About Corelight

Rick has more than 20 years of experience in growing and driving enterprise sales and brings a deep understanding of the cybersecurity landscape and the needs of today’s CISOs and security leaders. Prior to Corelight, he served as vice president of global sales at Bugcrowd where he helped drive cross-functional initiatives within the sales organization and accelerated revenue by 200 percent. Rick brings years of experience building successful teams and driving growth, having also served as vice president of sales at Carbon Black and sales leadership roles at Q1 Labs and F5 Networks. He holds a bachelor’s degree in communications, public speaking and business management from Western Illinois University and an MBA from Olivet Nazarene University.

Richard is strategist and author in residence at Corelight. He was previously chief security strategist at FireEye, and Mandiant's CSO when FireEye acquired Mandiant in 2013. At General Electric, as director of incident response, he built and led the 40-member GE Computer Incident Response Team (GE-CIRT). Richard began his digital security career as a military intelligence officer in 1997 at the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT), Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC), and Air Intelligence Agency (AIA). Richard is a graduate of Harvard University and the United States Air Force Academy. His fourth book is 'The Practice of Network Security Monitoring'. He also writes for his blog and twitter.

Before joining Corelight, Greg served in a series of leadership roles at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: director of the Scientific Networking Division, director of the US Department of Energy's high performance mission network ESnet, and chief technology architect in the Office of the CIO. As ESnet director, Greg oversaw deployment of the world's first 100G network at continental scale, the world's first 400G production link, and many other networking and systems innovations in support of data-intensive science. Greg also serves on the board of CENIC, the high-performance public network interconnecting 20 million Californians (including the vast majority of K-20 students) and vital public-serving institutions. Greg has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and an A.B. from Harvard.

Over a thirty-five year career in the Silicon Valley, MB served as CEO and Director of multiple private and public companies, including Imperva and Coverity, creating more than $3B of “shareholder value.” In 2005, she received the “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year” award for the Silicon Valley. She had the honor of pressing the closing buzzer at the NASDAQ as well as ringing the bell as the closing of the NYSE. MB currently sits on the board of directors of the Sam and Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth and on the board of trustees of the Fielding Graduate University. She is married to her wife of 27 years and has four grown daughters. She received her BA in English from Santa Clara University.

Bernard joins Corelight from Amazon where he led a threat hunting and threat intelligence team covering a wide range of threat scenarios. Previously he was at Microsoft upleveling security for Microsoft HVA (High Value Assets) environments, including XboxLIVE, and at Alert Logic in both research and analyst roles. He serves as an advisor to a number of innovative technology companies including an emerging player in the GPU-accelerated analytics domain. Bernard is an active participant in technology workshops meant to shape and sharpen the strategy for adoption and use of ML/AI within segments of the federal government. He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and lives in Seattle with his family.

Brian is a veteran of the security industry, with a breadth of leadership experience across both scaled and newly developed product lines ranging from infrastructure security, information security, cloud security services, and security management. He joined Corelight from McAfee, where he was executive vice president of the Corporate Products Group, leading their global corporate security product portfolio. Prior to that, he led the Mobile Platforms group at Citrix and spent more than a decade at Symantec Corporation, culminating as senior vice president of the Information Security Group. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Loree brings more than three decades of experience driving and building collaborative, mission-driven cultures at a variety of high-growth technology companies. As SVP of people, she will be responsible for all compensation, benefits, training, diversity, communications, and engagement across a global team. Prior to joining Corelight, Loree was the senior HR executive at InsideView, prior to and through its acquisition by DemandBase. Under her leadership she developed and managed a variety of innovative approaches to culture and engagement, global benefits and recruiting. She has previously held executive HR positions at SunPower Corporation, Portal Software and StorageTek, as well as seven years at Yahoo! where she was responsible for measuring and driving engagement for the more than 15,000-person company. 

