ABOUT

WE ARE ANJUNA

We are architects of trust, committed to forging strength both in code and collaboration with our customers and partners.

Just as the ocean weathers shattered glass into frosted seaglass gems, so does Anjuna Seaglass™, our Universal Confidential Computing Platform, transform application fragility and transparency into the resiliency and translucency required to ensure data confidentiality.

We are driven by a shared mission: to liberate organizations from the constraints of data sharing  and empower them to securely embrace the limitless potential of the cloud, thereby fostering boundless and trustworthy innovation for cutting-edge workloads like AI.

Leadership

Ayal Yogev
Ayal Yogev
CEO & Co-Founder, Board Member

Ayal has 20 years of experience in the enterprise security market, serving most recently as VP of Product Management at SafeBreach. Prior to that, he led the Umbrella product management team at OpenDNS, which was acquired by Cisco in 2015 for $635M. Ayal has also held senior product management positions at Lookout and Imperva, and he was part of Imperva's IPO in 2011.

Ayal holds an MBA with honors from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.Sc. Summa Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.

Natasha A. Barksdale
Natasha A. Barksdale
Head of People

Natasha has spent her career working in people and talent at software companies including Salesforce, Facebook, and OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco). She most recently served as the Head of People at Tophatter.

Natasha received her BA in Communication Studies from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She holds a Professional in Human Resources certification from HRCI.

Steve Van Lare
Steve Van Lare
VP of Engineering

Steve has 30 years of experience in enterprise software. He was formerly the Vice-President of Engineering at Automation Anywhere. In the security area, Steve was Vice-President of Engineering at 41st Parameter, a leader in fraud detection.

Previously, he was a VP at Oracle and Agile Software.Steve has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Mark Bower
Mark Bower
VP of Product

Mark has two decades of experience at leading security companies in the U.S., Australia, U.K., and Germany. He is a noted expert in data protection, data privacy, and information risk reduction. Before joining Anjuna, where he owned product strategy for advanced confidential computing, he headed product and business strategy for Voltage Security (acquired by HPE) and the Atalla HSM business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He most recently led product management for Amazon’s Payment Cryptography business.

Trent Hall
Trent Hall
VP of Alliances & Cloud

Trent has over twenty years of experience building and leading high-growth teams across the enterprise and public sector space. He previously served as VP of Global Channel and Alliances at Skydio and SignalFx (acquired by Splunk) and led AppDev Partnerships at Splunk.

Trent holds an MSc in Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Natasha A. Barksdale
Mauricio Barra
VP of Marketing

Mauricio has over 15 years of experience in Marketing and GTM Strategy. Prior to Anjuna, he built the Product Marketing function at Skydio, the US leading autonomous drone manufacturer, and Confluent, the data streaming company. Before, Mauricio spent six years at VMware as founding member of the teams that launched vSAN and Cloud Foundation. Mauricio holds a BS in Electronics Engineering from Mexico’s ITESM and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

For fun, he enjoys watching movies, playing and watching sports, but most of all, spending time with his two daughters.

Natasha A. Barksdale
Dwayne Hoover
VP of Solutions Engineering

Dwayne helps customers secure data in every state to create a zero-trust environment for code and data. Before Anjuna, Dwayne led global sales, service delivery, and customer success teams across diverse industries, ranging from application security to observability. In addition, he's built and deployed many big data and analytics solutions for Federal and commercial clientele as a consultant who pushed modernization.
In his free time, he enjoys being terrible at golf, spending time with his family, and hacking/exploring emerging technology.

Board of Directors

Manoj Apte
Manoj Apte
Board Member

Manoj most recently served as the Chief Strategy Officer at Zscaler, where he was responsible for defining the company’s cloud security platform and service offerings. At Zscaler, he ran sales enablement and marketing, developed key strategic partnerships, and ran early-stage engineering and operations. Prior to that, he held senior product and engineering roles at Juniper Networks.

Lonne Jaffe
Lonne Jaffe
Board Member - Insights Partner

Lonne Jaffe is a managing director at Insight Partners, and joined the firm in 2017. He was previously the CEO of Insight portfolio company Syncsort (now part of Precisely), which he joined in 2013 after serving as the senior vice president for corporate strategy at CA Technologies. Prior to CA, Lonne spent over a decade at IBM, where he led a number of sizable software acquisitions and held various technology strategy and operating executive roles.

