Who We Are

Brett Galloway
Chief Executive Officer

Brett has more than 30 years of executive and entrepreneurial experience in the technology industry. He has brought together technology, product, and business expertise to innovate and deliver a stream of successful product businesses. Most recently he co-founded Mist Systems and served as its Chairman before its sale to Juniper. He is the former president and CEO of Airespace, which he sold to Cisco. He served at Cisco as the Senior Vice President of the Network Services Group and Enterprise Strategy. Prior to Airespace, he was the co-founder, chief operating officer, and later CEO of Packeteer, which launched an initial public offering (IPO) in 1999. Brett holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Rajesh Sharma
Co-Founder and Chief Software Architect

Rajesh has more than 20 years of experience in the security industry. He has served as Principal Engineer and Software Architect at Websense Inc (now called ForcePoint|Raytheon), Guidance Software Inc (now called OpenText), and Resolution 1 Security (now called AccessData Group Inc.); where he developed key Kernel components used in Websense Client Policy Manager; EnCase Suite of Products and R1 Endpoint Solution. Rajesh has a degree in Computer Science and Engineering from R.E.C Bhopal India.

Ross Brewer
General Manager & Vice President, EMEA & APJ

Ross is responsible for building and managing relationships with organizations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) for AttackIQ. He has more than 35 years of sales and management experience with technology organizations across the globe and has played a pivotal role in shaping the monitoring and analytics area of the cybersecurity industry, especially in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). A respected industry expert, Ross is regularly quoted by leading international and trade print publications, including the BBC, The Times of London, The Telegraph, Infosecurity Magazine, The Register, and appears regularly on BBC News and BBC Radio. Prior to AttackIQ, Ross was a senior executive at LogRhythm, where he served as vice president and managing director of EMEA and APAC. He has held key leadership roles in Europe and the Asia Pacific region at NetIQ, PentaSafe, and Symantec. Originally from New Zealand, Ross has lived in England since 1999.

Jonathan Reiber
Senior Director for Cybersecurity Strategy and Policy

Jonathan focuses on thought leadership, strategic communications, and content development. During Barack Obama’s administration, he served as Chief Strategy Officer for Cyber Policy in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense. His writing has appeared and been highlighted by Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, DefenseOne, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Jose Mercury News, and Literary Hub among others. He is the author of two book-length Berkeley monographs, A Public, Private War, and Asian Cybersecurity Futures, and was the principal author of The Department of Defense Cyber Strategy (2015) and the classified defense cyber strategy of 2010. He has held research and writing fellowships with UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Prior to serving as CSO for Cyber Policy, Jonathan served as Special Assistant and Speechwriter to the United States’ Deputy Secretary of Defense, Dr. Ashton B. Carter, and previously as Special Assistant to the United States’ Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Dr. James N. Miller. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. You can follow him on Twitter at @jonathanreiber

Carl Wright
Chief Commercial Officer

Carl is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with experience in the security, storage, virtualization, and software sectors. Prior to joining AttackIQ he held executive operational roles at Securify, Decru, and Kidaro, where he contributed to rapid growth and subsequent acquisition by Microsoft, Network Appliance, and Secure Computing. He has extensive experience in all aspects of enterprise information technology deployments and has held key IT operational roles, including chief information security officer for the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1999, he was awarded the National Security Agency’s Frank B. Rowlett Trophy.

Julie O’Brien
Chief Marketing Officer

Julie holds more than 25 years of experience in driving go-to-market strategies for large enterprise, mid-sized, and startup companies. She has held marketing leadership roles with some of the technology industry’s most influential companies including Nutanix, Box, and Cisco. Julie is currently the CMO of cybersecurity startup AttackIQ and a board member of Workforce Opportunity Services, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping veterans and underserved communities break into technology careers. She is also an advisor to privately-held Influitive Corporation. Julie graduated from Bentley University in Waltham, MA with a BA/MBA.

