
A punishing due-diligence exercise showed a computer scientist that open-source security was working against developers. His answer became WhiteSource, now Mend.io - and the clearest expression of a career spent turning technical friction into companies.

An engineer who learned to sell clarity, Mend.io's CMO has built a career translating cloud, cyber and AI risk into language that customers - and revenue teams - can actually use.

The Mend.io co-founder built companies around neglected security chores. Now, back in the CEO seat, he is betting that AI will make the old habit of fixing risk at the end of development impossible to defend.