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Michael Dube
Executive · Operator

Michael Dube

Michael Dube is the Chief Executive Officer of Aqua Security, a Boston- and Ramat Gan-based cloud native security company that protects more than 40% of the Fortune 100. He was elevated to CEO in November 2025 after joining as Chief Revenue Officer in April 2024, succeeding co-founder Dror Davidoff. Dube spent nearly three decades in enterprise cybersecurity sales leadership at CrowdStrike, Splunk, Cybereason and Check Point before Aqua.

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Mehran Farimani
Founder · Executive · Engineer

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.

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Ratan Tipirneni
Executive · Founder · Operator

Ratan Tipirneni

Ratan Tipirneni is President and CEO of Tigera, the company behind Project Calico - the open-source container networking and security project powering over 100 million containers across 8 million nodes in 166 countries. A serial entrepreneur with stints at Cisco, Actifio, Sun Microsystems, and SupportSoft, he joined Tigera in 2017 and has since grown it into the definitive platform for Kubernetes security, observability, and now AI workload protection.

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