Founder and CEO of Kindo (Usable Machines) the leading enterprise AI security platform.
Over the previous 11 years recruited early into what would become three tech unicorns as their C-suite Security, Compliance, and IT leader.
Pursuing new opportunities only after reaching 1,000+ employees and achieving multiple billions of dollars valuations.
As first security and IT leadership hire, built leading cybersecurity teams with annual risk management budgets of over $20M that have defended infrastructure and applications from state actors, infamous hacking groups, and physical threats to company staff around the World while also the IT leader of teams of up to 200 people who implemented $100M+ annual budgets of global data center and cloud spend, supporting tens of millions of customers.
Accountable for fast scaling secure internal IT and data center build-outs as startups scaled from from a handful to thousands of employees.
- Kindo - CEO & Founder (August 2022 - Present)
- First Close Partners - Limited Partner (March 2021 - Present)
- Andela - Investor (February 2021 - Present)
- Flutterwave - Investor (February 2021 - Present)
- Coily - Seed Investor (January 2021 - Present)
- Feels app - Seed Investor (January 2020 - Present)
- Vetcove - Seed Investor (January 2016 - Present)
- Subspace - Board Member (January 2022 - June 2022)
- Subspace - Chief Operating Officer (March 2021 - June 2022)
- Subspace - Vice President Security & Operations (August 2019 - March 2021)
- Bird - Chief Security Officer & Head of IT (June 2018 - August 2019)
- UpChannel - Advisor (June 2017 - September 2018)
- Clover Health - Chief Security & Privacy Officer & Head of IT (March 2016 - April 2018)
- Riot Games - VP Security and Infrastructure (June 2011 - November 2016)
- VentureCrush - Executive Committee Member & Advisor (June 2010 - August 2012)
- BBMF Americas Corporation - Board Member (March 2010 - June 2011)
- Zeevex - Founder & General Manager (September 2008 - April 2011)
- CDC Games - General Manager North America & VP Systems Engineering (August 2007 - September 2008)
- Atlanticus - Director Systems Engineering & QA (November 2005 - May 2007)
- EarthLink, Inc. - Principal Engineer (September 2004 - February 2006)
- EarthLink, Inc. - Senior Manager Network Operations Center (April 2003 - September 2004)
- EarthLink, Inc. - Senior Manager IT Infrastructure (May 2001 - April 2003)
- Idapta, Inc. - Director Performance Testing and QA (February 2000 - April 2001)
- Fujitsu - Greenbrier and Russel - Senior System Engineer (January 1999 - February 2000)
- Metters Industries - Technical Instructor (October 1997 - January 1999)
- Internet Service Provider - Founder (November 1994 - June 1997)
- United States Air Force - Staff Sargent (May 1991 - December 1996)
