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Shahar Ben-Hador
Shahar Ben-Hador is the CEO and co-founder of Radiant Security, an adaptive AI SOC platform based in Pleasanton, California. A cybersecurity veteran of nearly two decades, he climbed from IT administrator to become Imperva's first CISO, then led product at Exabeam before founding Radiant in 2021 with Barry Shteiman to help security teams triage every alert without drowning in noise. Radiant raised a $15M Series A in November 2023 led by Next47.
Lior Div
Lior Div is an Israeli-born cybersecurity entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of 7AI, a Boston-based startup building swarms of autonomous AI agents to run security operations. A veteran of Israel's elite Unit 8200 intelligence corps, where he led a team that reverse-engineered hackers and earned the Head of Intelligence Corps Medal of Honor, Div previously co-founded the endpoint-security unicorn Cybereason in 2012. In 2025 he launched 7AI with longtime partner Yonatan Striem-Amit and raised a $130 million Series A led by Index Ventures, one of the largest Series A rounds in cybersecurity history.
Edward Wu
Edward Wu is the founder and CEO of Dropzone AI, a Seattle company building autonomous AI agents that investigate security alerts like a tier-1 SOC analyst. After eight years at ExtraHop Networks leading AI/ML detection engineering and dropping out of a computer science Ph.D. at the University of Washington, he started Dropzone in 2023 to attack what he calls the defender's dilemma. The company raised a $37 million Series B in July 2025 led by Theory Ventures, serves more than 100 enterprises, and counts UiPath, Zapier and Pipe among its customers. Wu holds more than 30 patents in machine learning and cybersecurity and contributes to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Ambuj Kumar
Ambuj Kumar is the co-founder and CEO of Simbian, an AI-native security company building autonomous AI agents that run security operations 10x faster than human teams. A Gold Medalist from IIT Kanpur and Stanford EE graduate, he spent eight years designing NVIDIA's early GPUs before pivoting to security - where he invented Confidential Computing, raised $135M for Fortanix, and is now betting that AI agents can solve the industry's 3.5-million-person talent gap. With 100+ patents and recognition from IIT Kanpur's Distinguished Alumni Award 2025, Kumar stands at the intersection of the GPU revolution he helped build and the AI security era he is now shaping.