I am a serial entrepreneur and company builder with multiple Fortune 1000 exits, and a leading global cybersecurity expert who has held C-level and VP roles at leading global companies. I'm active as an executive, investor, mentor, and Board member with many high-growth companies at the intersections of cybersecurity, AI, and IoT, the same spaces in which I have built and successfully exited multiple companies and hold numerous patents.
I am Founding Partner at CC Stratus Capital, an innovative investment firm with a strategic focus on cybersecurity and AI.
I was Executive Chair of dfuse / StreamingFast, the leading blockchain big data platform (acquired by The Graph) and Chair of Cybeats, the IoT endpoint security company (acquired by Relay Medical). I was previously Chief Technology Officer - Safe Identity in Intel's Security Group, and VP Safe Identity at McAfee. I was President of PasswordBox, the leading digital identity company, leading up to the company’s acquisition by Intel. I was Chairman & CEO of Enomaly, a global leader in cloud computing, up to Enomaly’s acquisition in 2011; and was the founder, CEO, and CTO of Assurent, a leading cybersecurity company, up to its acquisition in 2006.
I serve and have served on the Boards and Advisory Boards of many leading cybersecurity, cloud, AI, and IoT companies such as Autohost, Korbit AI, Shearwater Aerospace, Immunio, Elliptic Technologies, Virima, CloudeAssurance, Veracode, NetClarity, Virima, and Fonolo.
I'm often quoted by the press, in media such as the New York Times, CBS, NBC, USA Today, TechCrunch, etc., and hold a Ph.D. and numerous patents in cybersecurity, big data, and AI.