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Jamie Walker Learned to Live by a Number - Then Helped Keyfactor Reach $100 Million
A college basketball player turned door-to-door salesperson brought an athlete's stamina and a seller's respect for the scoreboard to cybersecurity marketing. At Keyfactor, that education met a five-year run from roughly $15 million to more than $100 million in recurring revenue.
Anthony Anzalone Burned the Artwork. Now He Wants the Technology to Disappear.
A $95,000 Banksy went up in stubborn flames. Five years later, the founder behind the spectacle is still obsessed with proving what is real - only now the fire has given way to invisible infrastructure.
Morgan Hayduk Found the Music Business Had a Fraud Problem Hiding in Plain Hearing
He set out to reconcile royalty statements. The trail led to bots, click farms and stolen accounts - and a company built to make every legitimate play count.
Lorena Magee Makes Encryption Make Sense
The Echoworx chief marketing officer has spent years turning an invisible technology into a human proposition: trust should be easy to use, simple to explain and difficult to break.
Neelam Sandhu
After learning transformation from inside BlackBerry, Neelam Sandhu arrived at Vonage with a practical thesis: translate complex technology into human outcomes, and make trust part of the product story.
Alex Dhillon
Alex Dhillon is the founder and CEO of Outtake, a New York-based cybersecurity company building autonomous AI agents that detect, investigate, and remove digital threats like impersonation, phishing, and brand abuse in hours rather than weeks. A UC Berkeley triple major who spent nearly five years at Palantir on its experimental product team reporting to the CEO and CTO, Dhillon left in 2023 to bet that security needed a reset built around agents instead of alerts. Outtake has raised over $56 million across its rounds, counts OpenAI, AppLovin, Pershing Square, and federal agencies among its customers, and is backed by Iconiq, CRV, and angels including Satya Nadella, Nikesh Arora, Bill Ackman, and Shyam Sankar.
Marc Friend
Marc Friend is the CEO of Sift, the leading digital trust and fraud prevention platform serving 700+ global enterprises. A Silicon Valley veteran with 30+ years spanning venture capital (US Venture Partners, Summit Partners, Partech) and operational CFO/CEO roles at high-growth tech companies including PubNub, Sun Basket, and Rapid (sold to Nokia in 2024), Friend brings an unusually broad toolkit to the fraud-detection space. He also competes in Ironman triathlons and funded an annual full-tuition merit scholarship at MIT, his alma mater.