cyber-resilience
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Mario Vitale
Mario Vitale is CEO of Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions and President of Resilience, a cyber risk company that fuses cybersecurity, insurance and incident recovery into a single offering. A native New Yorker with more than 40 years in insurance, he previously ran Willis North America, Zurich's Global Corporate business and Aspen's global insurance operations before coming out of semi-retirement to help build Resilience alongside military-veteran founders Raj Shah and Vishaal Hariprasad.
Billy Gouveia
Billy Gouveia is the founder and CEO of Surefire Cyber, a Maryland-based incident response firm that helps cyber insurers, brokers, law firms, and organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents like ransomware, business email compromise, and data theft. A former U.S. Army intelligence officer and Columbia and Georgetown graduate, he spent years in national security and enterprise risk consulting before incubating Surefire Cyber inside Forgepoint Capital and launching it in 2022 with $10 million in Series A funding. His pitch: combine automation with human expertise to deliver faster, calmer response when companies are under attack.
Bipul Sinha
Bipul Sinha is the CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Rubrik, the publicly traded data security company he built from a Bihar basement story into a $17B+ NYSE-listed cybersecurity platform. Before founding Rubrik in 2014, he spent nearly a decade as a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners — backing companies like Nutanix and Hootsuite — and nine years at Oracle holding 30+ patents in distributed computing. An IIT Kharagpur and Wharton alumnus who grew up in poverty in Darbhanga, Bihar, Sinha turned a contrarian bet on backup-and-recovery software into the gold standard for enterprise data resilience in the ransomware era.
Sanjay Poonen
Sanjay Poonen is the CEO and President of Cohesity, the data security and management company that absorbed Veritas' enterprise backup business in late 2024 to become the largest data protection vendor in the world. A Dartmouth-Stanford-Harvard alumnus who arrived in Boston at 18 with fifty dollars, he previously helped double revenues at both SAP (from ~$10B to ~$20B) and VMware (from ~$6B to ~$12B), where as COO he architected the landmark VMware-AWS partnership and the AirWatch acquisition.
Sam Rehman
Sam Rehman is the CEO of Hitachi Cyber (Hitachi Systems Trusted Cyber Management Inc.), appointed in December 2025. A 30+ year cybersecurity and software engineering veteran, he was previously CISO and SVP, Head of Cybersecurity Business at EPAM Systems, CTO of Arxan Technologies, head of Cognizant's Digital Engineering Business, and VP of Engineering at Oracle. He holds patents in software security, cloud, storage and distributed computing.
Arvind Parthasarathi
Arvind Parthasarathi is the Founder and CEO of CYGNVS, a cybersecurity SaaS platform that serves as the out-of-band command center for cyber crisis readiness and response. A serial entrepreneur with over two decades in Silicon Valley, Arvind previously founded Cyence (acquired by Guidewire Software) and led YarcData (acquired by Cray/HPE) and held SVP roles at Informatica. CYGNVS emerged from stealth in January 2023 with a $55M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and serves 2,500+ enterprise organizations with playbooks, tabletop simulations, and automated regulatory reporting.