Team Anjuna
Software from Anjuna Security effortlessly enables enterprises to safely run even their most sensitive workloads in the public cloud. Unlike complex perimeter security solutions easily breached by insiders and malicious code, Anjuna leverages the strongest secure computing technologies available to make the public cloud the most secure computing resource available anywhere. Anjuna is based in Palo Alto, California.
Leadership
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.
Yan graduated with a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where his research focused on applied security and privacy, advised by Professor Dan Boneh. Formerly, accumulated more than 15 years of industry experience as an engineering team lead and software engineer at several companies.
Yan holds a B.Sc. with honors in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, and an MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His research has been presented at academic conferences, such as Usenix Security and MobiCom, as well as at practitioner-oriented security conferences, such as BlackHat and the RSA Conference. His work has been covered by popular media outlets, including the BBC, Wired, Engadget, and KQED TV.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alberto brings more than 20 years of experience in marketing, product strategy and go-to-market. Prior to Anjuna, Alberto was CMO of Skydio, the US leading manufacturer of autonomous drones, where he drove rapid growth in both the consumer and enterprise markets. Alberto began his career at Accenture and held senior product marketing positions for enterprise software solutions at SignalFX (acq’d by Splunk), Mulesoft (acq’d by Salesforce), VMware and EMC.
Alberto holds B.S./M.S. in EE from Politecnico di Milano (IT) and MBA from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.
David Yehle is an accomplished Sales leader with over 25 years of Enterprise Software selling experience. He started his career with PTC, which is known to have produced the best salespeople in North America. During his career, he has led sales for startups like Zuora, Vitria and Pentaho. At Pentaho he led the company from $20MM in Annual Recurring Revenue to over $100MM+ in Annual Recurring revenue.
David holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science and Management from Rutgers University.
Board of Directors
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 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 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.
