Startup Spotlight Competition

CISO

Bugcrowd

Trey Ford is a seasoned strategic advisor and security thought leader with over 25 years of experience in offensive and defensive disciplines (incident response, application, network, cloud, and platform security). Trey has held key leadership roles at Deepwatch, Vista Equity Partners, Salesforce, Black Hat, and more. He has also been a valued member of Bugcrowd's advisory board for over a decade.

Trey is passionate about working with enterprise leaders, corporate directors, and investors to help teams strengthen their technology and execution strategy. He believes in a hands-on approach to building, breaking, and deconstructing security problems.

Trey has a Master of Science from the University of Texas at Austin and executive education at Harvard Business School. Hailing from Austin, he is a husband, father, and shares his passion for aviation as an instrument rated private pilot.

Principal Analyst, IoT Cybersecurity

Omdia

Hollie Hennessy provides insight into the fascinating and fast-moving domain of IoT cybersecurity.

Hollie has a range of experience in research. She began her career in the legal sector, writing and researching for expert witness reports on the labor market. She then moved into product testing, with a consumer protection focus. In this role, she was responsible for managing comparative tests of various technology products, as well as regular testing and investigative work into the security of these products.

She has published articles in Which?, one of the UK's largest subscription magazines, produced by the country's largest consumer organization; and Computing magazine.

Founder & CEO

Two Candlesticks

Founder and CEO of Two Candlesticks and an international leader in cybersecurity, risk, and technology. Matt is a trusted security executive, international speaker, and board advisor for venture studios, private equity, and various startups with a focus on supporting overlooked markets and regions.

With over 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, Matt has led and implemented security organizations at Fortune 100 financial services companies. He has a passion for serving the underserved in cybersecurity to create positive impacts for organizations, end users, and society.

CEO & Co-Founder

RAD Security

Brooke Motta is the co-founder and CEO of Rad Security, renowned for its top-ranked Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) platform. Brooke has an impressive track record with 20 years in the cybersecurity industry, previously holding leadership roles at companies like Sonatype, Bugcrowd and Rapid7. She is not only a visionary leader but also actively contributes to the community as a mentor with EWF and a coach for Girls on the Run, reflecting her commitment to promoting fairness and diversity in technology.

Founding Partner

Lytical Ventures

Lucas is a Partner at Lytical Ventures and member of its investment committee where he oversees day-to-day fund operations. This includes deal sourcing, technical diligence, and deal structuring. Lucas is also responsible for working with the companies in the investment portfolio (including any board responsibilities), as well as managing relationships with limited partners, the venture ecosystem and the back office.

Prior to joining Lytical Ventures, Lucas was a Principal at Evolution Equity and a Principal at Gotham Ventures. Lucas was also a Venture Partner at Antecedent Ventures. Lucas was a Sr. Manager of Secure Software Engineering at Adobe and a pen tester at @Stake. Lucas holds an MBA from Dartmouth and a BS in computer science from Purdue University. He is also a Kauffman Fellow.

Principal & Strategist, Polymathics LLC

Venture Partner, Nextgen Venture Partners

Robert Stratton is a security strategist, technologist, venture capitalist and business advisor. He has had a hand in bringing some of the earliest security products to market in several categories including VPNs and network intrusion detection and established one of the first dedicated security organizations within a tier-1 Internet service provider at UUNET.

He was a founding General Partner of the Mach37 Cyber Accelerator, and the first Director of Technology assessment at In-Q-Tel, a private venture capital firm investing for the benefit of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Robert served as Chief Strategy & Security Officer at Witopia, and Director of Government Research at Symantec Research Labs. As a co-founder and Chief Technologist of Security Design International, he was doing multinational and critical infrastructure security architectures, penetration testing, digital forensics, and incident response before they were cool.

Robert is a Member of the IEEE, the ISSA, the IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Working Group P7014, developing a Standard for Ethical Considerations in Emulated Empathy in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.

Partner

Foundation Capital

Sid Trivedi is a Partner at Foundation Capital where he leads early-stage investments in cybersecurity and IT. His investments include Stacklet, AirMDR, PrimeSec, DevZero, Pulse Security AI, Permiso, Neurelo, Levo, Phenom, Attivo Networks (acq. SentinelOne), CloudKnox (acq. Microsoft), Respond Software (acq. Mandiant), and MistNet (acq. LogRhythm). Prior to Foundation, Sid was an investor at Omidyar Technology Ventures and Symphony Technology Group. He is also a co-founder of CyberSeed, a community of over 1,000 cybersecurity founders, and co-founder and co-host of the Inside the Network podcast, which shares how category-defining cybersecurity startups are built. Outside of work, Sid serves on the advisory boards of Entrepreneurship at Cornell, the California Israel Chamber of Commerce, and Cornell Venture Capital. Sid graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Cornell University.

Go-To-Market Executive and Startup Advisor

Lineaje

Mikala Vidal is a seasoned go-to-market executive and startup advisor with a proven track record of driving growth for cybersecurity companies. She helps companies identify revenue opportunities, implement transformational strategies and empower teams to meet strategic business goals.

Mikala is currently the head of growth for Lineaje, a software supply chain security company. She was previously the chief revenue officer at Phylum (acquired by Veracode), which won the first Black Hat Startup Spotlight Competition, and is an Advisor for Mobb, which won the second Black Hat Startup Spotlight Competition. She has also held leadership roles at Intralinks, Uplevel Security (acquired by McAfee), Allure Security, HCL Software and TruSTAR (acquired by Splunk).