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Bob Williams

Advisor | Venture Partner - West Coast, Canaan

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Marios Damianides

Marios Damianides

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Sameer Malhotra

CEO & Founder

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Maha Ibrahim, Canaan

Maha Ibrahim

Observer | General Partner - West Coast, Canaan

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Nazario Parsacala

CTO & Founder

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Eileen Spellman

CFO

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Deepak Khanduri

COO

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Matt Hathaway

CMO

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Keith Grant

VP, Corporate Development

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Marvin Josif

VP, Customer Success

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Wenchung Shang

VP, Engineering

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Lane Bess

Member - Principal & Founder, Bess Ventures & Adv.

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Vinay Bassi

Member - SVP/Head of FP&A and M&A, Nielsen

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Karthik Subramanian

Member - Partner, Evolution Equity Partners

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Charles Collins

Observer - Mng. Director, Emerald Development Ptrs.

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Balaji Yelamanchili

Member | CEO, ThreatConnect

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Steve Berg

Observer - Mng. Director, Lytical Ventures

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Dr. Edward G. Amoroso

Advisor - CEO, TAG Cyber

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Scott Seese

Advisor - Mng. Director & CIO, LPL Financial

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Adam Schwartz

Advisor - CEO & Founder, Articulate

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Steve Katz

Advisor - Founder & President, Security Risk Solutions

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Motti Finkelstein

Advisor - Sr. Advisor McKinsey & Company, Capri Ventures

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Robert Strickland

Advisor - CEO, Founder - M37 Ventures

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Izak Mutlu

Former VP Information Security (CISO)

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Vinay Bassi

Member - SVP/Head of FP&A and M&A, Nielsen

Vinay serves on the TrueFort Board bringing extensive experience in investment and prior senior executive roles at companies like Avaya, Salomon Smith Barney, and CRISIL, a subsidiary of Standard & Poor’s.

Adam Schwartz

Advisor - CEO & Founder, Articulate

Articulate is a global leader in online learning software and an award-winning company recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North America. Adam is also an active angel investor in more than 100 innovative tech companies and serves on the boards of many of them.

Scott Seese

Advisor - Mng. Director & CIO, LPL Financial

LPL Financial is the largest independent broker-dealer in the United States. Prior to LPL Financial, Scott served as CIO at American Express, CIO and Vice President, Information Technology at eBay, and held senior technology roles at Bank of America and GE.

Dr. Edward G. Amoroso

Advisor - CEO, TAG Cyber

TAG Cyber is a global cyber security advisory, training, consulting, and media services company. Recently a retired Fellow from AT&T, Ed also served for many years as SVP/CSO, Bell Labs. He has also been an Adjunct Professor, Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology, a Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Cyber Security at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Senior Advisor, Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and on the Board of Directors for M&T Bank and the U.S. NSA Advisory Board.

Robert Strickland

Advisor - CEO, Founder - M37 Ventures

Rob Strickland’s executive leadership spans decades in the telecom, wireless, and cable industries. As a CTIO, he led organizations such as EchoStar/Dish, T-Mobile and Leap Wireless (acquired by AT&T) through periods of strategic and dynamic growth. He has over $15B of career technology budget management experience. Today, Rob runs M37 Ventures, a tech-focused consulting firm based in Austin, TX which combines executive management consulting practices with forward-thinking technology expertise. The firm engages with cutting-edge tech startup, enterprise tech, and telco companies around the world.

Keith Grant

VP, Corporate Development

Keith Grant leads the Global Sales Office at TrueFort, responsible for customer acquisition, sales enablement and partnerships.  He brings more than 20 years of experience driving revenue growth in the competitive cybersecurity market-space at companies like Signal Sciences, MobileIron, CA Technologies.  His approach revolves around understanding each customer’s unique business objectives with the goal of solving complex issues and driving mutual value.  This central philosophy is the cornerstone of his ability to develop trusted and unshakable business relationships with the clients he serves. Keith holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from University of Hartford.

Marvin Josif

VP, Customer Success

Marvin has been with TrueFort from shortly after inception. He is a leader in business development and oversees all customer engagements, implementation, and support. With over 25 years of experience spanning executive roles, consulting and Board membership, he brings strong expertise in operations, services, customer success, solutions planning and enterprise software delivery. He’s worked with top brands like Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Emerson Network Power, Standard Chartered, Verizon, AT&T and NTT. Marvin has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science/Sociology from George Washington University.