Gareth is responsible for revenue and field operations in EMEA reporting into the VP of global sales. Gareth joins us with over twenty 25 years experience and a strong record of success with early stage, hyper growth companies in the IT industry across EMEA and APAC. Before joining Corelight, Gareth has led and established a number of game changing vendors across EMEA and APAC including most recently SentinelOne, but also Aerohive Networks and Netscreen where both companies enjoyed successful IPOs and revenues across the regions in excess of $75m - $120m. Before Netscreen, Gareth was a co-founder and director of Congress Communications, a European based start-up incubator taking US companies into EMEA and worked with over 20 companies including, Ipswitch, Arrowpoint, Ramp Networks, Apogee, Indus River,and Ipivot. Gareth holds BA Hons degree from Loughborough University in UK.

Seth is co-founder and chief evangelist at Corelight, and a key contributor to the open-source Zeek project—responsible for various frameworks, parsers, and Zeek scripts in widespread global deployment. Seth is a frequent source of wisdom and advice on the Zeek mailing list, where he has helped hundreds of organizations deploy Zeek and use it more effectively. Seth also has an appointment in the networking group at the International Computer Science Institute. Before joining ICSI, he worked as an incident responder for a large university, and in private industry. Many of the insights Seth learned operationally have found their way into features and capabilities of Bro and the Corelight Sensor. Seth often describes himself—accurately—as Zeek's biggest fan.

Russ is a finance and operations executive with start-up and public company experience. He spent a term with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and has also grown a start-up through IPO. Russ has had a career of demonstrated success building efficient organizations, motivating cross-functional teams and optimizing resources among multiple business groups. When not working Russ enjoys spending time with his family, running, skiing, and hiking.

Julie has more than 25 years of experience leading marketing, sales and operations across security, storage, networking and cloud technology companies. She is a customer-focused CMO with a track record of driving strategy and execution across thought leadership, product marketing, brand, communications and digital demand teams. Prior to Corelight, she served as COO/CMO for RedSeal where she led marketing, sales and services teams and helped the company double bookings and secure Series D financing during her tenure. Julie previously served as CMO for both NetApp and Check Point and has held a variety of executive leadership positions at Symantec, Veritas and Nokia.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in Decision and Information Science from Santa Clara University.

Vern is co-founder and chief scientist at Corelight, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. A prolific and internationally-recognized researcher, Vern also leads the Networking and Security Group at the International Computer Science Institute and for decades held a position as a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His wide-ranging research interests include Internet measurement, high-performance network monitoring, detection algorithms, and combatting cybercrime, censorship, and abusive surveillance. In 2006 Paxson was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2011 he received ACM's SIGCOMM Award, which recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks, "for his seminal contributions to Internet measurement and Internet security, and for the distinguished leadership and service to the Internet community." His work has also been recognized by ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award and by the 2015 IEEE Internet Award. He won Best of Show in the 1992 International Obfuscated C Code Contest but promises that he exercised a more sustainable coding discipline in implementing the Bro network monitoring system, which he began developing in 1995. Paxson earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley.

Clint is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry with extensive experience building and scaling the teams and technology that deliver new products from early incubation through to maturity and profitability in both enterprise and consumer markets. Most recently, Clint held executive product positions at Malwarebytes and NortonLifeLock, where he was responsible for new product growth in emerging markets, ranging from IoT/consumer network security to the next generation XDR endpoint. He has also served as the chief product officer for Symantec’s Cyber Security Services division, focused on SaaS-based threat intelligence solutions, managed security services, and new product incubation across incident response, threat hunting, cloud security, and cyber wargaming. Clint has been an open source community contributor and advocate throughout his career and shares Corelight’s collective passion and conviction to give network defenders the high ground.

In her role as federal CTO, Jean is responsible for articulating the value of Corelight’s data-first approach to cybersecurity at all levels of the government. Prior to Corelight Jean served as the CISO for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). She advanced numerous IT security efforts across DIA’s global enterprise and underscored the need for a JWICS Modernization Program, gaining the support of Director of National Intelligence, Under Secretary of Defense Intelligence, and combatant commands. Building on this, she partnered with the other Intelligence community CISO’s in developing the IC Strategic Plan for Improving Cybersecurity (I-Plan). Dual-hatted as the chief of enterprise operations and Cybersecurity, she was responsible for managing, operating, and executing funds for DIA’s enterprise IT services and the 24x7 IT and Computer Network Defense Operations Centers.