Peter Barrett
Peter Barrett
Board Member - Playground Global

Peter Barrett is a founder and CTO of Playground Global. He has been writing software since he was a teenager. At 19, his first security program caught the attention of the NSA. From his first company, Rocket Science Games, he’s had an adventurous career in technology from creating the first widely used video codec in the early 90s, building the world’s most popular IPTV platform at Microsoft, cloud intelligence for automotive at CloudCar and now quantum and optical computing, robotics and artificial intelligence at Playground. He holds over 100 patents.

Advisors

Prof. Dan Boneh
Prof. Dan Boneh

Dr. Boneh is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he heads the applied cryptography group and co-directs the computer security lab.

Dr. Boneh's research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security. His work includes cryptosystems with novel properties, web security, cryptography for blockchains, and cryptanalysis. He is the author of over 150 publications in the field, and a recipient of the 2014 ACM prize, the 2013 Godel prize, the RSA award in mathematics, and six best paper awards. In 2016, Dr. Boneh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Dan Boneh
Udi Ledergor

Udi Ledergor is a five-time Marketing leader at B2B start-ups and currently the Chief Evangelist at Gong. As Chief Evangelist, Udi oversees Gong’s market leadership through new product launches and thought leadership. On his journey from Marketer #1 to Gong’s Chief Marketing Officer, he led the creation of the revenue intelligence category, pioneered an iconic, human-centric brand, and led Gong's Marketing efforts from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue.

Passionate about startups and brands during the day, whisky, music, and social activism at night, Udi is also an author, speaker, mentor, angel investor, board director, and advisor based in San Francisco.

Davi Ottenheimer
Davi Ottenheimer

Davi has served as head of security across multiple industries, including data storage and management vendors (EMC, MongoDB, Yahoo!), one of the world’s largest investment fund managers (BGI), an international retailer/wholesaler (West Marine), and higher education and aerospace (UCSC, UARC, U Iowa).

Davi is an expert in regulations and compliance, and served as Board Member for the Payment Card Industry Security Alliance and the Silicon Valley chapters of ISACA and OWASP.

Dan Petrozzo
Dan Petrozzo

Dan is a Venture Partner at Oak HC/FT. He brings two decades of experience in capital markets and asset management, with a focus on infrastructure and tech. Dan was Senior Vice President at Intralinks, responsible for customer success and technology operations. He joined the company from Verilume, a cloud computing company he co-founded and sold to Intralinks.

He is a former Partner and Global Head of Technology for investment management at Goldman Sachs. He has also served as Chief Information Officer at Fidelity Investments, Co-Chief Information Officer at Morgan Stanley, and Global Head of Equity Prime Services Technology at Deutsche Bank AG. Dan is a Board Member for Pagaya and a Board Observer for NextCapital. He holds a BA degree from Moravian College and a law degree from Seton Hall University Law School.

Matt Pauker
Matt Pauker

Matt is a serial founder, angel investor, and advisor. Most recently, he co-founded 21 (later Earn.com), one of the earliest blockchain companies that was sold in 2018 to Coinbase. Prior to that, Matt co-founded Voltage Security, an enterprise cybersecurity company originally formed in his dorm room at Stanford in 2002.

Widely considered one of the originators of the data-centric security model, Voltage was acquired in 2015 by HP Enterprise. Matt is the author of more than two dozen cryptography, security, and payments patents and was a key contributor in the development of several NIST & IETF security standards. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.

Prof. Chia-Che Tsai
Prof. Chia-Che Tsai

Chia-Che Tsai is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. After completing his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 2017, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the RISELab of UC Berkeley. His research interests include operating system design, trusted execution, and cloud computing.

He is also the main developer of the Graphene library OS, an open-source project for isolating Linux applications on Intel SGX and non-POSIX platforms. His work has been published at many conferences, including SOSP, Eurosys, CCS, and USENIX ATC.

Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Meta Financial Technologies, Meta Platforms, Inc., overseeing security for all of Meta’s payments and financial services. Previously Michael served as Capital One’s CISO and Senior Vice President, leading and managing information security, cybersecurity operations, and security technology innovation. Prior to joining Capital One, Michael served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the U.S. Department of Energy, and in other key cyber-focused executive roles in the U.S. Government at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the White House Executive Office of the President.

Mark Cranney
Mark Cranney

Mark was most recently Chief Operating Officer at Skydio, where he led all operations and go-to-market for the company. Prior to that he was COO at Signalfx, an operating partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and he led worldwide-field operations for Opsware and Aster Data Systems (acquired by Teradata). Mark came to Silicon Valley after serving as Vice President of Americas at Boston-based Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC).

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