WorldPay Card Services and ATM Divisions. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the largest payment transaction processors in the world and manages the largest off-premise ATM transaction processing businesses in North America. Ramji was responsible for the strategic double-digit growth of the respective divisions. Mr. Ramji has also held other positions including, North American Vice President of Sales with Ernex, the prepaid and loyalty card division of Moneris Solutions Corporation, a Bank of Montreal-Royal Bank of Canada joint venture, and one of North America’s largest electronic transaction processors. Ramji was instrumental in leading the growth of Ernex which led to the acquisition by Moneris Solutions Corporation. Ramji also successfully led the unprecedented growth of GiftCertificates.ca, a premier consumer and employee incentive marketing business and was CEO and founder of eCardSolution Inc. Ramji commenced his formal business education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and holds an MTIS certification from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Leading Teams for Innovation and Success. Ramji also attended Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts and holds an executive leadership certification on Strategic Negotiation.
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About FIS, Paymetric: The standard in integrated and secure enterprise payment acceptance solutions
Maggie Louie
Founder and CEO of otto by DEVCON
Maggie Louie is the founder and CEO at Devcon Detect. She has a proven experience in developing startups within corporations. Maggie has spent more than a decade as a digital leader in the publishing industry, developing products for The E.W. Scripps Company, The Los Angeles Times, American Public Media Group and Morris Communications, where she also served as the Vice President of Audience and corporate intrapreneur. She enjoys composing music with DEVCON co-founder Josh Summitt.
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About otto by DEVCON, SpoonWest: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Eric Hinkle
President and CEO of Ionic Security
Eric has over 30 years of experience, most recently as Operating Executive with Marlin Equity Partners, where he conducted operational due diligence and served as Chairman for multiple companies including Asentinel, CompassLearning, Logi Analytics, LogicBlox/Predictix, Longview/Tidemark, Mapp, Serenova, Verisae, and Vivonet. Previously, he served as CEO of Servigistics, an exited Marlin portfolio company and global provider of Service Lifecycle Management software; CEO of MediaOcean, a provider of web-enabled sales and order management, invoicing, and e-business solutions; and President and COO of Radiant Systems, a global provider of point-of-sale, store management, and headquarters management solutions. Additional experience includes key roles at AlliedSignal Aerospace, McKinsey & Company, and IBM Research. Eric earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Brown, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Ionic Security: Ionic Security, a data security platform, provides access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management.
Eyal Benishti
Founder & CEO of IRONSCALES
Eyal has more than 10 years’ experience in software R&D for both enterprise and startup companies. Prior to establishing IronScales, he served as Security Researcher & Malware Analyst at Radware, where he filed two patents in the information security domain. He also served as Technical Lead at Imperva, working on the Web Application Firewall product and other security solutions. A passionate cyber researcher from a young age, he holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
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About IRONSCALES: IRONSCALES is the fastest growing email security solution in the world. Powerfully simple email security.
David Thomas
CEO and Co-Founder of Evident
David Thomas is an accomplished cybersecurity entrepreneur, having held key leadership roles at market-pioneers Motorola, AirDefense, VeriSign, and SecureIT. He has a history of introducing innovative technologies, establishing them in the market, and driving growth – with each early-stage company emerging as the market leader. After being recruited at a young age by the Department of Defense, David has been at the forefront of cybersecurity including firewalls as corporations began connecting to the Internet, web security as online shopping emerged, wireless security as Wi-Fi and smartphones became ubiquitous, and security sensing networks as analytic technology became mainstream. His expertise has been featured in CNN, The Wall Street Journal and other leading publications. David sees cybersecurity as the key ingredient to enable trustworthy and fast interconnectivity between the billions of people and devices that will soon be constantly connected. He is currently looking for ambitious, innovative professionals interested in joining Evident in transforming security and trust on the Internet.
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About Evident: Evident offers a secure solution for businesses and individuals to share verified personal information.
Tippu Gagguturu
CEO of SecurEnds
– CEO of SecurEnds, an Identity Security Company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia – Over 22 years of progressive experience in software development, design, architecture and implementation of large scale technology platforms – Worked in senior technolog
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About SecurEnds: SecurEnds is an information security company that helps to reduce security risk and costs by automating IGA.
Steve Soukup
Chief Executive Officer of DefenseStorm
Steve Soukup is the Chief Revenue Officer of DefenseStorm.
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About DefenseStorm: DefenseStorm is a network security company that provides a cloud-based cybersecurity management platform.
