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Huntress
Huntress is a Maryland-based managed cybersecurity company that brings enterprise-grade protection to small and mid-sized businesses and the IT providers who serve them. Founded in 2015 by three former NSA cyber operators, it pairs lightweight software agents with a 24/7 human-led, AI-assisted Security Operations Center to detect, investigate, and remediate threats across endpoints, identities, Microsoft 365, and logs. What began with $100,000 in DEF CON Capture the Flag winnings has grown into a cybersecurity unicorn protecting roughly 150,000 businesses and surpassing $100M in annual recurring revenue.
Ritesh Agrawal
Ritesh Agrawal is a network-security engineer turned founder who co-founded Airgap Networks in 2019 to attack the problem most enterprises ignore: lateral movement once an attacker is already inside the building. His bet was that you do not trust any device, period. Zscaler acquired Airgap in April 2024, and its agentless, identity-based microsegmentation became the foundation of Zscaler's Zero Trust Branch, which Ritesh now leads as VP of Product Management. Before founding the company he spent nearly 18 years at Juniper Networks across engineering, product, and sales.
Menlo Security Inc.
Menlo Security is a Mountain View-based cybersecurity company that pioneered cloud-based remote browser isolation and now sells a Secure Enterprise Browser used by global banks, governments and Fortune 500s to keep web-based malware, phishing and AI-era threats off employee endpoints.
Mimic
Mimic is a Palo Alto-based enterprise cybersecurity company building a dedicated ransomware defense platform. Its SaaS detects ransomware in fractions of a second, deflects attacks before damage is done, and lets organizations recover in seconds instead of weeks - all while letting threat actors think they succeeded.
Chris Babel
Chris Babel is the Chief Executive Officer of Arcserve, an Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based data protection and cyber resilience company serving over 235,000 customers worldwide. With more than two decades navigating the intersection of security, privacy, and enterprise technology, Babel brought a rare cross-disciplinary resume to Arcserve in May 2024: he led TrustArc as CEO for over a decade, transforming a browser-padlock certification company into a global privacy compliance platform, and before that spent years at VeriSign running authentication services across 150-plus countries. His mandate at Arcserve is to rebuild partner trust, simplify a sprawling product catalog, and position the company as the go-to data resilience solution for SMBs and mid-market enterprises facing relentless ransomware threats.
Joe Morin
Joe Morin is the Founder and CEO of CyFlare, a top-ranked managed security operations company he built from the ground up in 2017. With over 20 years in cybersecurity, Morin spent years in sales engineering and alliance roles at companies like Zscaler, Forcepoint, and Barracuda Networks before channeling that cross-vendor perspective into CyFlare's signature philosophy: don't pick one platform, wire them all together. Under his leadership, CyFlare achieved 854% growth over three years, landed on the Inc. 5000 list twice, ranked #5 on CRN's 2025 Fast Growth 150, and is consistently recognized as a Top 20 Global MSSP. His LinkedIn handle - cyberbatman - says a lot about the man.