Engineer, entrepreneur, executive. I love solving big complex problems. Vision, strategy, culture, hiring, product, engineering, marketing, sales, finance, operations: I’ve worn every hat up until I could hire someone better than me. And there is always someone better. I am a generalist at heart.

Since returning to Cisco, I’ve been leading vision and strategy for our identity portfolio and I’m excited to be driving thought leadership on identity-first security.

Previously, I was the Founder & CEO of Oort. I started Oort to tackle the massive challenge of fixing enterprise security starting from first principles. For Oort, that meant starting with identity. Modern companies are surrounded by a swirling mass of identities – not unlike the swirling Oort Cloud of comets ☄️ and asteroids that surround our solar system. With just a slight change in trajectory, any one of these orbiting identities can be sent on a collision course with Earth. Account takeover and identity-based cyber attacks pose the greatest threat to the modern enterprise.

Prior to starting Oort, I led the Boston Innovation Team for Cisco after years of working my way across multiple product teams and technologies. I’ve touched everything from Cloud to Networking to Video Streaming to Security.