GarbleCloud Cybersecurity Thought Leaders

GarbleCloud Leadership

Cyber threats are increasing at an alarming rate. GarbleCloud was created by the world’s data privacy and security thought leaders from research and top corporations. Our leaders are respected pioneers and cybersecurity professionals who are bridging the cybersecurity skills gap, championing diversity, and focusing on making the industry safer and more successful.

Company Leaders

Bijit Hore

Chief Executive Officer

Bijit Hore

Chief Executive Officer

Bijit is a visionary and technical leader as the CEO and Founder of GarbleCloud.

Bijit is a data privacy visionary and respected thought leader of data security in academia and the business world. He is best known for developing solutions to data privacy & security problems in outsourcing, cloud applications, and big data systems. Bijit's research advanced data security in the cloud and ransomware resilience for mid-market organizations and enterprises.

Previously he spent 12 years at the University of California at Irvine as a Research Assistant and Post-Doctoral Researcher focused on developing solutions to data privacy & security problems in outsourcing, cloud applications and big data systems.

His research work led directly to the advanced security features the drive GarbleCloud's superior cloud privacy offering. He applied for and was granted two U.S. patents for techniques for securing sensitive data in cloud storage systems and for scalable search over encrypted files in public-cloud platforms for GarbleCloud.

Dr. Hore, Bijit, has his Ph.D. in Computer Science Doctor of Philosophy from UC Irvine, where he was also a celebrated researcher and professor. He earned his MSc. in Applied Statistics & Informatics from the Bombay Indian Institute of Technology and his B.Sc. in Electronics at Delhi University.

Akhilesh Verma

Chief Customer Officer

Akhilesh Verma

Chief Customer Officer

Akhilesh supports direct customer acquisition efforts for GarbleCloud and manages customer satisfaction.

Akhilesh Verma is an industry-known technology and cybersecurity expert. He is a collaborative partner-maker and respected technology leader in Silicon Valley. Best known for deeply understanding complex technologies and successfully bringing them to market. He has a keen sense of what will be groundbreaking in the digital space, especially as it relates to cybersecurity technologies.

He is a proven technology and strategic business leader focused in the areas of Cloud Security, Data Privacy, Cloud technologies, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Orchestration and Virtualization. With over 18+ years of leadership roles at SnapRoute, Plexxi, Juniper Networks, Dell and Cisco.

Akhilesh’s advanced and forward-thinking vision for what is to come in the industry is what sets him apart from his peers. He earned his Master of Science in Information Systems from the University of Phoenix, and his Bachelor of Business and Commerce from Delhi University.

Advisors

Simon Hunt

Has led a successful 200 person cybersecurity startup fulfilling the roles of PM, VP Eng, VP Support and CTO from inception to $350m exit, led Innovation Engineering for a fortune 500 company culminating in defining a completely new market, helped define the product strategy for a $1B cybersec product portfolio, built the first $100m revenue opportunity for a global fintech, acquired and integrated 16 companies, designed multi-year Gartner MQ top-right leading products, and helped hundreds of engineers file their first patents. Simon is an experienced technology leader with proven product, innovation, field support and development leadership skills. An expert at aligning short and long-term market demands with engineering, support, and strategic initiatives for greater success.

Barak Engel

Barak Engle is a globally recognized cybersecurity expert, published book author, and thought leader. Establishing the concept of a vCISO, Barak works with clients such as MuleSoft, Amplitude, Stubhub, BetterUp, LendingHome, Bond, Bolt, Kibo, Live Nation/Ticketmaster, Bebe Stores, Barnes & Noble, Cost Plus World Market, Tripwire, NASA, Nuance, and many others. Barak has compiled his observations and methods of success in his two cybersecurity industry books, "Why CISOs Fail" (part of the Cybercannon Project) and "The Security Hippie." He has his CISSP Certification, B.S. of computer science from the Israel Institute of Technology, and coursework toward an MBA from the University of Haifa.

Raj Khaware

For decades, Raj is known as a highly qualified industry leader, investor, and mentor. Through his work as CEO at Veear Projects, he has proven track record of bringing numerous products to market and building businesses. Raj has served as a top management and architected the success of some leading consulting companies in bay area and beyond. His Specialties include Health Care, Banking, Finance, Brokerage and mortgage, Biotech/Pharmaceutical and Health Care, Retail, manufacturing, Hitech, and many others

Whitfield Diffie

Whitfield Diffie

Diffie is one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography who co-founded the technique known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. After a long career at Sun Microsystems, he served as VP for Information Security and Cryptography at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute's Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

Dante Malagrinò

Dante is a strategic tech investor and advisor with a prominent technical background. Dante is an ex-CEO of Embrane and is known for navigating companies through various stages of change and growth. As a technical marketing leader, he was instrumental in keeping CISCO thriving through tremendous industry changes. Dr. Malagrinò started his career as an academic and marketing manager for the International Relationships for the Polytechnic University of Turin. He later served as a national telecom consultant in Italy. Dante is committed to continually learning and acquiring information. He has a Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS), Decision Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Statistics from UC Berkeley School of Information. He earned his Ph.D. and taught at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Some of his activities and societies included being a graduate lecturer of Computer Science Engineering and the author of several publications on high-performance internetworking protocols and technologies.

Rajeev Sawhney

Rajeev Sawhney

Rajeev currently acts as Chairman of Zokyo Ltd, an advisory firm engaged with exciting bleeding edge technology firms such as Oxford University's spinout OXSIGHT Ltd (oxsight.co.uk). In 35 years shaping the IT services industry, he worked in leadership at Mphasis, an HP company, HCL Technologies. He was also a key driver in one of the world’s most successful start-ups (now a $7.6b company).

Nat Natraj

Nat is a leader in Leader in Advanced Threat Detection as co-Founder and President of Acalvio Technologies and backed by marquee investors (Accel, Ignition, Elises, Google Ventures, Splunk, Honeywell, Sumitomo). Previously he served as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Calypso and Sr. Vice President at CA Technologies where he ran global sales for SAAS e-commerce security and real time fraud/risk management.

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