DEDICATED TO CRUSHING CLOUD COMPLEXITY

Ratinder leads ShieldX and its mission as its central pivot point. Drawing from a career as a successful serial entrepreneur and corporate leader, he brings his unique blend of business acumen, industry network and deep technical knowledge.

At his previous startups, Internet Junction, Webstacks and Reconnex he served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of the Mobile and Network Security Business Units. His knowledge of innovation and emerging trends in networking, network security, and data-loss prevention are derived from years of industry experience. Dr. Ahuja holds a BS in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from Thapar University, in India, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. Dr. Ahuja has been granted 37 patents for security-based technologies, and has presented in many public forums, including the Content Protection Summit, IC3, IEEE Computer Society, McAfee FOCUS, and the Cloud Expo.

Enrique joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2014, where he focuses on infrastructure software and services. Previously, he was CEO of Symantec, the global leader in cybersecurity.

Ken joins ShieldX after more than 13 years as a cyber security executive. Ken was CEO of NitroSecurity, a SIEM platform, for five years before a successful acquisition by McAfee in 2011. At McAfee, Ken was SVP and GM of the security management business unit. After two years at McAfee, Ken became CEO of Digital Guardian. Under Ken’s leadership, Digital Guardian tripled in size, rebranded, entered adjacent markets and became a leader in the DLP and EDR markets. Ken’s DNA is in start-ups and early stage companies goes back to a 15 year tenure at Cabletron Systems, a networking company started by his brother in a garage that became a billion-dollar company. Ken’s passion is building great teams and companies, establishing GTM strategies with the best technology and products. In joining ShieldX, Ken is thrilled to help the elite founding team grow the company into a major security player. Ken earned his undergrad in economics from the Wharton School. A Boston (Worcester, actually) native, Ken now resides in Los Altos with his wife Charley and two dogs. In his spare time Ken enjoys watching sports, especially his home town Red Sox and Patriots.”

Mike brings strong enterprise software and cloud leadership and expertise to ShieldX.  Recently, Mike was named the CEO of Mesosphere, a multi-cloud automation company. Previously, he served as president and COO at Symantec. Prior to joining Symantec, he served as president and COO of Blue Coat, leading product and go-to-market functions. While at Blue Coat, Mike led the company to aggressive growth, resulting in its acquisition by Symantec in 2016 for $4.65 billion. Mike has also been executive vice president and general manager for enterprise products at McAfee and chief technology officer of Intel Security, where he drove the company’s long-term strategic vision and innovation in the enterprise network, endpoint and analytics security segments by focusing on high-growth market opportunities and field execution.

As CEO of NTT Security, Matt is responsible for executing the organization’s security strategy, services, and go-to market strategy with the goal of building the world’s most recognized security brand. Matt previously held the position of group executive of Security for Dimension Data.  Prior to this Matt spent time in various security environments. His career in IT security spans more than 20 years, providing him with a deep understanding of how security platforms should be implemented and managed to ensure clients’ business outcomes are achieved, while ensuring their risk is minimized.

At FireEye, Jason oversees the teams responsible for developing FireEye cloud, network, and endpoint products and evolving the company’s technology platform.

Theresia co-founded Aspect Ventures, where she has led the firm’s early investments in Cato Networks, Exabeam, ForeScout (FSCT), The Muse, Deserve, BirchBox, and BaubleBar. Prior to Aspect, Theresia was a Partner at Accel, where she championed many successful companies through IPOs or acquisitions: Imperva (IMPV), Trulia (TRLA), LearnVest (Northwestern Mutual), Jasper Design (CDNS), Kosmix (WMT). Theresia has been named to Forbes’ Midas List six times, most recently in 2017.

Ashar is the Founder and Executive Chairman of SkyElectric Inc. He is also the creator of the core energy intelligence and management technologies embedded in the SkyElectric Smart Solar System. In 2018, Mr. Aziz received the most prestigious National award, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, for his services in IT Industry. Previously, Ashar founded FireEye, Inc., (NASDAQ:FEYE), a global cybersecurity company, in 2004. He served as the CEO of FireEye from 2004 until November 2012 and also served as its Board Vice Chairman, CFO, and CTO. Prior to FireEye, he founded Terraspring, Inc. Before founding Terraspring, he spent 12 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. as a Distinguished Engineer, and CTO. He has over 80 patents in the areas of networking, network security, and data center virtualization. Mr. Aziz also has the honor of receiving the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Ashar graduated from MIT with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Mr. Aziz later received the University of California Regents fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, where he completed his MS in Electrical Engineering Computer Science.

Mark joins ShieldX as an Investor and Board Advisor, bringing strong expertise across all aspects of our go-to-market traction.  Mark is a seasoned executive in Silicon Valley with a proven track record of building and scaling organizations for long-term, sustained growth.  While president of Palo Alto Networks helped grow the company from pre-IPO to one of the leaders in enterprise security.

Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Mark was EVP of worldwide sales at F5 Networks, where he oversaw a 1,000-person sales team and played a key role in growing F5’s annual revenue to more than $1B. Prior to that, Mark held leadership positions at Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems.

Mark Currently sits on the Alteryx Board of Directors (NYSE: AYX). He is also an investor and Executive Chairman at Avi Networks.

Mark holds a B.A. in Business and Economics from York University in Toronto.

At Thomvest Ventures, Umesh focuses on investments in the cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure sectors. He currently serves as a Board Member at Avalanche Technology, Lastline, Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX), ShiftLeft, and Tactus Technology, and as a Board Observer at Clari and ShieldX. He is also an investor in Baffle and ThousandEyes. Prior to joining Thomvest, Umesh was a successful entrepreneur, investor and CEO of a public company. He most recently worked for over 8 years at Bessemer Venture Partners in Menlo Park. Prior to Bessemer, he worked as an Executive Vice President at LSI after its acquisition of a public video infrastructure and distribution company, and at C-Cube Microsystems where he served as President and CEO of the company. Umesh has served on more than 25 public and private company boards.