YL Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focusing on Israeli cybersecurity innovation, has expanded its venture advisor network.
The firm’s four existing advisors (Tom Baltis, CISO of Delta Dental Insurance; Andy Ellis, CSO of Akamai; Amichai Schulman, co-Founder and former CTO of Imperva; and Justin Somaini, CSO of SAP) will be joined by an additional 24 chief information security officers and cybersecurity experts.
Its new advisors include Tomasz Chowanski (CISO, Community Banking, Consumer Lending and Operations of Wells Fargo), Ken Gonzalez (managing director of NightDragon Security), David Tsao (CISO of Veeva Systems), Rob Geurtsen ( deputy information security officer of Nike), Colin Anderson (CISO of Levi, Strauss & Co), Roger Hale (CISO of Informatica), George Do (CISO of Equinix), and Adam Ely (VP and Deputy CISO of Walmart), David Tsao (CISO of Veeva Systems), and Billy Rios (founder of WhiteScope).
“We are thrilled to announce these incredible new Venture Advisors,” said Yoav Leitersdorf, Managing Partner of YL Ventures. “YL Ventures’ deep U.S. network has always been a unique component of our strategic DNA. Formalizing and expanding these connections by incorporating them into our Venture Advisory Board marks a major but natural evolution of YL Ventures’ core competitive advantage.”
Based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, YL Ventures manages $140 million across three funds focused on seed-stage, deep-technology B2B companies in the fields of cybersecurity, enterprise software and automotive technologies
It current portfolio includes Vulcan, MediGate, Axonius, Karamba, Twistlock and Upstream Commerce. The venture capital firm has also sold Hexadite to Microsoft, Firelayers to Proofpoint, BlazeMeter to Ca technologies, Seculert to Radware, and AcceloWeb to Limelight Networks.
YL’s new advisor roster also includes:
• Brooks Evans, Director of Security of Netflix
• Satish Gannu, CSO of ABB
• Jay Gonzales, CISO of Samsung Semiconductor
• 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
• 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
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