Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

• Indicted as a global innovator with other incredible CEOs working to change the world. Participating in multiple working groups with the World Economic Forum ensuring the adoption of cyber-resilience principles by boards of directors; privacy; critical infrastructure; quantum computing among others.
• https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-01-04/securityscorecard-joins-world-economic-forum-global-innovators-community

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

• https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Aleksandr-Yampolskiy-Co-Founder-Chief-Executive-Officer-SecurityScorecard/f385f48f-a453-4d97-8e2a-1edfa9df37ad

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs

• I am an angel investor into 20+ amazing, early-stage companies - who are disrupting the market. I bet on amazing teams, in the enterprise software space and help them make magic happen.
• TrustLogix : Discover data access issues in 30 minutes or less (trustlogix.io)
• Solidus Labs : Safeguard your crypto assets (soliduslabs.com)
• Olympix : Dev-first Web3 security that starts at the source (olympix.ai)
• DeepFactor : Next-generation developer security platform. Continuous observability for dev teams.(deepfactor.io)
• KumoSpace : Virtual space for your team to collaborate. (KumoSpace.com)
• Backbone : The first AI platform for Product Data (Backbone.AI)
• Stylo : Solve customer tickets faster with AI! (askstylo.com)
• Rings : Disrupting customer relationship management !
• Cyware : Turn threat intelligence into Intelligent Action. TIP+SOAR on steroids (Cyware.com)
• Scythe: A new purple-team platform for attack simulation. (Scythe.io)
• TransfrVR : VR solutions to help train the talent of tomorrow (Transfrvr.com)
• and many others.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 3 mos

• SecurityScorecard is the leading security rating platform. Our mission is to make the world a safer place. We collect millions of signals every second, and assign a score "A"-"F" to companies representing their cyber resilience.
• SecurityScorecard is funded by Sequoia Capital, SilverLake Waterman, Google Ventures, Evolution Equity, Riverwood Capital, and others. We have over 500+ amazing employees, across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. We raised over $290M USD, and are used worldwide by 3000+ enterprise customers who use us to report to the Board, for vendor risk management, and cyber insurance underwriting. The company valuation went 100X in the past 6 years, and we created a new market segment "security rating services" that didn't exist before.
• Come join our awesome team: http://www.securityscorecard.com/careers

Sep 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• CTO for Cinchcast.com, BlogTalkRadio.com, and Cinch.FM (similar idea to ClubHouse):
• Managed a global Engineering, Product, IT, Telephony, and Operations teams across New York and Argentina, resulting in a successful M&A of both companies!
• BlogTalkRadio was the world's largest live podcasting network, with over 36M unique visitors a month, 50M page views per month. 175M ad impressions, and 15M audio streams. Improved its speed 5X, resulting in significant increase in subscriptions and advertising traffic.
• Built from scratch, Cinchcast, the enterprise, video-conferencing, that handled over 40,000 concurrent requests per second - used by customers like Bloomberg, Humana, Goldman Sachs and others.

Oct 2009 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Global CISO for Gilt, Gilt City, Gilt JP, Jetsetter companies, as the company scaled from 200 to 2,000+ employees and gross revenues of over 600M+$ with top investors including DFJ, Venrock, General Atlantic, and others.
• Created and scaled the company security function, responsible for Vulnerability Risk Management PCI DSS Compliance, Fraud Prevention, Incident Response, and IT Security Infrastructure.
• Lots of fun stories, people and projects : Rolled out key projects such as Gift cards, Gilt city vendor portal, Gilt Japan payment system, international shipping, roll-out of data warehouse,
• Oversaw Level 1 PCI and SOX compliance efforts of a joint taskforce from IT, SA, Audit, Security teams to ensure deadlines were met. Developed a strategy to separate card processing into a separate ultra-secure environment to limit the scope of Verizon PCI audit.
• Implemented a fraud prevention program resulting in 10X reduction in chargebacks, and collaboration with law enforcement to arrest criminal gangs using stolen credit cards.

Oct 2007 – Oct 2009 · 2 yrs

• Led the team responsible for operational support and enhancement of WebID authentication system, used for validating identity of all 30K internal employees and 200K external customers. The system was 24x7, 365 up-time across HK, LN, TK, and NY geographic regions.
• Served in various working groups to help establish firmwide policies on JMX security, cryptography, biometric authentication, and secure credential management.
• Travelled to China for a major initiative to launch the Gao Hua JV, China Internet Trading portal, a unique unique US/China collaboration to help establish foothold in domestic markets.
• Led development and project management of DesktopSSO passwordless authentication from the ground up for the entire firm.
• Developer for the Permit (next-generation entitlement system) for the GS private wealth management business unit to help authorize hundreds of thousands of stock transactions per second.l

Jun 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Responsible for developing identity management and security software, focusing on security, authentication and federated identity protocols (e.g., SAML, Liberty Alliance and WS-Security), leading to a multi-million defense contract.
• Significantly accelerated the performance of Oracle crypto toolkits and made them compliant with Sun JCE standards

Jun 2003 – Aug 2003 · 2 mos

• Did some amazing research at Microsoft during my Ph.D. Great experience, and great people.
• Built the backup functionality and the green/red/yellow health check component (as part of the Windows Live OneCare team) that's now deployed on every Windows computer.

Sep 2001 – May 2006 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Solved several fun problems that were open for 30 years, at the intersection of cryptography, economics and homomorphic encryption. Won the "Public Key Cryptography"- Test of Time Award in 2021 - for significant contributions on the Verifiable Random Function paper, which is now used as a foundation of many blockchain, cryptocurrency, and distributed algorithms for online lotteries and election.
• After getting my Ph.D., realized that I like building systems and making them come to life, and decided to go back into industry !