Dug Song

Founder & Funder

2023 - Current

Board Member, National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

2022

Appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to serve on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The council is charged with developing a National Entrepreneurship Strategy that strengthens America’s ability to compete and win as the world’s leading startup nation and as the world’s leading innovator in critical emerging technologies.

Pledge Investor

2023

As per Tuebor.org, I make the pledge to invest in at least one State of Michigan-based business per year^H^H^H^H month :-)

Co-founder & Chair

2019

The Song Foundation invests in ideas, people, and organizations that amplify equity, power, prosperity, and joy throughout Southeast Michigan. We work to advance revolutionary ideas rooted in community.

Co-Founder & Chair

2019

The Michigan Founders Fund is a network of entrepreneurs and investors across Michigan who have pledged 1% of company equity, investment carry, or annual profits to be allocated to impactful local nonprofits in support of the community. We are a community of Michigan founders who believe community matters. Incubated as a program of the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation before spinning out as a statewide network, MFF provides a platform for founder engagement and support in achieving success with their ventures and a simple mechanism for young companies to build a culture of giving back into their business, making it easy for them to support their community.

Board Member

2017

Censys is the leading provider of continuous attack surface management. Founded in 2013 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Censys gives organizations the world's most comprehensive real-time view of global networks and devices. Customers like Google, NATO, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and many of the Fortune 500 rely on the company's Internet-wide continuous visibility platform to discover and prevent cybersecurity threats. Advised the academic research team behind ZMap on commercialization, matchmade the co-founders, and helped with venture financing from Google Ventures, Greylock, Decibel, and In-Q-Tel.

Chief Strategy Officer, Cisco Security

2021 - 2022

Appointed to create shared alignment around our Cisco Security vision, and ride herd on the changes needed to execute our strategy both at our business group level, and through exec leadership and board-level work. Consolidated and elevated our CTO, advisory CISO, design systems, and strategy teams to forge new working relationships and partnerships across the organization, driving greater transparency and accountability around the execution of our corporate strategy. Promotions included Cisco Security CTO TK Keanini, Cisco Fellow Nancy Cam-Winget, and others to support the development of our staff engineer community, and architecture and design guilds across the company. Sourced, sponsored, or evaluated most of our Cisco Investments security portfolio, partnering our BU and corporate strategy/dev teams - AppOmni, Corellium, Expel, Elevate Security, Hunters, Ion Channel, Island, Isovalent, JupiterOne, Oak9, Rangeforce, Secure Code Warrior, Securiti.ai, Styra, Wabbi, including the acquisition of Kenna Security (Midwest monkey magic ;-), and our first Aspire Fund investments (backing underrepresented founders). Also supported the launch of the Cisco-backed seed-stage venture capital firm Decibel, and the development of its security portfolio (Push Security, cmd, Censys, Rumble, slim.ai, etc.). Helped recruit/advise many subsequently-acquired SaaS founders (ThousandEyes, Kenna Security, Portshift, Banzai Cloud, Slido, Socio, etc.), recruited and onboarded new security executives, and sponsored, mentored, or coached many others into leadership across the security business.

General Manager, Zero Trust & Duo Security

2018 - 2021

Duo's $2.35 billion acquisition was the largest multiple ever paid for a private software company at the time, as Duo was one of the fastest growing, most efficient SaaS businesses of all time. Duo continued on to become Cisco's fastest growing business for the next 3 years, at scale (over $500 million in annual recurring revenue). Along the way, we led the development of Zero Trust in the industry and community - represented by NIST 800-207 (Zero Trust Architecture), our contributions to the standardization of CAEP with Microsoft and others in the OpenID Foundation, and leadership in Forrester's Zero Trust Wave every year. With a cabal of SaaS founders & leaders in AppDynamics, Meraki, Webex, and operations, helped guide the SaaS transformation of the company from consistent SaaS metrics, analysis, and reporting to sales incentives, structure, process, and planning. Enabled Duo talent and programs to contribute at massive scale for Cisco Security (in design, marketing, sales, CX, HR) or at the corporate level (CISO, SaaS transformation, etc.). Among their many accomplishments: rebranding the security business, unifying digital demand gen, unifying inside sales, unifying SaaS customer success, enabling API-driven integration for SaaS orderability, keynoting the RSA Conference, simplifying Cisco cloud security standards, enabling Zero Trust access for most corporate applications, and ultimately leading corporate information security for all of Cisco.

Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO

2010 - 2021

Duo protects organizations against breach by making security easy and effective. In an industry littered with costly, complex, and frustrating security experiences, we design security for people. Our trusted access platform ensures only the right users and safe devices have access to applications and infastructure anywhere, while radically reducing the cost of security operations. We've grown to serve over 30,000 customers including the world's largest and fastest-growing companies, but are just as proud to serve countless others that fall below the "security poverty line". Acquired by Cisco for $2.35 billion in October 2018, after spending less than $14m of $119m raised to achieve 9-figure ARR - "unprecedented' best-in-class SaaS metrics, according to the VC community. But I'm proudest of the consistent 70+ NPS we earned from our customers, 4.8 Glassdoor ranking and 99% CEO approval rating from my colleagues. We built the most-loved company in security - by and for our customers, colleagues, partners, and community.

Founder

1996 - 2016

International online monkey cult.

Chief Architect

2009 - 2009

Technical due diligence on two of Barracuda's subsequent acquisitions - Phion AG (Austrian/Swiss firewall vendor) and Purewire (cloud web filter in Atlanta), architectural review of their cloud-based products (Control Center, Backup), line management of the Ann Arbor-based product teams.