RiskSense®, Inc.,
pioneering risk-based vulnerability management and prioritization, today
announced that six world-class technology executives have joined its
board of advisors. They will provide strategic guidance and industry
relationships to help RiskSense manage its accelerating growth, product
strategy, and expansion into new markets.
“We have assembled some of the most accomplished technology industry
executives for our new Advisory Board,” said Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala,
co-founder and CEO at RiskSense. “Each brings a unique perspective,
broad industry experience and a deep network that will help us
strategically grow our business, enter new markets and continue to
innovate the RiskSense platform.”
The RiskSense Advisory Board consists of:
Catherine A. Allen is Chairman and CEO of The Santa Fe Group, a
strategic consulting group focused on cybersecurity, third party risk
management and emerging technologies. She was formerly a senior
executive at Dun and Bradstreet and Citicorp, and Founding Chair of the
Smart Card Forum and Founding CEO of BITS, the technology organization
made up of the 100 largest financial institutions in the U.S. Catherine
is a board member of El Paso Electric Company and Synovus Financial and
chairs the Security Committee. She was named one of the 2018 NACD
Directors 100, and one of the 100 most influential directors in the
United States. Most recently Catherine was recognized by SC Media and
INFOSEC for her contributions to the advancement of cybersecurity.
Chris W. Kenworthy has been a principal and advisor to numerous
cybersecurity startups including Picus Security, Emergynt, Sift Security
(acquired by Netskope), Marble (acquired by Proofpoint), McAfee
(acquired by Intel), RSA (acquired by EMC), and Buguroo. He is owner and
principal of CyberGTM, a consulting services firm for security
technology startups, and President and COO of Task Force 7, Inc.,
producer of a popular broadcast featuring insights and analysis from
leading cybersecurity experts. During his 25-year career, Chris served
as SVP Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Marble Security, Inc., SVP
Enterprise for McAfee, VP Managed Services for RSA Security, and VP
Worldwide Sales for Aventail (acquired by SonicWALL).
Bill Odell is a veteran enterprise technology marketer with over
25 years experience growing early and growth stage startups and managing
large, global organizations in IT security, SaaS, analytics and CRM. He
is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Aerospike, a data architecture
company for the financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce,
adtech and gaming industries. Bill has held senior executive roles at
Cisco, Dell Software and SonicWALL, and at category-creating growth
stage companies including Interlace Systems (acquired by Oracle) and
Latitude Communications (acquired by Cisco).
Neal Ramasamy is Chief Technology Officer at New York Life
Insurance Company where he provides technology and innovation leadership
to the company’s Insurance and Agency group, Enterprise Infrastructure
Services, Information Security, Data Center Operations, and Consumer
Services groups. Neal joined New York Life in 2009 as CIO for the
Retirement Services division. Previously, he served as Senior Vice
President and Head of Technology for Fidelity Investments’ global
brokerage division, where he led several successful transformations and
large multi-year, cross-company technology initiatives. He has also
served as Senior Vice President and CIO for Fiserv, Inc. and CIO for
Instinet Corporation, a Nomura Company.
Jon Shende is a Global Head of a Fortune 200’s Digital Technology
and Services Security division, an advisory board member at Advaion a
boutique financial consulting firm, a member of InfraGard, a board
member of the EC-Council Threat and Intelligence Analyst program and
more recently was Global Head of Security and Services for Ericsson. He
previously served as Managing Director, for Healthcare, Financial and
PRCMT for Savvis Cloud Services and Area Vice President, Security Risk
and Compliance for the CenturyLink Business division. At Ernst & Young,
Jon advised Global Fortune 500/100/50 clients on IT Security, Strategy,
Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Data Privacy drawing from his strengths in
global technology services as a security leader with CISO experience.
Toby Tobaccowala has more than 40 years of experience in senior
executive and CEO positions and serves on a number of boards of
directors, including RedShift Networks, Strikedeck, Oceus Networks, and
Infinote. He was co-founder and chairman of R4 Global Solutions, Inc.,
acquired by VeriSign Inc. Previously, he was Executive Vice President at
AppNet where he completed 12 acquisitions in nine months, enabling the
company to offer a full range of services and complete a public
offering. During his 23-year career with Electronic Data Systems
Corporation (EDS), he ran several business units, including the Media
Industry Group, which he grew from startup to over $250 million in
annual revenue.
About RiskSense
RiskSense®, Inc. provides
vulnerability management and prioritization to measure and control
cybersecurity risk. The cloud-based RiskSense platform uses a foundation
of risk-based scoring, analytics, and technology-accelerated pen testing
to identify critical security weaknesses with corresponding remediation
action plans, dramatically improving security and IT team efficiency and
effectiveness. For more information, visit www.risksense.com
or follow us on Twitter at @RiskSense.
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