The world runs on code, our mission is to secure every line of it.

Jyoti Bansal is a serial entrepreneur and a silicon valley technology visionary.

Jyoti believes passionately in software’s ability to change the world for the better. In 2008, he founded AppDynamics, an application intelligence company that provides enterprises with real-time insights into application performance. Jyoti led the company as founder & CEO for the first eight years, and as founder & Chairman for the last year until its acquisition by Cisco for $3.7 Billion in January 2017.

Jyoti is founder/CEO of BIG Labs – a startup studio aiming to co-create companies that can help define the future of software and technology. He is also cofounder/CEO of Harness – the leading continuous-delivery-as-a-service company, and cofounder of Unusual Ventures – a leading early stage venture capital firm.

Jyoti has been a recipient of many leadership awards, including Forbes’ “Best Cloud Computing CEO to Work For”, and “Best CEO” by San Francisco Business Times at the Annual Tech & Innovation Award. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year™ for Northern California in 2016.

Jyoti received his BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Prior to founding AppDynamics, Jyoti worked at various silicon valley startups as a software engineer and architect. Jyoti is the lead inventor on 20+ US patents.

Sanjay Nagaraj is an entrepreneur and a silicon valley engineering leader.

Sanjay believes in building products and teams that are obsessed with customer’s success. Prior to co-founding Traceable, he was VP Engineering for AppDynamics/Cisco. At AppDynamics he was responsible for product teams for Application Performance Management and Database Monitoring products. He was responsible for scaling teams across different geographic locations. The innovation that he and his team built was critical in helping DevOps teams to lead the digital transformation at many of fortune 100 companies. The customer obsession of his team and the products at AppDynamics he was responsible for generated over half a billion dollars in revenue during his tenure.

As a senior engineering leader, he has been building complex enterprise software solutions over 20 years. Sanjay received his BS in Computer Science from University of Mysore. Prior to AppDynamics, Sanjay worked at various companies including Hyperion Solutions(Oracle) and Philips. Sanjay is an inventor credited with 10+ US Patents.

Ashish Kuthiala is the Chief Marketing Officer for Traceable.ai. Ashish brings more than 20 years of experience in the software industry to his role at Traceable AI. Ashish Kuthiala joins Traceable from GitLab, where he was the Senior Director for Strategic Marketing, establishing and leading the product marketing, technical marketing, competitive intelligence, analyst relations, customer references, partner and channel marketing teams at GitLab. At GitLab, Ashish helped GitLab establish its brand and grow the valuation of the company from $200m to over $6b.

Prior to this role, Ashish was Director for Strategy and Marketing for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s DevOps portfolio, Vice-President of Marketing of Electric Cloud (acquired by CloudBees), Senior Director of Product Marketing at AccelOps (acquired by Fortinet), and held various roles at Hewlett-Packard, leading teams across various functions including marketing, product development, product management, and R&D. Previously, Ashish held various software development roles at ReplayTV (acquired by DIRECTV) and Alltel (acquired by Fidelity Information Services).

Born in Buenos Aires, Ashish has a diverse international background having grown up in 7 countries and is fluent in multiple languages. Ashish has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Engineering. Ashish lives in Austin, TX with his wife and two children.

Dan Gordon leads Technical Evangelism at Traceable AI. Dan is passionate about advancing the adoption of modern software development and delivery practices. A previous dev, ops, and then secops, he’s experienced the human toll of doing software the wrong way.

Dan has been a product manager and evangelist at multiple award winning DevOps tool vendors, including GitLab and Electric Cloud. As a technical evangelist, he’s excited to continue teaching organizations about adopting new DevSecOps software practices and tools so they can rapidly and securely develop, deliver, and operate in the ever-evolving IT landscape.

John Jeremiah is an enterprise DevOps evangelist and marketing leader at Traceable.ai. John is a multifaceted marketing and IT software leader with over 20 years of IT leadership and software experience.

