Meet the team

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.

Meet the team

Executive Team Members

Abhishek Dubey
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 Prakash
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 Mayer
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
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.

Jack Marshall

VP of Customer Success

Investors

Thomvest Ventures
Crosslink Capital
Ciif Cyber Mentor Fund
Rain Capital
Cervin
Liberty Global
Cheyenne

Board of Directors

Shashi Prakash

Co-founder & CTO

Abhishek Dubey

Co-founder & CEO

Umesh Padval

Thomvest Ventures

Matt Bigge

Crosslink Capital

Shirish Sathaye

Cervin

Manoj Apte

Independent

Board of Advisors

Mark Weatherford

CISO, National Cybersecurity Center

Dr. Dena Haritos Tsamitis

Director, Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

Mark Weiner

CMO, Volterra

Dr. Paul Mockapetris

Inventor of DNS