Leadership
Innovators, business leaders, and security experts. vArmour’s leadership team is dedicated to the success of its customers and protecting what’s important.
Executive Team
Matt Gyde
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERMatt has more than 25 years of leadership experience within the cybersecurity industry, most recently as Chairman and CEO of Foresite, a SaaS cybersecurity solutions provider. He has also served previously as President, CEO, and Board Director of NTT Security, where he was responsible for a $2B cybersecurity practice, and held several executive roles with Dimension Data (acquired by NTT Holdings).
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Keith Stewart
SVP PRODUCTS AND ENGINEERINGKeith Stewart brings 15 years of experience in product management from top networking companies. He recently was the Senior Director of Product Management at Riverbed Technology and previously held the same position at Brocade, where he lead the services products group through multiple sequential quarters of 50%+ growth and led the company’s software-defined networking strategy. He also had an extensive run at Cisco where he was responsible for product management of Cisco’s flagship security platforms. Keith holds a BSc, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Queens’ University and a MSc, Management Science from Stanford University.
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Jeff Klinkrodt
VP OF FINANCEJeff brings over 30 years of experience leading finance and accounting teams. He has been with vArmour for over 7 years. Prior to vArmour, Jeff held various financial roles at ON24, Cisco, Honeywell, and State Farm Insurance. Jeff is a proud graduate of the University of Iowa.
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Marc Woolward
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER and CISOMarc has over 30 years of experience in mission critical infrastructure and software-defined networks. Marc joined vArmour as CTO in February, 2015. Prior to this role he was a Technology Fellow and the CTO for Networking and Telecommunications at Goldman Sachs. He served as a member of the Technical Advisory Group and as the founder and leader of the Security Working Group within the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Earlier in his career he managed infrastructure at Cantor Fitzgerald and Coutts & Co. Marc has a decade’s worth of experience architecting and implementing datacenter software automation, and private cloud architectures. Marc is currently British and Worldcup Masters Surfkayak Champion and has represented England at the international level for several years.
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Namson Tran
VP OF MARKETINGNamson has 12 years of experience in enterprise B2B marketing, with a deep background GTM strategy, demand generation, and branding. Prior to vArmour, advised marketing automation strategy as a Solutions Consultant at Marketo, and held Product Marketing and Demand Generation roles at Proofpoint. Before that, he was the head of marketing at Everyone.net, an SMB focused SaaS company that was acquired by Proofpoint. Namson holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA, and an MBA from Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business.
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David Harper
VP OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCEDavid has 20 years of experience leading teams focused on customer centricity, particularly on customer success and ensuring customers maximize value from their investment. At vArmour, David is leading his team to ensure vArmour customers have a seamless experience throughout their resilience journey. Before joining vArmour, David spent his career delivering networking, security, and unified communication solutions at Charter Telecom and Bell Canada.
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Matt Gyde
Matt has more than 25 years of leadership experience within the cybersecurity industry, most recently as Chairman and CEO of Foresite, a SaaS cybersecurity solutions provider. He has also served previously as President, CEO, and Board Director of NTT Security, where he was responsible for a $2B cybersecurity practice, and held several executive roles with Dimension Data (acquired by NTT Holdings).
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NightDragon Security
NightDragon Security is an investment firm focused on partnering with cybersecurity companies across the corporate lifecycle, from early stage, to growth, buyouts and special situations. Its flexible model allows it to lead or co-invest alongside leading venture capital and private equity firms in the pursuit of driving growth and maximizing shareholder value. NightDragon is unique in providing deep operational expertise in cybersecurity gained by its founders Dave DeWalt and Ken Gonzalez from years serving as senior executives leading technology companies such as Documentum, EMC, Siebel Systems (Oracle), McAfee, Mandiant, Avast and FireEye.
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AllegisCyber
AllegisCyber, based in Silicon Valley and Maryland, has pioneered an integrated cybersecurity investment platform spanning seed to early-growth cybersecurity companies. AllegisCyber has been investing in cyber security for almost two decades in the U.S and select international markets and was the first venture firm to focus exclusively on cyber security and data science. The venture firm's team is replete with venture capital and start-up entrepreneurial veterans and has been described in industry press as the “Cyber’s Money Men” for its domain expertise and market leadership position. Current AllegisCyber investments include Area 1, Callsign, CyberGRX, Dragos, SafeGuard Cyber, Shape Security, Source Defense, Synack and vArmour.
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