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Michael Fey

Founder of Island

Southlake, Texas

Overview 

Michael Fey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Island, a role he undertakes with a background of executive leadership positions in renowned companies like Symantec, Blue Coat Systems, and McAfee. With a focus on cybersecurity, he has invested in various startups, showcasing a keen eye for emerging technologies and a strong track record in building successful companies.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2020 - Current

    The security stack has never been more powerful -- and somehow, working securely, privately, and productively has never been more difficult. We think it’s time to revisit security. To take a whole new approach - where security is built into the enterprise, not on top of it. Where work is secure by design. We’re building something special, and we can’t wait to share it with you soon. To find out first, visit us at island.io.

Island is a cybersecurity company that develops an enterprise browser to enhance security and productivity within corporate environments.

Raised $560,000,000.00 from Coatue, Citi Ventures and Sequoia Capital.

  • Board Member

    2019

  • Board Member

    2019

Axis Security is a cloud security company that makes it simple to secure access to business resources.

Raised $99,500,000.00 from Alicorn Venture Partners.

  • Board Member

    2019

Bionic is a provider of an application security posture management platform to help enterprises protect applications efficiently.

Raised $82,000,000.00 from Battery Ventures, Insight Partners and Cyberstarts.

  • Board Member

    2018

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2020

ShieldX offers mulit-cloud security and micro-segmentation software to support business scalability, cybersecurity, and compliance goals.

Raised $49,000,000.00 from Thomvest Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, FireEye, Dimension Data, Ashar Aziz, Symantec Ventures and Aspect Ventures.

  • CEO

    2018 - 2020

D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.

Raised $247,250,000.00 from Khosla Ventures, Section Partners, T. Rowe Price, Andreessen Horowitz, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Qatar Investment Authority, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Two Sigma Ventures.

  • President and COO

    2016 - 2018

  • President and COO

    2014 - 2016

Blue Coat provides advanced enterprise security.

Raised $8,700,000.00 from TCV.

  • EVP & CTO

    2012 - 2014

    Responsible for overseeing the Office of the CTO including the management of McAfee’s team of regional and sector CTOs and go-to-market teams, as well as ensuring the success of global sales engineers and advanced technology groups.

  • EVP, GM of Corporate Products and WW CTO

    2012 - 2014

    Michael Fey is the Executive Vice President, General Manager of Corporate Products & Chief Technology Officer for McAfee, where he drives the company’s long‐term strategic vision and core innovation efforts. He is responsible for overall business operations and strategy for McAfee’s Corporate Product Business Units (End Point, Management, Network and Mobility), overseeing McAfee’s go‐to‐market initiatives and cross-functional collaboration across McAfee’s sales, product management, development, and research teams.

  • WW SVP of Advanced Technologies and Field Engineering

    2011 - 2012

    Global Leadership of for the success of Advanced Technologies and traditional Sales Engineering at McAfee. 3 Core Areas of Responsibilities: 1) Responsible for Pre sales Engineering and Solution Architects: Leading a global team of approximately 400 gifted engineers and technologist. 2) Incubation of new acquisition of McAfee: Ownership of all go to market functions for newly acquired companies including Sales and Field Engineering 3) Leading Business Development: Spearheading the launch of McAfee into Vertical Focuses

  • WW SVP of Presales

    2009 - 2011

  • SVP of Sales Engineering & Consulting Services

    2007 - 2009

    Leading up Presales and Services for North American Enterprise Sales.

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