Bio
Rob is the CEO of Cygilant Inc., a Cybersecurity-as-a-Service company that combines its SOC and cybersecurity experts to provide customers affordable cloud-based security monitoring that hunts for threats, responds to incidents, patches systems and supplies audit artifacts for compliance mandates. A 30-year technology industry veteran, Rob was named by Ernst & Young as its Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. He started his career as a Formula 1 race car driver, which inspired his passion for building high potential companies at a rapid pace. Rob launched his first start-up at age 25 and has since helped grow seven start-up companies and lead two corporate restarts in his career in leadership roles. Rob has steered the helm of several technology companies as President and CEO. Recently, he served as CEO of Bradford Networks, a network security company acquired by Fortinet. Previously he was CEO of Clique Intelligence, a software platform for data sharing and collaboration technologies. In 2008, Rob was appointed Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at HP ProCurve Networking through its 2008 acquisition of Colubris Networks, where he helped the company ascend to a prominent position in the wireless LAN industry as President and CEO. In addition to being an active participant in the investment community, Rob is a member of the Board of Directors of Avidbank, a business bank providing innovative products and services, and is an advisory board member for two cyber security and data protection companies, Hexadite and Trilio Data.