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Rita Gurevich Built a Cybersecurity Company From the Mess Nobody Wanted to Clean Up
After Lehman Brothers collapsed, Rita Gurevich learned that the hardest technology problem was often the least glamorous: working out who owned what and who should have access. She turned that lesson into SPHERE, then spent eleven years bootstrapping before taking outside capital.
Howard Ting
Howard Ting is the CEO of Opal Security, a San Francisco identity-security company building a unified control plane for access governance. He took the top job in November 2025 after more than five years running Cyberhaven and two-plus decades scaling category-defining security and enterprise-software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Nutanix, Redis, Zscaler, and RSA Security. A marketing-and-product operator who once demoed Azure Active Directory on stage with Bill Gates, Ting now bets that the hardest unsolved problem in security is authorization: deciding what any human, service, or AI agent should be allowed to do, and for how long.