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Jasson Casey
Jasson Casey is the CEO and cofounder of Beyond Identity, a New York-based identity security company that builds passwordless, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication designed to make identity-based attacks impossible. An engineer with a PhD from Texas A&M and more than two decades in security and networking, Casey has held senior technical leadership roles at IronNet Cybersecurity and SecurityScorecard, founded the software-defined networking ventures Flowgrammable and Compiled Networks, and served as a cybersecurity fellow at CSIS. He now argues that flaws in identity systems, not passwords alone, are the root cause of modern breaches and that cryptographically device-bound credentials are the way to stop phishing, credential theft, and AI deepfakes at the source.
Noam Awadish
Noam Awadish is the co-founder and CEO of imper.ai, a cybersecurity company that launched in December 2025 with $28 million in funding to detect AI-driven impersonation and social engineering attacks in real time. Before imper.ai, Awadish spent more than a decade in Israel's elite Unit 8200 as Head of Initial Access, then served as Chief of Staff for Autonomous Vehicle Programs at Mobileye. He founded imper.ai with two other 8200 veterans, Anatoly Blighovsky and Rom Dudkiewicz, to build a platform that scans device telemetry and network diagnostics rather than trying to out-detect generative models.
Emovid
Emovid is a Seattle-based B2B platform for asynchronous, multimodal business communication - video, audio, and text messages meant to replace long email threads and unnecessary meetings. Founded in 2023 by former Evite CEO Victor Cho, it layers AI summaries, transcripts, and 60+ language translation on top of each message, and pairs every video with a patent-pending Seal of Authenticity that verifies the speaker's identity and flags any AI alterations - positioning itself as 'Verified Human Communication' in an era of deepfakes and synthetic media.
TransCrypts
TransCrypts is a blockchain-based digital identity and credential verification company that lets people own and instantly share verified employment, income, education, and health records. Founded in 2020 by cousins Zain Zaidi and Ali Zaheer, it replaces the slow, costly background-check pipeline with permission-based, fraud-proof verification - including JustScreen, billed as the world's first free background check service. Backed by Pantera Capital, Mark Cuban, and others, it serves millions of users and hundreds of enterprises, including Fortune 100 and 500 companies.
Jericho Security
Jericho Security is a New York-based cybersecurity company that uses generative AI to defend organizations against AI-powered attacks. Its platform runs hyper-realistic, AI-generated phishing, voice-clone, and deepfake simulations to train employees, then measures human risk through a dashboard of analytics and KPIs. Founded in 2023, the company pits an AI 'red team' against an AI 'blue team' to find and close the gaps attackers now exploit at machine speed - an approach it sums up as fighting AI with AI.
Sage Wohns
Sage Wohns is the CEO and Co-Founder of Jericho Security, a New York-based AI cybersecurity company that trains humans and AI systems to defend against AI-powered attacks including hyper-realistic phishing, deepfakes, and voice cloning. A Seattle native and 10-year AI industry veteran, Wohns previously built and led Agolo, a Google- and Microsoft-backed NLP summarization company, before co-founding Jericho Security in 2023. The company made history by winning the Pentagon's first-ever generative AI defense contract through AFWERX in December 2023, and has since raised $18M in total funding, including a $15M Series A in April 2025. With 39 employees and 30+ enterprise clients, Jericho Security is at the frontier of AI-versus-AI cyber defense.