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John Hernandez Has Spent 30 Years Teaching Big Software to Change Its Mind
From call centers to identity systems to the security operations center, Hernandez keeps arriving when a sprawling enterprise platform needs a new shape. At BlueVoyant, the assignment is to make cyber defense faster, more unified, and useful with or without a managed service wrapped around it.
Jonathan Steenland Wants Cybersecurity to Answer the Alarm
After defending a global enterprise, the ForceNow co-founder turned to a harder brief: giving small organizations an affordable security operation - and students a visible way into the profession.
James Rosenthal
James (Jim) Rosenthal co-founded BlueVoyant in 2017 and built it from a startup into a global cybersecurity company with more than 650 employees across five continents. A former Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley, where he answered to the CEO and board for cybersecurity, he turned a Wall Street obsession with protecting the financial system into a company that defends businesses and governments against internal and supply-chain threats. In May 2026 he handed the CEO role to John Hernandez and became Chairman of the Board.
Rotem Iram
Rotem Iram is the co-founder and CEO of At-Bay, the world's first InsurSec provider - a company that merges cyber insurance with active security technology to help businesses reduce and manage digital risk. A veteran of Israel's elite Intelligence Unit 8200, Harvard MBA holder, and former McKinsey consultant, Iram built At-Bay from a 2014 email hunch into a $1.35 billion unicorn by 2021, pioneering the idea that insurers - not just enterprises - should be the ones forcing better cybersecurity standards across the market.
Joe Morin
Joe Morin is the Founder and CEO of CyFlare, a top-ranked managed security operations company he built from the ground up in 2017. With over 20 years in cybersecurity, Morin spent years in sales engineering and alliance roles at companies like Zscaler, Forcepoint, and Barracuda Networks before channeling that cross-vendor perspective into CyFlare's signature philosophy: don't pick one platform, wire them all together. Under his leadership, CyFlare achieved 854% growth over three years, landed on the Inc. 5000 list twice, ranked #5 on CRN's 2025 Fast Growth 150, and is consistently recognized as a Top 20 Global MSSP. His LinkedIn handle - cyberbatman - says a lot about the man.
Mike Promotico
Mike Promotico is the President and CEO of ProTelesis Corporation, a San Diego-based managed IT services provider he has helped build into a West Coast powerhouse over 37+ years in telecommunications. Starting as a principal at INet Corp in 1987 and helping grow it into one of North America's largest Mitel resellers, Promotico has spent three decades bridging the gap between traditional telecom and modern IT - co-founding Technology Assurance Group, leading Standard Tel Networks, and ultimately guiding ProTelesis through eight strategic acquisitions including the 2025 cyber-physical convergence play with Amer-X Security. Under his leadership, ProTelesis manages over 100,000 endpoints for more than 10,000 customers across the U.S.
Raju Chekuri
Raju Chekuri is the Chairman, President & CEO of Netenrich, a San Jose-based cybersecurity and digital operations company he co-founded. A serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who previously founded Velio Communications (acquired by LSI Logic/Rambus) and chaired OpsRamp (acquired by HPE), Chekuri now leads Netenrich's Resolution Intelligence Cloud - an AI-powered platform transforming how enterprises manage security operations. An alumnus of Kakatiya University and St. Mary's College of California, he splits his passion between cybersecurity innovation and Indian sports, having invested in Goa Guardians, the 10th franchise of India's Prime Volleyball League.
Gagan Singh
Gagan Singh is the Chief Executive Officer of Blackpoint Cyber, a Denver-based managed detection and response (MDR) company protecting small and mid-sized businesses through a channel-first MSP model. With 20+ years leading product and operations at McAfee, NortonLifeLock, and Avast, Singh joined Blackpoint in June 2025 with a clear thesis: small businesses are the most underserved, most targeted segment in cybersecurity, and the MSPs serving them are the true front line. Under his leadership, Blackpoint has launched CompassOne, a unified security posture platform, and continues expanding internationally while building on a claim that no partner or their customers has suffered a ransomware incident under Blackpoint's watch.