SecurityScorecard Leadership, Board, and Advisors

Jeff Alvarez is the Chief People Officer at SecurityScorecard. Jeff Alvarez is a Chief People Officer who specializes in strategies harmonizing processes, people, technology and leadership to take organizations to the next level in growth and profitability. He has over 20 years of experience leading People Teams. He partners with the C-suite to scale the business, and devise custom, futuristic solutions that address multiple business areas and resolve modern day challenges. His expertise spans several disciplines including: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Learning and Development, Talent Acquisition, HR Operations, Employee Experience and more.

Jeff is from the SF Bay Area and has honed his craft working for Netflix, TrueAccord, and most recently Spin (Ford Motor Company.)

In his time away from work, Jeff enjoys drawing, painting and holds a second degree black belt in Taekwondo.

Sachin Bansal is President at SecurityScorecard who works closely with the CEO to run the company, and oversees multiple internal and external-facing teams, including legal, corporate operations, government, insurance, and professional services, all with P&L responsibility.

He has been with SecurityScorecard since September 2019, and has built and scaled the company’s legal department and created a new government business line (including government relations). He has twice served as the interim head of HR, and was the interim chief of staff for 2022. Sachin has played a key role in the company’s recent transactions including SecurityScorecard’s first M&A in 2022 of a Professional Services business, and its $180 million Series E round in 2021.

He routinely briefs senior government leaders (including at the White House), is a frequent speaker (such as in Davos, as part of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting), writer, and media commentator, having been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, and more. He has been named a “20 Under 40: Influential Leaders to Watch.”

Sachin graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law.

Christos Kalantzis is the CTO at SecurityScorecard. They are an experienced leader, technologist, blogger, and geek. They’re interested in big distributed systems, and how to build teams to implement and maintain them.

Christos grew up in Montreal, Canada, where they started their career as a DBA for companies such as Matrox, CGI, Sync, and InterTrade. They moved to Silicon Valley where they built and led engineering teams for FireEye, Tenable, Netflix, and YouSendIt. They have worked on Cloud storage solutions for YouSendIt, before the term “Cloud” was popular. They are also focused on solving at-scale run-time databases using sharded RDBMS and NoSQL products. They are an Apache Cassandra MVP.

Sam Kassoumeh is the co-founder of SecurityScorecard. With extensive experience as both a cybersecurity practitioner and leader, Kassoumeh’s experience has been pivotal in the growth and development of the company as well as establishing the ecosystem risk management space. Kassoumeh’s passion for internet security started in his teens and propelled him into key cybersecurity roles including as head of security and compliance at Gilt Groupe and worldwide InfoSec lead at Federal-Mogul. Sam holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Eric Larsson is the Chief Financial Officer of SecurityScorecard. In his capacity as CFO Eric is responsible all aspects of financial reporting and analysis while partnering with the C-Suite to drive strong commercial results. He has more than fifteen years of experience leading finance and operations in the software industry working in both public and privately backed organizations.

Eric is from the New York City area and has worked at multiple Technology companies including IBM, Nice, and most recently Kaseya. He holds a Bachelors Degree from Fordham University and an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame

Matthew McKenna, Chief Sales Officer at SecurityScorecard, has over 15 years of experience commercializing emerging technologies in the supply chain management and cybersecurity space. Prior to SecurityScorecard, Matthew functioned as the Chief Operating Officer of SSH Communications Security, where he led large scale Fintech deployments in the areas of access control and cryptographic services. Matthew holds a BA in German Language and Literature and an MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics.

Jason is an accomplished executive with a proven track record in driving growth and leading strategic initiatives. As the Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at SecurityScorecard, he oversees the strategic and marketing functions of the company. With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Jason has successfully built and scaled high-growth companies, ranging from early-stage startups to publicly traded firms.

Prior to his role at SecurityScorecard, Jason held key positions at renowned cybersecurity and technology organizations. He served as the Chief Marketing Officer at BlueVoyant, a leading cybersecurity services firm. Before that, he was the Chief Operating Officer at IntSights, a threat intelligence company that was acquired by Rapid7. In his first tour of duty, he served as CMO of SecurityScorecard during the company’s early growth stages. Jason also led marketing efforts at NS1, which was acquired by IBM, and held senior level positions at SSH Communications Security (NASDAQ: SSH1V) and Q1 Labs, acquired by IBM.

Jason’s educational background further complements his professional expertise. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Colorado State University and a Master of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SecurityScorecard, is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. Since SecurityScorecard’s inception in 2014, he has led the company with a vision to create a new language for measuring and communicating risk. SecurityScorecard is now one of the world’s most trusted cybersecurity brands, with tens of thousands of customers—including half of the Fortune 100 and nine of the top 10 U.S. banks—and over 600 employees. The company has earned the Gartner Peer Insight Customers’ Choice award and been named a Leader in the Forrester New Wave. In 2021, Yampolskiy was named E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 New York Award winner and Cyber Defense Magazine’s CEO of the Year.

