MetroSITE

Elad Yoran: Prior to co-founding MetroSITE, Mr. Yoran co-founded, managed, and led Riptech, Inc. a leading managed security services provider. Ernst & Young recognized Mr. Yoran for his success with the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 2001. Symantec Corporation acquired Riptech for $145 million in 2002, ranking in the top 2% in transaction value of all technology merger and acquisition transactions of that year. Afterwards he served as Vice President, Global Business Development at Symantec.

Prior to Riptech, Mr. Yoran served as Vice President at Broadview International, an investment bank that focuses on mergers and acquisitions in the technology industry. At Broadview, Mr. Yoran spearheaded the firm’s security industry initiative, offering strategic insights to senior executives of both publicly traded and privately held companies across numerous segments of the security industry.

Mr. Yoran is a pioneer and a recognized expert in the security industry. He authored the Internet Security Threat Report, which was cited in briefings to the US Congress. He is also a regular speaker at key industry events and has been quoted in various media outlets, including Associated Press, Reuters, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Mr. Yoran has appeared on ABC News, BBC, CNN, and other prominent media networks.

Mr. Yoran is a MBA graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a BS with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also spent several years as an officer in the United States Army and is a veteran of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.

Dov Yoran: Dov is a co-founder of MetroSITE Group, a firm that provides information security market services to F500 security decision makers and to emerging technology companies.  He has held a number of leadership roles in security firms such as Solutionary, Symantec, and Riptech.  At Symantec he had global responsibility for creating, launching and managing the Service Partner Program. Dov came to Symantec as part of the Riptech acquisition, the leading Managed Security Services Provider at the time. Initially, he began his career with Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting) focusing on strategy and process engagements in the Financial Services Industry.

Dov is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and participates on a number of advisory boards.  He regularly speaks at industry events and has been quoted in numerous publications.  Dov holds an MS in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering with a concentration in Information Security Management from GWU and is a cum laude graduate with a BS in Chemistry from Tufts University.

Jim Reavis:  For many years, Jim Reavis has worked in the information security industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim’s innovative thinking about emerging security trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many.

Jim is a partner at MetroSITE and editor of the Risk Bloggers website. Jim has been an international board member of the ISSA, the world’s largest not for profit association of information security professionals and formerly served as the association’s Executive Director. Jim was a co-founder of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a partnership between the ISSA, ISACA and ASIS, formed to address the enterprise risk issues associated with the convergence of logical and traditional security. Jim currently serves in an advisory capacity for many of the industry’s most successful companies.

Jim founded SecurityPortal in 1998 and has been an advisor on the launch of many industry ventures. Jim is widely quoted in the press and has worked with hundreds of corporations on their information security strategy and technology roadmap. Jim was also formerly Chief Marketing Officer for VIGILANTe, a European security software company. Jim received a B.A. in Business Administration / Computer Science from Western Washington University in 1987 and began his career shortly thereafter as the MIS Manager for InterWest Bank, now part of Wells Fargo.

Shaun Abrahamson: is focused on understanding and capitalizing on the impact of enabling technologies on both emerging and established industries. Most recently he has invested in and worked with: Daylife, a news aggregation and analysis platform; GameTrust (acquired by Real Networks), an online gaming company; Koolspan, a provider of plug and play secure networking; TrialPay a provider of online payments and marketing services and ZocDoc, a healthcare provider marketplace; Pluribo, the summary engine. He is also a founder and partner at Mutopo Colaboratorie, a product marketing and innovation agency.

Shaun worked on behalf of Patriarch Partners to identify and build new lines of business as part of turnaround and restructuring projects in the telecommunications, media and textiles spaces. Before this, as VP of Product, Shaun helped start and grow MediaSentry’s product lines where he worked with divisions of Time Warner, Microsoft and Sony on digital content distribution and protection services. MediaSentry was sold to SafeNet Inc (SFNT) in 2005. Prior to MediaSentry, at StarMedia (acquired by France Telecom’s, Wanadoo Network), Shaun managed the development of mobile and online services including search, ad-serving and analytics.

Shaun attended MIT where he received an MS in engineering. He has been invited to talk and write on the subjects of technology, media and finance and has been published in Computer Aided Design, MusicAlly and The Economist Group Intelligence Unit. He is currently enrolled, part time, in the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, a new approach to executive MBA education, in Berlin, Germany. He was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa and lives in New York with his wife Andrea and son, Max.

Kyle Rosenthal: Kyle has a 15-year track record focused on accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies in the networking industry with a strong emphasis on network security and L4-L7 services. He has a keen eye for identifying market shifts and revenue opportunities, and aligning emerging technologies with business goals.  Kyle has held up to $40M revenue responsibility, through business development and sales roles, at several companies including Juniper Networks, Bivio Networks, Technology Deployment & Research (TDR), Excite@Home, and Cox Communications.  He has designed and executed successful strategic and tactical revenue initiatives across a broad set of channels including enterprise, service provider, federal, international, and OEM.

Kyle’s experience in the network industry also helped shape his interests and involvement in addressing the technical and social impacts of technology.  As the Founder and Executive Director of dPacket.org, Kyle was recognized as a mover and shaker by Frost & Sullivan, for helping to address the challenges presented by networks attempting to understand the applications that run through them.

Mr. Rosenthal continues to be a recognized resource in the industry and the general public for his expertise and knowledge of high-performance traffic processing.  He has been cited in the press and speaks publically on topics related to deep packet inspection.  Kyle resides in San Francisco, California with his wife Andrea, and holds a B.S. in Business Management from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.