# Ted Ross

> Ted Ross is the Austin-based CEO and co-founder of SpyCloud, founded in 2016 to turn recovered criminal data into protection against account takeover and other identity threats. His career began in the U.S. Air Force and includes network and security leadership at West Corp, Walmart, Extreme Networks, TippingPoint, HP, and Exodus Intelligence. He built HP’s threat intelligence practice before leading SpyCloud’s expansion into enterprise and consumer protection and cybercrime investigations.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at SpyCloud
- **Organizations:** SpyCloud, Exodus Intelligence, HP, TippingPoint, Extreme Networks, Walmart, West Corp, U.S. Air Force
- **Known for:** Built HP’s threat intelligence practice and led a team that launched a threat analysis and collaboration platform five months after formation., Co-founded SpyCloud in 2016 and remains its CEO., Presented SpyCloud’s Best of Show-winning FinovateFall 2017 demonstration.

## Career timeline

- **—** — Began his career in the U.S. Air Force; later ran a small networking business in San Antonio.
- **—** — Became Director of Network Engineering at West Corp and subsequently a strategy architect at Walmart.
- **2000** — Joined Extreme Networks, working with service providers on metro Ethernet and MPLS technologies.
- **2004** — Joined TippingPoint and led the global sales engineering team.
- **After 2010** — Held security technology leadership at HP and created its threat intelligence practice.
- **Before 2016-08** — Served as CEO of Exodus Intelligence.
- **2016-08** — Co-founded SpyCloud and became CEO.
- **2017-06** — SpyCloud emerged from stealth with $2.5 million in seed funding.
- **2017-09** — Demonstrated SpyCloud with Chris LaConte at FinovateFall; the company won Best of Show.
- **2019-06** — Presented SpyCloud at the Digital Banking conference, where it won the innovation contest.
- **2023-08** — SpyCloud announced a $110 million primary and secondary growth round commitment led by Riverwood Capital.
- **2024-04** — Named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Gulf South award finalist.
- **2026-08** — Led SpyCloud at its tenth anniversary.

## Achievements

- Built HP’s threat intelligence practice and led a team that launched a threat analysis and collaboration platform five months after formation.
- Co-founded SpyCloud in 2016 and remains its CEO.
- Presented SpyCloud’s Best of Show-winning FinovateFall 2017 demonstration.
- Led SpyCloud through its announced $110 million growth round commitment in August 2023.
- Named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 Gulf South finalist.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — SpyCloud released its 2026 Identity Threat Report, based on a survey of 750 security leaders and practitioners; it identified non-human identities as a leading enterprise access risk.
- **2026-08** — Ross marked SpyCloud’s tenth anniversary; the company reported more than 250 employees and protection for over four billion accounts.
- **2026-07** — SpyCloud reported more than one trillion recaptured identity assets, with stolen session cookies and authentication tokens making up nearly half.

## Links

- Website: https://spycloud.com/team/ted-ross/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-ross/

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Last updated: 2026-10-21