Prior to founding the SecurityScorecard, Yampolskiy was a CTO at BlogTalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast hosting platform, whose technology he scaled to over 30M+ visitors each month. He was also a CISO at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, fraud, secure application development, and PCI compliance. Yampolskiy has led security teams at Goldman Sachs and Oracle, among other companies where he built authentication and entitlement infrastructure for trading.

Alex has published numerous articles, won the Public Key Cryptography Conference Test of Time Award for his verifiable random function invention, holds numerous patents, and is a published book author of The Perfect Scorecard: Getting an ‘A’ in Cybersecurity from Your Board of Directors. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.

Bailey Allread is the Director of Global Operations at SecurityScorecard and is responsible for making sure all cross-functional operations run smoothly and efficiently. Mrs. Allread has years of experience in people and business operations, as well as a background in commercial litigation and legal procedures.

Bailey joined us during our M&A with LIFARS, prior to which she owned the internal operations for a growing software company in Denver, Colorado, where she developed strategic training initiatives and built roadmaps for ongoing talent acquisition. She was also one of the first recruiters on a brand-new Talent team at Publicis Media, where she led candidates through her fresh and redesigned hiring process. Her two years as a litigation paralegal gave her the foundation for a career in executive management and employee relations.

Bailey brings enthusiasm and passion to everything she does, and is off to a great start as she dives into the world of Cybersecurity.

Bill is a confident, forward-thinking senior executive with decades of expertise in developing profitable, repeatable, and scalable processes and innovative business strategies to maximize revenue and growth in multiple information technology, information security, and manufacturing environments . This highly influential leader is strongly rooted in the ability to oversee large, complex, cross-functional initiatives and has led multiple teams including sales, legal, marketing, operations, delivery, human resources, and project management.

In his recent role as Optiv’s Vice President, Sales Go-To-Market and Partner Alliances, Bill was responsible for all partner go-to-market activities, partner relationships and field partner business processes. He is able to leverage leadership, negotiation skills and relationships in order to establish competitive positioning and go-to-market strategies to extend partnerships and reach core audiences.

Prior to joining Optiv, Bill was an owner of Comm Solutions Company, a 2017 Optiv acquisition, where he served as Chief Operating Officer. Through his dedication to profitability and scalability, he enabled Comm Solutions’ rapid growth by recruiting key personnel and developing efficient processes.

In addition to being a United States Marine Corps veteran, Bill serves as an operational and business advisor to several organizations.

Steve Cobb is SecurityScorecard’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) bringing more than 25 years of leadership consulting surrounding IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence. Since joining SecurityScorecard in 2023, Steve has been responsible for providing strategic IT consulting and delivering increased organization efficiency and security for our customers.

Prior to SecurityScorecard, he was a Senior Security Engineer with Verizon Managed Security and a Senior Escalation Engineer with Microsoft. Steve serves on several CISO boards and is a frequent presenter at conferences such as InfoSecCon, Cyber Defense Summit, and others. Steve attended UNC-CH, but left early to start his own IT company, and ultimately received his degree in Business from East Carolina University. Steve and his wife have two daughters and a son.

Krischel is a proven high performing sales leader accomplished in driving revenue and consistently exceeding sales objectives. Passionate about building world-class sales organizations, recruiting and developing top talent while delivering tremendous growth and profitability to meet corporate initiatives. 20 years of solution selling and management experience focused on large account acquisition, selling to C-suite, and penetrating new markets.

Ingrid Cruz is VP of User Experience at SecurityScorecard and oversees the end-to-end product experience. She works closely with the product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to identify and build delightful experiences for SecurityScorecard’s customers.

Ingrid is a curious problem solver and a designer at heart. She specializes in helping companies transform complex, technical products and experiences to maximize growth and adoption. She has extensive hands-on product design experience and has developed and led design practices at hyper-growth startups and large global corporations—always fostering a culture of innovation and a high bar for design.

Before joining SecurityScorecard, Ingrid led Product Design at FullStory, where she established a new product strategy practice based on customer insights. Previously at Ivanti, she initiated and led an experience upgrade across a portfolio of 50+ highly technical products. She regularly speaks on the topic of User Experience and recently co-authored the book ‘97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know ’ by O’Reilly. She also helped build Product Hive, a community of 8,000+ design and product professionals.

Owen Denby is the General Counsel of SecurityScorecard and leads the company’s legal function. Owen’s team supports SecurityScorecard’s business units, operations and strategic initiatives on a global basis. Owen joined SecurityScorecard from Rally Health, a high-growth healthcare technology company. Prior to Rally Health, Owen advised a variety of emerging growth and Fortune 500 companies on corporate law matters for leading international law firms in New York, London and Washington, D.C.

Adam Eisenman, Vice President of Public Sector Sales, is responsible for SecurityScorecard’s government business, including all go-to-market functions. Adam has nearly 20 years experience in high-growth venture backed software companies, with a focus on the Public Sector market. 

