The NightDragon Team

An Experienced Team of Strategic Operating Investors

100+

Team Members and Advisors

180+

Collective Years of Experience

10+

Years of Investing Experience

Meet the team

Founder, Managing Director, CEO
Partner, Business Development
Partner, Chief Operating Officer
Chief Technology Officer, Head of Engineering
Principal, Head of EMEA
Head of Government Services
VP Corporate Development & Partnerships
CFA / Vice President

NightDragon Advisors

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Luis Alberto Veronesi João

Global VP Technology Operations & Data, Anheuser- Busch InBev
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Jim Alkove

CEO & CO-Founder, Oleria; Former Chief Trust Officer, Salesforce
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Darren Argyle

Co-Founder and Board Chairman, Cyber Leadership Institute
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Dave Baumgartner

Former Mandiant EVP, Google Security / Former EVP and CIO, FireEye
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Christophe Blassiau

SVP, Cybersecurity & Product Security, Global CISO & CPSO, Schneider Electric
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Neil Boland

Senior Vice President of Technology, CISO, Major League Baseball (MLB)
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Vijay Bolina

Chief Information Security Officer, Google DeepMind
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Grant Bourzikas

CISO, Cloudflare
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Tim Brown

Chief Information Security Officer, SolarWinds
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Mark Carney

Former EVP and COO, Coalfire
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Krishnan Chellakarai

CISO, Gilead Sciences
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Susan Chiang

Deputy CISO, Cloudflare
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Brian Cincera

SVP, CISO and Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Pfizer
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Dr. Bilyana Lilly, PhD

CISSP, Chair, Resilience Track, Warsaw Security Forum
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Demetrius Comes

Chief Security and Operating Officer, Patmos
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Edna Conway

Former VP Chief Security & Risk Officer, Azure Infrastructure, Microsoft
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Dean Coza

Former General Manager, Threat Intelligence Portfolio, Microsoft
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Julie Cullivan

Board Director
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Kirsten Davies

CISO, Unilever
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Noopur Davis

Global CISO & Chief Product Privacy Officer & Corporate EVP, Comcast
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Gen. Sir Chris Deverell

Former Commander, UK’s Joint Forces Command
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Ashley Devoto

CISO, Discount Tire
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George Eapen

Former Group CIO, Petrofac
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Michael Elmore

CISO, GlaxoSmithKline

Jason Elrod

CISO | Cybersecurity Leader & Advisor | Author & Speaker
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Gerhard Eschelbeck

Chief Security Officer, Kodiak Robotics
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Jason Fruge

Cyber Security Advisor, Risksilience LLC
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Adam Gladsden

SVP, Cyber Risk Product, Marsh
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Sebastian Goodwin

Chief Trust Officer, Autodesk
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Ron Greenberg

Senior Advisor, Brown & Weinraub
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Renee Guttmann

Founder & Principal-CISO, HIVE; Former CISO, Coca-Cola, Campbells Soup Company, Royal Carribean Cruises
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Matthew Gyde

CEO of vArmour, former CEO of NTT Security
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Lynne Halbrooks

Partner, Nichols Liu LLP; Former Chief Compliance Officer, Acuity International
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Gary Hayslip

Global CISO, Softbank Investment Advisors, Vision Fund
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Marshall Heilman

CEO, Dtex Systems; Former EVP and CTO, Mandiant
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John Hibbs

Former Principal Cyber Security Services, KPMG
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Ramy Houssaini

Founding Chair and Cyber Happiness Officer, The Cyber Poverty Line Institute
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Scott Howitt

Chief Digital Officer, UKG; Former CIO, McAfee
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Katie Jenkins

EVP and CISO, Liberty Mutual
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Kurt John

Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer, Con Edison
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Brad Jones

CISO and VP of Information Security, Snowflake
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Prabhath Karanth

SVP, Chief Security & Trust Officer, Greenlight
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Vijaya Kaza

Chief Security Officer, Head of Engineering & Data Science for Trust & Safety, Airbnb
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John Kindervag

Chief Evangelist, Illumio; Creator of Zero Trust
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Dr. Ron Layton

Deputy CISO, Sallie Mae
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Yaron Levi

CISO, Dolby Labratories
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Jason Lish

Global Chief Information Security Officer, Cisco
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Christopher Lukas

CISO, Chevron
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Jake Martens

SVP and CISO, Aristocrat
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Jason Martin

co-CEO, Permiso Security; Former Executive Vice President, FireEye
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Dr. Adrian M. Mayers

Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, Premera Blue Cross
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Heather McMahon

Former Defense Intelligence Senior Executive & Veteran, Counterintelligence Officer, Board Member

Omar Mir

Advisor EMEA, Advisory Board Member
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Shamim Mohammad

EVP and CITO, Carmax
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Michael Montoya

CISO, Equinix
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Michael Morgan

Chief Information Security Officer, Phillips 66
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John Petrie

SVP and Counsellor to the NTT CISO
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David Olzak

SVP, Stratascale, SHI Company
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Jairo Orea

Global Chief Information Security Officer, Royal Caribbean Group
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Fotis Papazafeiropoulos

Group Chief Information Security Officer / Group Cyber Security & Privacy Director, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
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Raja Patel

SVP, Products, Sophos
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Dr. Christoph Peylo

Chief Cyber Security Officer, Bosch
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Thomas Pompidou

Marker LLC, Partner and Founder
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Steve Pugh

Chief Information Security Officer, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
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Thomas Quinn

VP and CISO, T. Rowe Price
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Christopher D. Roberti

Senior Vice President, Cyber, Space, and National Security Policy
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Tim Roemer

President and GM, Public Sector, ThriveDX; Former Director of Homeland Security and CISO for the State of Arizona
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Admiral Mike Rogers

Former Director, NSA
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Mike Rosen

CISO, ZwillGen PLLC
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Dave Ruedger

VP, Enterprise Technology Services and CISO, Sunrun
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Christopher Russell

CISO, tZero Group
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Eric Sanchez

CISO, Kyowa Kirin
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Jimmy Sanders

Head of Information Security, Netflix DVD
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Bradley J. Schaufenbuel

Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Paychex, Inc.
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Sharon Schusheim

CIO & VP Technical Services, Check Point Software Technologies
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Rinki Sethi

VP and CISO, Bill.com
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Nick Shevelyov

Former Chief Security Officer, Silicon Valley Bank
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Skip Sorrels

Director of Cybersecurity, Ascension Healthcare
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Paul Stapleton

Chief Product Security Officer & Vice President Cyber Security Engineering, Dexcom
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Seth Summersett

Co-Founder and CEO, Embed Security
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Hanan Szwarcbord

VP, Chief Security Officer, Micron Technology
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Rishi Tripathi

VP & Chief Technology & Security Officer, Mount Sinai
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Almon Tse

Global CISO at Saks Cloud Services (SCS) and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)
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Maarten Van Horenbeeck

SVP, Chief Security Officer, Adobe
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Jen Vasquez

Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Evernorth Health Services
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Troy Wilkinson

CISO, Interpublic Group
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Kara Wilson

Senior Advisor, KKR; Former CMO, FireEye, Rubrik, Okta
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Gregory Wilson

CISO, Putnam Investments
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Elwin Wong

SVP and CISO, Ross Stores
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Nadav Zafrir

Managing Partner, Team8 & Former Commander of Unit 8200
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Adam Zoller

SVP & Global Chief Information Security Officer, Providence
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Jeff Zygmunt

Head of IT Cybersecurity, Enstar Group