Tony UcedaVelez
CEO & Founder of VerSprite
Tony UcedaVélez is CEO at VerSprite, an Atlanta based security services firm assisting global multi-national corporations on various areas of cyber security, secure software development, threat modeling, application security, security governance, and security risk management. Tony has worked and led teams in the areas of application security, penetration testing, security architecture, and technical risk management for various organizations in Utility, Banking, Government, Retail, Healthcare, and Information Services. He recently finished his latest book, Risk Centric Threat Modeling with Wiley Life Sciences and has spoken at conferences across 13 countries, 4 continents on the subject matter.
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About OWASP Foundation, VerSprite: Business savvy security professionals with risk conscience mindsets
Chris Zannetos
Co-founder & CEO of Stealth FinTech/Consumer Security Company
Chris is a high tech leader with proven track record founding successful companies; creating cohesive and high performing teams; and leading them through multiple stages of maturity to become recognized, sizeable, profitable, visionary leaders in their sectors to achieve liquidity. He has deep experience in cyber security, privacy, business process automation, and BI/data analytics. He is also a passionate believer in STEM education as a powerful tool to drive economic advancement and battle generational poverty – and in the responsibility of tech companies large and small to take action.
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About Covered Security, Stealth FinTech/Consumer Security Company: Stealth FinTech/Consumer Security Company
Andrew Bate
Chief Executive Officer of Safely
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About Safely: Predictive analytics and insurance platform to add trust and safety to the sharing economy, beginning with short-term home rentals.
John Perry
Chief Executive Officer of Bluefin
Chief Executive Officer at Bluefin, The Leader in Payment Security.
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About Bluefin: Bluefin specializes in encryption and tokenization technologies to secure PII, PHI and payment data upon entry, in transit and in storage.
Hamish Davidson
President & CEO of ProviDyn
As President & CEO Hamish Davidson has executive responsibility for the overall strategic direction as well as sales and marketing oversight for ProviDyn®. He brings over 25 years of IT experience and enterprise industry experience—leveraging a large enterprise approach and processes development ideology to the business. His expertise includes operational efficiency improvement, telecommunications, information security, disaster recovery and business continuity. Prior to joining ProviDyn, Hamish was a Managing Principal at Zyman Group where he led initiatives which drove growth from $10M to $65M and expansion from Atlanta to a global presence in less than three years. Throughout his career, Hamish has managed IT operations and projects for Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. including Walmart, MCI, Hewlett Packard, General Electric, Alcoa, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Acxiom UK Ltd, Norfolk Southern, and SunTrust Bank. He also ran his own consulting firm, Enterprise Consulting Services, for five years. Technically, Hamish is proficient in LAN/WAN architecture, Client/Server technologies, wireless technologies, web technologies, midrange systems, legacy systems and enterprise support. He’s also a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), VMware Sales Professional (VSP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCDA). Born and educated in London, Hamish also spent time in South Africa before crossing the Atlantic to America where he married and started a family. Outside of the workplace, he finds solace hiking, traveling with his wife and three children, and serving as a scout leader. He also enjoys classic European cars and motorcycling through the mountains.
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About ProviDyn: ProviDyn provides technology expertise, services and support to help small and mid-sized organizations sustain growth.
Brad Ruffkess
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of BoxLock
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About BoxLock: BoxLock specializes in secure unattended delivery technology.
Serg Panfilov
CEO of CyberDot Inc.
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About CyberDot Inc.: Technology enabled cyber insurance brokerage.
Dexter Caffey
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Smart Eye Technology, Inc.
Dexter Caffey is the founder/Chief Disruptor of Smart Eye Technology, an application that blocks your entire screen when an unauthorized person looks over your shoulder to view your document withinside of the Smart Eye Technology app. He graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Finance. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and 2 dogs (Whippets). Mr. Caffey is a volunteer at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the non-profit organization Conexx, the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
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About Smart Eye Technology, Inc.: Smart Eye Technology is a document privacy company that uses biometrics to open documents.
John K. Adams
Chief Executive Officer of Waratek
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About Mission Secure, Waratek: Next-Gen Application Security Platform, RASP, WAF
Gary Simat
CEO, Co-Founder of Performive
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About Performive: The first hyperconverged, VMware multicloud provider specifically built to serve the Mid-Market.
Brady L. Rackley
CEO of nFront
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About nFront: nFront is a Security company.
Rob Graham
CEO of Errata Security
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About Errata Security: Errata Security is an online community of security researchers that is engaged in practicing offensive security.
Marci McCarthy
CEO & President/Founder of T.E.N.