Adam joined SecurityScorecard in March of 2022 from Rave Mobile Safety, where he led a sales and government affairs function, which helped lead to an acquisition by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) and later Motorola.

Flora is a growth marketing leader with over 15 years of experience leading global demand (campaign strategy, paid media, digital, ABM, field marketing), web strategy, customer marketing, and marketing operations. Demonstrated success driving revenue growth at both start-ups and public tech companies. Player-coach who can think strategically while also being a strong personal contributor with the ability to “roll up sleeves” and execute.

Jason has designed, created and scaled up successful new AI products in both startup and fortune 500 environments based on a number of tools & disciplines including deep learning, NLU / NLP (conversation AI), computer vision, recommender systems (collaborative filtering), and sales automation. He has architected & built microservice, data mesh and data lakehouse systems from ground zero, scaled-up to millions of users and billions of real-time events per day. The scientific method as a business process, and HCI / HRI are just a means to an end. For him, that ultimate end is building systems that make a positive difference in the world by improving people’s lives.

José is Portuguese and lives in Lisbon, but has been working in international markets for a long time, with a special focus on Latin America. He has a degree in sales and business management, with 20 years’ experience in digital transformation and cybersecurity companies. In his current role, his focus is on supporting SecurityScorecard growth in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, which he has been doing for more than 8 years in this industry. José has been with SecurityScorecard since the beginning of 2019, where he started as Regional Director for these markets, where he began to grow SSC from the ground up to what is now the undisputed leader in the region, having also been Area Director for Southern Europe and Latam in 2022.

Oli Garstin is the Vice President of Operations & Corporate Development at SecurityScorecard. Prior to SecurityScorecard, Oli was as an Investment Banker at J.P. Morgan within the Technology coverage group. Oli began his professional career as a Marine Corps Infantry Officer. Oli holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics from Boston University.

Shiho Hashimoto is the Vice President, International Marketing at SecurityScorecard. Shiho is a seasoned leader with 20+ years of experience in marketing in the cybersecurity and technology industry all across EMEA and APAC regions. Shiho has a proven track record of helping organizations get to the next level and further. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard in 2021, she worked for Hatch Entertainment, a subsidiary of Rovio Entertainment, where she led the launch of mobile cloud gaming worldwide together with 5G launch partners including Samsung, Vodafone, Verizon, Sprint, and NTT Docomo. Prior to that, she led the international marketing team at SSH Communications Security, a world leader in identity access management and cryptography. Shiho is a cosmopolitan who was born in Japan, raised in New York and settled down in Finland. She speaks fluent Japanese, English and Finnish. She enjoys working with people from all over the world. Shiho holds a BA in International Business from Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan and an MBA from Aalto University in Finland.

Spiros Kalantzis, a seasoned Technology Leader with an impressive 27 years of experience, earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from McGill University. Currently serving as the Vice President of Engineering & SRE at SecurityScorecard.

Spiros has played pivotal roles in leading multiple engineering teams and Agile transformations, leaving a lasting impact on notable organizations such as FireEye, McKesson Canada (where he managed their eCommerce Platform, generating $9 billion in sales), and as a consultant for the National Bank of Canada. His strategic leadership and dedication to innovation have consistently accelerated product development and driven organizational success.

Albert Kuo is the VP of Sales in APAC at SecurityScorecard. Albert Kuo has over 25 years experience scaling successful enterprise class software companies in the Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) geography while based in Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, and currently in Singapore.

He has been GM & VP of APJ Field Operations for multiple cybersecurity vendors (ArcSight, HP Enterprise Security Products, Blue Coat, SailPoint, ExtraHop, Azul), and has worked at BEA Systems as APJ Leader of Global & Enterprise Accounts and Global Partners, and at TIBCO Finance as Greater China GM.

He previously worked on Wall Street as a fixed income derivatives sales trader, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and MBA from Columbia Business School.

Jeff Laskowski currently serves as the SVP & GM Professional Services within SecurityScorecard, the leader in cybersecurity risk rating and third-party risk management solutions. In this role, Jeff has accountability for managed services, proactive red-teaming, incident response, and cybersecurity consulting serving customers worldwide. His global team expertly leverages the SecurityScorecard platform allowing organizations to manage their own attack surface, maintain compliance, and evaluate third-party and supply-chain risk.

Prior to this role, Jeff led the Global Professional Services team for Absolute Software, an industry leading enterprise security solution and benchmark in endpoint resilience, visibility, control and secure zero-trust access. Additionally, he has served as Director for Mandiant Consulting, where he led a regional cyber security strategic consulting team focused on executive advisory services, security program assessments, cyber exercises, incident response and cyber defense transformation services across leading commercial companies and government agencies.

He brings a uniquely skilled expertise to understand, adapt and ultimately maximize a customer’s security capabilities to avert the worst effects of modern cyber incidents. Over his career, Jeff has served in a variety of technical leadership, engineering and solution architecture positions. He possesses over 30 years of IT leadership, technology consulting and software development experience, has served as CTO of two companies and has always maintained specific expertise in emerging technologies and cyber security. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA and currently resides in the greater Washington, DC area.

