Dhananjay Sampath is the Co-founder & CEO of Armorblox. Prior to Armorblox, he was the VP of Engineering and a founding team member of StackRox, a Sequoia backed startup. Dhananjay was a senior research scientist at Deutsche Telekom labs, where he was responsible for the secure digital transformation of telcos to a cloud-native, software-defined stack. Prior to that, he was at Juniper Networks and introduced machine-driven classification to the Unified Threat Management platform. Dhananjay graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering. His work on Compact Routing Protocols was funded by grants from DARPA/DoD/ARO.

As a founding engineer in Armorblox, Arjun brings over a decade of experience building security products, problem solving, technology innovation with a passion towards engineering excellence. Previously, Arjun was a core member of the security group at Netskope, where he was instrumental in designing and developing Netskope's DLP and Data Plane product lines and applying innovative solutions to challenging customer use cases and problems. He was also part of the Unified Threat Management team at Juniper Networks, with a focus on improving the scale, performance and efficacy of the security features in Juniper's next-generation SRX platform. He started his career as a threat and vulnerability research engineer at Sipera Systems. Arjun holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from UTDallas and multiple patents, and has been a speaker at multiple security and hacker conferences.

Rob Fry is an accomplished executive, architect, inventor, and public speaker with over 20 years of experience working with tech in an array of fields. In his current role as CTO for Armorblox, he gets to work on his passion for the cybersecurity space. Rob is best known for his contributions while working on the Cloud Security Team at Netflix where he was leading them on their move from data center operations to AWS. Prior to Netflix, Fry was Principal Architect at Yahoo, where he created configuration and automation frameworks in production environments. In his free time, he enjoys mentoring college students and working with universities on research and guiding technology companies and startups through their growth and innovation phases as an active participant on advisory boards and engineering steering teams.

Brian brings more than 20 years of experience in leadership, founding, and building to his role as Chief Security Officer at Armorblox. Previously, Brian was Co-founder and General Partner at Crucyble, CISO at Lending Club (LC), and has held leadership positions at Netflix (NFLX) and ForeScout (FSCT). Brian has helped design, build and secure systems for the US Department of Defense, Global Finance, and Technology companies at scale. He has enjoyed speaking on innovation and maturing security organizations at the RSA Conference and National Press Club. Brian is regularly asked to speak at security conferences, as well as, brief Board of Directors and Executive Management teams. Brian has worked with Federal Agencies and Policy Advisors to influence actionable change in national security policy. Brian is an active advisor and mentor to several startups and founders in Silicon Valley.

Kassidy brings close to a decade of global start-up experience in the People space. Kassidy is passionate about developing and providing world-class employee experience through diverse people-centered programs. Kassidy leverages her breadth of start-up experience to provide an extensive scope that includes culture development, economic development, project management, operations, recruiting, and employee and organizational development. Kassidy was previously with Branch Metrics where she built the team and People programs from the ground up and scaled the company through exponential growth from 10 employees to 120 in 2.5 years. Prior to Branch, Kassidy scaled Amobee from 25 employees to 200+ over the course of 4 years through multiple acquisitions, international expansions and revenue growth with a less than 5% attrition rate, preparing Amobee for its acquisition by Singapore-based telco, SingTel, for $325 million.