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Stephanie Weagle Makes Cybersecurity Speak Human
Liongard's chief marketing officer built her career by listening closely, translating technical complexity, and rolling up her sleeves. Now she is helping a small team carry asset intelligence into a crowded cybersecurity market.
Rob Gurzeev Built a Security Company Around the Things Nobody Knows They Own
From teenage IRC channels to Unit 8200 and a Tel Aviv balcony, Rob Gurzeev kept returning to one stubborn idea: the dangerous asset is often the one a company forgot it had.
Benjamin Harris Got Expelled for Hacking. Then He Built a Company Around the Attacker's View.
A school expulsion, a two-week ultimatum and a one-way ticket to Singapore became the unlikely operating system for watchTowr - a security company built to see what attackers see before they act.
The Hacker Who Put the Annual Pentest on a Permanent Shift
Casey Cammilleri spent years being paid to break into companies. Then he found the more stubborn vulnerability: an industry still treating security like an annual appointment.
Zakir Durumeric
Zakir Durumeric is a computer security researcher, Stanford assistant professor, and co-founder and CEO of Censys. As a University of Michigan PhD student he built ZMap, a scanner that can survey the entire public IPv4 internet in minutes rather than weeks, then turned that research into Censys, an internet intelligence platform used for threat hunting and exposure management. His work mapping the internet at scale helped expose the reach of vulnerabilities like Heartbleed and earned him a spot on MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35.
Guy Halfon
Guy Halfon is the co-founder and CEO of Rescana, a Tel Aviv and New York based cybersecurity company building autonomous, agent-based third-party risk management. After years running security for global gaming operator Playtech and founding boutique security consultancies, he started Rescana in 2016 to connect cyber risk to business decisions. The company now uses teams of AI agents to discover, classify and assess vendors and continuously map external attack surfaces at enterprise scale, including its no-code Vega platform.
Mehran Farimani
Mehran Farimani is the co-founder and CEO of RapidFort, a Sunnyvale-based software supply chain security company that raised a $42M Series A in February 2026. A 25-year technology veteran, Mehran previously led the Fiery division at Electronics for Imaging (EFI) as SVP & GM, then founded Percipo—a computer vision AI company whose technology reached 40,000+ retail locations. At RapidFort, he is pioneering the category of Software Attack Surface Management (SASM), helping organizations automatically harden container images and eliminate up to 80% of CVEs through runtime-aware profiling, without touching a single line of application code.
Vinnie Liu
Vinnie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Bishop Fox, the largest private professional services firm focused on offensive security testing. Starting his career as an NSA analyst at age 17, Liu co-founded Bishop Fox in 2005 with Francis Brown, bootstrapping it for 13 years out of an Arizona living room before raising $175M in venture funding. Today, Bishop Fox serves 26% of Fortune 100 companies and 8 of the 10 largest global tech firms, combining elite human testers with its proprietary Cosmos platform for continuous attack surface management and AI-augmented penetration testing.
Chad Kinzelberg
Chad Kinzelberg is a seasoned Silicon Valley executive-turned-advisor who built cybersecurity empires before most people knew what the attack surface was. From taking Palo Alto Networks from pre-IPO scrappiness to an $18 billion market cap titan, to scaling Equinix from $2.7B to $9.2B in revenue as a key sales leader, Chad has lived the arc of the modern security industry - startup CEO, CMO, SVP, Chief Sales Officer, and now Advisory Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He is an Executive Advisor at Glilot Capital Partners, a board director at IONIX, and a trusted counsel to firms like Warburg Pincus, ForgePoint Capital, and HackerOne.