Bennett Morrison is a seasoned product and strategy leader with over a decade of experience in the B2B SaaS industry. Bennett was the first Vice President of Product for SecurityScorecard, and is currently serving as the Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy. Bennett excels in developing innovative products and strategies that drive business success and customer satisfaction. His expertise spans customer-driven strategy and customer-centered marketing, with a proven track record of leading product teams to create solutions that delight users and generate solid business results. Bennett’s career highlights include roles such as Chief Product Officer at Stella Jobs, where he launched multiple successful products and guided the company to a successful exit, and Vice President of Product at Laika, where he spearheaded a new product architecture that contributed to significant revenue growth and a successful funding round.

Throughout his career, Bennett has been recognized for his achievements with honors such as the President’s Achievement Award and a Star Performer Award. Bennett’s diverse experience includes leading product management and strategy at renowned companies like Oracle, Watermark, and American Express, where he has consistently demonstrated his ability to drive product innovation, streamline processes, and deliver exceptional results. He holds an B.A. from NYU and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Nimay serves as SVP of Product, leading product management, growth, GTM and AI initiatives at Security Scorecard. He has over 20 years of experience in product and commercialization leadership, having successfully scaled and exited multiple PE and VC backed companies. He led Product and Growth at Series E Martech Forrester Wave leader Jivox and served as Head of Product for Blackstone backed Cloudreach. In addition, he scaled out Factset’s EMEA operations as the fastest growing region during his time leading its International operations in the Middle East.

Nimay holds an MBA from INSEAD and a GSP in AI Robotics from NASA and Google backed Singularity University. He is a TEDx and SXSW speaker on the DIY Equation, a methodology of productizing global humanitarian projects using exponential technologies. He is a published author of 6 research papers in AI and was invited to become a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2019. He is passionate about the topic of True North Leadership and teaches it at 1440 Multiversity with Bill George (ex CEO of Medtronic and HBS Professor) and Scott Kriens (ex CEO of Juniper Networks).

Alex Rich is the Vice President of Channels and Alliances at SecurityScorecard. He has been with the company for five years, and previously held roles in Customer Success and Sales. Prior to SecurityScorecard, Alex was an OEM Customer Success Manager at Sisense, and a Technical Program Manager at Booker Software. Alex began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst in CitiGroup’s Healthcare division, and was a co-founder of NY-based startup, Atmospheir.

Ryan is the Senior Vice President, Threat Research and Intelligence where he oversees the threat research, collections, and intelligence teams. Prior to SecurityScorecard Ryan was at McAfee Corp where he led and contributed to nation state threat research and analysis.

He is also the former Chief Corporate Evangelist at Panda Security, where he managed the US strategic response for new and emerging threats. Ryan is widely recognized as a security, intelligence expert throughout the country.

Larry Slusser currently serves as the VP, Global Head of Professional Services Delivery at SecurityScorecard, the leader in cybersecurity risk rating and third-party risk management solutions. In this role, Larry ensures world class delivery for all service lines, including Managed Services, Technical Cyber Security Services, and Cybersecurity Consulting.  In addition to overseeing all Professional Services delivery worldwide, Mr. Slusser runs SecurityScorecard’s Incident Response Team, leading all ransomware and extortion negotiations for our customers.

Mr. Slusser served as an Officer in the United States Air Force for 6 years, and has held P&L responsibility for several Fortune 500 companies. He also ran a successful printing and manufacturing business for 7 years. Graduating with a Master’s in Cybersecurity, Mr. Slusser successfully transitioned to cybersecurity. SecurityScorecard’s clients and Partners find Larry’s combination of business leadership experience and cybersecurity knowledge a valuable asset, whether in a time of crisis, or helping to prepare their cybersecurity defenses through SecurityScorecard’s cyber resilience and emergency preparation services.

A former astrophysicist, Bob spent most of his career in the medical imaging sector where he served in executive leadership roles ranging from R&D Manager to CEO in a number of private and public companies. He has led R&D teams developing state-of-the-art CT, digital x-ray, and breast imaging systems, and a host of other imaging modalities. Confronting challenges in image analysis, pattern recognition and classification exposed him to machine learning techniques and led to his migration into Data Science. Bob holds a BS and PhD in physics from MIT and 11 US patents.

Matthew has founded two companies and played a strategic role within 4 others. Matthew has deep knowledge in multiple technology segments including: security/cryptography, high performance computing, data, large distributed systems and machine learning.

Matthew has contributed significant functionality to many open source projects including: Kubernetes, Kops, Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Cascading/Cascalog, and Mono/Xamarin.

Rich Wenning is the Senior Vice President of Sales for the Americas at SecurityScorecard. In this capacity, he leads a team of direct, channel, and technical sellers focused on transforming the way organizations understand, mitigate, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.

