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Jeff Williams Put a Stethoscope Inside the Software
The co-founder of OWASP and Contrast Security has spent three decades arguing that software cannot be secured from a distance. His answer is simple enough to sound obvious: watch the code while it lives.
Satya Gupta Bet That Good Software Could Police Itself
A childhood in India, a short stay at General Motors and one consequential coffee led the Virsec founder to a deceptively plain question: why chase every attacker when software can be held to its own rules?
Shay Mowlem Has Spent 25 Years Turning Complicated Software Into Clear Choices
From six schools in six years to the C-suite of enterprise software, Shay Mowlem built a career by translating complexity, choosing the team over the title, and keeping his attention on what happens in the real world.
Kareem Selim Spent Years Breaking Apps. Now He Wants to Secure One in a Click.
The RASPIRE co-founder turned a decade of CTFs, audits and broken mobile apps into a simple proposition: upload the build, harden it, and keep shipping.
Shauli Rozen Put Kubernetes Security in the Hands of the People Who Ship It
The ARMO co-founder took a winding route from compression code to the boardroom, then bet that cloud security would work better if developers could inspect it, try it and shape it themselves.
Brooke Motta Built a Security Company From a Hike - Then Taught It to Watch Behavior
A career spent selling security taught Brooke Motta to listen for the gap between a new technology and the tools meant to protect it. RAD Security began on a Flagstaff trail and now follows behavior across cloud workloads and AI agents.
Ankur Shah Is Building Security for Software That Can Act
After helping scale cloud security into a platform, Ankur Shah saw the next boundary move again. At Straiker, he is designing defenses for AI agents that can reason, reach into company systems and act on their own.
Amiram Shachar
Amiram Shachar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Upwind Security, a cloud-native security unicorn valued at $1.5 billion after its $250M Series B in January 2026. A serial entrepreneur with deep IDF Mamram roots, he previously founded Spot.io - sold to NetApp for $450M - before returning to build a runtime-first CNAPP platform that cuts security alert noise by 98%. He leads a team of ~350 people from San Francisco and Tel Aviv.
Jake Seid
Jake Seid is Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity-only venture capital firm managing over $700M in assets. A MIT-trained engineer with the school's highest student honor, he helped commercialize broadband at Cisco, launched Lightspeed Venture Partners as a founding team member, ran the 800-person team at Auction.com through its $1.6B acquisition, then backed 12 unicorns solo at Stone Bridge Ventures before co-founding Ballistic to go all-in on securing the digital world.
Rick Fitz
Rick Fitz is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at Contrast Security, the application security company behind the 'Shift Smart' approach to securing software from within. A 25-year enterprise software veteran, Fitz came to the role in April 2023 after six-plus years as SVP and General Manager of Splunk's IT Operations and Application Development Market Group, where he steered the company through landmark acquisitions including SignalFX. At Contrast, he leads a 240-person company with $274M in total funding as it works to redefine how developers and security teams find and fix vulnerabilities at runtime - inside applications as they run, rather than scanning from the outside.