Jean was employed for 30 years at the National Security Agency (NSA). She held numerous Senior Executive Leadership roles in the cybersecurity and signals intelligence mission areas. She led several mitigation efforts for vastly improving NSA’s insider threat detection and deterrence following identified security leaks. She managed the global network infrastructure supporting NSA’s tactical, enterprise, business, and mission systems. She was the Authorizing Official for NSA, balancing the operational and economic costs of IT protective measures against the requirements for mission accomplishment. She was also the director of the National Information Assurance Partnership/Common Criteria Evaluation Validation Schema earlier in her career.

In addition to her role at Corelight, she is the President/CEO of Verity Insight, LLC. As a consultant, she brings strategic and technical expertise, an understanding of the IC and DoD, and a wealth of experience to assist industry and the Government in delivering solutions. Jean recently retired as a C-Suite executive from the Intelligence community after 33+ years of public service. She has a proven track record for developing transformational digital solutions to large organizations’ most critical IT problems, automating, and institutionalizing those solutions.

Jean earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Louisiana State University in Computer Science (1986), a Master of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins Applied Research Laboratory in Computer Science (1991), and a Master of Science degree in Resourcing the National Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University (2005).

Steve Smoot, our VP of Customer Success, is a persistent customer advocate with experience in building global, customer-centric teams. He played a catalytic role at Riverbed, scaling from 10 to 2600 people, and before that brought the FastForward Networks technology and how-to to Europe for Inktomi. Previously, he developed video compression technology that enables the video streams we all watch every night. Dr. Smoot is a graduate of MIT and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. At Corelight, Steve is responsible for all customer facing activities and building a team of individuals who put customer success first.

Robin is co-founder and Zeek Project Leader at Corelight, a prominent computer science researcher, and long-time open-source lead for the Bro project. Robin received his doctorate from the Technical University Munich, completed his postdoc at the International Computer Science Institute, and subsequently joined their Networking and Security Group as a staff researcher. At ICSI, Robin has lead a range of research efforts on network security and privacy, with an emphasis on high-performance network monitoring in operational settings. Robin also holds a position as an affiliated researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he works with the cybersecurity team. Among other roles, Robin has served as General Chair for the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, as well as on program & steering committees for many security conferences.

Rajiv joins Corelight from Exabeam where his product development leadership enabled Exabeam to achieve a $100+M ARR and close multiple rounds of venture funding exceeding $300M. A key element of this growth has been Rajiv's ability to scale the engineering organization through establishing global development sites,  senior talent acquisition, and driving operational efficiencies. Rajiv brings a diverse portfolio of experience having led large global engineering teams at public corporations and startups through complex M&A and IPO activities. During his career he has been a frequent adviser to venture firms including Motorola and Cisco Ventures.  Rajiv has a Master’s degree from Stanford University in management science and an engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology.

Before joining Corelight, Greg served in a series of leadership roles at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Director of the Scientific Networking Division, Director of the US Department of Energy's high performance mission network ESnet, and Chief Technology Architect in the Office of the CIO. As ESnet Director, Greg oversaw deployment of the world's first 100G network at continental scale, the world's first 400G production link, and many other networking and systems innovations in support of data-intensive science. Greg also serves on the board of CENIC, the high-performance public network interconnecting 20 million Californians (including the vast majority of K-20 students) and vital public-serving institutions. Greg has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and an A.B. from Harvard.

Over a thirty-five year career in the Silicon Valley, MB served as CEO and Director of multiple private and public companies, including Imperva and Coverity, creating more than $3B of “shareholder value.” In 2005, she received the “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year” award for the Silicon Valley. She had the honor of pressing the closing buzzer at the NASDAQ as well as ringing the bell as the closing of the NYSE. MB currently sits on the board of directors of the Sam and Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth and on the board of trustees of the Fielding Graduate University. She is married to her wife of 27 years and has four grown daughters. She received her BA in English from Santa Clara University.

