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Andrew Carricarte Built for the Places Where the Signal Fails
A former Army captain turned software founder, Carricarte has spent two decades making complicated systems work under pressure - from doctors' offices to ships at sea and, now, insurance across Latin America.
Bryson Bort Wants Cybersecurity to Rehearse the Fire
The SCYTHE founder’s career runs from Cold War childhood curiosity to Army communications, national-security research and a cheerful campaign to make cyber defense more measurable - unicorn headband included.
Tim Lawton Built SightX to Ask Better Questions - Then Took It Into a Bigger System
A West Point graduate moved from infantry missions to Wall Street models, then spent a decade making consumer research less fragmented. The latest chapter puts SightX inside Rep Data - and turns speed versus trust into the problem he wants to retire.
Justin Jarrell Is Building Cybersecurity Where the Stakes Feel Personal
From Air Force intelligence to a West Virginia cyber range, the Forge Security founder has made a career of turning distant digital threats into local, practical work.
Sri Manchala
Sri Manchala is Chairman and CEO of Trianz, a Silicon Valley-based digital transformation firm he founded in 2001 after an unlikely career arc: Indian Army Parachute Regiment special forces officer, Asian Paints logistics executive, KPMG consultant, and Cisco IT leader. He launched the largest-ever digital transformation study (5,000+ companies, 18 industries), authored the two-edition bestseller 'Crossing the Digital Faultline,' and in 2026 unveiled Concierto Agentic — a single-platform system that aims to compress multi-year enterprise transformation into months.
Lee Haney
Lee Haney is Partner and Head of Corporate Partnerships at Greylock Partners, the storied Silicon Valley venture firm behind LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Workday. A Naval Academy graduate who served as a Marine Corps Human Intelligence Officer with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Haney took the long road to venture capital - through Goldman Sachs investment banking, then Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he served as COO of Vertica and helped engineer the spin-off that became DXC Technology. Since 2018 he has run Greylock's CXO Program, a matchmaking engine that connects early-stage portfolio companies with the senior technology executives at the world's largest enterprises, turning cold introductions into lighthouse customers and proof-of-value pilots.