Rakesh K. Loonkar

Partner

2024 - Current

President & Co-Founder

2014

Leading the fusion of customer facing identity and fraud.

Director Board Of Directors

2019

Market leading ASPM.

Private Investor

2003

Investor: - Apiiro (Seed) - Vulcan Cyber (Series A) - Salt Security - Island.io - Cyberstarts Prior private investments include: Private company investments that were valued at over $1 billion: - Palo Alto Networks - NYSE: PANW - Trusteer - acquired by IBM - zScaler - Nasdaq: ZS - Armis Security (acquired by Insight) - McAfee (MCFE) - Sumo Logic (Nasdaq: SUMO) Industry Changing: - Preempt - acquired by CRWD - Fireglass - acquired by SYMC - Aorato - acquired by MSFT - RiskRecon - acquired by MasterCard - Hyperwise Security - acquired by CHKP - Lacoon Mobile Security - acquired by CHKP - Insert.io - acquired by Pendo - Mi5 Networks - acquired by SYMC - Securent - acquired by CSCO - Worklight - acquired by IBM - Mu Dynamics - acquired by LSE: SPT - End Game Systems - acquired by Elastic NV - WatchDox - acquired by BBRY Advisory Boards: - Perfigo (acquired by CSCO) [became Cisco NAC] - Sana Security (acquired by AVG).

Board Observer

2010 - 2014

President & Co-Founder

2007 - 2013

Acquired by IBM: http://www.zdnet.com/opening-new-doors-why-ibm-spent-1bn-on-security-firm-trusteer-7000027062/, Co-founded with Mickey Boodaei.

Member, Board of Directors

2006 - 2013

http://www.trusteer.com

Vice President of Sales

2002 - 2003

Responsible for North American Enterprise, Channel, and Emerging Technologies Sales. Responsible for over $120m in revenue increasing at 15% quarter over sequential quarter. Managed over 120 direct, channel, & sales engineering staff. $4b acquisition by Juniper Networks.

VP - Business Development, International Sales & Co-Founder

1999 - 2002

Co-founded OneSecure. Recruited founding & executive team, raised $92m in venture capital. Acquired by NetScreen Technologies. Founded with Nir Zuk, Brett Eldridge, and Pradeep Aswani

CEO

1997 - 1999

Network security integrator and Check Point reseller. Built company from out of my apartment to over 30 people and $12m run rate in 18 months. Bootstrapped.