Jeffrey Wescott is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience in building and leading high-performance software teams. Before Joining SecurityScorecard, Jeffrey held notable leadership roles at companies like Lattice, Splunk, Change.org, and IronPort Systems. Jeffrey drives innovation and technical excellence across all software engineering functions.

Jeffrey’s expertise includes performance management, organizational design, and strategic planning, coupled with a deep technical background in software engineering. He holds a B.S. from Bucknell University in Computer Science & Engineering.

Jeff is an experienced finance executive with more than a decade of experience driving growth and scaling operations in startup environments. History of raising money from sophisticated investors, with experience guiding an organization though the IPO process and beyond. Expertise in the creation of financial models, and OKRs/KPIs necessary to drive growth, with a proven ability to lead finance, operations, technical, and HR functions.

Sam Kassoumeh is the co-founder of SecurityScorecard. With extensive experience as both a cybersecurity practitioner and leader, Kassoumeh’s experience has been pivotal in the growth and development of the company as well as establishing the ecosystem risk management space. Kassoumeh’s passion for internet security started in his teens and propelled him into key cybersecurity roles including as head of security and compliance at Gilt Groupe and worldwide InfoSec lead at Federal-Mogul. Sam holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SecurityScorecard, is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. Since SecurityScorecard’s inception in 2014, he has led the company with a vision to create a new language for measuring and communicating risk. SecurityScorecard is now one of the world’s most trusted cybersecurity brands, with tens of thousands of customers—including half of the Fortune 100 and nine of the top 10 U.S. banks—and over 600 employees. The company has earned the Gartner Peer Insight Customers’ Choice award and been named a Leader in the Forrester New Wave. In 2021, Yampolskiy was named E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 New York Award winner and Cyber Defense Magazine’s CEO of the Year.

Prior to founding the SecurityScorecard, Yampolskiy was a CTO at BlogTalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast hosting platform, whose technology he scaled to over 30M+ visitors each month. He was also a CISO at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, fraud, secure application development, and PCI compliance. Yampolskiy has led security teams at Goldman Sachs and Oracle, among other companies where he built authentication and entitlement infrastructure for trading.

Alex has published numerous articles, won the Public Key Cryptography Conference Test of Time Award for his verifiable random function invention, holds numerous patents, and is a published book author of The Perfect Scorecard: Getting an ‘A’ in Cybersecurity from Your Board of Directors. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.

A former president of NASDAQ. Berkeley was a Captain in the 438th Military Airlift Wing and served as a Major in the USAF Reserve. He has testified before the Joint Committee on Economics of the US Congress, and before the House Science Committee, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Committee on Homeland Security. Served on the International Advisory Council for the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and is currently on the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and a Trustee of Hollins University. Al earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and received his M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Bryzek is the Cofounder and CTO Flow.io. He is also the Co-founder and ex-CTO of Gilt Groupe.

Karen is a Principal Interaction Architect who solves challenging interaction design issues for her clients, working to improve ROI and reduce risk on design investments.

Her client work focuses on enterprise product design in the areas of Enterprise IT, cybersecurity, and device management. Karen’s clients include Google, VMware, T-Mobile, SecurityScorecard, Imprivata, ForAllSecure, and many startups. Karen is also an Advisor to Turivius (Sao Paolo), SecurityScorecard (NYC) and recently served for one year as an External Advisor to the Tufts University Department of Computer Science.

Karen is an inventor on over a dozen software patents related to software user experiences. In 2002, she authored the first book linking business strategy to online user experience, published by McGraw-Hill in New York. Karen earned a MS from the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, MA where her research focused on developing algorithms to define gesture languages. She also earned a BS in Computer Science from Tufts University in Medford, MA, and worked in the industry as a senior software engineer in Boston.

Karen works with many different types of clients worldwide, from startups to established organizations. She collaborates closely with product teams to clarify requirements, envisions solutions, and quickly get to prototypes. A startup client CEO recently wrote about Karen’s consulting services: “Your work defines the category and allows us to accelerate at a pace that otherwise would simply not be possible.”

Joan Feigenbaum is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, where she also holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of Economics. She received a BA in Mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. Between finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and starting at Yale in 2000, she was with AT&T, where she participated broadly in the company’s Information-Sciences research agenda, e.g., by creating a research group in Algorithms and Distributed Data, of which she was the manager in 1998-99.

Professor Feigenbaum’s research interests include security, privacy, anonymity, and accountability; Internet algorithmics; and computational complexity. While at Yale, she has been a principal in several high-profile activities, including the DHS-funded Pri-Fi Project, the DARPA-funded DISSENT project, and the NSF-funded PORTIA project. Her many service contributions to the research community include Program Chair of Crypto ’91, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology (1997-2002), Program Co-Chair of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (2004), Program Chair of the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (2013), Department Chair of the Yale Computer Science Department (July 2014 through June 2017), General Chair of the inaugural ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law (2019), and ACM Vice President (July 2020 through June 2022).