Brian is a veteran of the security industry, with a breadth of leadership experience across both scaled and newly developed product lines ranging from infrastructure security, information security, cloud security services, and security management. He joined Corelight from McAfee, where he was executive vice president of the Corporate Products Group, leading their global corporate security product portfolio. Prior to that, he led the Mobile Platforms group at Citrix and spent more than a decade at Symantec Corporation, culminating as senior vice president of the Information Security Group. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Steve Herrod is managing director at General Catalyst Partners where he invests in enterprise infrastructure start­ups. Prior to General Catalyst, Steve was CTO and Sr. VP of research and development at VMware. During his tenure, Steve helped build a world­-class engineering organization that delivered numerous industry ­changing products. Steve holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University and a BA in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Vern is co-founder and Chief Scientist at Corelight, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. A prolific and internationally-recognized researcher, Vern also leads the Networking and Security Group at the International Computer Science Institute and for decades held a position as a Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His wide-ranging research interests include Internet measurement, high-performance network monitoring, detection algorithms, and combatting cybercrime, censorship, and abusive surveillance. In 2006 Paxson was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2011 he received ACM's SIGCOMM Award, which recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks, "for his seminal contributions to Internet measurement and Internet security, and for the distinguished leadership and service to the Internet community." His work has also been recognized by ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award and by the 2015 IEEE Internet Award. He won Best of Show in the 1992 International Obfuscated C Code Contest but promises that he exercised a more sustainable coding discipline in implementing the Bro network monitoring system, which he began developing in 1995. Paxson earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley.

Eric joined Accel in 2014 and focuses on enterprise infrastructure companies. He leverages his infrastructure and IT experience in working with founders across the enterprise stack, from next-gen analytics platforms like Jut, to emerging cloud security and threat detection companies like Netskope and Vectra. Eric also co-leads the Accel Tech Council. Prior to Accel, Eric spent years in a variety of product and management roles at FastForward Networks, Inktomi and most recently, at Riverbed where he was president of the products group. There, he oversaw the growth of Riverbed’s flagship WAN optimization and app acceleration platforms, which grew to be a USD $1 billion+ business. Eric is from the Bay Area, graduated from Pepperdine and has an MBA from NYU.

Freddy Dezeure graduated from the KUL University in Belgium in 1982, with a master of science in engineering. He was CIO of a private company from 1982 until 1987. He joined the European Commission in 1987 where he held a variety of management positions in administrative, financial and operational areas, in particular in information technology. He founded and managed the EU Computer Emergency and Response Team (CERT-EU) for the EU institutions, agencies and bodies from 2011 until 2017.

Presently, he is an Independent Management Consultant providing strategic advice in cybersecurity and cyber-risk management and acting as Board Member and Advisory Board Member in several high-tech companies. He is a highly respected keynote speaker and is very active in the cybersecurity community. He is leading the EU MITRE ATT&CK Community. He's also writes for his website and twitter.

As Chief Revenue Officer, Denis plays a pivotal role in driving strong revenue growth and is accountable for tight alignment between Couchbase’s overall go-to-market optimization efforts, strategic account planning, global expansion, and customer success. He brings to Couchbase deep experience with taking technology companies from early-stage all the way through successfully scaled public companies, serving as both an operator and an advisor in the fields of SaaS, networking, storage, and security. In addition to serving as a strategic advisor to various companies, he spent nearly three years as the Worldwide Sales leader at Nimble Storage, which was eventually acquired by HPE. While there, he transformed Nimble’s field operations and doubled the company’s revenues. Denis also served a nine-year tenure at Riverbed Technology, where he started as the first sales hire and ultimately became Senior Vice President of the Americas where he helped the company grow through a successful IPO to nearly $1 billion annual run rate. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.