Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

• Founding Chief Product Officer, part of Executive Leadership Team
• Built products to enable enterprises to develop and deploy AI securely. Helped launch the industry's first ever Autonomous AI Red Teaming product to attest, assure, and secure AI models at enterprise scale.
• Worked with customers to understand feedback and built useful features in a new 'security for AI models' category

Mar 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Remote

• BalkanID is building the future of Identity Access & Governance (IGA) by leveraging expert systems to make it easy to do access reviews, and discover/eliminate excessive permissions. https://www.balkan.id/
• Launchwurks is helping scale GTM teams at B2B Enterprise SaaS including Cyber tech companies. https://www.launchwurks.com/

Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• Acquired by Cycode in Q1 2024
• Bearer was a venture-backed startup that is enabling developer-first security teams to help ship trustworthy products by including code security and privacy in their CI/CD pipelines. We built a unique SAST product from scratch that was fast, accurate, and comprehensive.
• Joined as a "late-stage founder" and first business hire/executive. As a "utility player" and product-focused revenue leader, I learned a tremendous amount through much trial, error, pain, and sacrifice. As a board observer and COO, I led GTM, Product Strategy, and Corporate Development at Bearer to help enterprises shift left comfortably in achieving their product security and privacy goals.
• Positioned Bearer for successful Seed extension round from top-tier European VCs (Alven, Partech, Point 9) and other top-tier Angel Investors.
• Helped source and broker the acquisition deal between Bearer and the subsequent acquirer.

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• Bearer built the most innovative solution to help scan, identify, and fix code security and privacy risks
• Worked with a product-led founding team from Seed stage to help execute on a vision to create a unique position in the SAST market category
• Bearer raised over $7M in total led by Point Nine, Partech, Alven Partners, and Kima

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · London, England, United Kingdom

• Lead PM for developer tools, Cyber Information Model, and global partnerships and integrations to take us from level 10 to 100 as a security analytics platform of choice for customers
• Previously, was a Security Evangelist and Strategist for the go-to-market team and our customer/prospect base in EMEA region
• https://www.devo.com/blog/solving-pressing-cybersecurity-challenges/
• https://www.devo.com/blog/going-native-to-achieve-security-visibility/

Jan 2020 – Jul 2025 · 5 yrs 6 mos

• StarisAI - Seed
• SigNoz - Seed
• Elba - Seed
• Arcanna - Seed
• Opus - Seed (acquired by Orca Security)
• Chainguard - Series A
• SenseOn - Series A
• StarisAI (USA) is building AI-driven services to test, validate, and protect the coming wave of generative AI assisted low / no code services against increasingly sophisticated automated attacks.
• SigNoz (USA/India) is the leading open-source observability platform for distributed systems, such as microservices, enabling DevOps teams to act timely.
• Elba (France) is building the planet's best workforce-driven security platform for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
• Arcanna.ai (USA/Romania) is building trustworthy AI creating longlasting context for the Modern Security Operations Center (SOC) team.
• Opus (USA/Israel) is a complete, autonomous platform powered by a fleet of intelligent AI security agents that takes care of vulnerability management, co-founded by Meny Har and Or Gabay, who built the SOAR pioneer Siemplify (acq’d by Google/Chronicle). Co-Investors include YL Ventures, Tiger Global, and prominent angels.
• Chainguard (USA) is helping software lifecycle get secure by default by providing secure containers, libraries, and virtual machines, and was started by ex-Googlers incl CEO Dan Lorenc. Co-investors include KP, Sequoia, Redpoint, LSVP, Amplify, In-Q-Tel, and LiveOak.
• SenseOn (UK/USA) is building the planet's best threat detection and response solution for global enterprises, and was founded by the defense sector innovator Dave Atkinson. Co-invest include Eight Roads Ventures (Fidelity's CVC) and Crane Venture Partners.

Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Palo Alto, California

• Head of Cyber Innovation - as a senior Innovation leader, directed special projects, venture capital investment due diligence, and solution scouting/evaluation/implementation for the CSO/CTO/CIO team and broader topics for overall bank's digital transformation.
• Worked closely with senior technology leaders, startup founders, and Venture Capital ecosystem.

Sep 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Led sales and innovation strategy for Deloitte Security Advisory, where we brought new capabilities to market that help clients drive cyber resilience, speed and operational efficiency as new threats emerge, including:
• Building and executing strategic objectives for Deloitte Cyber Risk team, including supporting partnership with VCs such as DataTribe
• Creating innovation perspectives and reports for Cyber Risk Executive Committee and offering leaders for GTM and enablement
• Performing due diligence on attractive startup partnerships and alliance initiatives for Deloitte's cybersecurity innovation ecosystem strategy (known as Cybersphere as of 2024)

Mar 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Helping Fortune 500 clients mitigate their Application and Software Security risks, and improve their security posture, working in Cyber Threat Management team
• Deloitte Ambassador Corp to spread awareness about Deloitte's cybersecurity initiatives
• Co-lead for Deloitte Impact Day 2016, 2017, 2018
• Activities include the creation of innovation ecosystem, corporate development, proposal writing, security strategy advisory, red team assessments, penetration testing, and cybersecurity audits.

Aug 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• Officially joined the iSEC Partners OG team before the acquisition was completed by NCC Group.
• Focused on helping top software companies on the planet to understand their security posture and helped them maintain and ship secure products.