He led and built the product marketing function at GitLab where he implemented a use case driven framework to position the business value of GitLab. At HP/HPE, he formed and led the Digital Research team spearheading industry research where he helped develop and shape DevOps positioning and go-to-market strategy. Promoting DevOps and both internally and externally has presented at TEDx, launched an HPEs internal ‘DevOps Sharing’ virtual conference, and helped co-found TechBeacon.com where he wrote about IT and DevOps.

He has held a variety of leadership roles with the U.S. Navy, IT consulting, and Fortune 500 IT organizations. Jeremiah’s experience spans from enterprise application developer, project and program manager, and IT Director where he has led a software delivery transformation adopting an Agile and mature development process framework.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University and a master’s degree in Information Technology from The George Washington University School of Business.

John lives in Merritt Island Florida with his wife and daughter where they are active scuba divers, rocket launch watchers, and hurricane dodgers.

Grace is the face of Traceable marketing coordination, she helps connect our community with key people and resources at Traceable in order to help them improve the security of their mobile applications. As a completely virtual team member, she honors just a few of the amazing contributions of brilliant pioneers, inventors, and leaders such as Adm Grace Hopper, inventor of COBOL, and Mary Sherman Morgan, a rocket scientist and inventor of Hydyne, a key rocket fuel.

Jen has a love of customers that has inspired the direction of her career. Her background is rife with customer relationships: most recently as a Customer Reference Manager at GitLab, where she developed case studies, the peer review program, and customer reference relationships for almost three years. Prior to that, she spent 5 years as a Client Advocate, managing all aspects of the customer relationship post-sale. She learned how much she loved working with customers early on, in high school, serving customers at Chick-Fil-A with pleasure.

She loves to find great ways to organize assets, streamlining access to materials so that visibility is available to all who need to discover assets to support pitch decks, marketing and sales materials, and webpages.

On a personal level, Jen loves to read, buy shoes, spend time with her tiny doggies and her kiddoes. No room is complete without bookshelves and dog beds.

Andrew is the VP of Worldwide Sales for Traceable. With 22 years of sales experience, Andrew is adept at building & leading sales teams, formulating go-to-market strategies, developing global channels, and implementing metrics-driven sales processes.

Formerly, he held sales leadership roles at Contrast Security, Lacework, & Forward Networks. Deeply technical in the fields of application security, cloud security, and microservices architecture, Andrew has a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Andreas Wuchner is an experienced and recognized senior executive leader with extensive international general management experience of global diversified businesses and a proven track record.

With more than 25 years of experience and knowledge in all aspects of Information Security, IT-Security & Information Risk management, Andreas worked with partners all over the world. His focus areas are within highly regulated environments such as life science and financial services.

Before joining Credit Suisse as Managing Director, Andreas worked for Hewlett Packard / HPE / DXC as their Security CTO. His extensive experience includes stops as CIO and CISO for UBS and running Security Operations for Deutsche Bank. Andreas started his professional career in the life science world managing security and compliance at Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

Andreas has a wide range of information security and organization management experience, covering a broad spectrum of security related activities, including IT-Risk Management, Vendor Risk Management, IT Audit, Security operations, Security innovation, e-discovery, investigations, strategy & communications, developing security capabilities and operating departmental budgets and plans.

Andreas is very active in the cyber start-up world. His last successful advisory activities included Cylance (acquired by BlackBerry) Armis Inc (Inside Partners & Google investment) and CyGlass (acquired by Nominet UK) where he provided strategic direction and advice. He is a regular public speaker on conferences like the RSA conference. He was also a co-author of the “Advancing Cyber Resilience: Principles and Tools for Boards” published by the World Economic Forum.