Professor Feigenbaum is an Amazon Scholar, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the AAAS, a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and a Connecticut Technology Council Woman of Innovation. In 1998, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. In May 2020, she won the Test-of-Time Award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for her 1996 paper (with Matt Blaze and Jack Lacy) entitled “Decentralized Trust Management.”

Martin Gedalin is the founder of Lumia Capital, an investment firm partnering with early-growth stage US category-leaders pursuing international markets and locally-dominant leaders across the fastest growing global markets. At Lumia, Martin is responsible for overseeing Lumia’s investments in OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco), Pagerduty (NYSE:PD), Procore, Greenhouse Software, and Kabbage, among others. Martin launched Lumia after four years at Focus Ventures, an IT venture capital firm in Palo Alto with $850M under management and 110 investments across three funds, where he helped lead the firm’s Internet and software efforts. Prior to Focus, Martin was a Product Manager at Oracle, where he was responsible for managing core components of Fusion CRM, a $1B+ product line. Previously, Martin was a management consultant at both Oracle and Siebel Systems, providing strategic recommendations across people, process, and technology domains to Oracle and Siebel’s top global customers.

Martin began his career in Corporate Strategy at NCR Corporation after co-founding one of the earliest mobile advertising companies in 2000. Martin holds a BBA from Emory University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Grant Geyer has had a successful career as an operator in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years. Currently, he oversees Claroty’s product management, engineering, and research organizations, and is responsible for the company’s product strategy and development. Prior to this, he worked as an Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners, where he assisted the firm in analyzing cybersecurity markets and ventures. Geyer held the role of Senior Vice President of Products for RSA, responsible for both traditional and SaaS product offerings. Before RSA, Geyer served as Vice President at Symantec, which he joined through its acquisition of Riptech. Earlier in his career, Geyer served as a Military Intelligence officer for the U.S. Army. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Moriah is based in NYC and is a 3x Global Chief Information Security Officer and risk executive acting as a 1st and 2nd line CISO at companies such as BMO Financial Group, IPG and Wells Fargo Capital Markets.

She is currently the Founder of Vigilance Security, a cybersecurity and blockchain security consulting firm providing fractional CISO services, CISO Advisory for startups and custom engagements for Fortune 500 CISOs, CIOs and their businesses in the hedge fund, banking, insurance and technology space.

In 2020, Moriah was named by Cybercrime Magazine as one of the top 100 Fascinating Women Fighting Cyber and has been recognized as ISE NorthEast CISO Executive of the Year. She is passionate about aligning and integrating values into her work. In order to bring in more diversity to the cybersecurity industry, she mentors female-led startups, is a sponsor of the ‘Year Up’ program which helps place young adult students into Cybersecurity careers and volunteers at her local daughter’s school as a Cybersecurity Girl Scout lead.

She is a graduate of the inaugural Wharton’s Economics of Blockchain Program in 2022 and Harvard University’s Executive Cyber Security Program and is a sought out thought leader at security forums such as FS-ISAC, FINRA, SINET and Bloomberg Publications.

Before joining RapidMiner, Peter advised growth companies disrupting established markets such as Attivio, BlogTalkRadio, Ektron, Infomatix, Novus, NOPSEC, Reonomy, SecurityScoreCard and others as co-founder of Mister Wolf & Associates. Previously, Peter served as Executive Vice President of TIBCO where he was responsible for the Analytics/Big Data, B2B, Cloud, CXM and SIEM product groups. Peter joined TIBCO when it acquired DataSynapse, where he served as CEO and co-founder.

Peter began his career as a strategy consultant for Deloitte International and as an investment banker for J.P. Morgan & Co.

Peter earned an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School, an MA in International Affairs from The University of Pennsylvania and graduated AB cum laude from Harvard University. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Attivio and as an Independent Member of the Investment Committee of the Advanced Finance & Investment Group. He has previously served on the Boards of Ektron (acquired by Accel-KKR, merged with EpiServer) and Upwardly Global.

Marshall Lux has been a financial services consultant and practitioner for 30 years. He began his career at McKinsey where he served all manner of financial service firms across a variety of subsectors and functional areas. Lux led McKinsey’s and Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) private equity practice. He has extensive relationships across private equity firms. He left McKinsey after approximately 25 years to become the Chief Risk Officer for Chase (all consumer products globally) during the 2008 financial crisis. He then joined BCG, where he was a Senior Partner for 5 years, and in particular, helped build a private equity practice.

Lux continues to be an active advisor to BCG. He sits on several private equity boards and advises companies ranging from consumer credit, wealth, insurance, and cybersecurity. Lux has a broad network of financial services C-suite executives with whom he has worked on some of their most important issues. He has also diligenced many of the largest private equity deals that have been done. Along with his client work, he has also done 35 probono assignments and has served on a number of not-for-profit boards, including the Harlem Children’s Zone, the New York Historical Society’s Chairman’s Council, the New York Tenement Museum, Junior Achievement, and Reading is Fundamental.

