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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.
Olivia Lew
Olivia Lew runs Casana, a Rochester, New York company that turned a toilet seat into an FDA-cleared cardiovascular monitor. A former General Catalyst principal and Capgemini consultant with an MBA from Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, she was an early investor in Casana before joining as an operator. She sits on the Boston American Heart Association board and has spent the last few years arguing, in podcasts and press, that the most reliable way to check on someone's heart is to stop asking them to do anything at all.