After 25 years in the security industry, Gerhard Eschelbeck recently retired from Google, where he was Vice President Security and Privacy Engineering. He was leading the teams that ensure data and systems security, as well as user privacy. Gerhard has a passion for championing new technologies and is a trusted advisor and board member to several early stage startup companies. He published the “Laws of Vulnerabilities” and is one of the inventors of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), and holds numerous patents in the field of managed network security. Prior to joining Google, Gerhard was CTO and Senior Vice President at Sophos and Qualys, and served in senior product and technology roles at companies including Network Associates and McAfee. Gerhard has a Ph.D in computer science from University Linz, Austria.

As CSO Joan is responsible for the holistic security and compliance of Auth0’s platform, products, corporate environment, and people. She brings 20 years of experience to the role, with a career that has spanned a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, defense, ISPs, and MSSPs.

Previously, Joan served as Business Information Security Officer (BISO) at Nike, Inc., as Sumo Logic’s CISO and VP of Security. She has also held positions at Guardent, Verisign, and Secureworks (through acquisitions) where she invented several core technologies and established key initiatives around policy management, security metrics, and incident response. She holds a patent for developing a methodology to assess whether a communication contains an attack.

An accomplished executive with over 20 years of experience developing, securing and delivering cloud services. Martin demonstrates the ability to deliver mission-critical results while leveraging business development skills by building strategic partnerships through negotiation and personal presence. He has managed technical projects with adept executive-level communication, outstanding presentation and cross-cultural team management skills. He is a high-energy, results-oriented leader with an entrepreneurial attitude, a passion for building relationships, cultivating partnerships and growing businesses.

A prolific inventor and cyber security & digital identity executive with an “art of possible” mindset who led global teams to secure world class organizations including American Express, Visa, PayPal and is credited with 95+ patents issued and pending.

Upendra is the Chief Security Officer of Snap Finance, a leading omnichannel digital first fintech and POS lender, where he leads cyber security while building new platforms to enable growth opportunities. This includes securing innovative multi-cloud platforms and products, Artificial Intelligence, client-facing technology, and customer and developer experiences.

He is a regular speaker at esteemed conferences for Stanford University, Global Big Data Conference, NFC forums, European Identity Conference, KNOW Identity Conference, Global Retail Conference in Canada, IOT conference and others. Featured in Genius Journal, he helped pioneer blockchain in Amex and filed patents on blockchain and DLTs. He and his team worked on IOT security and payments and participated in several industry standard bodies like EMV,Global Platform, PCI-DSS, FIDO, etc.

He is an advisory board director for select security startups and helps venture capitalists evaluate companies. He holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, California and Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from VNIT, Nagpur, India. He is credited with 95+ patents issued and pending and has received awards for innovation and leadership.

Renata Budko is an accomplished product and technology leader in the cybersecurity space and currently Head of Product at Traceable AI, a security platform that provides API security for cloud native applications. Traceable AI applies the power of distributed tracing and machine learning to protect your business applications and its data from API based attacks.

Renata is a well respected industry expert, recognized as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity of 2022, with a wide understanding and knowledge of industry trends and technologies in the security space and holds four patents in cloud security. She has extensive experience in leadership and executive roles across product management and go to market roles. Prior to Traceable AI, Renata was the Chief Marketing Officer at Wallarm and VP of Products at Winkk. Before that, she co-founded HyTrust (acquired by Cloud Security firm, Entrust) and led product management and marketing. Renata has been a speaker at VMworld, API security conference, Network Interop, HPWorld, CloudCon and EMC World events as well many regional and online events.

As a leader, Renata is known for her visionary leadership in solving challenging and emerging cybersecurity problems by going where the puck is and using her knowledge and collaborative skills to create growth and educational opportunities for everyone in her immediate and extended teams.

Renata holds MBA and Master of Computer Engineering degrees from UC Davis, CA and a BS in Physics from MIPT, Moscow.