Wenchung Shang

VP, Engineering

At TrueFort, Shang leads the engineering team that delivers products, testing and ecosystem integration. Before joining, he served in executive and technical leadership roles at IAC and Mindspark. During his over 25 years in system engineering and business intelligence, he has been responsible for building and managing some of the most complex infrastructures in the world, developing next-generation data-warehousing products and architecting webmail platforms. Shang attended the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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Izak Mutlu

Former VP Information Security (CISO)

Izak served as the Vice President of Information and Product Security at Salesforce for eleven years. He was responsible for managing IT security, compliance, architecture, design, implementation, and operations. He was also the primary focal point for any customer facing security initiatives. He created the Customer Security Advisory Council, regularly meeting with hundreds of customers around the world every year to share the security and compliance roadmap and hear customers' requirements in these areas.

Izak co-created the Bay Area CSO Council, a group of 40+ CISOs from the large companies in the San Francisco Bay Area aiming at sharing best practices and security related intelligence information among peers. He has been the President of this group for more than a dozen years and currently serves as a Board member.

Izak holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.

Karthik Subramanian

Member - Partner, Evolution Equity Partners

Karthik built his cybersecurity chops through investments in leading companies including OpenDNS, Elastica, Exabeam, Skyport, ThreatQuotient and Hytrust. He also played a significant role in the consolidation of the cybersecurity market in his role as head of cybersecurity M&A at Cisco, where he drove marquee transactions such as OpenDNS, Lancope, Duo Security and Cloudlock.

Marios Damianides

Marios Damianides

Advisor

Marios Damianides, CISA, CISM, CPA, is a retired partner in the advisory practice of EY and former Northeast Cyber Security Leader. He has over 35 years of experience leading transformation initiatives in security, finance, governance and risk, and advising Fortune 500 companies on agile security programs and architectures. Marios has served as Chair of the International Board of ISACA and IT Governance Institute (ITGI) where he implemented several new certifications and grew the Association and its fundraising by over 100% during his tenure. 

Nazario Parsacala

CTO & Founder

Naz is at the center of TrueFort’s architectural vision, engineering creativity & development brilliance. He brings extensive experience managing IT organizations and developing solutions for global investment banks and the Fortune 100 including NEC, InfoCom Technologies, JP Morgan & Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch & Goldman Sachs. Recognized by the American Financial Technology Awards, Naz holds several US patents including app modeling, deployment, monitoring, event correlation, and a scalable ITaaS/DBaaS solution. He has a B.S. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of San Carlos.

Sameer Malhotra

CEO & Founder

As CEO, Founder and Board Member, Sameer makes TrueFort happen. Drawing from his vast customer-side experience, he also serves as our company spokesperson and cultural TrueNorth. Prior to TrueFort, he held senior IT executive roles in the world’s top financial institutions, including JP Morgan & Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. Sameer frequently appears as a speaker at conferences and in media and has been granted multiple patents. He has a Master of Science degree in Technology Management from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Deepak Khanduri

COO

Deepak is a successful serial entrepreneur who oversees our operational functions, ensuring TrueFort is a productive, functional, well-run ship. Prior to joining TrueFort, he was instrumental in building several companies like CloudCreo and E-Zing Technologies from inception to acquisition, including people management and extending world-class partnerships. Deepak has a Master of Science degree in Environmental Systems Management from the Pratt Institute.

Balaji Yelamanchili

Member | CEO, ThreatConnect

As CEO of ThreatConnect, Balaji Yelamanchili brings more than two decades of experience as an operating executive and investor in high growth software companies. Previously he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Symantec’s Enterprise Security Business Unit. Prior to Symantec, he oversaw business analytics and enterprise performance management products at Oracle as Senior Vice President. He has also held executive positions at EMC Corporation, Documentum Inc., and Rational Software, now part of IBM. Balaji holds an M.S. in Engineering from the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Steve Berg

Observer - Mng. Director, Lytical Ventures

Steve is a Partner at Lytical Ventures and a member of its investment committee. Prior to Lytical, He was the General Partner of Antecedent Ventures and was part of the RTP Ventures investment team. Steve has held positions in strategy and corporate development at Emulex (NYSE: ELX) and as a sell-side analyst covering technology at Punk, Ziegel & Co.

