Bhagwat Swaroop is the CEO of Sonatype, the software supply chain security company behind the Nexus platform and the world's largest repository of open source component intelligence. Appointed in July 2025, he brings nearly 30 years of cybersecurity and enterprise software leadership from Entrust, One Identity, Proofpoint, Symantec, NetApp, McKinsey, and Intel. Armed with an MBA from Wharton and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State, Swaroop is betting that developers - not perimeter firewalls - are the new front line of cybersecurity, and he's building Sonatype's AI-powered platform to prove it.
Joe Horowitz is the founder and Managing General Partner of Icon Ventures, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm with over $1.4 billion in assets under management. With more than four decades in venture investing - beginning with the seed financing of Sun Microsystems - Horowitz has backed iconic technology companies across cybersecurity, digital health, and enterprise software. He built Icon into a disciplined growth-stage firm focused on Series B and C, built on the belief that human capital is more precious than financial capital.
Rohit Dixit is the Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at Proofpoint, the human-centric cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. With over 30 years of experience spanning SaaS, technology, and technology-enabled services, Dixit oversees Proofpoint's global customer success, professional services, managed services, and technical support teams. He joined Proofpoint in February 2024 from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he transformed a $1 billion advisory and professional services business into a record profit-generating unit. His career arc spans continents - from ESSEN Computers in India to oil fields in Kuwait, Egypt, and Turkmenistan with Halliburton, to strategy consulting at A.T. Kearney, to the C-suite of one of the world's leading cybersecurity firms.
Sumit Dhawan is the CEO of Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity company protecting over 85 Fortune 100 companies with $2B+ in ARR. With 25+ years building enterprise software businesses at Citrix, Instart, and VMware (where he drove $13B in revenue as President), Dhawan joined Proofpoint in November 2023 with a mandate to unify human-centric security and grow toward $5B ARR by 2030. He is known for championing the idea that 95% of cybersecurity failures trace to human error - and that defending people is the only real way to defend organizations.