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Candan Bolukbas Found the Back Door Was Someone Else’s Front Door
An ethical hacker kept finding the same weakness outside the fortress. He turned that recurring clue into Black Kite - and a career spent making invisible supplier risk legible.
Mark Balovnev
Mark Balovnev is the CEO of CYRISMA, a Rochester, New York cybersecurity risk-management platform built for MSPs and MSSPs. A serial founder who wrote his first line of code at nine and dropped out of business school at eighteen, he scaled the digital-credentialing company EduChain to more than 1.5 million users and a private-equity exit, co-founded the non-human identity security firm Vantyr, and took the top job at CYRISMA in January 2025 just after the company closed a $7 million growth round. He describes his work as operating in the gap between technical complexity and business urgency.
Kevin Thomsen
Kevin Thomsen is a revenue and partnerships executive who turned a career building channel ecosystems at Zoom and Vonage into a cybersecurity mission. As Chief Revenue Officer (and acting CEO-level lead on growth) at Maxxsure, a Dallas-area cyber risk quantification firm, he champions the M-Score - a way to translate cyber risk into a single financial number that boards, CFOs, and insurers can argue about in plain English.