
The SEWORKS founder turned childhood curiosity, competitive hacking and one successful exit into a durable idea: software gets safer when its defenders learn to think like attackers.

After two failed startups and one brush with shutdown, the Appknox co-founder discovered that growth did not require a wider market. It required the courage to choose a narrower one.

The RASPIRE co-founder turned a decade of CTFs, audits and broken mobile apps into a simple proposition: upload the build, harden it, and keep shipping.

Tom Tovar is the co-creator and CEO of Appdome, the company that built the mobile industry's first no-code platform for automating mobile app security. A lawyer-turned-tech-executive who cut his teeth at NetScreen (acquired by Juniper for $5B), ran Nominum (acquired by Akamai), and chaired Badgeville before founding Appdome in 2016, Tovar has spent two decades making complex security invisible - his vision: a vending machine for mobile app defense that gives developers 150+ security protections with zero code. Under his leadership, Appdome now protects nearly a billion mobile users worldwide.