Rebecca Krauthamer is the co-founder and CEO of QuSecure, a San Mateo company building software that lets governments and banks swap out their encryption before quantum computers learn to break it. A Stanford Symbolic Systems graduate who jumped from AI to quantum in 2017, she turned a U.S. Air Force grant into a Series A-funded leader in post-quantum cryptography, counting the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Banco Sabadell among its users. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and World Economic Forum council member, she argues cybersecurity is a mission for humanity, not just a product category.
Rom Hendler is the CEO and co-founder of Trustifi, an AI-driven email security platform that wraps encryption, data loss prevention, and security awareness training into one product built for managed service providers and mid-sized businesses. He took an unlikely path to cybersecurity, spending more than a decade as a marketing and operations executive in the casino and hospitality world (CMO at Las Vegas Sands, leadership roles at The Venetian and The Palazzo) before building a travel-tech startup and then turning his attention to the most-attacked surface in the enterprise: the inbox. Under his leadership Trustifi raised a $25M Series A in June 2025 led by Camber Partners and Hendler has been named a CRN Channel Chief four years running.
Karim Toubba is the CEO of LastPass, the world's leading password manager with over 100,000 business customers and millions of consumers. A 25-year cybersecurity veteran, he previously led Kenna Security to a successful Cisco acquisition in 2021 and has held executive roles at Juniper Networks and Digital Island. He joined LastPass in April 2022, just months before a major security breach, and has since led a comprehensive transformation of the company's security posture, infrastructure, and culture - turning crisis into opportunity.
Brian Acton is the co-founder of WhatsApp, which sold to Facebook for $19 billion in 2014, and the founder of Signal Foundation, where he champions privacy-focused communication. After walking away from $850 million in unvested Facebook stock over ethical disagreements about user privacy, he invested $50 million to build Signal, an encrypted messaging platform designed to put users first. A Stanford computer science graduate who was rejected by both Facebook and Twitter in 2009, Acton has given over $1 billion to charitable causes with his wife Tegan, focusing on low-income families, reproductive rights, and internet privacy.