Core Team
Sidd Gavirneni
Co-Founder & CEO
18 years of security, strategy, product & innovation management experience; MBA from IE in Spain and from Dartmouth; MS in computer science with a focus on information security.
Dan Smith
Co-Founder & President
15 years’ experience in cyber security & technology leadership, with extensive career in defense, banking & government sectors; Proven entrepreneur.
Lusine Bars-Tripolsky
Software Developer in Test Lead
Software QA Professional backed by an MS in Informatics and Applied Mathematics. Obsessed with quality and improvement. Always up for an intellectual challenge.
Eric DeCarli
Senior Software Engineer
Engineer with 10+ years experience building web applications and data analytics platforms, with a focus on cyber security
Abbey Gallegos
EVP Insurance
34 years’ experience in insurance; Previously at AIG and WTW; Underwriting and broking all lines of business with emphasis on TMT; Managed several MGA programs
Pulkit Khemka
Software Developer
Code wrangler. Problem solver. Masters graduate with extensive experience in various engineering principles.
Kevin O'Connell
Product Designer
Design leader with 20+ years' experience at startups and enterprise companies including Cisco, Microsoft, and The Climate Corporation.
John Pang
Product Manager
Experienced product leader and recovering engineer with almost a decade of experience wrangling backlogs and roadmaps. Economics geek.
Angela Stringfellow
Contributing Author
Freelance writer with 14+ years of experience. Writes about business, marketing, and technology topics, with a focus on information technology and cybersecurity.
Oleg Trizna
SR Software Engineer
18 year software engineering veteran with extensive background in network security and financial industry.
Nimish Unde
Software Engineer
Never stops coding; Engineer at large – catch him if you can.
Karen Walsh
Contributing Editor
14 years internal audit experience.; award-winning writing professor. Cybersecurity writer focused on compliance and end-user awareness.
Ellen Zhang
Digital Marketing Manager
Enthusiastic and passionate cybersecurity marketer. Short-story writer. Lover of karaoke.
Board of Directors
Trevor Burgess
Board Member
Former President & CEO of C1 Bank, named 2013 E&Y entrepreneur of the year; Board member at Neptune Flood Insurance.
Miles Kilburn
Board Member
Managing Partner at Mosiak. Served as a senior executive and director for a dozen commerce-enabling tech companies. Two decades of success in financial technology, electronic payments and financial services.
Advisors
Alex Baretta
Tech & Data Science Lead
Quant at KCG Holdings; Engineering leadership and risk modeling at Climate Corp and Lumity.
David Cooperstein
Advisor
Former CMO at Simulmedia, PebblePost, Burst Media; Forrester Research analyst across multiple verticals; Writer, speaker and startup mentor.
Dan Gordon
Advisor
Ran product management at Guidewire Software from 2003-2014. Multiple head of product and advisory roles at startups in Big Data, Martech, and InsurTech. BA from Yale and MBA from Stanford
Kamran Hossain
Advisor
Equity research analyst at RBC Capital Markets, covering European insurance companies; Previously at Lloyd’s of London.
Marc Ruxin
Advisor
Accomplished entrepreneur, media executive and serial advisor and investor at Rdio, TastemakerX UM/McCann, Columbia MBA, Hamilton College
