
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.
Jack Marshall
VP of Customer SuccessInvestors







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
IndependentBoard of Advisors

Mark Weatherford
CISO, National Cybersecurity Center
Dr. Dena Haritos Tsamitis
Director, Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Mark Weiner
CMO, Volterra