YL Ventures, a San Francisco, CA and Tel Aviv, Israel-based seed-stage venture capital firm focusing on Israeli cybersecurity innovation, announced a major expansion of its Venture Advisory Board.
This leadership team currently bolsters YL Ventures’ due diligence process and provides portfolio companies with continuous support across different fields throughout their entire lifecycle. The four existing advisors (Tom Baltis, CISO of Delta Dental Insurance; Andy Ellis, CSO of Akamai; Amichai Schulman, Co-Founder and former CTO of Imperva Inc.; and Justin Somaini, CSO of SAP) will be joined by an additional 24 Chief Information Security Officers and cybersecurity experts, including:
● Colin Anderson, CISO of Levi, Strauss & Co.
● Tomasz Chowanski, CISO, Community Banking, Consumer Lending and Operations of Wells Fargo
● George Do, CISO of Equinix
● Adam Ely, VP and Deputy CISO of Walmart
● Brooks Evans, Director of Security of Netflix
● Satish Gannu, CSO of ABB
● Rob Geurtsen, Deputy Information Security Officer of Nike
● Jay Gonzales, CISO of Samsung Semiconductor
● Ken Gonzalez, Managing Director of NightDragon Security
● Ryan Gurney, CSO of Looker
● Roger Hale, CISO of Informatica
● Stacey Halota, VP, Information Security & Privacy of Graham Holdings
● Dave Hannigan, Head of Security of Spotify
● Kurt Lieber, VP, and CISO of Aetna
● Brian Lozada, CISO of Zocdoc
● Tim Mather, Chief Security Strategist of PatternX
● Pritesh Parekh, VP, and CSO of Zuora
● Billy Rios, Founder of WhiteScope LLC
● Richard Rushing, CISO of Motorola Mobility
● Sherry Ryan, VP, and CISO of Juniper Networks
● Bradley Schaufenbuel, VP, and CISO of Paylocity
● John L. Sullivan, CSO of Boston Scientific
● David Tsao, CISO of Veeva Systems
Led by Yoav Leitersdorf, Managing Partner, YL Ventures is currently investing a $75m fund primarily focused on connecting Israel’s top cybersecurity innovations to its network of U.S. and global market-leaders.
The firm manages $140m across three funds focused on seed-stage, deep-technology B2B companies in the fields of cybersecurity, enterprise software and automotive technologies.
FinSMEs
21/08/2018