Title
Senior vice president and chief information security officer for the Oracle SaaS Cloud Security engineering and operations organization.
Founders Should Call Me When
I am here to help founders understand how to overcome security and compliance challenges or blockers occurring with an enterprise CSO/CISO and also how to best engage and connect with CISOs in the enterprise. I can also provide guidance on the best security controls to implement and drive to ensure successful security, audit, and compliance of the startup as it grows through the various phases.
Background
Previously, I built the public cloud security engineering organization as a director in the Google Security and Privacy organization for three years, and his preceding 18 years were spent with Microsoft in numerous security platform, cloud, product and engineering leadership roles. One major change at Microsoft I specifically championed was the strategic shift to a subscription model and technology investments that drove the Threat Management Gateway (TMG) annual product line revenue to increase significantly (50% annually) with a lead from $80M ARR to $150M in just two short years. At Google, I led the holistic Google Cloud Security organization development from an internal expert infrastructure team of 20 to a 160+ DevSecOps organization that released four major external public launches in less than 3 years. I’m also a venture partner with Rain Capital VC with a successful track record that includes notable acquisitions, starting with my seed investment and cloud enterprise advisor of Twistlock, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in less than 4 years. I have continued my informal angel and VC investment and advisory engagements with numerous startups in the early and growth phases prior to later mature finding stages. I also have been the sole advisor and initial seed investor in Step-Security, which has organically connected to 1,200 public open-source projects and achieved viral growth with 4,000+ workflows in almost all major technology companies in less than 2 years.
Superpowers
- All amazing visions and strategies require phenomenal execution. I continue to build and leverage my military training to have a clear mission target and always deliver completing that mission as planned every time.
- Winning enterprise customers mandate not just understanding the enterprise, infrastructure, culture, and technologies, it is about seamless integration into that environmental graph. I connect the dots between innovative security technologies with the existing business infrastructure, policies, and requirements to rapidly identify and integrate new solutions that were not previously perceived as possible.
Lessons Learned
- A communication structure and rhythm consistency internally and externally to ensure connections and community growth.
- An external personality presence and associated awareness are critical to bringing attention and engagement to a new or unknown company, business, or solution.
- Enterprise customer culture and knowledge are paramount to win and enter the traditional large-scale business environment.
Founders Should Call Me When
I am here to help founders understand how to overcome security and compliance challenges or blockers occurring with an enterprise CSO/CISO and also how to best engage and connect with CISOs in the enterprise. I can also provide guidance on the best security controls to implement and drive to ensure successful security, audit, and compliance of the startup as it grows through the various phases.