Maha Ibrahim, Canaan

Maha Ibrahim

Observer | General Partner - West Coast, Canaan

Maha spots technology trends early and partners closely with her companies to drive growth and exits. She focuses on e-commerce and enterprise / cloud, and was one of the first investors to recognize the potential of social gaming. She was also the first investor in The RealReal (REAL) and sat on the company’s board through the 2019 IPO. A champion of women in technology, Maha is passionate about funding and raising the profiles of female entrepreneurs and is a founding member of All Raise. She is also a trustee for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Maha holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

Eileen Spellman

CFO

As CFO, Eileen’s responsibility spans financial, HR and legal strategy and functions for our rapidly growing company. Working with TrueFort since 2017, she was instrumental in achieving the company’s Series A funding and early stage business traction. Previously in her career, she served as vice president of finance for Aperture Technologies, a division of Emerson Network Power (now Vertiv), and in several financial and operations leadership roles at other companies. Eileen has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration & Management from Iona College, and achieved CPA certification in the State of Connecticut.

Matt Hathaway

CMO

Matt Hathaway serves as TrueFort’s Chief Marketing Officer, leading the global marketing strategy to get TrueFort the recognition it deserves. Matt has extensive knowledge of security users, buyers, and landscape, as well as a track record of building high-performing marketing and product teams. He has over 15 years’ experience in the security market that span fraud prevention, vulnerability management, SIEM, cloud workload protection, data security, endpoint protection, and application security.

Prior to joining TrueFort, Mr. Hathaway was VP of Product Marketing at Imperva, a leader in Application and Data Security, where he led Product, Content, and Technical Marketing, SEO, and Competitive Intelligence. He was also VP of Product Marketing at Carbon Black (acquired by VMware), served in multiple product and marketing roles at Rapid7 (including through its IPO), and held product roles at RSA Security and Uptycs.

Charles Collins

Observer - Mng. Director, Emerald Development Ptrs.

With a long career investment starting with Cohen & Co., Chuck also serves on the Boards of Cyware and the American Rock Salt Company, and is a former CFO and CPA.

Motti Finkelstein

Advisor - Sr. Advisor McKinsey & Company, Capri Ventures

Motti Finkelstein is a Senior Advisor at McKinsey, Advisor for Capri Ventures, and several startups. Previously, he was CTO for the Americas and the Global head of Strategy & Planning at Citi/Citigroup, creating a culture of innovation and agility in Cloud, Big Data, Software Defined Data Centers, Robotics Process Automation and User Experience. As the CTO for Americas, Motti was responsible for the local delivery of global standards and addressing local requirements within the Americas region. He was also the chairman of the CTO council and has held multiple operational, engineering, architectural, and compliance roles at Citi/Citigroup.

Bob Williams

Advisor | Venture Partner - West Coast, Canaan

Bob invests in seed stage security-related startups that protect enterprise and cloud infrastructure, data, applications and users. He also advises Canaan on later stage security related investments. Bob spent 20 years as an entrepreneur starting database and networking companies and had three IPOs and an acquisition. He entered the venture business as a partner at Bay Partners, and previously established the security practice for EMC/Dell Ventures, working closely with RSA and VMWare on infrastructure security deals. Bob holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford Business School.

Steve Katz

Advisor - Founder & President, Security Risk Solutions

In addition to leading Security Risk Solutions LLC, Steve is currently on many advisory boards, including H-ISAC. He is known as the ‘world’s first CISO’, having served at Citi, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan. He has also testified before Congress, mentored Fortune 50 CISOs, and was appointed as the first financial services sector coordinator for critical infrastructure protection by the US Secretary of the Treasury.

Lane Bess

Member - Principal & Founder, Bess Ventures & Adv.

Lane is a proven technology company builder who has built three billion-dollar companies in Internet security. His prior successes and roles include CEO of Palo Alto Networks (PANW) leading to its IPO, COO of Zscaler (ZS), and President, Trend Micro. He is also currently a member of the Board of Directors of Carnegie Mellon University.

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