Marci McCarthy, CEO & President of T.E.N., has over 20 years of business and entrepreneurial experience, including founding the nationally acclaimed Information Security Executive® of the Year (ISE®) Program & Award Series. As founder, she is responsible for driving the strategic direction of this widely respected, privately held company, remaining deeply engaged with a vast network of IT and information security professionals and solution providers. In 2015, she launched ISE® Talent, which provides exclusive information security leadership talent management solutions. McCarthy serves on the strategic advisory board for the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals, is a lifetime member of WIT and serves on the Board of Directors for TechBridge.
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About T.E.N.: T.E.N. is an information technology and security executive networking and relationship marketing firm.
Derek Harp
Founder & CEO of Cyber List
Derek has served as a founder, CEO, or advisor of early-stage companies for the last 20 years with a frequent focus on cyber security. Most recently, he has founded The Cyber List, LLC with a mission to make cyber security decision making and vendor choices more accessible to non-technical business leaders. Derek is also the founder and Chairman of the Control System Cyber Security Association International (CS2AI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting local practitioner peer groups around the globe. Derek’s experience also includes co-founding the ICS Cyber Security business at the SANS Institute, serving as the founding GICSP Certification Steering committee chair and CEO and co-founder of LogiKeep, Inc. At LogiKeep, Inc., where he was the co-inventor of Intellishield™, a pioneer IT security product which was later acquired by Cisco Systems. Derek is a former U.S. Navy Officer with experience in combat information management, communications security, and intelligence. Derek pulls from his decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, and cybersecurity to share interesting and relevant stories with his audiences.
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About Control System Cyber Security Association International, Cyber List, NexDefense: Cyber List offers companies cybersecurity protection through education, training, and phishing exercises.
Keith Coleman
CEO of Fraudmarc
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About Fraudmarc: Fraudmarc provides email security & authentication services for businesses.
Allen Barnes
Founder/President & CEO of Accushield
Allen Barnes is a President at AccuShield.
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About Accushield: Sign in health screen kiosk for Senior Living and Skilled Nursing Facilities
Nicholas Santora
Chief Executive Officer of Curricula
Nick Santora serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Curricula.
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About Curricula: Curricula is a fun security awareness training, phishing simulation, online learning platform.
Charles Wright
CEO / CTO of ATADATA
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About ATADATA: ATADATA Accelerates Enterprise IT & Cloud Transformation through Any-To-Any Automation Technology
Thad Oviatt
Founder & CEO of ParkENT Cycles
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About ParkENT Cycles: ParkENT Cycles buildS Secure E-Bike Charging Stations.
Richard Brown
Chief Executive Officer of Arpeggio Software
Rich is a co-founder and CEO of Arpeggio Software. Prior to starting Arpeggio, Rich was a co-founder of TrailBlazer Systems, the largest provider of secure e-business solutions for the IBM i. As its CEO he grew TrailBlazer to over 2500 customers prior to its acquisition by Liaison Technologies. With over 20 years of experience with the IBM i platform (including its predecessors the System i, i5, iSeries and AS/400) Rich has held positions in sales and implementation services for several companies including Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Quadron Software and EXTOL. Rich studied Industrial Engineering at Purdue University.
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About Arpeggio Software: Arpeggio Software is a provider of secure cloud connectors and security software products.
Joan E. Herbig
CEO of ControlScan
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About ControlScan: ControlScan is a provider of PCI compliance and security solutions focused on small- to medium-sized merchants.
Jose Cejudo
Founder, CTO, and CEO of Ingeniova Systems
Jose Manuel Cejudo is the Founder, CTO, and CEO of Ingeniova Systems, specializing in security and development companies. During his more than 20 years of consulting experience has helped many companies to implement and secure their computer systems. He specializes in ethical hacking and secure application development, working as an expert quoted for major companies both public and private sectors (banking, online services, industry, etc).In his role as entrepreneur and founder and entrepreneur participates as an advisor in several start-ups related to the Internet, e-commerce and security.
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About Ingeniova Systems: Ingeniova Systems is a security consultancy and development founded in 2000 and located in Seville (Spain).
Jose Cejudo
Founder, CTO, and CEO of Ingeniova Systems
Jose Manuel Cejudo is the Founder, CTO, and CEO of Ingeniova Systems, specializing in security and development companies. During his more than 20 years of consulting experience has helped many companies to implement and secure their computer systems. He specializes in ethical hacking and secure application development, working as an expert quoted for major companies both public and private sectors (banking, online services, industry, etc).In his role as entrepreneur and founder and entrepreneur participates as an advisor in several start-ups related to the Internet, e-commerce and security.
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About Ingeniova Systems: Ingeniova Systems is a security consultancy and development founded in 2000 and located in Seville (Spain).