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Anuj Goel and the Last Mile of Cyber Defense
At Citi, he watched valuable threat intelligence stall between teams and tools. Cyware is his attempt to close that stubborn gap between knowing and doing.
Don Jeter Put a Monster Truck in the Cybersecurity Machine
In a trade-show world of blue gradients and careful claims, Torq's CMO chose skeletons, tattoos and Grave Digger. Beneath the spectacle is a practical playbook for making enterprise software memorable - and accountable to revenue.
Amir Khayat Spent a Decade Learning to See What Security Teams Miss
Before Amir Khayat built Vorlon, he moved from code to customers to the machinery between them. His bet is that the next security fight lives inside the connections businesses barely see.
Marina Segal Is Making Cloud Security Finish the Job
Cloud security learned to find every loose screw. The Seattle founder behind Tamnoon is building the careful, context-rich machinery that actually turns the wrench.
Steve Carter Turned Vulnerability Chaos Into a Company
Before Nucleus Security became an enterprise platform, it was a working answer to a federal problem: too many findings, too many handoffs, and too little time. Steve Carter has spent his career closing that gap between knowing and doing.
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.
Shreyas Sadalgi
Shreyas Sadalgi is the co-founder and CEO of Amplifier Security, an Atlanta- and San Francisco-rooted startup building AI, human-in-the-loop automation that turns employees from security liabilities into active defenders. After two decades in enterprise security strategy and business development at companies like Centrify and BetterCloud, he teamed up with three-time CISO Tommy Donnelly to tackle security's 'last mile' problem: the gap between what security policy says and what busy humans actually do. Amplifier has raised roughly $9 million, including a $5.6M seed round led by TechOperators in 2025.
Billy Gouveia
Billy Gouveia is the founder and CEO of Surefire Cyber, a Maryland-based incident response firm that helps cyber insurers, brokers, law firms, and organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents like ransomware, business email compromise, and data theft. A former U.S. Army intelligence officer and Columbia and Georgetown graduate, he spent years in national security and enterprise risk consulting before incubating Surefire Cyber inside Forgepoint Capital and launching it in 2022 with $10 million in Series A funding. His pitch: combine automation with human expertise to deliver faster, calmer response when companies are under attack.
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.