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A Customer Was Hacked. Hitesh Sheth Turned the Postmortem Into Vectra AI
A state-backed breach, an unfashionable bet on machine learning, and two years of stubborn experimentation shaped Hitesh Sheth’s approach to cybersecurity: find the signal after attackers get in.
Scott McCrady
Scott McCrady is the founder and CEO of SolCyber, a Dallas-based managed security services provider that emerged from stealth in July 2021 with a $20 million Series A led by ForgePoint Capital. An engineer by training with more than two decades in networking and cybersecurity, McCrady previously ran Symantec's global MSSP business and built out FireEye's Global MSSP and System Integrator business before launching SolCyber to bring enterprise-grade managed security to the mid-market.
Jessvin Thomas
Jessvin Thomas is the CEO of Auguria, a cybersecurity startup building what it calls the first SIEM designed from the ground up for AI - a 'Security Knowledge Layer' that curates the flood of security logs before analysts ever see them. A Cornell-trained operations researcher who started his career hand-inspecting firewall logs during the dot-com boom, he has spent two decades across Nokia, Blackstone, Optiv, SKOUT/Barracuda, and Adlumin. He is also a Venture Partner at SYN Ventures and, in a twist, the owner of Tenn Street Coffee & Books in Denver.
Hatem Naguib
Hatem Naguib is a cybersecurity operator who spent a decade at Barracuda Networks, the last four years as CEO, steering its shift into a platform-based, recurring-revenue security company. Before Barracuda he helped scale VMware's NSX networking and security business past $600M. He stepped down from Barracuda in September 2025 and joined Corelight's board of directors in May 2026.
Tomer Weingarten
Tomer Weingarten is the co-founder, chairman, president, and CEO of SentinelOne, the publicly traded cybersecurity company he started in 2013 to replace signature-based antivirus with autonomous, AI-driven endpoint protection. An engineer by trade, Israeli outsider by background, he scaled the company from a Tel Aviv kitchen-table idea to a NYSE-listed business crossing $1B in ARR, betting the platform on agentic AI through Purple AI and Wayfinder.
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.