Company

Jim Clark

Chairman and Co-Founder

Jim Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He has founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, Healtheon, Applied DNA Sciences, CommandScape, and Beyond Identity. Jim earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in physics from The University of New Orleans, and a PhD in computer science from The University of Utah.

Tom Jermoluk

CEO and Co-Founder 

A longtime collaborator with Jim, TJ has served as President and COO of Silicon Graphics, Inc., Founding Chairman and CEO of @Home Network, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins, CEO of Hyperion Development Group, and founded nine companies, including Beyond Identity, HiCMOS, AOptix, and SmartPipes. TJ attended Virginia Tech.

Hilarie Koplow-McAdams

Venture Partner, NEA

An enterprise software veteran, Hilarie has spent the past three decades at growth-stage technology companies in operating and board roles. More recently, Hilarie served as President at New Relic as well as at Salesforce, and was Vice President of Direct Sales for small business and a member of the executive committee at Intuit. Hilarie started her career at Oracle Corporation where she held a variety of roles over the course of 18 years, including Senior Vice President of Oracle Direct. Hilarie currently serves on the board of directors of BloomReach, DataRobot, HackerOne, Knotch, and Zendesk Corporation, among others. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from The University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Mills College.

Forest Baskett

General Partner, NEA

Forest joined NEA (New Enterprise Associates) in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. Forest focuses on information technology investments and serves on the Board of Directors for several private and public companies. Some of his investments that became public companies include Atheros Communications, Audience, Data Domain, Fusion-io, and Tableau Software. Prior to NEA, Forest served as Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. Forest founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation before joining SGI. Prior to that, Forest was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Forest received a Bachelor of Mathematics from Rice University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Forest is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. 

Byron Knight

Managing Director, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT)

Byron is responsible for originating and investing in disruptive growth stage companies as well as connecting entrepreneurs to Koch’s businesses and capabilities where mutual benefit exists. Since joining KDT, Byron has led deals and has sat on the boards of several portfolio companies including Desktop Metal, Ibotta, Outrider, Trackonomy, Automox, and Beyond Identity. Prior to KDT, Byron served as Vice President of eCommerce for the North America Consumer Business at Georgia-Pacific. Prior to that, Byron helped start TechDiscovery, a company focused on technical due diligence and custom software development. Byron holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. 

Taher Elgamal, PhD

Dr. Taher Elgamal is an internationally respected information security leader and cryptographer. Dr. Elgamal was the recipient of the lifetime achievement award from RSA Conference in 2009. Dr. Elgamal has successfully served as CISO, Chief Scientist, CTO, as well as founder and CEO of numerous key organizations. Dr. Elgamal invented several industry and government standards in data security and digital signatures for areas including the DSS government standard for digital signatures. Dr. Elgamal is recognized in the industry as the “father” of SSL.

Marty Hellman, PhD

Marty Hellman is an American cryptologist, best known for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Marty serves as professor emeritus at Stanford University, and has received numerous awards and honors, including the Turing Award, considered the most prestigious award in the field of computer science, for 2015, together with Whitfield Diffie.

Jarrod Benson

CIO, Koch Business Solutions, LP and Global CISO, Koch Industries

Jarrod Benson is responsible for the information security strategy, operations, and cyber-risk for Koch Industries and its subsidiaries. Additionally, Jarrod serves as the CIO of Koch Business Solutions, LP (KBS), where he provides leadership, planning and strategy for Koch's global shared services organization. Jarrod has held multiple leadership positions in information technology at Koch. Based in Wichita, KS, Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in America with estimated annual revenues as high as $115 billion, according to Forbes. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in refining, chemicals, and biofuels; forest and consumer products; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; electronics; information systems; commodity trading; minerals; energy; glass; ranching; and investments.

Timothy L. Callahan, CISSP, CISM, CRISC 

Senior Vice President, Global Security; Chief Security Officer 

Tim Callahan joined Aflac in 2014, bringing more than 30 years of experience in information and physical security, business resiliency, and risk management. Tim was promoted to his current role in January 2016, where he is responsible for directing Aflac’s global security strategy and leading the information security, business continuity, and disaster recovery functions across the company to prioritize security initiatives and allocate resources based on appropriate risk assessments. 

Prior to joining Aflac, Tim served as Senior Vice President of Business Continuity and Information Assurance for SunTrust Banks, Inc. Tim also held leadership positions at People’s United Bank. 

Tim served in the U.S. Air Force for 23 years and earned an associate’s degree from the Community College of the Air Force and a bachelor’s degree from the University of the State of New York, Albany.

Marcos Christodonte II

Global CISO, CDW

Marcos Christodonte II is the Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at CDW. Marcos has held a series of CISO and global security leadership roles across a number of industries including federal government, financial services, management consulting, academia, and high growth technology. His diverse perspectives are rooted in his experiences at companies such as Gartner, Bridgewater Associates, Booz Allen Hamilton, NATO, and U.S. Army. Marcos also advises cybersecurity startups on product strategy, direction, and security use cases—ensuring alignment with the current and emerging challenges of CISOs across industries and geographies. Marcos is a cybersecurity enthusiast; when not working and spending time with his family he mentors aspiring CISOs on career development.

Mario Duarte

VP of Security, Snowflake

Mario Duarte is a veteran security professional who has worked in the retail, health care and financial sectors for two decades. He has built and managed security teams, developed and implemented security programs and has managed PCI and HIPAA compliance initiatives for medium and large organizations.

Eric Mann

An innovative sales executive with over 30 years of experience across multiple market- leading technology companies ranging from startups to large corporations.  A proven track record of developing high-impact organizations and new growth initiatives emphasizing productivity, margin improvement, and share gains.  Eric’s diverse background includes management of direct/indirect sales teams, distribution, OEM, system integrators, cloud, and service provider organizations.

Most recently, Eric served as EVP of Sales, Marketing, and Corporate Development at Mainline Information Systems, where he tripled the profitability over 5 years. Before that, he was COO at Varonis Systems, rapidly scaling the cybersecurity business and tripling their market cap to over $1B.  Additionally, Eric has served as SVP of Americas Sales at NetApp, leading a multi-billion-dollar business and doubling America’s sales revenue. He also spent 12 years at EMC Corporation from Account Executive to SVP Sales driving Hyper-Growth from 100M to 10B.

Eric is a graduate of Queens College with a degree in Computer Science.  He has sponsored the South-East Consortium for Special Services, Inc. (SEC), a not-for-profit community-based organization dedicated to providing therapeutic recreation programs for children and adults with special needs.