Meet the Team

We focus on tough universal problems that impact all of the world’s largest brands.

The team has over 100 years of combined cybersecurity experience at Cisco, Symantec, McAfee, Bell Labs, Open DNS, and Zing Box, specifically tackling these problems.

We can’t do it alone. To help us, we are backed by some of top cybersecurity investors in the Silicon Valley.

Executive Team Members

Abhishek co-authored the book 'Android Security Attacks & Defenses' and has more than 13 years of experience in the field of cybersecurity. Prior to Bolster, Abhishek led machine learning and security research teams at Cisco. He holds a Master’s degree in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon University.

Abhishek Dubey

Co-founder & CEO

Shashi has extensive experience working at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI. Prior to Bolster, Shashi was security researcher at Cisco where he developed machine learning algorithms to catch billions of spam messages. He holds a Masters in CS from the Johns Hopkins University and Bachelors in EE from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Shashi Prakash

Co-founder & CTO

Alain, co-founder of RedSeal Systems has lead product strategy at multiple cyber security startups with great exits.

Alain Mayer

VP Product & Strategy

Cleo Valeroso

VP of People

Jack Marshall created the Customer Success organization at Fortify Software (sold to HP), AlienVault (sold to AT&T), Contrast Security (now a unicorn) and Prevoty (sold to Imperva). Jack often sits on panels and speaks about Customer Success whose relevance has increased dramatically in a SaaS based world. Before moving into Customer Success, he founded 2 companies, one of which was Photoloft.com, the first (and at the time) largest photo sharing site on the Internet. PhotoLoft was purchased by Canon Inc. of Japan.