Our Team

The Threat Stack team has a long history of security expertise, working for industry leaders such as Mandiant, Symantec, Bit9, Tenable and F5 Networks. It's our mission to bring the highest quality protection to information security professionals, developers, and operations personnel looking to secure their cloud infrastructure.

Management Team

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Doug Cahill, CEO

As Threat Stack's chief executive officer, Doug is committed to building a great company and product that revolutionizes the way people secure their cloud infrastructure. A serial startup executive with a proven track record of success bringing new products to market and driving explosive company growth, Doug loves the fast pace and high energy of high-growth startups introducing bleeding edge technology to the market. Prior to Threat Stack, Doug served VP positions at Signiant, Bit9, AppIQ and HighGround Systems where he lead business development, channel and strategic alliances, and product strategy.

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Jen Andre, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist

The heart of Threat Stack's innovation and product vision, Jen is passionate about designing the next generation of security tools for our modern infrastructure. Before co-founding Threat Stack, Jen worked on Mandiant's Research and Development team under Jamie Butler, developing innovative tools to analyze malware. At Symantec, she worked on the development team architecting a backend, that processed tens of terabytes of security data every day, as well as a security analyst, in Symantec's Managed Security Services division aimed at protecting the Fortune 500 against threats.

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Sam Bisbee, CTO

As the Chief Technology Officer at Threat Stack, Sam is responsible for leading the Company's strategic technology roadmap for its continuous security monitoring service, purpose-built for cloud environments. Sam brings highly-relevant experience in distributed systems in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, as well as proven success scaling SaaS startups. Sam was most recently the CXO at Cloudant (acquired by IBM in Feb. 2014), a leader in the Database-as-a-Service space, where he played a senior technical and product role.

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Chris Gervais, VP, Engineering

As Threat Stack's head of Engineering, Chris is passionate about building, not only a rock solid, high-performance product, but also a team of elite engineers, industry best processes and a culture that attracts the best talent. Prior to Threat Stack, Chris held senior positions at lifeIMAGE, Enservio, Partners Healthcare, Inc., Inflexxion, Inc. and VIS Corporation, where he was responsible for engineering, technical operations, and technology strategy for cloud platforms.

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Pete Cheslock, Senior Director of Ops and Support

As the head of Threat Stack's operations and support teams, Pete is focused on delivering the highest level of service, reliability, and customer satisfaction to Threat Stacks growing user base. An industry veteran with over 15 years' experience in DevOps, Pete understands the challenges and and issues faced by security, development and operations professionals everyday and how we can help. Prior to Threat Stack, Pete held senior positions at Dyn and Sonian where he built, managed and developed automation and release engineering teams and projects.

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Trevor Failor, Senior Director, Sales & Business Development

Trevor is responsible for global sales, customer success, and business development at Threat Stack. Trevor brings an extensive track record of success in building customer-driven sales & business development teams at security startups such as Bit9 and Funk Software (acquired by Juniper Networks). Most recently Trevor led the North American sales team at Procera Networks, where he grew revenues by 300% while maintaining a 98% customer retention rate.

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Palen Schwab, Director of Marketing

As head of marketing, Palen is responsible for Threat Stack's lead generation and branding strategy. With over 10 years marketing experience in business-to-business, high-tech and security markets, Palen’s customer-centric approach to marketing aims at improving the communication and relationship customers have with their vendors. Prior to Threat Stack, Palen held management positions at Procera Networks, Exinda Networks and Astaro Internet Security (acquired by Sophos in July 2011) where he specialized in demand generation, corporate communication, and growth hacking.

Board of Directors

Maria Cirino

Managing Partner
.406 Ventures

Chris Lynch

General Partner
Atlas Venture

Doug Cahill

CEO
Threat Stack

Jen Andre

Co-Founder, Chief Scientist
Threat Stack

Board of Advisors

Izzy Azeri

Co-Founder, CEO
Stackdriver

Richard Bejtilch

Chief Strategist
FireEye

Geoff Belknap

CSO
Palantir

Dustin Webber

Author of Snorby, Mandiant,
Co-Founder,
Threat Stack

Chris Wyspoal

CTO
Veracode

Partners

Threat Stack partners with industry leaders to help them provide customers with a better way to protect their cloud from security threats.

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Amazon

As an Amazon Web Services technology partner, Threat Stack helps AWS customers protect their workloads from intrusions and data loss. By providing continuous security monitoring, Threat Stack allows customers to protect the integrity of their workloads and meet their end of the shared responsibility model for security. Our deep integrations with Amazon provide customers with complete coverage across their entire EC2 infrastructure and the ability to dive down to the details of network activity.

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RedHat

Threat Stack's lightweight agent is optimized to live in the user space of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux distribution and collect "the gold standard" of system activity data. By monitoring all the systems calls hitting the kernel, Threat Stack captures & records all system processes, user logins, netflow data, and file access data, even beyond the life of the instance. This allows our users to conduct detailed forensics, and gain insights into activity history.

Interested in becoming a Threat Stack partner? Let's set up a meeting and talk.