Lux is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is active at the New York Historical Society. He was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and he continues to do research there. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and a Senior Fellow to the Program on International Financial Systems, both at Harvard Law School. His overall writings have concerned the unintended consequences of Dodd-Frank on financial services. He has written papers entitled: “The State and Fate of Community Banking,” “What’s Behind the Non-Bank Mortgage Boom?” and “Out of Reach: Regressive Trends in Credit Card Access.” All papers have been cited in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, among others. In late 2017 he released a paper entitled: “When Markets Quake: The Past, Present, and Future of Online Lending.”

Lux also teaches private equity at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School. He has spoken broadly, including at the House Small Business Committee, the Federal Reserve, and various universities and trade groups. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Online Lending Policy Institute. Lux’s board, advisory, and academic work consume most of his time.

Lux attended the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and graduated Summa Cum Laude. He also attended Harvard Business School where he was a Baker and Ford Scholar. He was the first person in his family to attend college.

Ray Mabus has been Secretary of the US Navy, Governor, Ambassador, and CEO.

Ray Mabus served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2017, the longest tenure as leader of the Navy and Marine Corps since World War I. As Secretary during President Obama’s Administration, he revolutionized the Navy and Marine Corps, opening all jobs to women, aggressively moving to alternative energy as a warfighting measure, building more than twice as many ships during his term than in the preceding eight years, and developing the Gulf Coast Restoration Plan after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was during his watch that Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. Among many awards, he was chosen as one of the top fifty CEOs in America by GlassDoor, the only government person picked.

From 1988 to 1992, Mabus served as Governor of Mississippi, the youngest elected to that office in more than 150 years. Mississippi experienced record growth in jobs, education, tourism, and exports.

Mabus was United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 1994-1996 and was CEO of a public company from 2006-2007.

Today, Mabus is a senior advisor to Google Ventures, a director of two public companies, and is a lecturer at Harvard Law School and an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Explorers Club. He has thrown out the first pitch at all 30 major league ballparks.

Secretary Mabus is a native of Ackerman, Mississippi, and received a Bachelor’s Degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Mississippi, a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a Law Degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Mabus served in the Navy as an officer aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock.

Glen Pendley is the CTO at Tenable. Glen has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and cybersecurity. Glen has held multiple senior roles at Tenable, including SVP and Deputy CTO, helping to lead them to a successful IPO. Prior to Tenable, Glen was the CTO at SecurityScorecard, he was also the Director of R&D and Product Management at McAfee for over three years. Glen started his career in the United States Marine Corps, where he spent four formative years honing his leadership skills.

Ken is the SVP of User Growth and Embedded Analytics at ThoughtSpot. Previously, he led the centralized User Growth and Analysis team at Google, where he’s focused on increasing user acquisition, engagement, and retention across all Google products and services. His team works with product teams across Google, providing analysis, best practices, tools, and services to optimize products and marketing campaigns for growth.

Prior to Google, Ken built the Analytics organization at Facebook, which included both the data scientist teams and the data engineering teams. He led the organization to deliver high-impact analyses across all Facebook products to optimize Facebook’s products and overall business.

Before Facebook, Ken was the VP of Analytics and Platform Technologies at Zynga, helping Zynga to become known for excellence in analytics, and helping to build the foundation for one of the world’s largest social gaming

A research fellow with MIT Sloan School’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, Michael Schrage’s research, writing, and advisory work focuses on the ‘behavioral economics’ of models, prototypes, and metrics as strategic resources for managing ‘innovation risk’ and opportunity. He is the author of award-winning ’The Innovator’s Hypothesis’ [MIT Press 2014], ‘Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become?’ [Harvard Business Review Press 2012] and ‘Serious Play’ [Harvard Business Review Press 2000]. His next book, ‘Recommender Systems,’ will be published this year by MIT Press as part of its ‘Essential Knowledge’ series. He’s run design workshops and executive education programs on innovation, experimentation, and ’strategic measurement’ for organizations all over the world.

His pioneering work in ‘selvesware’ technologies – he coined the word – designed to augment aspects, attributes, and talents of productive individuals. Current research efforts examine the interplay of ’network effects’-driven innovation, such as recommender systems, and human capital creation for the enterprise. His work exploring the ‘future of KPIs,’ digital ‘performance management’ dashboards and machine learning – in collaboration with Google, McKinsey, and the Sloan Management Review – builds on that theme, i.e. what happens when ‘essential metrics’ become ’software agents.’ This research – part of a global ‘Strategic Measurement’ initiative – is widely cited. These efforts have led to ‘future of workforce capability and design’ research in collaboration and co-sponsorship with Deloitte. He is particularly interested in the future co-evolution of ‘expertise,’ ‘advice’ and human ‘agency’ as technologies become ‘smarter’ than the people using them.