Mark Bagley
Vice President, Product

Mark brings over two decades of strategic and technical experience across product management, cybersecurity, network engineering, and data center environments. Before joining AttackIQ, he was the Vice President of Products at Verodin, now part of FireEye, where he led product management, software delivery and security threat research.

Prior to Verodin, he held roles in Product Management at Cisco as well as other Product Management, Strategy, and Business Development roles at Symantec, Splunk, and EMC. Mark has worked with thousands of customers spanning over 20 countries in developing cybersecurity and data protection offerings for commercial and government organizations.

Danielle Murcray
Chief Financial Officer

Danielle has a proven track record of helping organizations scale with more than 20 years of executive-level financial, accounting, human resources and operational experience in the technology industry. Prior to joining AttackIQ, she served as CFO at Evident.io (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and Skyhigh Networks (acquired by McAfee), and Vice President, Corporate Controller at IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco). She also held various management roles at Drobo, Packeteer and Brio Software, and started her career in the Silicon Valley office of Arthur Andersen. Danielle earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Stacey Meyer
Vice President, Federal Operations

Stacey is an accomplished, results-driven professional with over 20 years of experience in Consultative Solution Sales, Account Management, Systems Engineering and Program Management for the federal government. She brings a diverse background in national security planning and operations, to include standing up complex programs as a Federal Liaison Program Analyst and Fingerprint Identification Specialist at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as supporting the federal government as a Technical Program Manager at ManTech. Prior to AttackIQ, she served as the Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Innovation Group Leadership. In sales, she was a top performing Federal Senior Account Executive at a number of organizations including; TVAR Solutions, Data Domain, EMC and CDWG. Stacey holds two Bachelor of Art degrees in Early Childhood Education and Regency Basic Arts from Fairmont State University and a Master of Science in Information Management from Marymount University.

Dariush Afshar
Vice President, Platform and Business Development

Dariush is a seasoned executive with 20 years of industry experience in the cybersecurity, wireless networking, enterprise software, and consumer internet sectors, at a wide range of companies from 4-person startups to Fortune 500 companies. He has extensive experience in Corporate and Strategic Business Development, including designing, scaling, and managing partner ecosystems of hundreds of cybersecurity partners that deliver substantial strategic value for the business. Prior to AttackIQ, he held executive roles at Aruba Networks (HPE), Cisco Systems, McKinsey & Co., and a number of early stage, venture backed startups, where he contributed to rapid growth and subsequent acquisition. Dariush holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University, a joint MBA/MA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, was a Fulbright Scholar to France and a George Mitchell Scholar to Ireland.

Stephan Chenette
Chief Technology Officer

Stephan is the Founder and CTO of AttackIQ where he led the company, product, and vision for the first 5 years and today focuses on customer success and influencing the technology vision. He is a 20 year veteran of information security, servicing clients ranging from startups to multinational corporations as a researcher, security and risk consultant, solutions architect, and technical leader and executive. He has presented at numerous conferences including RSA, Black Hat, ATT&CKCon, EkoParty, ToorCon, BSides, CanSecWest, RECon, AusCERT, SecTor, SOURCE and PacSec. Twitter: @StephanChenette @AttackIQ

Vinod Peris
Vice President, Engineering

Vinod leads the team responsible for the development and delivery of the AttackIQ platform. He joined AttackIQ in January, 2019 from CA Technologies where he was Senior Vice President, Central Software Group. Prior to that, Vinod was VP Engineering for several different Cisco Business Units, spanning Wireless, Cable, Optical and Router product lines. Prior to Cisco, Vinod was the lead SW architect at Growth Networks, which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. From 1995 to 1999 he was a Member of the Research Staff at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, conducting research in projects ranging from QoS mechanisms in the Internet to building content-based switches.

Vinod has authored several conference and journal publications and has been issued 9 US patents. He holds both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park and a B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, India.

Brandt Mackey
Vice President, Field Engineering

Brandt is a seasoned and experienced leader with a strong technical background and a successful history at technology start-up companies in various customer facing roles. Brandt has created customer support and professional services organizations, established formal processes, acquired and implemented technology and hired teams to grow with the company and customer base.