Daniel Bardenstein is the CEO and co-founder of Manifest, a cybersecurity company building the platform that tells organizations what is actually inside their software and AI systems. He started Manifest in the wake of the Log4Shell crisis, when the world's biggest institutions discovered they could not answer a simple question: what code are we running? Before Manifest, he was chief of technology strategy at CISA, ran cybersecurity programs at the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service including Hack the Pentagon, co-led cyber protection for Operation Warp Speed's COVID-19 vaccine effort, and built products at Palantir and Exabeam. He treats software like an ingredients list the public has a right to read.
Rick Caccia is CEO and co-founder of WitnessAI, the Mountain View-based AI security company that raised $85.5M total (including a $58M round from Sound Ventures and Ashton Kutcher in January 2026) and delivered 500%+ ARR growth in 12 months. A Silicon Valley native with multiple UC Berkeley degrees, Caccia spent two decades in cybersecurity product and marketing leadership at Palo Alto Networks, Google (founding CMO for Chronicle), Exabeam, Red Canary, ArcSight, and Symantec before pivoting to the CEO seat to build purpose-built security guardrails for enterprise AI.