Mr. Nicolas Chaillan, a highly qualified expert, was appointed as the first Air Force and Space Force Chief Software Officer, under Dr. William Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Arlington, Virginia. He was also the co-lead for the Department of Defense Enterprise DevSecOps Initiative with the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer. As the Air Force’s senior software czar, Mr. Chaillan was responsible for enabling Air Force programs in the transition to Agile and DevSecOps to establish force-wide DevSecOps capabilities and best practices, including continuous Authority to Operate processes and faster streamlined technology adoption.

The Chief Software Officer worked with the Program Executive Officers and was responsible for analyzing current software and cloud migration plans to avoid vendor lock-ins while allowing for rapid prototyping and a streamlined process for deployment. To keep up with the pace of technology, Mr. Chaillan evaluated and authorized new commercially available off-the-shelf software and cloud-related technologies to help with their adoption across various Air Force programs based on their mission needs.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Chaillan was the Special Advisor for Cloud Security and DevSecOps at the Department of Defense, OSD, A&S and Special Advisor for Cybersecurity and Chief Architect for Cyber.gov at the Department of Homeland Security. He designed the new robust, innovative and holistic .Gov cybersecurity architecture (Cyber.gov), that mitigates cyber threats by leveraging best practices and implementable solutions with minimal impact to workforce efficiency.

In addition to his public service, Mr. Chaillan is a technology entrepreneur, software developer, cyber expert and inventor. He has over 19 years of domestic and international experience with strong technical and subject matter expertise in cybersecurity, software development, product innovation, governance, risk management and compliance. Specifically, these fields include Cloud computing, Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, Big Data, multi-touch, mobile, IoT, Mixed Reality, virtual reality and wearables.

Mr. Chaillan is recognized as one of France’s youngest entrepreneurs after founding, WORLDAKT at 15 years of age. He has founded 12 companies, including AFTER-MOUSE.COM, Cyber Revolution, Prevent Breach, anyGuest.com among others. Over the last eight years alone, he created and sold over 180 innovative software products to 45 Fortune 500 companies. Additionally, he is recognized as a pioneer of the computer language PHP.

Mr. Chaillan is a sought after adviser and speaker, including participation in multiple industry conferences and experience working in close collaboration with many Fortune 100 companies and the U.S. Government.

CAREER CHRONOLOGY

1. October 1999–December 2002, WorldAKT, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Marseille, France
2. December 2000–December 2002, GamesAKT, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Marseille, France
3. December 2000–November 2011, AKT, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Lyon, France
4. April 2005–November 2011, SOFTAKT, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lyon, France
5. January 2015–October 2016, Wait List Ordering, LLC, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Washington, D.C.
6. March 2015–October 2016, Nesting Partners, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Washington, D.C.
7. June 2013–July 2017, anyGuest.com, Founder and Chief Information Officer, Washington, D.C.
8. July 2015–June 2017, Cyber Revolution, Inc., Chief Information Security Officer, Washington, D.C.
9. January 2014–January 2018, Holding AKT, Chairman of the Board, New York, N.Y.
10. December 2008–present, AFTER-MOUSE.COM, Founder and Chief Information Officer, Washington, D.C.
11. October 2016–January 2018, Department of Homeland Security, Chief Architect and Special Advisor for Cybersecurity (IPA), Washington, D.C.
12. March 2018–May 2018, Qualys, Inc., Federal Chief Technology Officer, Washington, D.C.
13. December 2017–present, Prevent Breach, Chief Technology Officer, Washington, D.C.
14. August 2018–present, Department of Defense, Officer of the Secretary of Defense, Special Advisor for Cloud Security and DevSecOps (IPA), Washington, D.C.
15. May 2019–Oct 2021, Chief Software Officer, U.S Air Force and Space Force, Washington, D.C.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

2018–present, Official Member of the Forbes Technology Council
December 2017–present, EC-Council, Certified Ethical Hacker, Review Board Member
January 2014–January 2018, Holding AKT, Chairman

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

April 2016 (ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certificate 550109
July 2017 EC-Council, Certified Ethical Hacker
September 2015 CompTIA Security+ Certification, CompTIA

LANGUAGES

English and French (native)