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Scott Hogrefe Built a Security Brand Around the Most Useful Word in Business: Yes
He arrived before Netskope had a public story, left long enough to test another path, then came back to help turn security's oldest reflex - no - into a case for intelligent permission.
Netskope Bet the Firewall Would Move to the Cloud. Now It Has to Keep AI From Eating the Office
A decade before every board wanted an AI policy, Netskope built a cloud checkpoint for data on the move. The bet worked - but winning SASE now means fighting familiar giants, funding a private network, and making security feel faster than doing nothing.
Abhay Kulkarni Bet the Breach Happens After Login
After scaling clouds for tens of millions of users, Abhay Kulkarni returned to cybersecurity with a stubborn question: why do defenses stop watching at the moment an identity gets in? WideField followed the session instead - all the way back to Cisco.
Zhanna Tam
Zhanna Tam is VP of Global Partner Marketing at Cloudflare, a cybersecurity marketing operator who has spent more than fifteen years building demand engines at category-defining security companies including Netskope, Axonius, Palo Alto Networks, and Check Point. She is best known for scaling Netskope's pipeline from $100M to $500M during her four-and-a-half-year run as VP of Growth and Demand Generation.
Arif Janmohamed
Arif Janmohamed is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners with over 16 years backing enterprise AI, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS companies. A University of Waterloo computer engineering graduate and Wharton MBA, he has been the first institutional check behind companies like Netskope (Nasdaq: NTSK, IPO 2025) and Navan, and was on the Moveworks board from Day 1 through its $2.85B acquisition by ServiceNow in 2025. A Canadian with Ismaili-East African roots, fluent in French, and a self-taught ice hockey player, Arif blends deep technical fluency with a founder-first philosophy - often describing himself as part coach, part psychologist to the entrepreneurs he backs. As of early 2026, he is stepping back from day-to-day Lightspeed duties to launch a new early-stage investment firm.