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Ben Merritt and the art of leaving something unscripted
He built Merritt Group, sold the agency, and returned to startup PR with Merritt & Rose. Across a career that includes Navy service and Silicon Valley, Ben Merritt keeps coming back to the people inside the pitch.
Brian Murphy and the long walk to the answer
A lesson learned at Publix runs through Brian Murphy’s career: take the customer all the way to the answer. It has carried him from an improvised Tampa startup to ReliaQuest’s next chapter in AI.
Rackspace Technology and the business of staying on call
The cloud made computing easier to buy. Rackspace built a business around the part that stayed difficult: making it work, every day.
Amir Zilberstein and the Machines We Take for Granted
Claroty’s founding CEO built a business around the networks behind everyday life. Now a managing partner at Team8, Amir Zilberstein is asking how the next generation of machines can stay useful, reliable and under control.
The useful art of losing on purpose
William “Hutch” Hutchison took a fighter pilot’s approach to rehearsal into cybersecurity. At SimSpace, the company he co-founded, a bad day in a simulated network became a way to prepare for a real one.
Prithvi Rai and the things a company forgets
At Yahoo, Facebook and Uber, Prithvi Rai worked on the machinery of trust. With Borneo, he turned a familiar problem - keeping track of sensitive data as a business grows - into a company of his own.
Jay Kaplan Wants You to Let the Hackers In
A breached website pulled a teenage entrepreneur into cybersecurity. After the NSA, Jay Kaplan built Synack around a harder problem: getting people to trust the strangers who could break their systems.
Itai Tevet and the case of the unread alert
Before he co-founded Intezer, Itai Tevet investigated attacks for the Israeli military. His business now turns on a stubborn question: what happens to the warning nobody has time to open?
Guy Bejerano and the trouble with feeling secure
After years spent explaining cyber risk, Guy Bejerano wanted a way to test it. SafeBreach grew from that frustration, and its co-founder is still asking what happens after the reassuring presentation ends.
Tristan Kalos and the lesson in the empty database
A client’s missing data gave the future Escape co-founder a problem he could not forget. He has spent the years since bringing developers and security teams into the same conversation.
Cloudflare made the middle matter.
A spam trap became a network for protecting websites, running code, and policing AI traffic. The bargain is convenience - and dependence on the company in between.
SAPIE makes the right introduction.
Slovakia has the talent. SAPIE works on the connections - linking companies, researchers and policymakers so good ideas have somewhere to go.
Brian Vallelunga and the problem that survived the startup
A failed crypto marketplace left Brian Vallelunga with a useful nuisance: nobody knew where the software’s secrets were. He built Doppler around it, bought the first prospects burritos, and eventually handed over the CEO’s chair.
Alisdair Faulkner and the trouble with a familiar face
He helped build ThreatMetrix into an $830 million acquisition. With Darwinium, Alisdair Faulkner is pursuing a harder question: what happens when the identity checks pass, but the intentions do not?
Mike Polatsek and the trouble with passing the test
CybeReady’s co-founder has spent years asking what employees actually learn. His answers involve patient repetition, unreliable clicks and a free coffee that does not travel well.
Ricardo Villadiego and the trouble with feeling safe
He left Cartagena at 15, helped banks fight fraud, and built a company that crossed borders. With Lumu, Ricardo Villadiego is pursuing a more uncomfortable question: who is already inside the network?
Oren Falkowitz and the distance between a problem and its solution
He helped build Area 1 Security around stopping phishing before it reached the inbox. Now Oren Falkowitz is bringing farms closer to the people who eat what they grow.
Manmeet Singh and the Trouble with Invisible Things
He built Dataguise around the sensitive information companies could not see. Now, at WMC Global, Manmeet Singh is following the connections behind mobile fraud.
Mark Brooks-Wadham’s second act began with a different chair
After 28 years leading Charterhouse, Mark Brooks-Wadham moved from the chief executive’s seat to the boardroom. His next chapter took a telecoms founder into the business of AI translation.
Aharon Chernin and the work that ought to disappear
After building Perch Security, Aharon Chernin noticed an awkward habit in the IT business: people kept doing the work their software was supposed to automate. Rewst is his attempt to close that gap.
Wasim Khaled and the hidden machinery of belief
Before Blackbird.AI, Wasim Khaled sold the things people wanted to carry. Now he studies the stories they choose to believe - and the networks helping those stories along.
Dimitri Sirota and the trouble inside the cupboard
After two security startups, Dimitri Sirota built BigID around an awkward question: do companies know what data they hold? AI has given that question a fresh urgency.
Booz Allen Hamilton takes AI off the grid
A century-old consultancy is putting AI in orbit and buying its way deeper into defense technology. Its real business is making new tools work where the usual assumptions fall apart.
Maximus and the art of getting through
A government promise still needs someone to answer the phone. Maximus built a $5.43 billion business around that inconvenient little detail.
CDW sells the missing piece.
Buying technology is easy. Making it work together is the business CDW has spent four decades learning to sell.
Parsons makes the complicated work
A metro, a missile defense network, a contaminated airfield. Parsons works where separate systems have to behave as one - and its own setbacks show how hard that promise is to keep.
CACI makes the invisible useful.
A company built around a simulation language now works across drone defense, space sensors, and government software. Its big wager: customers will pay more for an outcome than an hour.
Travis Jarae and the Cost of Not Knowing
At Google, Travis Jarae worked on proving who people were. At Liminal, he is working on a different uncertainty: how businesses decide what to do next.
Vinay Mahadik and the laptop that went home
The Securly co-founder and founding CEO built a business around a school device’s life beyond the classroom. His next venture takes on another familiar problem: finding what an organization already knows.
Ofer Smadari and the art of starting over
After selling Luminate Security, Ofer Smadari reunited its founding team and built another company. Getting Torq to a $1.2 billion valuation meant giving up on the first idea.