Consulting and innovation/experimentation/KPI clients have included Prudential, Pfizer, Microsoft, PwC, BASF, SNCF, ZF, Amazon, Mars, BT, Google, Raytheon, Edmunds, Embraer, among others. He’s conducted non-classified research for the U.S. Department of Defense [Office of Net Assessment] and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on cyber-conflict, complex systems procurement, and ‘other’ issues.

Previously, a Merrill Lynch Forum Innovation Fellow, he founded and was executive director of its Merrill Lynch Innovation Grants Competition for doctoral students worldwide. An angel investor in several digital media and machine learning start-ups, he’s been a featured and top trafficked blogger on the Harvard Business Review site. His work has been published in the Sloan Management Review, Fortune magazine (where he was a columnist), the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Nikkei Asian Review, the CACM as well as other peer-reviewed publications.

Mr. Sparks currently serves as a Managing Partner for Interlock Partners. In addition, he is serving on the boards of both CommenSold, a SaaS platform enabling small businesses to power e-commerce via social media platforms and influencers, and Avid Budget Group, the car rental company. Sparks was the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Academic Partnerships, an online service provider for higher education, from 2016 to 2017. From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Sparks was the Chief Executive Officer of Travelocity Global. Mr. Sparks was also employed by Gilt Groupe, serving as its Chief Marketing Officer in 2009 and its President from 2010 to 2011. Prior to joining Gilt Groupe, Mr. Sparks served in a variety of leadership roles at Expedia Inc. from 2004 to 2009, including as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Retail Operations at Hotels.com from 2004 to 2006, Chief Marketing Officer at Expedia.com from 2006 to 2007, and General Manager at Hotels.com USA, Latin America & Canada from 2008 to 2009. Earlier, Mr. Sparks served as Vice President of Direct Business and Brand at Capital One Financial Corp., and also served in senior marketing and strategy roles at Guinness & Co., PepsiCo Inc., and The Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Sparks is a director of Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc., which files reports pursuant to the Exchange Act. Mr. Sparks previously served on the board of Vonage Holdings Corp., which files reports pursuant to the Exchange Act. Mr. Sparks is also currently serving as a director of ActionIQ, Inc., an enterprise software company; Blue Nile, an online jewelry retailer; and Lucid, LLC, a market research company.

Mike Wilkes is the former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at SecurityScorecard. Wilkes was responsible for developing enterprise-wide security programs to protect corporate systems as well as growing and extending the SecurityScorecard platform to customers, executives, and boards of directors.

Wilkes is a technology evangelist with experience reaching back to the earliest days of the internet and the birth of ecommerce (he and his team built, launched, and supported starbucks.com in 1998), Mike has been leading the digital transformation of globally renowned brands such as Sony Playstation, Macy’s, nVidia, KLM, and many others. Before joining SecurityScorecard, he was the VP, Information Security at ASCAP and the Director of Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and DevOps teams for Marvel Entertainment.

Mike has held leadership roles in financial services with hedge fund AQR Capital as Vice President in the Information Technology Group and prior to that as Manager of the Enterprise Server Platform for the CME Group. Earlier roles performed while living abroad in Europe saw him designing and hardening critical energy sector infrastructure for Nuon and RWE, authoring Rabobank’s first global trading technology vision document, creating the world’s first bank MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) as well as delivering a security audit of the euro printing facilities for Royal Johan Enschedé (founded in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1703) to renew their accreditation with the European Central Bank.

Mike received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a Master’s degree from Stanford University. He is the author of Cisco Internet Applications and Solutions (Cisco Press, 2002) and joined NYU as an Adjunct Professor Teaching infosec to graduate students for the Computer Science and Engineering department.

Rus Yusupov is an American product designer and entrepreneur whose businesses include Vine and HQ Trivia. Rus began his career as a digital product designer at various digital firms including Razorfish and R/GA, before founding his own design and engineering consultancy, Big Human, in 2008. Based in NYC, Big Human’s clients include Google, Facebook, TDAmeritrade, Compass, Time Warner, OKCupid, Urban Dictionary, among others. In 2012, Rus incubated Vine out of the Big Human offices and within months sold the looping, short-form video service to Twitter. Vine turned people into stars. It transformed the world of comedy, the music industry and cultivated popular memes. It was imitated by larger competitors and was the first app to launch a generation of short-form video apps. After three years of overseeing Product for Vine at Twitter, Rus teamed up with his Vine co-founder to create HQ Trivia – and almost overnight, the show began drawing millions of concurrent players, generating significant excitement around its fun, novel concept and simple design. HQ’s pioneering format and massive audience has drawn large advertisers including Nike, Warner Bros., Amazon, Wendy’s, Target, Chevrolet among others. Rus has received several industry recognitions, including a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, Variety Magazine Breakthrough of the Year Award, UJA Lydia Vareljan Leadership Award, PGA Digital VIP Award 2014, multiple Webby Awards and an Emmy Nomination. He is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and The School of Visual Arts, where he earned a BFA in Design. Rus lives in New York with his wife and daughter.